"When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras." "That was one of the gems that Dr. Steve shared in his off-grid medicine course. It's something taught to all students in medical school. And what is means is this: Common things happen commonly. The child in the waiting room is more likely to have an ear infection than appendicitis. The young adult is more likely to have type-2 diabetes than a gunshot. Which brings us back to the problem with zebras. For a very long time the US, figuratively, has been a nation of horses treated by horse doctors, horse doctors that have been trained to treat only horses. Not zebras. Even though zebras bear some physical resemblance, there are significant differences. Because the zebras carry some vastly different diseases. And those diseases have symptoms and presentations that are quite similar to those for horses, but the treatments may be totally different. The horse doctors might have read about these zebra diseases, but they have never seen them. Unfortunately, many of those hoof beats in the distance are in fact coming from zebras. Most physicians in US have never seen the actual zebras making a comeback and crossing our borders." https://prepschooldaily.blogspot.com...th-zebras.html
Then there are us old farts born in the 1930's. As a child I had the following diseases, measles, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough, tularemia, rheumatic fever, had friends and family that had polio, scarlet fever, tetanus, died of blood poisoning, gone in 24 hours with quick pneumonia and if you did pull thru, likely to be weakened for life , heart attacks were almost 100 % fatal or left you an invalid. In older part of grave yard were clusters of graves for all the other diseases. The Dr in 1900 could not do anything to really help you pull thru, the vast increases in life were due to better food processing, better water sources, better sanitary conditions, and we forget one of the most effective . Public Health: How the Fight Against Hookworm Helped Build a System The above post not only shows how it worked with hookworm, but lead to both the system and the laws that were used in the Covid efforts in the last year. While the emphasis is supposed to be on the disease, it also shows how a power base can develop and how it can be used for both political and economic control. If we do have a major collapse, for any reason, we will not only lose the drugs that help us fight infection, but the vaccines that have stopped the spread of disease. In addition a perfect example is how perhaps one or at least a very few people "helping" the victims of the Haiti, can introduce old diseases into the country or community, and that lead to the first cholera epidemic in that country. I am sure to the average Dr in that country, it was in fact a zebra. Cholera in Haiti | Cholera | CDC Living in New England thru the Lymes disease, many of the people who got it first were not able to receive treatment for it as the Dr did not believe it existed, there were no tests for it, and the insurance companies would not pay for the treatments.
My granny would perform butt inspections and determine if you had worms. Then she would administer a dose of turpentine in a spoon full of sugar.
"Instead of monitoring Covid-19 infection numbers every day, we will focus on the outcomes," the trade, finance and health ministers wrote in a joint op-ed in the Straits Times. "How many fall very sick, how many in the intensive care unit, how many need to be intubated for oxygen, and so on. This is like how we now monitor influenza. “We can't eradicate it, but we can turn the pandemic into something much less threatening, like influenza, hand, foot and mouth disease, or chickenpox, and get on with our lives.” Officials in Singapore are aiming to give at least two thirds of the population their first jab early this month, with the same number fully jabbed by the start of August.
Great job Singapore except for the jab part. I think only older folks and people with medical conditions that could make covid deadly should get it at this point.
After living in S'pore for a couple years, sorta have stayed curious. Watching the news on CNA (Singapore) they are having some problems getting covid under control, the strategy changes every day. Which angle they are off on this week, I don't know. Singapore and Malaysia want badly to reopen the causeway for trade, but covid is bouncing around all over, neither of the countries can tie it down.
Stop reporting cases, problem solved. So sick of this BS pandemic I will not listen/read anything about it anymore.
UNVACCINATED SOLDIERS Will Be FIRED And Will Have To REPAY THE MONEY Invested In Their Training!!! UNVACCINATED SOLDIERS Will Be FIRED And Will Have To REPAY THE MONEY Invested In Their Training!!!
