PJBoosinger

“When we say that there’s human health, or there’s livestock health, or there’s wildlife health, we just made that up.  There’s only one health,” [Dr. William Karesh who heads the Global Health Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society] says. “If animals are the source of a disease, we want to break the chain from people getting it. If people are the source of disease, we need to break the chain going in the animal direction.”  “The infections due to animals represent 75 percent of all the emerging infectious diseases, and so if you’re really going to tackle these diseases, you can’t just focus on people. You need to focus on the animals, you need to focus on the environment, and on the interface where those come together to decrease infectious diseases worldwide... We think of one health as not just about human public health,” Dr. Ali Khan of the CDC says.  What began a decade ago for Kalema-Zikusoka as an understanding that animal and human health are tethered together has become a new policy for organizations like the CDC.  (emphasis added)

Well, hot diggy DAMN.  I'm thrilled to see it in print and on PBS but I'd sure like to see it in the news headlines!  DUH, some of us figured this out decades ago and I'm sure some knew it centuries ago.  If it's that obvious to ME for several decades, what took you "pros" so freaking long to figure it out?  And how long will it take to cram it down the throats of ALL medical professionals?  'Cause I'm tired of being harmed by willful, deliberate, perpetuated IGNORANCE.

I've been doing a LOT of medical research in recent years and WAY too much of what I find as SOP falls under the "we just made that up" category or is built upon something that was "made up".  This house of cards needs to fall, it needs to be blown away by a hurricane of professional objection to being expected to practice what is preached when the preaching is of the "we just made that up" type.  And that brings me to the H1N1 update...

"CDC: Swine flu has sickened 22 million in 6 months"  A second cat has been confirmed with H1N1 and the numbers of infected ferrets are growing.  It appears they test only those who show illness similar to the illness in humans.  Um, I don't know if you professional twits are familiar with the story of Typhoid Mary or not but, uh, um, maybe you should check it out.  For virtually every communicable disease, there are probably a few who carry the disease without showing signs.  It probably took 7+ years to identify Mary Mallon as the source because of the same silly assumption that, if one doesn't show symptoms, one must not be infected!  Silly, stupid, IGNORANT to make such assumptions!  It makes sense to me that there could easily be those in other species who would show no symptoms at all but that sure doesn't mean there shouldn't be some extensive testing to find out!  Could you at least develop a policy of testing all the pets in the household if 1 becomes ill?  Maybe some random testing of all pets in SOME of the households that have H1N1 confirmed in the owners and whose owners admit to snuggling their pets while ill?

OK, so it turns out that some healthy adults have some immunity to H1N1.  Again, DUH.  Given that H1N1 clearly has been targeting the young, old, and immunocompromised, that kinda had to follow.  WHAT TOOK YOU DWEEBS SO LONG to prove it?  And how many got vaccines that aren't looking quite so "necessary" now?

Personally, H1N1 scares the dickens out of me!  Frankly, I don't really find the virus itself frightening at all.  What I do find terrifying is the way the medical establishment has been handling it.  Shoving a vaccine at us well before it's time and fear mongering to get people to just take the vaccine without questioning.  Sheeple, turn your brains to the ON position please.  Be skeptical if not downright cynical of anyone who is provoking your emotions instead of your logic.