One: It seems to me that Conservatism–which I will continue to insist represents the truly Liberal middle between monarchy and the Collectivisms–recognizes that life contains pain, but that this pain can be transcended, learned from, and is salutary in many ways when integrated with a larger, coherent, and healthy philosophical or religious world view.
Collectivists, in contrast, take umbrage with the fact that this world contains pain, reject the notion that it is unavoidable, and rather than seeking as individuals and small groups to process and integrate difficulty, dream of a world in which pain is eliminated.
This is of course one obvious reason why, when life in the United States is so fucking easy, by either historical or global standards, so many of these willful children continue to see “oppression”–which might be defined as Other Generated Pain–everywhere.
Here is the thing: what you reject clings to you like a fog. It fills you, and gradually pushes you and pulls you in its own direction. It acquires a gravity. Thus, in rejecting pain these people come to SEEK it. They engineer failure in their own lives with what amounts to masochistic failures of courage, discipline and maturity, and wind up seeking to inflict retribution on the world at large. To rationalize it, they need only seek out people who accept that life is hard sometimes, and blame them for everything.
Two: in the same respect that the suppression of early treatment has cost hundreds of thousands of lives in the United States alone, as among others Harvey Risch and Peter McCullough have argued, with respect to COVID, what about the suppression of Vitamin D with respect to the flu and pneumonia?
If Zev Zelenko was able to develop an easy and cheap regimen for immune system support for COVID, why was the same fucking thing not done for colds and the flu YEARS AGO?
As I understand it, the flu has essentially disappeared. What I would expect is that as more and more people starting taking more zinc and more Vitamin D, particularly, is that flu death rates will plummet, even if it reappears.
What this assault by our government is effectively doing is IMPROVING our public health system on a grassroots, peer to peer level, in ways which will in the long run most likely have strongly positive effects on an array of illnesses for years to come.
I really believe the AMA exists to serve Big Pharma, which is controlled by Big Money. The story I read, which I will take with a grain of salt, is that John D. Rockefeller more or less created both Big Pharma–at least as it exists in this country–and the AMA, with the aim of control, monopolization of methods and ideas, and following huge profits for him and his stockholders.
Here is a link from a segment of the movie Plandemic (1 or 2 I’m not sure): https://sagaciousnewsnetwork.net/john-d-rockefeller-the-founder-of-the-pharmaceutical-industry/
Certainly it is OBVIOUSLY true that when people speak of public health, they are speaking of doctors and hospitals and drugs, not obvious and easy methods by which normal people can take control of their own health, or any of the thousands of known effective herbal and otherwise natural remedies for a host of illnesses.
As one example, Charles Dickens has a passing comment in Oliver Twist that oysters reduce fever. Why? They amount to zinc supplements. Now, we can just take the zinc. But that was known back then.
But this awakening is clearly an unintended consequence of all of this. The political goal seems certainly to have been vaccine passports, at least, and what else remains unknowable. It is very unclear that will be possible now, at least in this country. The tide is clearly going out on the lunatics. Biden remains the figurehead, the mannequin they manipulate from time to time this way and that, but even with the putative reins of power in the hands of authoritarians, there remains much they cannot do without more support from the People, writ large, than they presently have, or can plausibly claim to have.