by Markus Blackett
You may think that science is perfectly objective, but the World Health Organisation (hereafter, WHO) has definitions that put narrow limits to science. There is no more obvious example of this than in its latest dealing with transmissible disease and how it is pressurising the world into its germaphobe ideology. An experimental gene therapy is being touted as the singular treatment; one that has never before been tested on animals, let alone humans! The WHO is a relic of the global patriarchal scientific paradigm, the underlying principle of which is separation and control. The separation is from self and other; life and nature. The fundamental structure of Germ Theory (first promoted by Louis Pasteur in the nineteenth century) is based on just such dominance and submission: ‘We must find the germ and kill it’. The ubiquitous worldview we have inherited justifies it as necessary to overcome both our basic nature and ‘Nature’, seen as separate from us. It operates organisationally, in command-and-control forms – treating nature as a thing to exploit, use, subdue and, most importantly of all for some, convert to commodities for sale.
At the top of the organisation is a command-and-control structure that wants to dominate Nature. Bill Gates, who owns 20 per cent of the WHO, has stated that in order to get back to the normal we had before the coronavirus, we will have to get the vaccine out to 7 billion people. And it is this insane Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) narrative that drives the policies of lockdowns, hand-sanitising, mask-wearing, social-distancing and self-isolating. This fight to the death mentality is best illustrated by the news on 13 February 2021, when Auckland in New Zealand went into a three-day lockdown with only three cases of coronavirus. Victoria in Australia locked down for five days because they found 13 positive cases. And all in the high Antipodean Summer!
Pathogens cannot be eliminated altogether; a human being lives daily with billions of micro-organisms that normally don’t make us unwell. As this pandemic progresses, data begins to show the number of households where some, especially young people, have tested positive with only mild symptoms, some don’t show any symptoms at all, and yet others who have had much more severe symptoms. It suggests that individuals deal differently with pathogens; they are treated as essential to life because they give access to new genetic material that can help organisms adapt and survive.
Yet the WHO ignores this, and continues a kind of all-out war on micro-organisms. The policies to lock down perfectly healthy populations and get everyone vaccinated are based on the theory that micro-organisms are the only causative agents of infections. The pharmaceutical industry develops drugs, vaccines and other biological agents to combat symptoms of disease. Yet there’s no evidence to prove that a virus makes people sick; in fact the evidence shows the opposite: it shows the condition of our immune system is of the utmost importance in protecting us, and better explains why some people are more badly affected than others.
Two competing theories were passionately debated in the nineteenth century between Louis Pasteur and Antoine Béchamp. The latter – known as Terrain Theory – argued that the cause of disease is due to the quality (weak or healthy) of our internal environment and its ability to maintain homeostasis against outside threats. It maintains that you can strengthen and support your health, for instance, with a healthy nutrient-dense diet of fruits and vegetables, staying hydrated with purified water, taking high-quality supplements, eliminating refined sugar, taking daily exercise, effectively dealing with stress, and getting sufficient rest and plenty of fresh air. And, he might have added, ‘not living in a world saturated by immune-system compromising fear’.
Once upon a time, the common cold was considered a deadly threat. Over the years, we have adapted, and over time we have developed tried-and-trusted cures, like drinking lots of fluids, taking plenty of rest, high doses of vitamin C, honey and lemon tea or chicken soup. Studies show that constant exposure to pathogens actually strengthens an immune system and fights future related infections. We are dependent on our innate immune system providing us with this stable balance, called homeostasis. It’s like a tug of war; our immune system on one side and infection on the other. Our bodies put just enough energy into our immune systems to ensure that there is an even match. We have evolved to expect a certain amount of pull from the bacteria on the other side of the rope, and our immune systems are programmed to begin tugging right away. But what happens when one side lets go of the rope? If our immune system starts pulling, but no bacteria are pulling back, it starts falling all over itself. The result is a variety of autoimmune disorders: degenerative diseases, asthma, allergies, inflammatory bowel disease, type 1 diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis, amongst others.
Most people would call it common sense! Many people take extra doses of vitamin C and D especially in the winter months before the cold season starts. It is innate common sense that we look after our internal and external environment, by making sure soil, water and air are less toxic; that we grow and consume nutrient-rich food, and that we reconnect with Nature and support our health as naturally as possible. Anyone who has owned a goldfish will tell you: if you want to prevent the goldfish getting sick, you clean the tank regularly and check the oxygen; you don’t give it a vaccine!
Modern industrial farming processes use agrochemicals and pesticides as if at war with nature, which means we grow and consume products which fill us up, but which lack half the vital nutrients and minerals found in food 50 years ago. On top of that, toxic urban environments, fossil-fuel pollution and ubiquitous electromagnetic radiation mean we consume toxins, not only through bad food, such as refined sugar, but also through the air we breathe and our cells: this eventually blocks essential pathways for our immune system to work properly. A hundred years of synthetic medicine and pharmaceutical drugs have made us more prone to chronic illness than previous generations. None of us would be here but for the wisdom of grandmothers’ remedies, herbal medicine and natural cures.
A ‘new’, new normal could appear from the crisis of 2020–21, where every human being reconnects with the planet that brought them life. It would be a terrible shame if the only lessons children learn from 2020–21 is an unnatural fear of germs through repeated hand-washing, mask-wearing and isolation at home on a computer screen. Humans are social animals at home on the earth and living naturally; not on a digital platform somewhere up on a cloud! Children should play with their friends, not live in guilt because they might just ‘kill their granny’. One-dimensional thinking percolates through all levels of society, even closing down the pluralism of debate. Once upon a time, a mother’s wise words, ‘Let food be thy medicine’, were listened to; nowadays we outsource this gut wisdom to so-called ‘experts’.
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