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SARS
Bioterrorism by Default or Design
By Dr. Thomas S. Lee, NMD
May 14, 2003 - Sudden Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (SARS) is a dangerous respiratory infection that is quickly
killing 5-15 percent of its victims after intense suffering and
breathing difficulties. World news agencies report the
mobilization of the most densely populated regions of the world to
quarantine and treat all suspected cases.
As of early May, the largest source of the epidemic
is in China. Beijing has quarantined over 18,000 people, with
2,177 confirmed cases and over 114 fatalities. Hong Kong has
the second largest outbreak, with 210 deaths and over 1,660
infections. Estimates to date are that 7,100 people have the
SARS infection and 515 people have died worldwide.
The size of the international response is
overwhelming. So too is the level of fear and concern SARS has
triggered. Every year, the world has influenza outbreaks that
cause over a hundred thousand deaths with little comment.
These 500+ SARS casualties, however, have triggered a worldwide
epidemic of fear and suspicion.
If comparable efforts as the SARS response were used
against deadly and treatable infections like malaria, cholera,
influenza, and yellow fever, it would improve the quality and amount
of life for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Yet
these destroyers march on year after year.
Surely the current SARS statistics are tragic on a
private level, but they are relatively insignificant compared to
many preventable epidemics faced worldwide each year. In any
major American city, this number of deaths would represent a slow
weekend of iatrogenic (doctor-caused) drug reactions, and the
preventable casualties of alcohol and tobacco addictions.
This huge discrepancy warrants some analysis, which
we will present in the following sections of this article:
The likely cause of SARS has been identified as a
variant strain of coronavirus. This is a common type of
influenza virus that routinely crops up in Asia, where interspecies
sanitation issues have brought pigs, geese, and humans into close
contact for centuries. A virus is unique in its ability to
transmit genetic information between species.
The complete genetic sequence of the SARS virus has
been mapped and identified as unrelated to any coronavirus known
thus far. It has many scientists and governments quite
nervous, despite its relatively unremarkable mortality rate.
Something is going on that is bigger than the medical concerns about
this viral epidemic.
Last year, geneticists in Spain succeeded in cloning
a coronavirus called TGEV (transmissible gastroenteritis virus)
which produced an 80 percent mortality rate in newborn piglets [1].
These scientists were motivated to study coronaviruses not because
of any malevolent attitude toward swine, but because this viral
class has tremendous economic and medical impact on humans.
The activities of this class of virus include the
common cold, gastroenteritis, and even multiple sclerosis, at
various stages. Medicines that work effectively upon these
types of viruses could be highly profitable to whomever invented and
controlled their patents.
Since the 1970s, genetic engineering has sought to
understand and design life forms to benefit the sponsors of this
research. The technology has produced many medicines,
vaccines, foods, and nutriceuticals that have enhanced the profits
of corporations -- and occasionally the quality of human life -- in
that order. Some products, like the Terminator Gene inserted
by Monsanto into its "suicide seeds," never even got to the
quality-of-life stage.
Many scientists have expressed concerns about the
risks of genetic engineering technology. Pioneers in this
technology sponsored a moratorium in the mid-1970s because of
concerns about creating drug and antibiotic resistant infections.
But money talks, and our modern biological environment is now the
most genetically engineered that money can and did buy.
The SARS coronavirus could be an intentionally
designed organism; that is, a bio-weapon. These projects
have been undertaken by all the major militaries in the world.
Alternatively, SARS could have developed due to
"horizontal transfer" -- a kind of microbiological "collateral
damage" that occurs when unplanned genetic mutations occur in the
open, out of the control of the original designer. Accidents
do happen, both in and out of the lab.
Now, after over a quarter century of commercial
applications in both medicine and agriculture, our bodies have
become the laboratory. More accurately, the living biological
systems of plants, animals, and humans worldwide are now serving as
the test tubes of private commercial research. But without
scientific proof that this is a rogue bioweapon, we cannot go after
any criminals. Rather, we need to put more accurate
information and resources for the prevention of all communicable
diseases into the hands of common people who suffer and die from
them.
SARS is proving to be a fabulous vehicle for revenue
enhancement to benefit the medical care providers, news media
monopolies, and pharmaceutical cartels around the world who are best
positioned to profit from all fears of contagion. We cannot
accuse the profiteers of disease and death of poor project
management. They, and the livelihoods and revenue streams they
protect, have become excellent at what they do.
Caring for our loved ones is a universal motivator,
so invoking a primal fear of loss and suffering is certain to sell a
lot of medicine and votes. This current epidemic of fear and
suspicion is not about health care.
