From the vault, November 13, 2014, revised:
Swine flu.
Asian bird flu.
West Nile disease.
Remember the hue-and-cry over these threats to public health? Whatever happened to them? They seem to have disappeared off of our radar.
But, wait!
There’s a new, even more deadly, threat on our radar. It’s – it’s – it’s… coronavirus!
So far, more than 4,000 have died in 111 countries, including 27 in the United States. It was a China-originated threat, and most of the death’s are in China. It is spreading across the globe, thanks to our highly-mobile world, and some have already declared it to be a pandemic. Turn back all planes and ships arriving from diseased areas. Send troops to quarantine all of the affected areas. Round up all of the diseased persons, shoot them, and burn the bodies. Okay, I exaggerated on that last point, but you get the idea, dear reader. I hope you get the idea.
A pandemic is one of the many ways Mother Nature employs in order to reduce excess population. That sounds heartless and cruel, doesn’t it? Of course, it does. But Mother Nature plays by her own rules, and she doesn’t give a fig about our feelings. Pandemics are the result of overcrowding and inadequate diets. Overcrowding leads to poor sanitation, producing diseases of all sorts; inadequate diets weaken the human immune system’s ability to fight these diseases. History has demonstrated this time and again.
In our drug-acculturated society, we ingest pills, tablets, capsules, and vaccines by the barrelful in order to cure what ails us. These potions are manufactured from a host of artificial chemicals, the names of which are hard to pronounce, and they all have deleterious side effects which we must combat with even more potions. We have forgotten the old adage, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Now we come to the good part.
I hope you read Donna Crane’s two-part series on coronavirus (thevoice.us/coronavirus-fear-compounds-anxiety-arbitrarily), dear reader, because it’s quite informative. The gist of the articles deals with the fear-mongering by the news media which derives a good deal of its advertising revenue from drug manufacturers and with the profiteering by the pharmaceutical industry as a whole. Every time there’s a so-called crisis, their bank accounts swell. Any number of health experts have provided sensible, non-chemical ways to cope with disease, but it means having to change one’s behavior; most humans are reluctant to do so, instead opting for a quick fix, such as a pill, a tablet, a capsule, or a vaccine.
If human beings were all identical, pills, tablets, capsules, and vaccines might work wonders. But they aren’t, and so the one-size-fits-all approach fails miserably to work wonders. What it does do is to create the aforementioned side effects in varying degrees, up to and including death. Meanwhile, Big Pharma rakes in the profits and seeks indemnification from government in order to protect those profits.
The present situation is no different than the ones mentioned at the beginning of this essay. And neither are the solutions.
Two statements in the second of Donna Crane’s articles raised red flags when I read them. The first red flag had to do with a pharmaceutical company named Gilead Sciences, which created Tamiflu to combat swine flu and Asian bird flu. Gilead made a ton of money from its contracts with the U.S. and U.K. governments. That’s our and the Brits’ tax dollars and pounds, folks, to produce a stockpile of the vaccine. Little of it was used and the remainder, having expired long ago, sits uselessly in a government warehouse.
Well, guess who is lined up to create a vaccine for coronavirus. Right the first time.
The second red flag had to do with an analysis of coronavirus by a specialist in viruses. He thinks the disease was manufactured in a laboratory. If this pans out to be true, the implication is astounding. It would mean that someone had been dabbling in biological weapons and gotten careless, loosening a terror upon an unsuspecting world.
The solution? Opt for the prevention rather than for the cure. If you take the proper precautions, you will not end up as another statistic.
Just a thought.