The way I see this whole lockdown / Covid tier system is....here goes...It's a massive power grab. A power grab with addition of public funds, those funds (tax payers money, yours and mine) have been shifted from public hands into private. 12 Billion GBP to Serco for example. The virus is real, it kills people, but so does every other disease on the planet. We all die. Our freedoms has been eroded right before our eyes and right under our noses.
My view (which I suspect is wholly opposite to 90% of the views on here) may sound outrageous to you but it's always healthy to consider an opposing opinion before immediately discounting it because it's the polar opposite to "mine". If allowed to carry on there will be no economy left. The talk of Universal Income is horrifying. People should be able to earn their own money, run their own businesses & all without a heavy handed State ordering people around. This is meant to a Democracy we live in!
This virus has been weaponised & policitised in order to control the masses by governments all over the world and have allowed laws to be passed (Yes LAWS) with ZERO debate and NO VOTES by our MP's in Parliment under the guise of "it's a pandemic" a "national crisis" unprecidented in peace time Britain - all I've said here are verifiable facts, please, go ahead i urge you to look up them for yourself.
The human body can fight off any disease known or unknown if the immune system isn't compromised. For example take the time to READ the life's works of the Austrian herbalist Maria Treben. Pharmacological medicine is allopathic, it treats symptoms & not the body as a holistic whole. Another example, if one looks at the life of Paracelus the Swiss Physician one would find the mixture of herbs (11 in fact) known commonly as "Swedish Bitters". Bitter foods have been lost in the UK/US Western diet. The taste bitter isn't bad for you it's GOOD for you. Besides the benefits for ones digestion and a whole load of other diseases this can stop the onslaught of the latter stages of Covid (aka - an upper respiratory infections) never mind stopping it dead in it's tracks. The latter stages of Covid are known as a "Ketone storm" where the immune system attacks itself and organ failure starts to kicks in. I really think herbal medicine has it's place in our NHS, if not people should wake up to its efficacy. I know this all sounds too good to be true but for someone who had all the hallmarks of the disease back in mid January (I'm in my late 30's, played football and rugby and done many martial arts all my life - i'm fairly fit bloke - I couldn't get halfway up the stairs! I do an active job, telecoms engineer - climbing ladders etc etc) of this year I have followed my own advice and recovered using this simple but powerful concoction of herbs.
I'm not saying the clinically vulnerable shouldn't shield, I'm not saying go around hugging each other and have 20 over at christmas, all I'm saying is that for millennia humans have healed with herbs and western medicine and science isn't the magic elixir for all our ills and ailments. Listening to the radio and news, with it's body count and infection rate over and over for the past 9 months and you will start to believe what is spoon fed to you. It will also make to so unbeliveably scared out of your mind that you are unable to leave your bedroom let alone your house! Even if you are perfectly fit and well! For your body to 'able' and your mind to 'sick' because someone 'a professor!' has told you so! Now that makes me so ANGRY......... REALLY ANGRY!
All this post is about is a plea to your thinking brain, your logical brain - I'm begging you to all THINK. I'm a key worker in telecoms, I respect all others opinions, I abide by all the 'rules'! I won't stand too close to you at Tesco's and I wash my hands, wear gloves and a mask as i'm told to do but it doesn't mean I agree with it. I find the waste and damage to the enviroment abhorrent. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, i'm not an anti anything. I'm a man, a human like you and I CARE. I CARE about my fellow man/woman & the enviroment we live in and the freedoms we all have clearly taken for granted.
What does concern me greatly is mis-information and people being brainwashed. Brainwashed and robbed. Robbed by people whom millions voted for. Politicians of whichever colour, on whichever side of the House are not out for you or I - They are out for themselves.
You cannot blindly accept what 'they' tell you without considering anothers opinion. Otherwise you haven't got a chance of defending your own.
Ps - I love wood, I love woodworking in all it's forms. I did a year long professional designer maker course on a sabbatical from my employer 18months ago and it was the best time of my life - there are time served trademen on this forum all working with such a beautiful material, I doff my cap to you all. My plan is to earn a living working with wood. May you all have a magical Christmas/Festive Period & New Year. Here's to a great 2021.
*Steps down off soapbox*
I hear what you are saying and it is very well laid out set of points as well.
I lived in India for the first 22 years of my life. Herbal medicines are huge there. It is called Ayurveda and there is a huge industry now.
So much that one can study for 5 years and become a doctor in Ayurveda, which is a non intrusive way of treating issues, meaning no surgeries or cutting open the skin in any way.
However, the issue is, once people realize there is a market and a potential monetary advantage, things start to take a turn for the worst. Companies making medicines sometimes don't conform to certain medical standards in order to get their products of the shelves sooner. The same happens with any form of medical (or at a stretch, any manufacturing entity)
That is why there are standards in place which companies need to follow.
My point in all this is, I have seen people back home who blatantly believe that the government is lying, "Western" medicine (as it is referred to there) is leaps and bounds behind the ancient cures which have been followed for millennia. And that we shouldn't believe what 'they' tell us.
But such is the nature of information. It needs to be passed on. Unless we are qualified to study this or any virus in our own homes, performing year long experiments on unfortunate rodents, draw out results, re test to repeat the results, study the side effects and then come to a new conclusion, we need to have faith in the standards and the information passed on. After all, all the ancient cures weren't handed over to a person, they were again a set of known variables which were treated for years and years and then concluded. It literally took 1000s of years.
And most of the medicines we have now trace their ingredients or origins to nature anyway.
Just because the advancements in science allows our generation of scientists to study something at an advanced pace compared to our ancestors, doesn't automatically mean they are wrong or have a secret agenda.
Am I saying all that we are told is right, no. Am I saying that they have all the answers, no. What I am saying is that no one operation or organisation knows our understands the full picture. They are doing their best to make sense of it all and make decisions based on the latest information they have.
For every good alternate medicine that works, there are 100s of fraudulent "services" that don't work and even cause harm, financially and sometimes even medically. Saying one is right and one is wrong maybe a little bit shortsighted.
It comes back to what was said in the beginning of this thread, no one wants their job right now where all they can say is we hope for the best and make tough decisions which are almost always received in anger.
