Fear and Loathing In The Plague

Behold The Collateral Damage

As mounting campaigns for vaccines and tirades against the unvaccinated increased, it became apparent that the establishment was attempting to solidify an antiquated view of human dysfunction and disease. The justification of the misguided response was based on a medical paradigm that has not changed for centuries. A disastrous outcome unfolds before us.

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1349 - Blamed for the Plague - Burned at the Stake

The message since the arrival of the pandemic was unequivocal. Dark forces were on the assault, and a loathsome disease would destabilize humanity at every tier of society.

Impending deaths and disruption of normality demanded an intense response. A vehement and unified counter-attack was required against a mortal enemy. Heretics needed to be eliminated, as they were responsible for the deadly infection.

The Black Death, the greatest pandemic in modern history, ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351. The disease engendered horrific suffering and caused high mortality rates. Those who survived were deeply shocked and scarred, finding themselves in an unrecognizable world. The bubonic plague is estimated to have killed somewhere between a quarter to half of the populations of Asia and Europe.

Many factors contributed to its transmission; in addition to a shift of carriers of the pathogen, there was little awareness of the importance of proper hygiene and sanitation. Treatments were mostly limited to exorcisms, bloodletting, and poisonous concoctions that often killed the patient.

Widespread terror heightened divisiveness. Overt blame was laid at the feet of those who deviated from the dominant beliefs and culture of the era. As the horizon darkened, hostility increased, with innocent people jailed, tortured, or killed — as punishment for their alleged responsibility for bringing or exacerbating the pestilence.

Those labeled as infidels were deemed the source of the evil scourge that had spread through most villages, cities, and provinces. They were scapegoated and burned at the stake simply because they did not conform.

Although the Black Death pushed ignorance and hostility to new heights, the Renaissance emerged out of the darkness. A new era fueled creativity in the general sciences, arts, and philosophy; eventually leading to a reduction of the power of absolute monarchies and the rise of more democratic societies.

Yet medical science remained obsessed with morbidity and mortality.

Over the following centuries, a confining concept of disease developed, ultimately symbolized by peering through a microscope at a narrow field in search of deadly pathogens. Virtually ignoring a wider view and analysis of creative processes, medicine focused on nearly invisible beasts or deviant cells which were believed to be the source of affliction.

Patients were treated for every illness as if possessed by some dark force. The need to purge, attack or destroy anything deemed harmful with dangerous procedures or poisonous drugs, complimented an obsession with rooting out evil at any cost.

This approach, among other flaws, further corrupted the natural medicine of the Hippocratic physicians, and continues to violate the simple, essential premise that doctors must do no harm.

The Dark Age, Revived

Although its impact was more severe, the response to the 14th-century plague has disturbing parallels to our current experience. The similarities don’t end with the use of fear to manipulate the public and apply authoritarian quarantines and decrees.

The defenders of vaccination insist that indisputable, objective facts have determined the approach to the pandemic. Their dogmatic arguments all are based on the false assumption that the virus is an enemy to be eradicated, and that the vaccine is the singular weapon of choice.

Those who are not convinced that a single wonder drug is a panacea, and that any other treatment is taboo, are intimidated and marginalized by a hostile, vociferous majority. Alternative views are rejected with absolutism and disdain. By dismissing debate and mirroring the intolerance of the Dark Ages, harsh critics of the unvaccinated reveal a reactionary and hypocritical position.

They assert that the advances of modern medicine are unassailable. Challenging the medical establishment’s majority position is now forbidden. Insistence on one point of view and supporting mandates to enforce narrowmindedness reflects how an antiquated medical paradigm continues to saturate the populace and politics — with medieval perspectives and policies.

This insanity prevails because the proponents of inoculation have been assured by the infallible gods of biomedicine, pharmaceutical mega-salesmen, and their devoted ministries — that a monolithic response is the only possible response to infectious disease. Everyone must give unwavering support to an authoritative plan to defeat the dark elements causing the current plague.

Anyone who accepts this fallacy has no doubt that those who question the edicts of medicinal sovereignty exhibit the height of irresponsibility, in the war against the calamitous virus. And by extension, the unvaccinated and those who doubt any aspect of the government’s response are responsible for the continuing pandemic.

Leaders and their supporters have transformed into a hostile mob, grandly claiming that any scientist, doctor, or journalist who questions the strategy of the battle is a dangerous liar and apostate. They insist that the existential public health threat to every nation must be faced with a unified front.

