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the war on retroviruses is based on taking new approaches that aren't limited by this issue, while also slowing down existing infection long enough for your natural immune system to deal with what's there.

correct that it isn't over because of this potential, but the way this one works is by targeting the capsid

the body's immune system goes after infected cells based on the coating and signature of those cells. HIV and retroviruses replicate far too quickly for our immune system to follow along, as well as experiencing rapid selective evolution within our body that eventually in nearly all scenarios results in complete immune deficiency, where the body no longer recognizes the cells as infected because they both blend in, while another population has exhausted the immune function as the body continues to fight too many infected cells. This is the AIDS part of HIV. The iteration takes a predictable amount of time to occur, but they are convergent evolutions in everyone's body.

by targeting the capsid specifically, this is destroying the container for HIV's RNA before it gets to a cell at all

this should be an evolutionary dead end, only controversial to say because its been 44 years of this, but should gain confidence in the future