We Can No Longer Blame the Pigs
Pandemic: adjective
1. (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
2. general; universal: pandemic fear of atomic war.
[From Late Latin pandēmus, from Greek pandēmos, of all the people : pan-, pan- + dēmos, people; see dā- in Indo-European roots.] (American Heritage)
We presently have the perfect combustible conditions for a contagious infection of all the people.
Economic collapse, widespread unemployment, flawed and dishonest financial institutions – which have squeezed our savings and our hopes and dreams into less and less, a media hungry for audience attention, and a medical industry greedy for sales of antidotes – a full-blown pandemic in the making.
The 2009 flu outbreak in humans is due to a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 that derives in part from human influenza, avian influenza, and two separate strains of swine influenza. (Wikipedia)
Ah – the pigs get blamed again. Reminiscent of the Bible story of Jesus and the man with the unclean spirit, which was cast into a great herd of swine feeding. ‘And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.’ (Mark 5, American King James version)
But – in this Biblical case, a mini-pandemic – instantly shifted and abated.
The people are infected with fear that the sky is falling, Chicken Little. And nothing is more contagious than fear. What if this is the moment to re-seize hope, to stand firm against impending doom, and find an easy, simple, accessible solution that handles the flu – be it avian or swine – once and for all. After all – the notion of pandemics is as old as – well nearly Methuselah: ‘The Plague of Athens, 430 BC. Typhoid fever killed a quarter of the Athenian troops, and a quarter of the population over four years. This disease fatally weakened the dominance of Athens, but the sheer virulence of the disease prevented its wider spread; i.e. it killed off its hosts at a rate faster than they could spread it.’ (Wikipedia)
An interesting notion: killing off the host can stop the spread.
Another interesting medical notion: Optimizing your vitamin D levels is one of the absolute best strategies for avoiding infections of ALL kinds, and vitamin D deficiency is likely the TRUE culprit behind the seasonality of the flu-- not the flu virus itself. Because there is so little sunlight "d' in winter. (Dr. Christian Renna
crenna@lifespanmedicine.com)
A simple solution, sub-lingual pills of light – nanotechnology as a prophylactic.
A recent dawning notion: Dr. Phil on the Today Show – speaking of the relationship between physiology and psychology, that thinking affects our body’s reactivity. We need humor, friendship, and belief in a higher power. So now there is a pandemic opportunity for a change of thought about the intrusion of fear, despair, contagion – and health. You compromise your immune system with negative thinking. You have to have right thinking. Thank you, Dr. Phil and NBC for a breath of clean air.
Over 100 years ago, a New England woman, Mary Baker Eddy wrote:
“People believe in infectious and contagious diseases, and that any one is liable to have them under certain predisposing or exciting causes. This mental state prepares one to have any disease whenever there appear the circumstances which he believes produce it. If he believed as sincerely that health is catching when exposed to contact with healthy people, he would catch their state of feeling quite as surely and with better effect than he does the sick man's. (Miscellaneous Writings, p.280)
Imagine catching health when we are exposed to healthy people!
Imagine abolishing forever, this particular strain of viral fear.
Imagine no longer blaming the pigs -- or the birds.
Sheila Shayon
President, third-eyemedia.com