Silencing those who doubt dictated protocols is a central part of the nefarious plan.

Figuratively, dissenters are now burned at the stake, and from a social and psychological perspective, this condemnation is no different from 14th-century nobles and priests denouncing innocent people; for causing a plague that they couldn’t contain.

New Techniques, Old Habits

Relieving suffering, curing illness, and preventing death have been the focus of most medical systems throughout recorded history. Symptoms, and their underlying causes, have dominated debates and research about health.

For hundreds of years in western medicine, the central paradigm for developing therapies has rested on the supposition that each malady is the result of a single dangerous invasive element or dysfunction. Fundamental treatment usually involves dispelling a contaminant or a diseased part from the patient. Poor health is presumed to have an explicit cause; the body has been violated by something with destructive intent and force.

There are many advances in biomedicine that have saved lives. Medical science has made incredible progress in the repair and replacement of organs and limbs. The evolution of micro-surgery represents the cutting edge of engineering. New therapies have made previously deadly cancers treatable.

Yet despite insightful developments in biology, genetics, and medical engineering, the complex natural processes of the human body remain far from fully understood. A static view is usually applied to disease; it is still deemed as an evil element that must be eradicated. The remedies of choice are usually poisonous concoctions used to suppress symptoms or overwhelm pathogens. Where potions fail, the knife is used.

Although more sophisticated treatments and drugs have been developed, essentially the approach to health has not changed. It is because the basic underlying philosophy and perspective of medical research and practice have not evolved along with technology.

Without deeper knowledge of what sustains good health, evaluations of maladies are dominated by tests and statistics, and the level of illness is assessed by the need for hospitalization or risk of death.

In place of a sophisticated, philosophical approach, current medical practice maintains a false veil of modernity. Failures in treatment reveal how most diseases continue to be framed as corporal encroachment.

Bloodletting And Vaccination

Bloodletting was a common practice for millennia through the late 19th century; a little more than 100 years ago. Historically, this is conspicuously recent, although modern doctors dismiss that this technique was the immediate precursor of today’s methodologies.

Not only was it used to treat a wide range of maladies, but bloodletting was also applied preventively.

The belief that the human body required purging detrimental substances was the central guiding principle. This hasn’t changed; the need to expel or defeat deleterious parts or pathogens from the body continues to drive most therapies today.

Medical science hasn’t begun to understand the power of natural disease immunity. The ability of the endocrine and nervous systems to seamlessly integrate and maximize vitality, even in the face of increasing challenges, is phenomenal. That they are still viewed by most clinicians as separate systems is telling in itself.

The precarious belief that we have reached an apex of understanding the human body has engendered other false assumptions. Contrary to any logic, it is generally taken for granted that modern medicine can improve human biological processes with powerful disruptive drugs, including vaccines.

The legitimate concerns about whether vaccines can be safely injected into a child or adult in the name of preventing infection are intentionally minimized. The hazards, particularly with additives and contaminants, have resulted in the recall of some vaccines. Until multi-generational studies can be done, including the effects on fertility, no one can make any claim about long-term safety.

The concept of vaccination is relatively new. Claims of accomplishments contradict statistics, while conjectures regarding practicality and safety are presented with finality. More knowledgeable solutions to prevent illness need development, while the increased use of vaccines, particularly in children, should be reconsidered.

The so-called, cutting-edge mRNA vaccine for COVID-19, developed from a growing understanding of the human genome, is designed and described as something that teaches cells how to fight off the virus - as if cells aren’t perfectly designed already.

This application also conforms with the archaic arsenal of medical science — it is a weapon used against an opponent that must be conquered. Vaccination therapy assumes the human body needs training to best defend itself. Following the logic of this highly questionable notion, in this current conflict, the enemy appears to have found ways to camouflage and evolve.

In this alleged war against a virus, the use of vaccines is leading to many casualties and disastrous collateral damage. The acceptance of injury and death in the wake of vaccination — now proven as a greater risk than the virus — is further confirmation of the destructive vacuum where logic or principles are not tolerated.

Within decades, history will view the use of most vaccines as deluded; no different from how we now regard bloodletting.

A Losing Battle With Pathogens

When general health is maximized, no vaccine comes close to offering the protection provided by the sophisticated and complex human immune system. With balanced and powerful vitality, our bodies instinctively repress microorganisms that don’t belong.

