Hello to all, Long time reader, first time replying because I I appreciated danbashaw's request. I'm a practitioner of Chinese Medicine here in California. In our herbal pharmacopeia, we have herbal formulas to treat the symptoms of viral illnesses, along with all the common sense protocols like rest, fluids, sunshine, etc. Very late 2019/early 2020, news was coming out of Italy and China of pneumonias, particularly in Italy, where it tended to hit the senior population really hard. I remember most of my colleagues early discussing what formulas you would be able to use and when you could use them according to symptoms. Then, everything went on high lockdown here in March 2020, and most of my colleagues shut their practices completely. I couldn't really understand why, as we had trained and prepared for this. During the downtime, I used to hike with a colleague who for years had railed against big pharma, banks, all of it. Her attitude flipped overnight! When I asked why they were taking the vaxx, in light of their mistrust of big pharma, all they could say was they were afraid of "long covid". We just couldn't get past the fear. And there was no more discussion anywhere about any remedy other than the vaccine. For me, I think the switch was flipped in the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election. The hatred and the vitriol that was spewed toward the winner of that election and the people who voted for the president was chilling to witness. At that point, I felt my "higher self/higher guide" message that this was now the time for me to tread the middle and to work to serve the balance. That I was not to buy into hatred or fear or worst case scenario and this was how I was going to come through the next few years. I got a sense at that time, that the intensity surrounding the aftermath of the election was just the beginning. I think it carried forward to not getting the vax, regardless of the pressures or the threat of job loss, etc. And people did stop talking to me, did refuse service,, etc. But I feel like I got super lucky because even though family members chose to get the vax, no one ever was disrespectful or disparaging. I never lost family over it. But at that point in 2016 and again in 2020-21, I became really aware of treading a middle ground. Thank you
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Re: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
Date: 2023-07-18 08:34 pm (UTC)Long time reader, first time replying because I I appreciated danbashaw's request. I'm a practitioner of Chinese Medicine here in California. In our herbal pharmacopeia, we have herbal formulas to treat the symptoms of viral illnesses, along with all the common sense protocols like rest, fluids, sunshine, etc. Very late 2019/early 2020, news was coming out of Italy and China of pneumonias, particularly in Italy, where it tended to hit the senior population really hard. I remember most of my colleagues early discussing what formulas you would be able to use and when you could use them according to symptoms.
Then, everything went on high lockdown here in March 2020, and most of my colleagues shut their practices completely. I couldn't really understand why, as we had trained and prepared for this. During the downtime, I used to hike with a colleague who for years had railed against big pharma, banks, all of it. Her attitude flipped overnight! When I asked why they were taking the vaxx, in light of their mistrust of big pharma, all they could say was they were afraid of "long covid". We just couldn't get past the fear. And there was no more discussion anywhere about any remedy other than the vaccine.
For me, I think the switch was flipped in the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election. The hatred and the vitriol that was spewed toward the winner of that election and the people who voted for the president was chilling to witness. At that point, I felt my "higher self/higher guide" message that this was now the time for me to tread the middle and to work to serve the balance. That I was not to buy into hatred or fear or worst case scenario and this was how I was going to come through the next few years. I got a sense at that time, that the intensity surrounding the aftermath of the election was just the beginning. I think it carried forward to not getting the vax, regardless of the pressures or the threat of job loss, etc. And people did stop talking to me, did refuse service,, etc. But I feel like I got super lucky because even though family members chose to get the vax, no one ever was disrespectful or disparaging. I never lost family over it.
But at that point in 2016 and again in 2020-21, I became really aware of treading a middle ground. Thank you