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Some time ago, in my Feb 16th column, I tried my hand at healthcare economics and how we could really materially improve the overall economy if we start to get it right. This is still true, but the assumptions in that article were really BC (Before Covid). After Covid and all the failed interventions, we really have to do another round of rethinking. The most practical approach would seem to be that we assume that the unvaxxed will have fewer problems, which may not always be true, as is now becoming clear, but certainly, the damage is severe for the vaccinated, to judge from the current death and disability statistics.

In the USA, it seems the unvaxxed may be some 25% of the population, as suggested by recent research at Northeastern University. Worldwide the numbers appear to be even better, with entire countries with low vaccination rates, and they had fewer problems with Covid as a whole, making it clear that the problem was the vaccines, not Covid, which was literally just like a normal flu outbreak, as it crowded out the flu for that year, resulting in little or no excess mortality. Excess mortality only started with the vaccines.

This 25% should be the first in line to form a new style of healthcare system, as is now starting to happen, with initiatives such as Freedom Healthcare. Undoubtedly, this spirit will manifest in many initiatives, but as a whole, it should lead to workable alternatives for healthcare, and a driving force for true innovation and reform. In the political domain, the discussion about healthcare reform tends to focus on cost and accessibility, as if healthcare were working, which is clearly not the case. There are 10% of the population dealing with adverse events from the vaccines, so there will be many disaffected people around.

Better Patients Needed

The most urgent need to improve healthcare is better patients. We have seen that in this alleged pandemic situation that was Covid-19. With the benefit of hindsight, we can now see that it was nothing but the flu, made worse by the overreaction of nearly the whole world. Even if it were lab-created, it was still the flu, for the effect was that it simply crowded out the flu, so that in 2020 there was no excess mortality, but there was in ‘21 and ‘22. The people who were inclined to take responsibility for their own health are, by and large, the ones who refused the vax, although, as always, there are always exceptions to the rule. As I have noted in a previous column, the complete failure of the Lifestyle Medicine community to recommend against vaccinations was a particularly absurd wrinkle. The whole purpose of whole foods, plant-based nutrition, which is the core tenet of Lifestyle Medicine, is about reducing inflammation in the body, which helps to prevent or even reverse most chronic diseases, but clearly also puts our microbiome and, therefore, our immune system in top fighting trim.

Specifically also, the Whole Foods, Plant-Based nutrition model is very, very clear on the fact that we may not get sufficient vitamin D3 from sunshine, as we should, so supplementation may be in order. As it is, during this period, it became evident that adequate vitamin D levels reduced hospitalization and death from Covid by 80% and that a plant-based diet alone could reduce the risk of moderate to severe Covid by 83% all by itself. In short, as per usual, “the microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything,” as Pasteur is supposed to have said towards the end of his life, conceding in effect to Antoine Béchamp that terrain theory was a better explanation of disease than was germ theory. The result is an insight that was later expressed by some smart doctor: “There are no diseases, just sick people. (D.W. Clark, Preventive Medicine, Boston 1967” See discussion here: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JHR-08-2018-045/full/html.

The upshot is that the very first issue in health is to realize that you are your own primary healthcare provider, and that your doctor is a subject matter expert in a specific area, who may (or may not) know better what you need than you do, but who should work with you as a partner in healing. There is a reason my MD father trained me that in consulting a physician, I should at all times make sure I understood whatever interventions they proposed and that the doctor should be in a position to explain the method of action in lay terms. He would say that if any doctor could not provide such an explanation, it was time to change doctors.

There is a legal foundation for all this as well. With “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” surely comes the right to exercise the means for our own health and well-being, which is a right that was duly recognized in the Declaration of Independence, but which goes back to the natural law that was conceptually clear as far back as ancient Greece (Plato). Nobody has the right to usurp that right, but sadly this has often been overlooked in history. It was reasserted in the concepts of Informed Consent that were so clearly expressed in the Nuremberg Code, but it seems as if, with time, we lost it again, and with the totalitarian concepts that are being promulgated by the World Economic Forum, the supposed pandemic that was Covid completed the abolition by governments world-wide of our basic human rights. The seeds for this erosion of our rights were laid in Obamacare.

However, even in very limited legal circumstances when government may have adequate legal grounds to temporarily circumvent these inalienable rights, they lose that right in cases of fraud in the inducement. The Covid-19 episode was one and all fraud. It is only to be hoped that we would learn enough from the recent crisis to prevent any re-occurrence in the near future, but in the interim, on an individual basis, the only thing that matters is for us to take responsibility for our own health, based exactly on our inalienable right to do so.

On a spiritual level, it is clear that, by far, most of us are sound asleep and think that our health is something that is entirely outside of our control and that it happens to us, like the weather. That is the group that never questioned the vaccination in this latest go-around, even though some smart analysts were pointing out early on that the disease had a strong age gradient and the people who died were typically above average life expectancy, and had multiple comorbidities. A smaller, but still significant group is in the process of taking responsibility for their health but still tends to look at it as something that comes from outside, be it contagion or genetics, and it is something they have to deal with. Or, we might ascribe it to whatever we’ve done ourselves. However, the spiritually mature approach would focus first and foremost on where we are now, and appreciating it as an opportunity to heal. And the healing is not the disappearance of the physical symptoms. The healing is taking responsibility.

