“You’ll find pediatricians neglecting to inform mothers
that infant formula can contain from 10 to 1000 times as much lead as
breastmilk; neglecting to tell a mother
that breastfeeding protects her infant from all infectious diseases she has had
or fought off through her immune system; neglecting to tell mothers that
breastfeeding promotes better bone maturation and intellectual development and
neglecting to tell them that breastfeeding will help protect mothers themselves
from cancer of the breast.”—Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, ”Confessions of a Medical
Heretic,” 1980
Just days before the COVID-19 panic hit the USA, I was
walking down a sidewalk in New Smyrna Beach and for some unknown reason looked
up at the sky and saw a murmuration of Starlings. I became mesmerized by the geometric shapes
the flock of birds were creating. I
watched at the artistry of not just the birds flying but the shapes they were
creating. It was exciting to see an
actual murmuration. I had seen them on
YouTube videos but this was real life not screen life. I felt like it was a sign; but I didn’t know
what the sign meant, other than the excitement of feeling like the Starlings
were performing just for me.
The speaker of the above video says that what we are
seeing is not biology but physics. It is
the critical transition of the flock to predator threats. The speaker says, “A critical transition is
an abrupt change that occurs when an external force pushes something to its
tipping point.” Maybe what we have
witnessed in this COVID-19 panic is a world-wide mumuration of humans? The medical-industrial
complex predicts a world-wide pandemic with a new, never-before-seen virus. Like the flock of starlings, we humans feel
threatened by a enemy. We go to our shelters-in-place. Amazingly this human mumuration became world-wide. And then the world in a few months became
transformed by the absence of human activity.
Nature is suddenly given an opportunity to breath.
I saw my first firefly. They had left my
property some years ago. I thought them
extinct but I now know they are still around. I notice the silence, no planes overhead, very
little traffic. I feel like I did when I
was hiking in the Adirondacks. The
silence is at first frightening but gradually enjoyable. It is the silence of human activity being
quieted. The sounds of nature are being
sung in the trees by birds I have never seen before. We share this planet with many animals and it
is our human activity that creates our human deafness to the plight of our
mother earth and all its creatures.
Of course, human activity will get back on its
destructive track sooner or later depending on where you live. But for one brief moment we get a glimpse of
what our world could be. I wonder about the
human cost of this pandemic. How much
fear and panic has been spread around the world? How many people died of this unknown virus? How many died alone in fear without the
people they love holding their hands, giving their loved ones care and comfort? How many babies and children will grow up
afraid of human touch, not knowing how to smile because faces only have eyes?
Oh
yes I know this new world of masks and gloves and 6 foot separation is about
keeping everyone safe from an infectious disease. But what is the science behind this new disease? We see a lot of statistics on how many died
of this disease and how many tested positive. What about the testing? The media reports that there aren’t enough
tests and only certain people (wealthy or famous) are able to get tests. So how do we respond to the scary statistics
that are printed in the media? Why does
the FDA pdf file of the CDC PCR test kit for this disease state, “This test
cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.” (page
37) https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
If the test cannot rule out other diseases, someone please
tell me how we have all these statistics on COVID-19? What I have noticed in some media reports is that
cases are based on presuming that someone has COVID-19 because they were in
contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. But if the test cannot be specific, how can
one presume anything about this new virus?
Is this science? Presumption is
not science. (I found 2 other COVID-19 test kits that stated the following, “This
test cannot rule out diseases caused by other pathogens.” PrimerdesignTM used
by the WHO, and Taq COVID-19 test kits)
I believe that all PCR COVID-19 test kits probably make the same or
similar statements in their package inserts.
Many years ago Kary Mullis, Nobel prize winner for his invention of the PCR, stated that PCR should
not be used as a diagnostic test. Yet here we are again using PCR as a testing
device to presume disease. PCR was used
with hiv/aids, testing newborns to determine infection. There has always been errors testing newborns
for disease since infants carry maternal antibodies for 18 months or longer.
The similarities between the so-called science of
COVID-19 and hiv/aids is interesting:
same inexact “science,” some of the same researchers predicting disease
and death, and the general population believing that medical science is Truth-no
questions need be asked.
Few people
recognize the medical industrial-complex, its power and its focus on
profit.
Encyclopedia.com defines the medical industrial
complex, “The concept of the medical-industrial complex was first
introduced in the 1971 book, The American Health Empire (Ehrenreich and
Ehrenreich 1971) by Health-PAC. The medical-industrial complex (MIC) refers to
the health industry, which is composed of the multibillion-dollar congeries of
enterprises including doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, insurance companies,
drug manufacturers, hospital supply and equipment companies, real estate and
construction businesses, health systems consulting and accounting firms, and
banks. As employed by the Ehrenreichs, the concept conveys the idea that an
important (if not the primary) function of the health care system in the United
States is business (that is, to make profits) with two other secondary
functions, research and education.”
The medical industrial complex is similar to the military
industrial complex, whose purpose is to make war but mostly designed for profits. Their influence is ever-present in
governmental policy. With the medical
industrial complex it is the same personnel flow of corporation positions to governmental
positions, and back to the corporation.
But physicians and medical researchers have far greater influence
because very few people question their physicians or medical researchers. They are like the gods. One does not question a god, the rich and
famous, and/or the ivy league-educated.
I honestly don’t see breastfeeding surviving under this
ideology that human touch, physical contact is dangerous and to be avoided in
this pandemic. Breastfeeding is all
about touching, physical contact between a mother and her baby. Breastfeeding
is about building an immunity through mother-baby contact. Babies are great imitators. Smile at a baby, and they smile back. I have seen newborn babies smile and it wasn’t
gas. Although the medical profession
tends to believe that babies are just little lumps-empty slates. It was just some 30 years ago that babies
were operated on without anesthesia.
Why? Because the medical
community believed that babies didn’t feel pain. But any mother can tell you that even a young
baby feels pain and can smile back at you.
The human milk industry on the other hand is patenting oligosaccharides that supposedly imitate breastfeeding. They speak of human milk but it is research on breastfeeding that is the basis for the belief in its protective qualities against infectious disease.
“Consumption of human milk is one
of the most cost-effective strategies known to medicine for protecting infants
against morbidity and mortality due to infectious disease. Human
milk may be considered a natural and efficacious
"nutriceutical," i.e., a model food that conveys immunologic
benefits. Protection against infectious diseases occurs through a variety of
complementary mechanisms found in human milk, including
oligosaccharides and their related glycoconjugates. Significantly enhanced
immunologic protection by breastfeeding has been demonstrated for diarrheal
diseases, respiratory tract illnesses, bacteremia, meningitis, and necrotizing
enterocolitis. Protection by breastfeeding is especially efficacious against
diarrheal disease.” --
Patent #7893041, “Oligosaccharide compositions and use
thereof in the treatment of infection,”
inventors: Ardythe L Morrow,
David S Newburg, Guillermo M Ruiz-Palacios
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7893041.PN.&OS=PN/7893041&RS=PN/7893041
What do we really know about health? What do we really know about bacteria and
viruses? Assumptions have been made
about a test that is the supposed magic bullet to prevent a pandemic. Will this testing be used to presume
infection and thus quarantine those testing positive? Will it be used to decide who will be allowed
to work? A test as unspecific as the PCR may determine
what we believe about ourselves, others, and our society. One can only hope that we start questioning
this test.
Copyright 2020 Valerie W. McClain
