Steve, I really appreciate the article and the opportunity you give for multiple very interesting comments. I too have serious questions about all those you named as well as many others and I understand why you want scientifically provable answers in these debate challenges. I also respect that you want comments which answer your l…
Steve, I really appreciate the article and the opportunity you give for multiple very interesting comments. I too have serious questions about all those you named as well as many others and I understand why you want scientifically provable answers in these debate challenges. I also respect that you want comments which answer your legitimate questions. I have even stronger concerns and questions tho about the so called 'experts' who have orchestrated this entire mess. But that is neither here nor there in this particular discussion.
Most of us, especially I think, the medical and science types, are completely overwhelmed and stressed at this point by the constantly changing, inconsistent and unscientific mandates and flood of contradictory information and disinformation from the 'experts' on multiple sides of the fence. A good friend who is the head nurse for our local underfunded school system has had less than three weeks total off from her job in three years and she still cannot keep up with all she is required to do. I believe we all have Covid PTSD at this point. Completely provable 'pure' science (if there even is such a thing), can only take us so far. In my lifetime, so called 'absolute' science, has been reversed and revised many many times. At this point frankly I am much more concerned about the overriding human misery caused by this mess than I am with whether this is a 'real' virus or whether viruses even exist or not. I think there are many intelligent folks out there who just don't care whether the talking heads prove or disprove that. We just want this nightmare to end.
I want actual health enhancing workable treatments and frankly I think the alternative crowd has done a better job with that. You don't have to 'prove' anything. Therapies that cause no harm are certainly worth trying and hey some of them have sure worked for me and many I know. Niether my unvaxxed husband nor myself (both over 60) have had a single sign of getting covid. We have many friends who use alternative therapies that can say the same. We have all been exposed mutiple times in multiple ways. Those of our friends who did get sick were all vaxxed and/or they had significant co-morbitites. The few unvaxxed healthy folks I know who got sick, just had mild flu-like symptoms. So the proof is in the pudding for me. You can call this ancedotal. Fine. But that is how humans have actually lived and thrived for hundreds of thousands of years; ancedotally. Sorry, but science really cannot compete with that evolutionarily proven track record of success.
So again while I appreciate your points, I do not think a debate over this is what we need. We need healing on multiple human levels right now. Those at the top do not seem to understand this. Our entire society is falling apart and we are headed down a very dark path. We have been pushed over the psychological edge. Two years plus of isolation and fear and punishment has left us all wounded and bleeding and living on adrenal overdrive.
Steve, I really appreciate the article and the opportunity you give for multiple very interesting comments. I too have serious questions about all those you named as well as many others and I understand why you want scientifically provable answers in these debate challenges. I also respect that you want comments which answer your legitimate questions. I have even stronger concerns and questions tho about the so called 'experts' who have orchestrated this entire mess. But that is neither here nor there in this particular discussion.
Most of us, especially I think, the medical and science types, are completely overwhelmed and stressed at this point by the constantly changing, inconsistent and unscientific mandates and flood of contradictory information and disinformation from the 'experts' on multiple sides of the fence. A good friend who is the head nurse for our local underfunded school system has had less than three weeks total off from her job in three years and she still cannot keep up with all she is required to do. I believe we all have Covid PTSD at this point. Completely provable 'pure' science (if there even is such a thing), can only take us so far. In my lifetime, so called 'absolute' science, has been reversed and revised many many times. At this point frankly I am much more concerned about the overriding human misery caused by this mess than I am with whether this is a 'real' virus or whether viruses even exist or not. I think there are many intelligent folks out there who just don't care whether the talking heads prove or disprove that. We just want this nightmare to end.
I want actual health enhancing workable treatments and frankly I think the alternative crowd has done a better job with that. You don't have to 'prove' anything. Therapies that cause no harm are certainly worth trying and hey some of them have sure worked for me and many I know. Niether my unvaxxed husband nor myself (both over 60) have had a single sign of getting covid. We have many friends who use alternative therapies that can say the same. We have all been exposed mutiple times in multiple ways. Those of our friends who did get sick were all vaxxed and/or they had significant co-morbitites. The few unvaxxed healthy folks I know who got sick, just had mild flu-like symptoms. So the proof is in the pudding for me. You can call this ancedotal. Fine. But that is how humans have actually lived and thrived for hundreds of thousands of years; ancedotally. Sorry, but science really cannot compete with that evolutionarily proven track record of success.
So again while I appreciate your points, I do not think a debate over this is what we need. We need healing on multiple human levels right now. Those at the top do not seem to understand this. Our entire society is falling apart and we are headed down a very dark path. We have been pushed over the psychological edge. Two years plus of isolation and fear and punishment has left us all wounded and bleeding and living on adrenal overdrive.