Over the last few years, I have been struck by the ugliness of the vaccine mechanism. Injecting yourself with a germ, or now a genetic code, for the sake of health, is strange. It obviously became stranger to me as I learned how overrated these products are.
Justin Trudeau: "If you don't want to get vaccinated, that’s your choice, but don’t think you can get on a train or plane beside vaccinated people and put them at risk"
Me: "Uh, you just admitted your vaccines don't work"
...that doctors are divine agents who incarnate science.
I think this is the heart of the problem. We have been outsourcing responsibility for our bodies for decades now, and doctors have become the high priests of our society. Very few people question *anything* a doctor tells them, even after the disaster of the last three years. Taking personal responsibility for our own health is just too scary.
One of the greatest life-saving interventions of the past 100 years was discovered during Bangladesh’s war for independence when people were dying from cholera and other diarrheal diseases. Giving patients water didn’t help rehydrate them, so a doctor started adding simple electrolytes and by doing so saved millions of lives, not in Bangladesh alone, but throughout the developing world. The treat can be made in any rural village: one Coke bottle filled with clean boiled water, three Coke bottle caps of sugar to make it palatable, and one cap of salt as an electrolyte. By drinking this simple treatment, a child goes from possible death from dehydration to back on the road to health.
Better treatment formulas in packets are distributed widely by UN agencies, but the principle is the same.
Many other easily treatable childhood diseases can be prevented or treated by equally simple procedures, but there isn’t much money to be made from Coke bottles filled with sugar/salt water. Even malaria, which returned with a vengeance after Rachel Carson helped get DDT banned with millions of deaths as a result, can be prevented by inexpensive mosquito nettings treated with repellents. For some reason, simple prevention and treatment always gives way to expensive vaccines and drugs. It concerns me about the hype around malaria vaccines and other wonder drugs.
While some basic vaccines have made diseases such as polio almost non-existent, there are some epidemiologists who think HIV made the jump from green monkeys to humans during polio vaccines trials in the Belgian Congo when green monkey tissue was used to culture polio vaccines. Green monkeys are susceptible to SIV, an immune system disease similar to HIV. It is thought that HIV from Haitian contract workers in Congo after independence carried the disease back to Haiti where it spread among the population and infected American sex tourists.
Right on the money.
Justin Trudeau: "If you don't want to get vaccinated, that’s your choice, but don’t think you can get on a train or plane beside vaccinated people and put them at risk"
Me: "Uh, you just admitted your vaccines don't work"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSBk0AxUM64
...that doctors are divine agents who incarnate science.
I think this is the heart of the problem. We have been outsourcing responsibility for our bodies for decades now, and doctors have become the high priests of our society. Very few people question *anything* a doctor tells them, even after the disaster of the last three years. Taking personal responsibility for our own health is just too scary.
Excellent and you’re right about “the systems and beliefs, and the mythology which undergirded all of the madness, remain intact.”
A chill went down my spine. 🥶
One of the greatest life-saving interventions of the past 100 years was discovered during Bangladesh’s war for independence when people were dying from cholera and other diarrheal diseases. Giving patients water didn’t help rehydrate them, so a doctor started adding simple electrolytes and by doing so saved millions of lives, not in Bangladesh alone, but throughout the developing world. The treat can be made in any rural village: one Coke bottle filled with clean boiled water, three Coke bottle caps of sugar to make it palatable, and one cap of salt as an electrolyte. By drinking this simple treatment, a child goes from possible death from dehydration to back on the road to health.
Better treatment formulas in packets are distributed widely by UN agencies, but the principle is the same.
Many other easily treatable childhood diseases can be prevented or treated by equally simple procedures, but there isn’t much money to be made from Coke bottles filled with sugar/salt water. Even malaria, which returned with a vengeance after Rachel Carson helped get DDT banned with millions of deaths as a result, can be prevented by inexpensive mosquito nettings treated with repellents. For some reason, simple prevention and treatment always gives way to expensive vaccines and drugs. It concerns me about the hype around malaria vaccines and other wonder drugs.
While some basic vaccines have made diseases such as polio almost non-existent, there are some epidemiologists who think HIV made the jump from green monkeys to humans during polio vaccines trials in the Belgian Congo when green monkey tissue was used to culture polio vaccines. Green monkeys are susceptible to SIV, an immune system disease similar to HIV. It is thought that HIV from Haitian contract workers in Congo after independence carried the disease back to Haiti where it spread among the population and infected American sex tourists.
First, do no harm.