Posted on 03/07/2020 10:22:41 PM PST by foxfield
As you know, coronavirus is front and center. Yesterday for the first time I had a guy refuse to shake my hand after a speech, citing coronavirus fears. I was taken aback. You mean people can't touch anymore? I was scheduled to do a presentation at Google headquarters in April; that event was canceled yesterday, again citing fears of assembly due to the coronavirus. Isn't it amazing what society chooses to panic about? We don't panic about 50,000 people being killed by drunk drivers. We don't panic about parents still feeding their kids Lucky Charms and Cheerios even in the face of rising diabetes. We don't see supermarkets unable to sell white sugar. Fearing to assemble, to interact, to fellowship strikes at the core of functional society. In a time of extreme loneliness, this further isolates people. Suddenly every person--not just partisans--threatens our health. Paranoia isn't far behind. Interestingly, all the experts are scrambling for a vaccine to solve it. Why don't we have a national effort to boost everyone's immune system? This might be a good time to start such a campaign. An article is coming out perhaps next month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) comparing the nutrition of grass-finished beef to fake meat. I talked with one of the scientists in charge of the research yesterday. He said it'll be earth shaking. At the very time when people need to fortify themselves with better nutrition, they're fleeing the very sustenance that guarantees the most functional immunity and buying lab-grown junk. In this panic, every other person on the planet becomes an enemy. That's a shame and has dire consequences. Here at Polyface we have lots of animals. A herd of 1,000 cows. A flock of 4,000 chickens (actually, several 1,000-bird flocks adding up to 4,000). When all of them are healthy but one dies, we know that one had a weakness. Sometimes it's even personality--a timid chicken does not get encouraged by her flock-mates. She gets picked on--hence, "the pecking order." Immunological weakness shows its ugly head on the farm all the time. And it shows itself in society. I suggest that rather than fearing every other person on the planet, canceling fellowship, and huddling in hermit life until a vaccine is discovered, how about we commit ourselves as a society to eat and live more healthily so we have a collectively better immune system? How about being intentional in how we eat, recreate, entertain, and meditate? What you ponder says a lot about your outlook on life. In the big scheme of things to fear, coronavirus doesn't have the numbers to scare. The effect is completely disproportional to the actual numbers. But when the media whips people into a frenzy with minute-by-minute paranoia pandering, people go wonky. I think the best cure for the coronavirus is to shut off the news. Perhaps we could say the best way to build your immune system with a positive outlook on life is to quit watching the news. What are you doing to boost your immune system?
I was scheduled to do a presentation at Google headquarters in April; that event was canceled yesterday, again citing fears of assembly due to the coronavirus.
Isn't it amazing what society chooses to panic about? We don't panic about 50,000 people being killed by drunk drivers. We don't panic about parents still feeding their kids Lucky Charms and Cheerios even in the face of rising diabetes. We don't see supermarkets unable to sell white sugar.
Fearing to assemble, to interact, to fellowship strikes at the core of functional society. In a time of extreme loneliness, this further isolates people. Suddenly every person--not just partisans--threatens our health. Paranoia isn't far behind.
Interestingly, all the experts are scrambling for a vaccine to solve it. Why don't we have a national effort to boost everyone's immune system? This might be a good time to start such a campaign.
An article is coming out perhaps next month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) comparing the nutrition of grass-finished beef to fake meat. I talked with one of the scientists in charge of the research yesterday. He said it'll be earth shaking. At the very time when people need to fortify themselves with better nutrition, they're fleeing the very sustenance that guarantees the most functional immunity and buying lab-grown junk.
In this panic, every other person on the planet becomes an enemy. That's a shame and has dire consequences. Here at Polyface we have lots of animals. A herd of 1,000 cows. A flock of 4,000 chickens (actually, several 1,000-bird flocks adding up to 4,000). When all of them are healthy but one dies, we know that one had a weakness. Sometimes it's even personality--a timid chicken does not get encouraged by her flock-mates. She gets picked on--hence, "the pecking order."
Immunological weakness shows its ugly head on the farm all the time. And it shows itself in society. I suggest that rather than fearing every other person on the planet, canceling fellowship, and huddling in hermit life until a vaccine is discovered, how about we commit ourselves as a society to eat and live more healthily so we have a collectively better immune system? How about being intentional in how we eat, recreate, entertain, and meditate? What you ponder says a lot about your outlook on life.
In the big scheme of things to fear, coronavirus doesn't have the numbers to scare. The effect is completely disproportional to the actual numbers. But when the media whips people into a frenzy with minute-by-minute paranoia pandering, people go wonky. I think the best cure for the coronavirus is to shut off the news. Perhaps we could say the best way to build your immune system with a positive outlook on life is to quit watching the news.
What are you doing to boost your immune system?
The author of this silly screed sounds like a raving hippy stuck in a time-machine. This ain’t the 60s, it’s gonna be more like the 1300s unless people like this wake the f up.
Might this article might be of interest to the “All Things Prepping, Simple Living, Back to the Basics” ping list?
No he’s right. Viruses are no threat. The government is and the media is
But only to the weak and uneducated
Paragraph rescue squad, thanks for the relief.
