Good day!
As a young lad growing up on a Saskatchewan farm, (it’s in canada somewhere) i became intrigued by my grandmother’s medical book. It was huge and the thing that repeatedly struck me (ouch!) was the complexity of the human body and the enormous number of things that could go wrong with it. Why was anyone even alive with the potential causes of death numbering in the hundreds or the thousands?
This medical book of hers was a thing. You wouldn’t have wanted it dropping on your head from the top shelf, that’s for sure. And it not only listed the maladies but often gave suggested cures and treatments, and as i recall, there was little if any mention of pfizer or moderna and a pretty large collection of household remedies.
Now, if we were to move back in time even a bit further i would imagine we would find that our ancesters practised medicine chiefly on the sick and injured. Little ook comes into the den with a fractured radius. What to do? Or his sister has a tummy after injested some three day old fish skins. That sort of thing.
And later in time, as the art improved and new treatments were discovered, medicine became more invasive and surgeries were performed on the hopeful. It is horrifying to consider surgeries being performed with unsterilized implements and more terrifying to realize that in the early days, exploratory surgery would have meant exactly that.
However, as doctoring became more and more a respected vocation, a problem appeared in the lack of patients in a well-fed and healthy community and it must have been a little tedious for some medical folks, waiting until someone fell from a hay wagon or gramma jenkins choked on a fishbone. Sure, the prestige and the respect were there, but what to do with all those hours, days and weeks absent a considerable crisis.
Enter the happy solution! “Preventative Medicine”. Of course the first mention of the phrase will have perked the ears of manya physician as the limitless possibilities of preventative medicine began to seep through the mind and percolate back there. The myriad forms and substances of illnesses of various types that could or even must be prevented is surely magnificent in it’s volume! Limitless even due to the possibility of inventing a few new ones every now and then to frighten the peons into taking whatever preventative concoction one could devise. And heck! They didn’t even have to work! There didn’t have to be a real disease out there at all! They could be saline injections and joe the shoemaker would be none the wiser and would return to his workbench secure in the knowledge that he had “done the right thing” and prevented himself from dying of lumbar-sacral inflammation or somesuch medically named fearsome invader of the physical domain.
And so the flood gates were opened to modern medicine, and it would seem that very few profitable avenues remain untapped by the pharmaceuticals. It is difficult to conceive of another new form of medical intervention which has the potential of preventative medicine. With preventative medicine you can: sell all sorts of preventions for fun and profit, inject actual illnesses into unsuspecting previously healthy “patients”, shorten lives for large settlements from the state, being eager as some are to limit the social liability of the aged and infirm, cause lingering maladies requiring expensive ongoing treatment, and the list goes on and on, truly an awesome business model for those so inclined.
New diseases can be invented and even patented as i recently observed in a presentation where even the dreaded aids was given a patent number, as was the zika virus and sars and some others.
Then the cures and preventatives can be patented and the market is captured. Originally, doctors were likely incentivised to warn their clients of the potentially deadly new virus which had resurrected in greenland due to the melting ice and the pressing need to get the shot to stop it in it’s tracks. Later, it was realized that a captured media was the answer to creating the level of panic desired. Yes, fear sells.
Fear is one of the root emotions for sure and is a super motivator, perhaps first in line or second in line only to jealousy. Of the two, in the case of selling preventative medicine, one would think jealousy would be a difficult motive to use. “You do realize, Amy that your next door neighbor already has had all the injections herself and 8 of her 12 kids are also protected? How does that make you feel? Now if you would just step over to my tool tray over here, we can get you started on your own plan with the added benefit of being able to avail yourself of our new and improved injection series.” Naah, best go with primal fear i would say. Much more effective, and what if it were possible to cause a virtual public panic with nonstop aggravating reporting of recent deaths from the pox?
So the medical industrial complex has not been sleepily waiting for johnny to fall from the hay rack as we can see, but has found itself a way to keep not only busy but very well compensated for it’s trouble. And many of our politicians have apparently seized on the demonstrated genius of the medical community and used fear as the lever to generate appreciation for the need for ever-increasing taxation and more and more governmental intervention into our daily lives. The military industrial complex also has been no slouch in it’s use of fear as a means to an end.
Fear sells and it will continue to sell as long as humans can be persuaded there is a monster under their beds and immedicate action is needed. Could it be time to disregard a large amount of these screeching salesmen of whatever venue and just take our chances with the next looming disaster?
Skulltripper 