Yes happy birthday🥳!! Since you told your age I have a question for you if you don’t mind. I’m 45, you are the age my oldest uncle would be. Unfortunately I lost my “grownups” when they were barely 60 all from things they have cures for that the FDA intentionally kept from us, you know their employers.
Yes happy birthday🥳!! Since you told your age I have a question for you if you don’t mind. I’m 45, you are the age my oldest uncle would be. Unfortunately I lost my “grownups” when they were barely 60 all from things they have cures for that the FDA intentionally kept from us, you know their employers.
My great Aunt use to grow poppy’s in her gardens, (she lived in the south in the Appalachian mountains) she grew and made all of our medicines, that is until the county cops (who use to get remedies from her) came to her home and proceeded to rip them all out of the ground without informing her first. She saw them through her window tearing through her gardens. This was in the early sixties I was told.
Her whole yard was nothing but gardens and fruit trees and it was HUGE, she had trails throughout it and she always had extra seeds, so she just planted some more out in the back with the vegetable gardens.
Did our country have such a drug problem when WE THE PEOPLE grew poppies and regulated the portions ourselves? It seems it would have been an ideal time to do so.
My dad said that he never saw anyone that was an addict to drugs. He saw lots of alcoholics but no druggies. Do you have a recollection of a time like that? You don’t have to answer quickly or anything it is your BIRTHDAY 🎉 after all. I pray you enjoy this one more than any of the ones you have had before! 🥳🎉🎂
i'm suddenly a wise old sage!! but seriously, there is something to be said for a memory of times past so you can't be fooled when people tell you that measles kills 600,000 children a year or that raw milk is lethal. as far as measles goes, yes, it's deadly to a vulnerable population- poor, under nourished, dirty water supply, etc. instead of vaccinating everyone, wouldn't it be better to get them some clean water?
if you're 45, you won't remember the great swine flu epidemic scare of 1976 unless you heard stories. i guess i was 23 at the time. a soldier died at fort dix. he was dehydrated from a forced weighted march. military and public health officials flew into a panic- what else do those people have to do anyway?- and authorized a rushed vaccine. everyone was urged to take it, but not mandated, cajoled, ridiculed or threatened.
something like 40 million americans lined up; maybe 50 died and 500 got GBS (i'm sure my numbers are off; i've read different stats). the vaccine was pulled from the market and people lost their jobs over it but not before the victims were gas lit, told by their doctors (who, after all, know best) that it was all in their heads.
60 minutes did an expose, something that is unimaginable now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae1TJi5zw84 (i'm honestly surprised that youtube hasn't destroyed all the evidence).
my cousin's wife was one of the people stricken with GBS, although i didn't have a name for it at the time. all i knew is that she spent a year in a wheelchair unable to walk. she eventually recovered but i was left thinking that i would rather take my chances with the flu and haven't had a flu shot since. i have my ways of dealing with flu: hot baths, sauna, bone broth, vitamin C to which i've now added IVM. i never try to lower my fever; i drive it up to as high as it can safely go.
i've also never had a mammogram. i remember when they came into general use when i was 13, i thought "how did women manage before?" i definitely have a bit of the Luddite in me, a suspicion of anything new that is pushed on me as something essential for my well being, when i can point to generations of women who had less cancer without them which tells me that what they're finding and treating "successfully" isn't actually cancer and wouldn't go on to become cancer. they keep telling you that increased levels of cancer are the trade off of a longer life span but then how to explain the explosion of childhood cancers? it doesn't make sense.
i'm of an era where i had 3 vaccines- polio, TB and small pox. now kids are shot up for everything and i don't see them being any healthier. i can remember the ONE fat kid in my elementary school class in great detail. kids today probably only remember the one oodball thin kid.
i majored in psych in college and was taught that autism is caused by a schizophrenogenic mother- never a father. this was at a time (early to mid 70's) where you might make it through your life without ever meeting an autistic person; they were one in 10,000. now it's one in 30-something and we're asked to believe that it's either genetic or a function of better diagnosis, as if parents were too stupid to tell if their kids were autistic unless an expert gave them a diagnosis!
great, so now we don't have measles but we have autism. we can't have chicken pox but we can have shingles. in one year i met 3 young men (early 20's) who had a bout of shingles! what good did a vaccine that you don't take until you're 50 do for them? (i'm not advocating for the shingles vaccine! i'd never get it but i do think it would be better to let kids get chickenpox).
i had an old black lady friend here in charleston who would talk about her uncle who was called "uncle/doctor." she spent her whole life thinking he was a trained medical doctor but he was actually a self taught herbalist, something she only learned at his funeral. she said "uncle/doctor could go into the woods and find the cure for whatever ill you had" which sounds a bit like your great aunt.