We have a word for people and organizations that act
out an agenda to benefit from someone's fear or death, and that's
terrorism. If the agenda is to damage another's economic
health or to steal their wealth, the term is piracy.
Neither tactic is particularly original or unique to a race or
nation.
Consider the economic context for SARS. Which
economy is the only one making a profit in the world today?
What nations were most consistently opposed to the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq? And where is SARS being found and
reported on?
This epidemic of fear, SARS, and most other
non-disease "syndromes" and "disorders" provide social protections
for the drug industry to invent their problems and patent their
solutions. This becomes evident if one learns the history of
the pharmaceutical cartels. Their budgets can buy and trade
national governments like Pokemon cards, and they do, if there is
profit in it.
This manipulation of whole societies for profit is
an outrage, and we should identify the culprits and try to stop
their evil doings. But who among us, as an aware adult, can
claim surprise? Economic and biological wars have shaped our
world for centuries. This latest application of terrorism and
piracy is just a refinement on the classics.
Infectious influenza strains come from the areas
where conditions of sanitation and hygiene are the most ideal for
them. Traditional rural Asian cultures combine high-density
human populations, low standards of sanitation and hygiene, and
close contact with livestock populations of birds and pigs.
And few food source animals will ever enjoy better living conditions
than their keepers.
The viral results of these incubating conditions
spread through the biosphere like microbial descendants of Genghis
Khan, with even worse attitudes about human life than his. In
the rest of the world, our immune systems take the beatings.
The survivors get the messages from these miniscule Kung-fu masters,
whose regular visits actually help to keep our immune systems on
their toes.
This is not to make light of the tragedy of millions
of human deaths from infectious viral diseases every year. It
merely describes our reality as participants in a planet-wide
biological system of balance. This system requires the
pathogen, the parasite, the predator, and the scavenger to support
health by removing the unviable and weak. Now that another
source of these shadow forces, the warrior-germs, can originate with
a geneticist's commercial product or a weapon lab's evil genius, our
complex modern world is under even more pressure to survive and
adapt.
Effective public health policies are often
controversial and unpleasant. To quarantine a city or
apartment block takes political will and organization. It
requires money, muscle, discipline, power, men at arms, and then
more money for the lawyers and the public relations campaigns.
Also, the word of a quarantine gets around quickly, and most people
try not to demonstrate any symptoms, especially if their
government is penalized economically in the world community if many
of its people are sick.
Usually, the Chinese do nothing about the epidemics
they export; but in fairness, no other governments do, either.
It is too expensive and politically tedious. When the U.S.
government attempts to implement its own farcical domestic
biowarfare procedures, it will achieve a similar enlightenment about
the nature of political power.
SARS is costing Chinese and other Asian businesses
huge sums in lost profits from trade, travel, and employment
disruption. This massive global cleanup and hygiene exercise
has shocked many veteran public health professionals. SARS is
being creatively demonized by the international media to justify the
enormous expenses in fighting, preventing, and treating it.
Academic and military experts are being courted and positioned to
justify both the terror and the "necessary" drug treatments that are
only available from patented, proprietary sources.
How is this being accomplished? Hundreds of
millions of colds and flu cases occur every year, and most are
unreported. If the World Health Organization and the Centers
for Disease Control cannot provide any clear differential diagnosis
that would distinguish SARS fevers from these routine cases, how
could anyone be able to tell the difference between SARS and the
common cold or flu? Certainly, electron microscopy at Stanford
for the feverish Balinese pig farmer will not be offered anytime
soon.
If and when a differential test becomes available
for the SARS coronavirus, ask your doctor how much it will cost, and
then just follow the money. If SARS can functionally be
defined as a cold or flu, the zooming numbers will move up into the
range of urban legends very soon. Again, if you can define the
disorder or syndrome and require your product or service be used to
treat it, then cause the taxpayer to enforce this, you've got an
epic income stream. It becomes a con game of a major scale;
one for the history books.
Huge changes in cash flows always follow from
widespread public fear. Right now, within medicine and
politics, journal articles are being re-titled and resubmitted;
funding grants are being redesigned, referenced, and retargeted; and
position papers and curricula are being reformatted to highlight
resumes and performance guidelines. The printing industry
anticipates rosy profits from pharmacy ads and flyers, while public
hospitals await new supplies and budgets to further protect the
public from the coming wave of sick customers. Local and
regional governments are adding medical acronyms to their budget
requests, and lawyers are speed-reading case law for liability
issues that might affect the deep pockets in travel and tourism.
