Guest guest Posted May 2, 2003 Report Share Posted May 2, 2003 Fri, 2 May 2003 13:20:01 -0500 WC Douglass SARS Scars Daily Dose May 2, 2003 ************************************************************** Weapons of mass distraction... As I'm sure you'll recall, I wrote to you just 10 days ago about the new SARS pandemic - specifically, how to keep this fast-moving menace at an arm's length. Since then, the number of worldwide cases has skyrocketed to an estimated 5300, and by the time you read this, that figure could easily have doubled... However, I'm not writing to you today to give you an update on the disease's death toll or to give you additional tips for protecting yourself. I'm writing to expose another danger that goes hand-in-hand with this viral killer. And it's the same danger that's accompanied just about every health crisis in the last 50 years: Misinformation. Consider this: In a recent Washington Post article, one of the World Health Organization's higher-ups (supposedly the man in charge of scientific efforts against SARS) downplays the virus' communicability - even though he can't explain how the killer disease completely infiltrated a 33-story Hong Kong apartment building, infecting hundreds... One theory suggests that it traveled through sewage pipe gasses, somehow bypassing the built-in vapor traps between the main drain stack and the individual apartments. This is particularly disturbing - since it more or less proves that the virus is spread through mechanisms other than simple person-to-person contact. But are we hearing from the WHO about how SARS may be even more dangerous than originally thought - and that it could be spreading right now through the air we're breathing? No. In fact, we're hearing just the opposite. According to Reuters article from April 28, the WHO declared SARS as having " peaked " on March 15th in every one of the 30+ afflicted nations except China. Yet the aforementioned Hong Kong apartment disaster happened AFTER that date... Which begs the question: Why would the WHO make this kind of patently false statement? Could it be because of pressure from various Asian governments over SARS' massive economic impact? Might it have something to do with the slumping Taiwan stock market, which closed on a six-month low against the dollar last Monday? Or maybe the Hong Kong hotel trade - which is currently languishing in an abysmal 2% occupancy rate because of fear of infection? Remember, SARS is on a global rampage right now only because the Chinese government covered up (and failed to contain) the initial outbreak of the virus in its Guangdong province last year. Why would they do this? To keep up the influx of foreign monies from tourism and investment, of course. The safety of these tourists and investors obviously didn't matter to them at all... The bottom line is this: Regardless of whether on not SARS turns out to be the next " Spanish Flu " (which killed millions and, by the way, originated in CHINA, not Spain!) it's still a brand new killer virus that's spreading like wildfire and has proven to be completely drug-proof - one that has handcuffed the world health community despite their best efforts at containment. Who knows what it will mutate into - or what other lethal super-viruses are on the horizon? One thing is for sure, though: When it comes to such diseases, you can't believe everything you hear, especially from governments - or entities claiming to be unbiased representatives of the " global community. " These health officials are often not so much dedicated to disease control as they are to FEAR control... Regardless of the cost in lives, apparently. ************************************************************** The question to ask at your next check up: What's up, Doc? Is your doctor satisfied with his work? I know what you're thinking: I'm the one with the symptoms! Who cares if HE'S satisfied? But your doctor's level of job satisfaction is important, and it can affect the care you get in his office (or hers, yes, I know). Not because a frustrated physician can't help you, but because doctors who feel like their hands are tied - because of HMOs guidelines, needless laws, or from a general paranoia of repercussions - can't give you the best possible medicine... And they KNOW IT. Here's the proof. Recently, I read the results of a survey that revealed a steady, rapid decline over the last few years in the satisfaction many conventional doctors get from their work. And SURPRISE - it's not because they don't make enough money... According to the survey's 12,000 respondents, it's because they feel like they lack the independence to treat and cure their patients in the best manner possible. What's this mean? It means that what I've been saying all along is true: That today's doctors have less freedom than most criminals - they live in constant fear of ruin at the hands of an ever- increasing bureaucratic and legal quagmire... But as lamentable as this survey's results are, there is a glimmer of hope contained within: The notion that conventional MDs all across the fruited plain are growing weary of the bloated, ineffective system of mainstream medicine... That means there's hope that the safe, natural, drugless, untainted-by-the-big-money-mainstream alternatives I've been touting for years may yet become the medicine of first choice for the physicians of tomorrow.... Hey, a man can dream, can't he? Watching out for the next super-bug - and cover-up, William Campbell Douglass II, MD ************************************************************** Copyright ©1997-2003 by www.realhealthnews.com, L.L.C. 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