Posted on 04/23/2020 11:41:59 AM PDT by cradle of freedom
Are we living in the Middle Ages or what? In the Middle Ages people had no resort except to be quarantined when they had a deadly contagious disease. But today we have modern medicine so why isn't the media complex promoting the search for modern medicines that can be useful in combating the corona virus? Something is very wrong and very fishy with this story.
When a couple of medicines are discussed they are quickly dismissed as Fauci dismissed a medicine that was showing promise. Twenty four/seven we are hearing about washing your hands, wearing masks and keeping distance but little about modern medicine!
All three of the Boston channels just had a program with doctors from Tufts and other hospitals and the Governor Charlie Baker. The doctors were saying that there are many seriously ill people who are avoiding going to the hospitals because they are terrified of the Covid 19 virus. This has taken a turn that the Fauci followers didn't expect.
You as....Why isn’t the media complex promoting the search for modern medicines that can be useful in combating the corona virus?
Well I don’t know where your living but there’s more than plenty being tried and broadcasted every day!
It’s just the direction we’re headed. We keep rewriting (or ignoring) laws for a smaller percentage of the population each time we do it.
Ummm. . .I’m pretty sure that sending us back to the serfdom of the middle ages is exactly the agenda.
Theodoric Of York
Theodoric of York
..Steve Martin
William
..Dan Aykroyd
Broom Gilda
..Gilda Radner
Joan
..Jane Curtin
Hunchback
..John Belushi
Drunkard
..Bill Murray
Announcer: [ over scolling SUPER ] In the Middle Ages, medicine was still in its infancy. The art of healing was conducted not by physicians, but by barbers. The medieval barbers were the forerunners of todays men of medicine, and many of the techniques they developed are still practiced today. This is the story of one such barber.
William: Hello, Theodoric of York. Well, its springtime, and Ive come for my haircut and bloodletting.
Theodoric of York: Hello, William, Son of Malcolm the Tanner. Have a seat. Broom Gilda, you start on Williams hair, and Ill open a vein here.
Broom Gilda: Yes, Theodoric.
Theodoric of York: Hows that baby I delivered last Christmas when your wife died?
William: Oh, the little fellow is deformed.
Theodoric of York: Oh, thats right. I remember now. [ cuts Williams vein, as his blood spills into a bowl ]
William: Ahhh..
Announcer: And now, its time for another episode of Theodoric of York: Medieval Barber.
Theodoric of York: There you go. Looks like I have another patient. Ill be back in a minute to see how youre doing.
William: Right. Thank you.
[ Theodoric approaches Joan, who stands next to her daughter ]
Joan: Hello, Theodoric, Barber of York.
Theodoric of York: Hello, Joan, Wife of Simkin the Miller. Well, hows my little patient doing?
Joan: Not so well, I fear. We followed all your instructions I mixed powder of staghorn, gum of arabic with sheeps urine, and applied it in a poultice to her face.
Theodoric of York: And did you bury her up to her neck in the marsh and leave her overnight?
Joan: Oh, yes. But she still feels as listless as ever, if not more.
Theodoric of York: Well, lets give her another bloodletting. Broom Gilda.
Broom Gilda: Yes, Theodoric.
Theodoric of York: Take two pints.
Broom Gilda: Yes, Theodoric.
Joan: Will she be alright?
Theodoric of York: Well, Ill do everything humanly possible. Unfortunately, we barbers arent gods. You know, medicine is not an exact science, but we are learning all the time. Why, just fifty years ago, they thought a disease like your daughters was caused by demonic possession or witchcraft. But nowadays we know that Isabelle is suffering from an imbalance of bodily humors, perhaps caused by a toad or a small dwarf living in her stomach.
Joan: Well, Im glad shes in such good hands.
Hunchback: [ pulls Drunkard forward in a cart ] Is this Theodoric, Barber of York?
Theodoric of York: Say, dont I know you?
Hunchback: Sure, you worked on my back.
Theodoric of York: Whats wrong with your friend here?
Hunchback: He broke his legs.
Drunkard: I was at the festival of the vernal equinox, and I guess I had a little too much mead.. and I darted out in front of an oxcart. It all happened so fast. They couldnt stop in time.
Theodoric of York: Well, youll a lot better after a good bleeding.
Drunkard: But Im bleeding already!
Theodoric of York: Say, whos the barber here?
Drunkard: Okay, okay, just do something for my legs.