World convention destinations in the Western hemisphere are
graciously extending their welcome to all nervous convention
planners that were formerly committed to Asian capitals.
In short, things are popping, and for the stagnant
economies of the West, it's about time. If only someone could
amp up that kill ratio! Sorry to be blunt, but business is
business. A professor of mine long ago clarified this
situation with his answer to my idealistic question about why we had
not yet found a cure for AIDS. "Well," he said, "there are
lots more people making a living from it than dying of it. Who
wants to kill the golden goose?" It's cynical, but true.
So what can you do? Start by informing
yourself. Read and inquire from professionals who understand
the laws of human health, and veterans of other infectious viral
outbreaks, particularly influenza-related. Hundreds of
intelligent, compassionate professionals are stepping up to inform
and educate the public about the nature of this epidemic and others
of its type that are probably soon to appear. Most have very
useful pieces to add to the puzzle.
Don't limit yourself to the work of any one expert,
when so much knowledge is available to you over the Internet.
And don't paralyze yourself by an enchantment with your inner
skeptic. It's foolish to expect one person to have all the
right answers or expect them to be the same as your own.
Foolishness is for victims.
Then, make sure to get yourself healthy in advance,
for two good reasons:
1. Strength. You'll need time and energy
to do your research. If you are sick or weak, you won't be
able to do much to help yourself or anyone else.
2. Credibility. The situation cries out
for substantial change in how people live and work in this modern
world. If you are the one crying out for others to change,
don't blow it for the rest of us by sounding even sicker than your
audience.
Viral infections can only be beaten by a strong
immune system, using a fever response that virtually "cooks" these
tiny genetic fragments while they are in the midst of their mayhem.
Most conventional medicines actually do the reverse,
by working to suppress fever symptoms. Everyone is looking for
a quick way to feel better, and over-the-counter cold medicines
enable your co-workers to drag into your office and share their
infectious presence with you and your friends for days and weeks.
Typical cold medicines only prolong a cold or flu by protecting the
virus from the body's full-strength immune response.
Never suppress a fever, or take medications that
effectively shut off your immune system with a virus onboard.
Sick people who refuse to stay home are actually helping to spread
the flu far and wide. Very soon, the drugstore sees a jump in
the sales of these so-called "medicines." What a great
business model.
Here is the best way to stop a viral attack in its
early stages, along with some ideas for aggressive treatment of an
advanced case.
When you feel the first tickle in your throat or
shakiness that signals the onset of a cold or flu, pay attention and
make good, quick decisions.
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Cancel work and fun, and
keep your distance from family members and other people you don't
want to infect.
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Obtain and use teas,
herbs, and supplements that will crank up your body heat.
There are many to learn about, such as yarrow, peppermint, elder,
lomatium, citrus peel, ginger, etc.
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Skip big meals and sweet
treats. Hot, nutritious soups are great, but eat light and
stay a bit on the hungry side.
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Head for a hot bath,
have some herbal teas beside your bed, put on an extra blanket,
and go from bath to bed and sweat under the covers. Feel
free to get up for a hot shower and more hot tea, then go back to
bed for more sweat and sleep. If you perform this response
early enough and hit the virus with enough of this heat and sleep,
you will chase it away quickly. The medical term for this is
hyperthermia, and it is valued for treating even the most
severe viral infections.
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When you feel better,
take a cue from our elders and plunge into a cold shower, or at
least end a hot shower with cold water. Towel yourself
vigorously to warm up, and off you go, back at it!
Natural medicine has many effective methods to help
defeat viral attacks, despite the drone of fear-mongers in the
media. If you face this test of treating a viral infection,
present the following list of keywords to your caregivers and help
them join you in searching for the tremendous results being found
with the use of these agents and techniques. This list is by
no means exhaustive.
Hyperthermia, beta-glucan, colloidal silver,
lomatium, yarrow, essential oils,
Virgin Coconut Oil, lauric acid, monolaurin, Vitamin C, Armour
thyroid, lysine, N-acetyl cysteine, calcium D-glucarate, chicken
soup, zinc, ginger, homeopathic medicine, iodine, fasting, and
more.
After you beat a few colds and flus with these
techniques, you will have a lot less to worry about. The needs
being met by these epidemics of fear like SARS and various other
staged emergencies are not yours or mine. The more
empowered you become at solving your own health problems simply and
affordably, the less you will fear the unknown, and the more able
you will be to help yourself and others.
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These natural medicines can and will play an important role in
any serious effort to combat or prevent viral infections. We
use them, and we know they work.
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