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etymology: the study of the origins of words and how they have changed their definitions and meanings over time
One Should at Least Pause When Reading the Origin of Words
virus
from the Latin, "poison, sap of plants, slimy liquid, a potent juice"
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I think we are collectively being taught to be afraid of EVERYTHING. Why? So we will look to Big Brother (and Daddy Government ) to tell what to do next without question or protest. Masks don't work. The vaccine doesn't work. And we no longer seem to understand what natural immunity is anymore.
From what I have seen on this platform lately, I will have to say that people ARE questioning here but not in the general populace, or so it seems. I do understand the power of propaganda and the reasons why we are being isolated and given conflicting information at ever turn. George Orwell's famous book, 1984, should no longer be in the fiction section. We seem to be living in the prequel as I type.
We are being taught through repetition of sound bites that we need to "stay safe" while the government "builds back better." The fact that these exact words are being stated by the figureheads all over the world should cause one to consider if this is an orchestrated attempt to rush in a global totalitarian technocracy.
We NEED Viruses and Bacteria in Our Bodies to Live and Function Properly
I have been studying for decades how to find optimal health. Sadly, I have been misled but because I do not accept one idea, one person's perspective, or even one scientific paper as the ultimate answer led me to learn so much more over time. Why does that matter? Let me try to explain.
I was a vegetarian for 10 years. I felt very strongly, especially at first about the reasons behind my decision. I saw farm animals (from the industrial agricultural model which is still disgusting) being savagely mishandled and I was living in a college town at the time. The mothers I interacted with (I had two small children) were vegetarians and I wanted to try it for myself. The funny thing is that I was just learning how to cook AND I didn't have a lot of experience with fresh vegetables beyond making salads. It was a steep learning curve, for sure.
Fast forward 10 years. Two previous Thanksgivings I had thought that I wanted to try turkey again. I had stopped eating tofu (it's disgusting and I will address that non-food in another essay) several years back and was wondering if I wanted to switch back to a more omnivore's diet.
What pushed me over the edge to changing my diet for good was that I came to a proverbial fork in the road, I was thinking something but was unable to articulate my thoughts into words. This was BAD.
Since I had been doing TONS of research on the subject of diet, especially a vegetarian's diet, I knew I had a B12 imbalance and it needed to be dealt with immediately. I had done all the vitamins, all the complimentary proteins, ate eggs, cheese, tempeh (that is supposed to have B12) BUT I needed the B12 from the flesh of an animal.
(B12 is a fat soluble vitamin that can be stored in your fat cells up to 10 years. I had arrived at the 10 year mark and I needed to do something FAST.)
The first thing I ate was baked fish. It made me sneeze after the first few bites and then I was fine. My next meal was baked chicken. THAT meal made me feel ecstatic! All my cells danced as if they were telling me that this was the right choice. I haven't gone back to a vegetarian diet since.
Let's "Circle Back" Shall We?
The more I know the more I know I don't know.
So this word "virus" is being tossed around a lot these days. I think scientists, REAL scientists would argue that we don't know very much about the body and even less about viruses.
Think about it: How do we study the body, at least in the not so distant past? We looked at cadavers, dead matter. How do we study viruses mainly? Through a process that destroys (because viruses are not alive, as far as I have read) the original integrity of the entity to then study it under an electron microscope.
And then there is the question of what happens when you remove something from its home put it in a lab and then study it. Just like anything we study in a lab, these are unnatural conditions that we then somehow assert that these same conclusions will work exactly in nature. Any paper should be built up from the work of others AND must be able to be disproved to make it a viable conclusion. If it cannot be disproved then they AREN'T using the scientific method properly. At least that is how I understand it from the perspective of a researcher not an official scientists. But I do get my information from scientists and other researchers who want to know and are humble enough to realize that there is ALWAYS a margin of error in any scientific paper.
So when I look at the Latin definition of virus I ponder what they meant back then versus what we are talking about today. Some believe that all the viruses we have are all interior and the imbalance within our gut biome causes the "bad" bacteria and viruses to out compete the "good." (Some call that the Terrain Theory.) And if I think of the word poison, I think of something on the outside getting in like when we get food poisoning from poorly stored and prepared foods. Even after two years of deep research, there are no quick and easy answers. Not if you are being honest.
I will say that I am not convinced that the narrative being presented by the "mainstream media" is fair and balanced. There may seem to be two sides (Hegelian Dialectic) but those two sides are controlled by the few, not the many.
If anything, I hope this essay causes you to want to know more and even share your information below. We learn more together through discourse and contemplation.
God bless and be well!