Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 97

[ecosophia]

As we proceed through the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselessness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. 

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before: 

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.

Comments

[scotlyn]

While it is true that there is no verifiable test for infection (if one chooses to name the disease after the purported pathogen*)... but it is also true that people do *know* if they are sick, and their symptoms fall into discernible patterns. Leaving test results to one side, I have treated many people over the years who are able to tell me that "this [chronic pattern of symptoms]" all began after I came down with "that [cold, flu, tummy bug, etc]".

I can therefore confirm that, while most people do recover from acute illnesses, some do not, and their illness continues to express itself in low-level, often debilitating, chronic patterns of disease.

To a TCM practitioner, like myself, this tends to confirm that every disease is a dance with (at least) two partners - the pathogen and the host. The host experiences the attempts their body is making to clear a pathogen away, and to bring itself back to balance, as "symptoms". If these attempts succeed, the symptoms will clear away quickly. Otherwise the pathogen will "linger" and the host must continue to attempt to clear it, producing further symptoms, which, when the disease turns chronic, also testify to increasing diminishment of the host's resources and strength.

To treat a disease, therefore, strengthening the host, augmenting the host's resources, is as critical as weakening the pathogen. And the timeframe in which this takes place may be a short one, or a long one, often depending on how strong the host was, and how plentiful their native resources, at the start of the illness.

* naming conventions, of course, differ, and in the West, currently, we name our infections after the presumed microbial "invader". In Chinese medicine, the convention is to name our infections after the presumed climatic "invader" - ie Wind Cold, or Wind Heat - these are the most common acute infections - which can then (as I said) become complicated by excessive weakness in the host, or excessive strength in the pathogen.