she told me that you could lower your high blood pressure by putting spanish moss in your shoe and walking around with it all day. i wonder if that's not a bit like grounding or earthing but for people who have to wear shoes. i never tried it because my blood pressure is low enough but i am curious.
i think the explosion of pharmaceutical drugs happened when insurance companies enacted drug plans. we had insurance when i was a kid but it didn't cover drugs and so they had to be affordable. the minute you have a 3rd party payer, you can charge whatever you want for drugs since no one knows what they really cost. your co-pay on a drug now is more than what you used to pay in full for that drug at the pharmacy. the drug company gets a co-pay from you and a reimbursement from your insurance; they're making out like bandits.
we certainly use many more drugs here than in other countries. when i slipped down some stairs in 2004 and broke my left wrist, the hospital gave me a prescription for oxycontin without even asking. i only ever took 3 and just at night and flushed the rest down the toilet (a bad thing to do, i know. my BF suggested selling them on the street, an idea which i rejected).
eight years later, i stepped in a pothole in a village in italy and broke my right wrist. townspeople gathered around to keep me safe until the ambulance arrived. when i wondered out loud about the cost, they assured me that it would cost me nothing. they were shocked that i was even worried about such a foolish thing.
the ambulance was staffed with an actual doctor, not just EMS workers. i asked the doctor in the hospital if she would give me anything for the pain and she said "the pain will get better once i set it and if you have pain tonight, take a tylenol." of course, she was right but what a difference in attitude.
by then, even though i was 8 years older and past menopause, i had changed my diet and drank lots of raw milk and had homemade bone broth and dark leafy greens at every meal when i got home from italy. in both cases it was the same kind of break but the 2004 break took much longer to heal than the 2012 break. i'm attributing my speedy repair to better diet.
i wish i could see your great aunt's garden. it sounds wonderful. we have a bunch of baby fruit trees that we'll be planting when the time is right for them. our little olive tree is covered with olives which i'll brine.
you have to wonder why those cops, who had previously relied on your great aunt, suddenly turned on her. they were probably threatened with job loss. it's amazing what people will do to hang onto a job!
i lost my job of 40 years because i wouldn't take the covid vaccine. i'm happy to start social security because it will make up for the income that was stolen from me. i loved my job and would have probably done it until i dropped dead but the lunatic response to the pandemic put an end to that.
anyway, i have so many stories that i could go on literally forever, but i think this is enough for now.
Yes happy birthday🥳!! Since you told your age I have a question for you if you don’t mind. I’m 45, you are the age my oldest uncle would be. Unfortunately I lost my “grownups” when they were barely 60 all from things they have cures for that the FDA intentionally kept from us, you know their employers.
My great Aunt use to grow poppy’s in her gardens, (she lived in the south in the Appalachian mountains) she grew and made all of our medicines, that is until the county cops (who use to get remedies from her) came to her home and proceeded to rip them all out of the ground without informing her first. She saw them through her window tearing through her gardens. This was in the early sixties I was told.
Her whole yard was nothing but gardens and fruit trees and it was HUGE, she had trails throughout it and she always had extra seeds, so she just planted some more out in the back with the vegetable gardens.
Did our country have such a drug problem when WE THE PEOPLE grew poppies and regulated the portions ourselves? It seems it would have been an ideal time to do so.
My dad said that he never saw anyone that was an addict to drugs. He saw lots of alcoholics but no druggies. Do you have a recollection of a time like that? You don’t have to answer quickly or anything it is your BIRTHDAY 🎉 after all. I pray you enjoy this one more than any of the ones you have had before! 🥳🎉🎂
i'm suddenly a wise old sage!! but seriously, there is something to be said for a memory of times past so you can't be fooled when people tell you that measles kills 600,000 children a year or that raw milk is lethal. as far as measles goes, yes, it's deadly to a vulnerable population- poor, under nourished, dirty water supply, etc. instead of vaccinating everyone, wouldn't it be better to get them some clean water?
if you're 45, you won't remember the great swine flu epidemic scare of 1976 unless you heard stories. i guess i was 23 at the time. a soldier died at fort dix. he was dehydrated from a forced weighted march. military and public health officials flew into a panic- what else do those people have to do anyway?- and authorized a rushed vaccine. everyone was urged to take it, but not mandated, cajoled, ridiculed or threatened.
something like 40 million americans lined up; maybe 50 died and 500 got GBS (i'm sure my numbers are off; i've read different stats). the vaccine was pulled from the market and people lost their jobs over it but not before the victims were gas lit, told by their doctors (who, after all, know best) that it was all in their heads.