It’s a good article. It appears that we have a bad flu that is taking out the elderly and immune deficient, just like this years current flu (non corona), and all of the others in years past.
thishttps://www.cato.org/blog/covid-19-deaths-incredible-who-estimates?fbclid=IwAR16OyB2-rCvyOKGIWsneZ5FY35f5vH_Bv-zBd2t5DVoyZcd45P14t2sO6c
How to start. When growing up in the 50’s we use to love to ride our bikes behind the “fog machine”. You know the truck that sprayed DDT in the neighborhoods to kill mosquitos. As kids we also drank water out of the garden hose and if a cookie fell on the dirt, we just brushed if off and ate it. Today we are a society that is too sanitized and thus our immune system can’t develop and protect us from the various viruses or bacteria. Just saying.
The author of this silly screed sounds like a raving hippy stuck in a time-machine. This ain’t the 60s, it’s gonna be more like the 1300s unless people like this wake the f up.
Get a copy of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and read to the section on him and Polyface farm. He's amazingly clear sighted on how he conceived, developed and runs that operation. He's no dummy!
That being said, the ability to "dig a hole, put a seed in it, cover it up and water it" doesn't make him an expert on pandemics...
I’m still waiting to die from Ebola or was it SARS or maybe even MERS
You really should turn off the “news”. It is overly dramatic by nature. “If it bleeds, it leads”
Go to the John Hopkins site or the CDC or even your state health department for information and data.
I agree with you. Opinions on the virus are just that... opinions.
What if people can’t touch other people any more? What will Biden and all the other Democrat pervs do?
We don't panic about 50,000 people being killed by drunk drivers. We don't panic about parents still feeding their kids Lucky Charms and Cheerios even in the face of rising diabetes. We don't see supermarkets unable to sell white sugar. Fearing to assemble, to interact, to fellowship strikes at the core of functional society. In a time of extreme loneliness, this further isolates people. Suddenly every person--not just partisans--threatens our health. Paranoia isn't far behind. Interestingly, all the experts are scrambling for a vaccine to solve it. Why don't we have a national effort to boost everyone's immune system? This might be a good time to start such a campaign. An article is coming out perhaps next month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) comparing the nutrition of grass-finished beef to fake meat. I talked with one of the scientists in charge of the research yesterday. He said it'll be earth shaking.
At the very time when people need to fortify themselves with better nutrition, they're fleeing the very sustenance that guarantees the most functional immunity and buying lab-grown junk. In this panic, every other person on the planet becomes an enemy. That's a shame and has dire consequences. Here at Polyface we have lots of animals. A herd of 1,000 cows. A flock of 4,000 chickens (actually, several 1,000-bird flocks adding up to 4,000). When all of them are healthy but one dies, we know that one had a weakness. Sometimes it's even personality--a timid chicken does not get encouraged by her flock-mates. She gets picked on--hence, "the pecking order." Immunological weakness shows its ugly head on the farm all the time. And it shows itself in society.
I suggest that rather than fearing every other person on the planet, canceling fellowship, and huddling in hermit life until a vaccine is discovered, how about we commit ourselves as a society to eat and live more healthily so we have a collectively better immune system? How about being intentional in how we eat, recreate, entertain, and meditate? What you ponder says a lot about your outlook on life. In the big scheme of things to fear, coronavirus doesn't have the numbers to scare. The effect is completely disproportional to the actual numbers. But when the media whips people into a frenzy with minute-by-minute paranoia pandering, people go wonky. I think the best cure for the coronavirus is to shut off the news. Perhaps we could say the best way to build your immune system with a positive outlook on life is to quit watching the news. What are you doing to boost your immune system?
“Go to the John Hopkins site or the CDC or even your state health department for information and data.”
Speaking of Johns Hopkins, as I posted on another thread...:
On Kennedy last week her guest was some doctor from Johns Hopkins who was freaking out about COVID, almost hysterical about how nearly apocalyptic it’ll be for America soon. She was using logic; he was spewing over-the-top fear. I’m thinking, “WTF, anyhow?”
I told DH (scientist) about it and he said that he had read that Johns Hopkins either is going to get, or is trying to get, a big chunk of the $8 billion approved by Congress.
Maybe Kennedy never heard, “Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.”
“Isn’t it amazing what society chooses to panic about?”
Today I looked at death in the face, i.e., we went to a potluck after church service. (That can be iffy even without COVID.)
At church, some preferred to not shake hands — and I don’t blame them, especially a couple of elderly gentlemen suffering from horrid lung issues after careers at a National Lab. Anyhow, I suggested that we adopt bowing and curtsying instead of hand shaking, which a few of us did in jest. It might catch on.
lolol
I'm sorry. Last night I was tired, depressed about CV and the lack of paragraph breaks pushed me over the edge. I defer to you, my FRiend.
I meant their statistics site. Sorry I wasn’t more clear
Yes the Congress has passed another bloated Christmas tree bill
He sounds like a raving hippy stuck in a time machine as the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma describes him.
BUT he really is onto something with his farming methods. I think we'd do well to have family farms emulating it around the country.
And as I said, just because someone is really good at what they do, doesn't mean they know anything about something well outside their area of expertise.
(s) nully, who routinely wanders far, far astray of his...
“I meant their statistics site.”
Gotcha!
Come to think of it, do we know how accurate the CDC statistics are? For years I’ve heard that they’re more left-wing politically than the regular Deep State. I think it was Tucker who was doing an expose’ on how they spend millions of dollars on left-wing touchy-feely programs that have nothing to do with health. Who knows? It’s come to the point where I take everything I hear with a grain of salt, and try to rely on history and logic to make my own decisions.
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