Let’s look what happens when you construct a viral infectious disease as the most dangerous disease you ever faced.
First of all you become very worried, scared. It disrupts your thinking, sleep, eating and digestion. All of this weakens you and makes you more vulnerable.
You are likely to focus and amplify symptoms you normally ignored or suffered without much notice. If you don’t have symptoms, you will look for them. You will think you must treat yourself even when you are healthy in an attempt to save yourself from perceived danger.
Treatment will be divorced from what you feel or severity of symptoms. You may attempt treatments that are new and experimental. Each treatment, old or new, can and will interfere with your ability to heal. Most will recover despite clumsy administration of poisons.
Some will get sicker from treatments when they would heal had they been left alone with rest, eat, drink, fresh air, sunlight and simple remedies for symptom relief should you need them.
Hospitalization for minor ailments will make you worse. Your sleep will be disrupted in a hospital and you will be exposed to hospital pathogens. The likelihood of over treatment will rise exponentially thus increasing likelihood of side effects disproportionate to affliction.
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"If you do this, we will be forced to think that mosques are being deserted on America's instructions," Mufti Kafayatullah told the crowd.
"We're ready to give our lives, but not ready to desert our mosques."
Naveed Paracha, a 35-year-old employee of a garment shop, said he came to the mosque because he feels his faith is stronger than any virus. "Diseases come and go, but for Muslims, you always have to stand in front of God," he said.
"[Lockdowns are] not the answer to these problems," Aziz had told Al Jazeera. "We believe the people should not be made to fear things right now, they should have faith in God at this time, and to place their hope in him ... If death is written for you, then it will come."
The problem with recommending vitamins, a vaccine, or no-carb (or any other) diet as a means to greater health - misunderstanding of the complexity to make something good and not harmful happen.
All three ritual actions attempt to create a state of 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦-𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 that will be proclaimed healthy based on some limited assortment of random parameters. These parameters come to be from population statistics as random context-free averages tied to some outcomes.
All three require surprisingly little thinking, no understanding of anything beyond following a simple algorithm and consumption of a drug/service on a routine or intermittent basis.
Our future is glum. The progress will continue. Vaccines will keep saving us. We will be able to upgrade ourselves with spare body parts and change who we are. A little or a lot. We invest into drugs so we will keep on drugging. Masks work so they will stay.
Those of us in the present state of mind will be the last men of our kind who refuse to progress but we are almost extinct.
In good news, God is with us. No matter what trials and tribulations are ahead of us, we will ensure them just like all the men who came before us.
It is most odd to arrange your life to "prevent hospital care".
How does one care for a child that keeps a child well minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day, here and now? When a child is born, he belongs to the mother and should continue being on the mother most of the time
There are tribes that care for children collectively, and multiple women nursing a child. We are not that tribe. In the West the care for a child falls on one woman. It is on that one woman that the well-being of that child depends.
How well the community cares for the mother and how well it provides for her impacts that child. The baseline way to mother a child is by nursing at the breast. No by "lactation management" via the freezer. Reality is not frozen. Adaptation of a child via the mother is real time.
On Saturday, June 17, 1916, an official announcement of the existence of an epidemic polio infection was made in Brooklyn, New York. Over the course of that year, there were over 27,000 cases and more than 6,000 deaths due to polio in the US, with over 2,000 deaths in NYC alone.
What can we make of this Wikipedia entry? Is this a story? Is this a fact? What is the relationship of this collection of words and symbols to scientific knowledge, practice, and the society that thinks we are scientific? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916_New_…
What is a good way to evaluate an event? What kind of a method is good for this purpose? How can we make sense of an event? What in this collection of words is true and what is not? How do we establish truth? What is the relationship of truth to science? What is science?
There are many ways to live. Accounting for uncertainty and knowing you have no chance at controlling complexity or being delusional. You can dwell in present reality. Or in a “matrix” of artificial devising of your own inflamed imagination.