60 minutes did an expose, something that is unimaginable now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae1TJi5zw84 (i'm honestly surprised that youtube hasn't destroyed all the evidence).
my cousin's wife was one of the people stricken with GBS, although i didn't have a name for it at the time. all i knew is that she spent a year in a wheelchair unable to walk. she eventually recovered but i was left thinking that i would rather take my chances with the flu and haven't had a flu shot since. i have my ways of dealing with flu: hot baths, sauna, bone broth, vitamin C to which i've now added IVM. i never try to lower my fever; i drive it up to as high as it can safely go.
i've also never had a mammogram. i remember when they came into general use when i was 13, i thought "how did women manage before?" i definitely have a bit of the Luddite in me, a suspicion of anything new that is pushed on me as something essential for my well being, when i can point to generations of women who had less cancer without them which tells me that what they're finding and treating "successfully" isn't actually cancer and wouldn't go on to become cancer. they keep telling you that increased levels of cancer are the trade off of a longer life span but then how to explain the explosion of childhood cancers? it doesn't make sense.
i'm of an era where i had 3 vaccines- polio, TB and small pox. now kids are shot up for everything and i don't see them being any healthier. i can remember the ONE fat kid in my elementary school class in great detail. kids today probably only remember the one oodball thin kid.
i majored in psych in college and was taught that autism is caused by a schizophrenogenic mother- never a father. this was at a time (early to mid 70's) where you might make it through your life without ever meeting an autistic person; they were one in 10,000. now it's one in 30-something and we're asked to believe that it's either genetic or a function of better diagnosis, as if parents were too stupid to tell if their kids were autistic unless an expert gave them a diagnosis!
great, so now we don't have measles but we have autism. we can't have chicken pox but we can have shingles. in one year i met 3 young men (early 20's) who had a bout of shingles! what good did a vaccine that you don't take until you're 50 do for them? (i'm not advocating for the shingles vaccine! i'd never get it but i do think it would be better to let kids get chickenpox).
i had an old black lady friend here in charleston who would talk about her uncle who was called "uncle/doctor." she spent her whole life thinking he was a trained medical doctor but he was actually a self taught herbalist, something she only learned at his funeral. she said "uncle/doctor could go into the woods and find the cure for whatever ill you had" which sounds a bit like your great aunt.
she told me that you could lower your high blood pressure by putting spanish moss in your shoe and walking around with it all day. i wonder if that's not a bit like grounding or earthing but for people who have to wear shoes. i never tried it because my blood pressure is low enough but i am curious.
i think the explosion of pharmaceutical drugs happened when insurance companies enacted drug plans. we had insurance when i was a kid but it didn't cover drugs and so they had to be affordable. the minute you have a 3rd party payer, you can charge whatever you want for drugs since no one knows what they really cost. your co-pay on a drug now is more than what you used to pay in full for that drug at the pharmacy. the drug company gets a co-pay from you and a reimbursement from your insurance; they're making out like bandits.
we certainly use many more drugs here than in other countries. when i slipped down some stairs in 2004 and broke my left wrist, the hospital gave me a prescription for oxycontin without even asking. i only ever took 3 and just at night and flushed the rest down the toilet (a bad thing to do, i know. my BF suggested selling them on the street, an idea which i rejected).
eight years later, i stepped in a pothole in a village in italy and broke my right wrist. townspeople gathered around to keep me safe until the ambulance arrived. when i wondered out loud about the cost, they assured me that it would cost me nothing. they were shocked that i was even worried about such a foolish thing.
the ambulance was staffed with an actual doctor, not just EMS workers. i asked the doctor in the hospital if she would give me anything for the pain and she said "the pain will get better once i set it and if you have pain tonight, take a tylenol." of course, she was right but what a difference in attitude.
by then, even though i was 8 years older and past menopause, i had changed my diet and drank lots of raw milk and had homemade bone broth and dark leafy greens at every meal when i got home from italy. in both cases it was the same kind of break but the 2004 break took much longer to heal than the 2012 break. i'm attributing my speedy repair to better diet.
i wish i could see your great aunt's garden. it sounds wonderful. we have a bunch of baby fruit trees that we'll be planting when the time is right for them. our little olive tree is covered with olives which i'll brine.
you have to wonder why those cops, who had previously relied on your great aunt, suddenly turned on her. they were probably threatened with job loss. it's amazing what people will do to hang onto a job!
i lost my job of 40 years because i wouldn't take the covid vaccine. i'm happy to start social security because it will make up for the income that was stolen from me. i loved my job and would have probably done it until i dropped dead but the lunatic response to the pandemic put an end to that.
anyway, i have so many stories that i could go on literally forever, but i think this is enough for now.