Pathogens are rarely the primary cause of ailments. As within the rest of nature, microorganisms are opportunistic, and most often thrive when the process of deterioration has already begun. Most microbes that live on or in humans are beneficial. Some are key components of digestion — we would die without them.

In the 20th century, the development of penicillin had a profound impact on life-threatening infections and traumatic injuries with sepsis. However, there are growing concerns that the overuse of antibiotics, both in humans and animals, has engendered more powerful and dangerous bacteria.

Medical science relentlessly continues to attack disease and pathogens without recognizing that suppression is a tactic with great risks. Although unaddressed, there is growing awareness that this approach frequently engenders more virulent mutations and manifestations of underlying causes.

The ongoing notion that we must confront illness at all costs is an insidious problem. Attempting to destroy pathogens, or relying solely on a vaccine to defend against a contagious virus, exacerbates the faulty logic that has driven the treatment of disorders since the Middle Ages.

Instead of gauging wellness on continuity with nature, the barometer of the success of public health is defined mostly by the battles won with medications and defying death.

The statistics about increased life expectancy for industrialized countries are less telling when compared to regions of the world where stress is minimal, air, water and soil are clean, and a nutritious diet is a cultural norm. In some of those places, many people have lived for more than 100 years without medical intervention.

The central thrust of modern medicine is based on a fearful, feudal model that eclipses the importance of lifestyle. Although they are key factors in avoiding illness, diet and environment are still not considered primary factors for good health by the medical establishment.

The irrational dread of a viral pandemic exemplifies how the medical world has projected its obsolete mania onto humanity. People want to avoid pain and sickness, but they know that their quality of life is more precious than anything else.

Good health, even in the midst of a plague, can’t be measured by the elimination of pathogens, the defiance of death, or how well a medical system dispenses pharmaceutical products.

The Heights of Hypocrisy

The militant response to the alleged pandemic has further entrenched the vested medical mindset and reinforced the detrimental attitude toward illness and disease.

The vast majority of patients suffer under the illusion that only modern medicine holds the answer to human suffering. However, corporate biomedical science staunchly remains in the Dark Ages, and those who seek or practice any alternative approach to maintaining health are demeaned and scorned by its high priests.

As an impending plague’s shadow gave fresh momentum to a false paradigm of illness as an evil, many of those leading a relatively natural lifestyle defied their own sensibility by becoming vehement supporters of vaccination. People who scrutinize every ingredient in their food, avoiding contaminants and preservatives, suddenly were unwilling to consider the contents of what was directly injected into their bodies.

Many doctors, who had started to accept the importance of the purity of diet and natural lifestyle in maintaining good health, regressed into zealotry; supporting an experimental technology that made everyone inoculated a guinea pig.

This reversal in demeanor is a direct response to disseminated fear of a hostile force and an unknown future; favorable conditions for manipulating human behavior.

A mortal threat can cause an atheist to speak with god, convert a pacifist into a warrior, or transform a humanitarian into a fascist. Fear of the unknown, particularly when potential illness and death are looming, kindles irrational and hostile instincts.

However, unrelenting vehemence and furious tirades fueled by dread and doubts are thinly veiled charades. A dogmatic stance — along with the need to suppress any dissent — is never a reasonable position and reveals insecurity.

By engendering paranoia as a means to maintain control, most governments have lost credibility in the handling of the pandemic. Echoing the irrational fears of medical science, and absurdly invoking the power of a threatening microbe; leaders, doctors, and willing foot soldiers continue to demand conformity.

Yet the enemy clearly is not the virus or the unvaccinated. The only true threat is intolerance of ideas.

A cabal with questionable morals and motives should not determine our future. Modern medicine will remain capricious and deeply flawed until a new open-minded, creative philosophy is applied to understanding health. To face illness and disease appropriately, we need enlightened methodologies, particularly innovative prevention for those at greatest risk and effective treatments for those who are unwell.

Any genuine crisis needs to be approached calmly by the broadest range of informed individuals. Establishing wellness begins with a rational and ethical discussion about what is truly effective, including a renewed emphasis on the importance of good nutrition and a creative lifestyle.

There is room for optimism. With general recognition that supporting natural immunity engenders the greatest vitality, a renaissance in healthcare can emerge from the current plague of ignorance.