"If I had fever and chills along with coughing, headache, congestion,
aches/pains and exhaustion, what would be a good guess as to
what I am suffering?"

This is too general, but it's likely that in an "infectious disease"
context most if not all of these symptoms are due to the inflammatory
molecules that are generated.

If the "orthodoxy" fears that the "dissidents" have the potential to
do so much damage to public health, all they need to do is to find
someone who tests very high on the "viral load" test, take a sample,
look at it under an EM (without "stimulating" the sample), and there
should be an abundance of particles that are the correct shape and
size for "HIV," according to the textbooks (at the same time, a
control sample should also be examine in the same way, from a person
with a similar lifestyle, but said to be "HIV negative").  It would
certainly cause me to rethink my understanding of the phenomena in
question if this was the result, confirmed by at least two labs that
document every step of the process, have all those involved sign an
agreement holding them liable for the accuracy of the process, and
have no conflicts of interest.  If I thought the "orthodoxy" were
correct, I would urge those who could do so in order to demonstrate
that our claim has some real evidence for it.  The fact that this has
not been done, actually, demonstrates (to me, as an academic, and to
many of those I talk to about this) that these individuals are not
especially interested in "public health," nor the science of the
phenomena, but merely in maintaining the status quo.  Hopefully,
everyone here realizes the conflicts of interest involved among many
who argue for the "HIV/AIDS" claim.  To have such conflicts and not to
do experiments that would go a long way to demonstrating that there is
some direct evidence for your claim is what I consider to be the
apogee of academic dishonesty.

On a different note, other scientists (not concerned about "HIV/AIDS"
specifically), have determined what really does cause "AIDS."  Though
it is more complex than this, the passage from the report below is a
good description for the general public, in terms of what I call
"classic AIDS," meaning the immune system difficulties that lead to
the dangerous "opportunistic infections:"

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070802182038.htm

QUOTE: Scientists have discovered that at the same time the immune
system is vigorously attacking invading viruses or bacteria, it is
unexpectedly reducing its production of a particular type of factor
that directs the movement of immune cells.

The new finding, which could help explain the transient immune
suppression often seen during acute infections, shows that the immune
system is even more complex than previously believed...

The findings could help scientists devise better dosing schedules for
multi-dose vaccines and also could provide a better understanding of
how the immune system responds to multiple infections. A likely result
is a lowering of the body's ability to respond to a second infection.

"If you have an acute viral infection, your immune system may be
suppressed in its ability to respond to secondary infections during
that brief period," Dr. Mueller says. "If you have a nasty flu
infection in the lung, for example, you are more susceptible to
secondary bacterial infections, and this chemokine reduction could
contribute to that..."

"The discovery of this basic phenomenon - that these lymphoid
chemokines are reduced during an immune response - was quite a shock
to us. It illustrates another dramatic level of complexity in the
immune system and demonstrates in greater detail how the traffic of
immune cells is regulated."

Dr. Mueller believes the down-regulation of lymphoid chemokines, which
occurs for a one- to two-week period during the height of an immune
response, may be the body's way of shutting down the immune response
and avoiding excessive and damaging inflammation. In addition,
reducing these immune factor could be beneficial for the immune cells
that are actively responding to a virus, he points out.

IIn a massive inflammatory response to infection, many immune cells
divide into great numbers of cells, Dr. Mueller explains. Once the
immune response is complete, 95 percent of those cells die and leave a
smaller population of memory cells to circulate in the body and
protect against subsequent infections by that same pathogen...
UNQUOTE.