Theodoric of York: Well, the three of us will get you up on the gibbet here. [ turns Drunkard upside-down, then spreads his legs apart ] Okay, now this is gonna hurt a little. What were doing is separating your broken bones, and if you dont feel better tomorrow, well just cut his legs off about here.
Drunkard: Okay. Im pretty sure Im gonna feel better tomorrow!
Theodoric of York: I guess this will teach you to go easy on the mead. Broom Gilda put a few leeches on his forehead.
[ Broom Gilda complies ]
Drunkard: Thank you.
Theodoric of York: [ to William ] When was the last time you came in for a worming?
William: I guess Im due.. but I dont have time today. Please accept my payment this fine, fat goose. [ hands over goose ]
Theodoric of York: Thank you. Broom Gilda will give you your change. [ returns to Joan ] So, hows the little patient doing?
Joan: Shes worse. Shes looking pale.
Theodoric of York: Well, if shes not responding to treatment, Im afriad well have to run some more tests. Broom Gilda, bring me the Caladrius Bird.
Joan: Caladrius Bird?
Theodoric of York: Yes. The Caladrius Bird is placed beside a patient. If the bird looks at a patients face, she will live; but if it looks at her feet, she will die. Okay, now, Freddy, come on out. [ unleashes bird from cage, but it just flies off ] I dont know how to interpret that. Did you see Broom Gilda?
Broom Gilda: No.
Theodoric of York: Well, I guess, take another pint from Isabelle and while youre at it, take two pints from the bird.
Broom Gilda: [ feels patient ] Shes dead.
Joan: Dead! Dead! I cant believe it! My little daughter dead!
Theodoric of York: Now, Mrs. Miller, youre distraught, tired.. you may be suffering from nervous exhaustion. I think youd feel better if I let some of your blood.
Joan: You charlatan! You killed my daughter, just like you killed most of my other children! Why dont you admit it! You dont know what youre doing!
Theodoric of York: [ steps toward the camera ] Wait a minute. Perhaps shes right. Perhaps Ive been wrong to blindly folow the medical traditions and superstitions of past centuries. Maybe we barbers should test these assumptions analytically, through experimentation and a scientific method. Maybe this scientific method could be extended to other fields of learning: the natural sciences, art, architecture, navigation. Perhaps I could lead the way to a new age, an age of rebirth, a Renaissance! [ thinks for a minute ] Naaaaaahhh!
Announcer: Tune in next week for another episode of Theodoric of York: Medieval Barber, when youll hear Theodoric say:
Theodoric of York: A little bloodletting and some boars vomit, and hell be fine!
“Bring out yer dead!”
Whether or not there’s a medieval feeling about this, it’s surreal. Thank God I am employed in an essential business (grocery).
The leach didn't hurt a bit. But when my mom dumped peroxide on the gash.....yeow!!!
One of my favorite all time sketches...
“Say, who’s the Barber here?”
But this assumes every ailment has a cure (which is a pretty broad assumption to make).
There was never a cure found for the Black Plague, or for the Spanish Flu (to name the more well-known pandemics); we may chase after a cure that can't be found and end up dead doing so.
Because we have very little in the way of treatments for most viral disease.
Mostly vaccines.
A cure isnt magically appear because you want one.
The Black Plague (bubonic plague) is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis. Its usually spread by fleas. Once diagnosed it is easily treated and cured with antibiotics.
Spanish Flu was a strain of H1N1 influenza. The 2009 Swine Flu was an H1N1 strain. H1N1 continues to circulate. While there isnt a cure for influenza, there are anti-viral treatments and vaccines with varying degrees of effectiveness to prevent it.
Modern medicine takes more than a few weeks to destroy a pandemic.
NO We’ve all been had. Cuomo just came out and said 21% of NYC folks have the antibodies. So let’s see how my math is and you can correct me if wrong. NYC 8.3M people. 21% of that 1.7M. 11.2 deaths is a death rate in the closed quarter city so far so that means the death rate is .006%!!!
For that we destroyed millions upon millions of livelihoods and destroyed the US economy! People it’s time to revolt!
I don’t believe it is being broadcast apart from Fox News. The other networks down play the medicines that appear to be helping. They try to scare people away.
I'm not dismissing medicine here, but the proven solution in a pandemic has been social distancing. (Whether this particular pandemic warrants the steps we have taken is incidental to my point.)
The whole Shutting Up of Houses thing has certainly had me wondering...
If there aren’t any medical historians on the C-Team, there oughta be...
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