Help your body’s immune system
It’s time to look anew at COVID19 and gain a clearer perspective. This virus composed of HIV and SARS components threatens not just our health but our freedoms – individually and as a community – and the interactions that tie us together.
Do you remember how you felt right after 9/11? I felt shock and bewilderment. Two planes struck two buildings and an hour or two later three buildings suddenly collapsed, just like controlled demolitions. This was followed by the Patriot Act, loss of habeas corpus, the declaration of an “unending war on terror,” reinvasion of Iraq and the establishment of Homeland Security.
COVID-19 feels to me like 9/11 in slow motion – and on steroids. Our Washington leadership team has vacillated, spewed out conflicting advice, failed to effectively deploy personal protective equipment, muffed its efforts to develop an effective test while telling laboratories to hold back, [and] failed to establish national testing standards and a coherent honest policy on how to count cases and deaths.
Presently, anyone who tests positive for virus or antibodies is tallied as a “case.” Yet the great majority of people who “catch” COVID-19 never get sick. Thus manipulated data and misleading narratives create confusion and highly exaggerated fear, allowing us to be herded like masked sheep “for our own protection.”
And holed up at home, we take our eyes off the festering rot in our financial system.
To be sure, COVID-19 is unpredictable and can be nasty and fatal. We’re only beginning to understand it. Yet misperceptions abound. Millennials in a recent survey believe that they have a 2 percent chance of dying from COVID-19. Yet so far the world death rate is in the thousandths of one percent.
Contrast this with the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was deadlier than World War I, killing more than 40 in Cerro alone! Methinks we are being led astray from the very top, not just by President Donald Trump.
Now for the good news. On his deathbed Louis Pasteur was said to have uttered, “Bernard was right.” Translation: Claude Bernard believed in the body’s ability to defend itself against harmful microbes. And so it does.
Our immune system protects us and can be strengthened so that we don’t have to submit to a rushed yet-to-be-proven-effective vaccine.
We can take simple steps to protect ourselves. For example, if you think you may have just been exposed, slowly inhale steam for five minutes through your nose and out your mouth just like Grandma taught. Repeat, followed by sucking on a zinc lozenge, three times a day for two days.
Vitamin D has been repeatedly shown to drastically reduce the incidence and severity of COVID19. Many are way low in this crucial vitamin, especially darkskinned folks.
Vitamin A strengthens our vulnerable cell linings. Vitamin
C is being used in China and has countless benefits. Most folks have low levels of zinc and magnesium, crucial for proper enzyme functions. Quercetin and zinc together have been shown effective in early COVID-19.
Pharmaceuticals have also been shown helpful in treatment. Ivermectin alone and hydroxychloroquine plus zinc have markedly slowed progression when given early. Both are inexpensive and relatively safe generics yet the National Institutes of Health recommends only less effective remdesivir given intravenously at a cost over $3,000.
The NIH also invests billions in vaccine research and the United States government holds manufacturers harmless – a good thing for them as no effective vaccine has yet been produced for either HIV or coronavirus. In some cases adequate antibodies developed, but when rechallenged the animals died. Yes, it appears the revolving doors at Big Pharma, the NIH, the CDC and the FDA have never before swung so profitably.
Lastly, in this strained time in which national media owned by a handful of corporations has failed us, let us congratulate the Taos News for serving our community faithfully and well. Its owner, publisher, editor and staff have stood tall while others have fallen.
All reality is local – ultimately sovereign and in control of our own destiny unless we bow down to those who would oppress us. In this Taos cauldron of creativity, let’s not just “stay safe.” Let’s make our tenacious ancestors proud.
Bob Fies is a retired internist who lives in Arroyo Hondo. Accurate sources of information on the internet can be found at medcram.com (for doctors and technically oriented folks) and mercola.com for lay people. Dr. Fies can be reached at (575) 776-2015.