A cure for medicine

Interesting article in the Vancouver Sun on preparing for the Swine Flu onset predicted for this Fall.  Apparently Canada has ordered 50 million doses of the vaccine.  Odd, since we have less than 34 million people.  Will there be booster shots?  Or does Glaxo-Smith Kline sell only in rounded-off lots?  Try to imagine the money Big Pharm is raking in at taxpayer expense.  You can't.  It's too huge.

It's nothing but a win, win situation for the scare mongers.  If the flu doesn't manifest, it will be attributed to preparedness.  If anybody has a vaccine reaction, or gets the flu anyway, rookie immunizers or their trainers can be blamed for faulty procedure.

These are the most telling paragraphs in the whole article:

... the World Health Organization considers the severity of H1N1 to be moderate, which means most people recover without hospitalization or medical care.

Even in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, 97 per cent of people who took ill survived -- without antibiotics, antivirals or vaccines, which had yet to be developed.

How much you wanna bet the 3% who died had other underlying causes? Still, the article goes on to say that the vaccine should be put "to good use" - you know, since we've paid for them anyway.

It also makes the case for a "crisis" czar who has jurisdiction over the provinces - a slippery slope, indeed.

I think I figured out this week why young people might be more susceptible to flu in general.  When I was young I often got by on four or five hours sleep a night, and I smoked, ate a lot of junk and got practically no outdoor exercise.  I also had the usual seasonal respiratory infections. Now that I'm old and understand my limitations I try to get plenty of sleep, do Yoga exercises and cover practically the whole of centretown on foot in a normal week just doing errands and attending events. I don't smoke, I drink green tea instead of coffee (great for allergy reduction), eat lots of fruits and vegetables, eat whole wheat bread, very little meat and hardly any sugared products.

Last Wednesday I sat on a crowded bus (Wednesday is free day for seniors in Ottawa  - thanks, OCTranspo! I can now travel to all corners of the city at no added expense) smack up beside a young woman who was talking on her mobile phone about how she had come down with a "terrible cold" and was on her way home to bed.  This is Sunday and all I have are my usual complaints - stiff knees and ankles and a bit of hip pain which would be a whole lot worse if I didn't do my Yoga exercises and take my halibut liver oil capsules every day.  I can't help wondering, however, how the rather pasty-complexioned, morbidly obese woman sitting on the other side of the sick girl on the bus fared.

I don't intend to be vaccinated, and I don't intend to come down with flu.  I didn't last year, or the year before that, or the year before that .... and you don't need to succumb either if you take care of yourself and stop relying on the overused medical system.  Did I mention that I haven't seen a doctor in over 12 years?

Does that shock you?  Does the thought of going so long without seeing a doctor make you feel fearful?  I can tell you why that is.  It's the same thing that makes some people feel guilty if they don't go to church on Sunday.  Brainwashing.  Medicine is as much a religion as ... religion.  It's all a matter of instilled belief.  Fortunately I suffered enough in my lifetime at the hands of incompetent practitioners to cure me for good.

And that's my Sunday sermon.  Bless you, my friend.  Bless you also, my enemy.

Related:  (Thanks to John) Setting the people up to die: A conspiracy of silence about swine flu natural remedies