A Course in Miracles says the following in its pamphlet on psychotherapy:

³The hanging on to guilt, its hugging close and sheltering, its loving protection and alert defense, — all this is but the grim refusal to forgive. “God may not enter here,” the sick repeat, over and over, while they mourn their loss and yet rejoice in it. Healing occurs as a patient begins to hear the dirge he sings, and questions its validity. Until he hears it, he cannot understand that it is he who sings it to himself. To hear it is the first step in recovery. To question, it must then become his choice.

2. There is a tendency, and it is very strong, to hear this song of death only an instant, and then dismiss it uncorrected. ²These fleeting awarenesses represent the many opportunities given us literally “to change our tune.” ³The sound of healing can be heard instead. But first, the willingness to question the “truth” of the song of condemnation must arise.

(ACIM, P-2.VI.1:3–2:4)

In short, the healing process begins with the patient’s realization they want to change their mind, now changing our mind is not something that we can do ourselves, it is a process with which we need help, and Jesus is the symbol of this kind of Help that represents the Love of God in our lives – something beyond the ego. The ego will not let go of its misery, its judgment, and condemnation, for it fears that it would be put out of business thereby, which it would. The important realization is that we are not our ego, and we do not give up who and what we are by saying NO to the ego. We should remember that this change of mind is what Jesus taught 2000 years ago, and what he teaches now in the Course, and in our daily lives if he is your teacher. And if Jesus is not your guy, it could be Krishna, Quan Yin, or Buddha, or whoever represents that presence of Love and Forgiveness in your life.

In terms of health, taking care of business involves taking responsibility for our own health and well-being to a much greater extent than we are used to. It is the only way forward; the principles of Lifestyle Medicine help us here. Programs like that are the means for implementing the change, but it will never work until you sincerely want to change, and even then, we may all have relapses from time to time, but now we know better. The economics of healthcare will not change unless and until we change, for by continuing in the ego’s favorite role, the victim role, we will get caught up in this spiraling inflation of measures and countermeasures, and never-ending medical interventions, which is what we see everywhere. So the first order of business is to work with the people who really want change, logically, the target group is the unvaccinated, and the carrot will be in the fact that, as a group, they will enjoy lower healthcare costs. It needs to grow by attraction.

  • Rogier Fentener van Vlissingen

    Rogier Fentener van Vlissingen is a Dutch native, living in America since 1979, in both Connecticut and New York. He has worked in international shipping and most recently he has mostly been involved in energy efficiency and retrofitting. He is also a co-founder of a biotech, BCM Industries, which develops autologous organ repair tissues, and also a line of revolutionary IT equipment, computers and storage appliances, running on live neurons. He is an eager student of business, literature, history and spiritual traditions. He also teaches whole foods, plant-based nutrition and cooking. He published his first book in Holland in 1973. In 2007, Rogier published the book Closing the Circle: The Gospel of Thomas and A Course in Miracles. He blogs about energy retrofitting, energy finance, spirituality and whole-foods, plant-based nutrition and healthcare.

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letmepicyou
letmepicyou
10 months ago

Oy vey! Dey get da vaccine, we make da shekels. Dey don’t get da vaccine, dey still go to da doctor, we get the shekels. We own da drug companies, we own da HMOs, we get da shekels one way or da other. A few goyim die, eh. We make da shekels off that, too. L’chaim! Mazel tov!

Rumplestiltskin
Rumplestiltskin
10 months ago

If you listen to the right people you can save your own life. I have listened to Mike Adams of the “Health Ranger” since before the beginning of the “Plandemic” because he has his own acreddited lab who was also in contact with biilogist and doctors around the USA. When he told what was happening to people who got the jab, I decided right there to not get that Kill Shot, and thus save my own life. (I’m 77) Neither my mate nor I have been inoculated with that fake vaccine, BECAUSE IT IS NOT A GD VACCINE.

My mate came down with (something) for a week and a half and now has natural immunity. I never got sick, because I have been taking all kinds of supplement for the last ten years, along with Medical Cannabis for a physical problem that Statins caused when I was on them for eight years.

In the beginning my cardiologist thought I was a few bricks short of a load for telling him what I learned from Mike Adams. I had since told him how wrong he was, and he hasn’t spoke to me since and I now have another cardiologist. Doctors have proven they are not the end-all in the decisions you must contend with, in being Your Own Best Health Advocate.

If you listen to the legacy media you are not only misinformed, you have also been manipulated into believing something that is false BECAUSE THEY ARE CONTROLLED BY THEIR ADVERTISERS WHICH ARE THE PHARMACEUTICAL GIANTS.

Catpaws
Catpaws
10 months ago

Rogier’s hindsight is 20/20. I was in the high risk group – old age. The mRNA shots were two shots which was concerning due to an increased risk of reaction to the second shot. So, it was one J&J shot. There was no reaction. A year after the shot, I got a head cold which turned out to be the Wuhan. So, pick your poison and hope for good luck.

letmepicyou
letmepicyou
Reply to  Catpaws
10 months ago

Why are you here pushing the bs “virus” narrative? Nothing called “COVID 19” exists.

Doyle
Doyle
Reply to  letmepicyou
10 months ago

Hindsight is 20/20 and it makes your comment somewhat irrelevant.

letmepicyou
letmepicyou
Reply to  Doyle
10 months ago

Sorry, that “COVID” is a made-up scam like all “viruses” is NEVER “irrelevant”.

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