Letters to the Editor

 

February 15, 2023



Recently I ran across an article on the web that got me to thinking about larger issues. The article was "The Reason There's Been No Cure for Alzheimer's" by Joanne Silberner (https://www.thefp.com/p/where-is-the-cure-for-alzheimers). In it the author's father had died from dementia and she is trying to uncover why in 20 years no effective treatments for dementia have been researched. After digging into it she finds that researchers have only been looking at amyloid plaques as the cause of the problem. And why the focus on amyloid plaques to the exclusion of all else? All of a sudden, there was the reason in the middle of the article. The NIH (National Institutes of Health) would only fund studies looking into amyloid plaques. Since the NIH is the main funder of this type of research, the conversation among scientists everywhere begins to revolve around ... amyloid plaques! And so the entire research thrust starts single mindedly pursuing an answer in this one area, ignoring all others. It didn't take long for me to see the parallel to Anthony Fauci and vaccines.

Vaccines are the idea that the right way to fight off an invader to the body is to train the body's own defenses on a weakened version of the invader. Over his 38 year career as head of the 2nd largest department in the NIH, Anthony Fauci was a big proponent of vaccine technology. Of course since Fauci controls all the funding (some $4.8 billion of it) the research thrust in labs all over the country becomes: vaccines. Since American labs influence labs in other countries, labs all over the world are studying: vaccines. And what a track record! The vaccine for the Zika virus is ... oh wait, there is no vaccine for the Zika virus. Well then the vaccine for the Marburg virus ... no, no vaccine there either. Ebola ... no, West Nile - no, MRSA - no, HIV - no, C. difficile - um, no, but we're really, really, close. Well influenza then. We certainly have a vaccine for influenza! Yes, there is a vaccine for influenza but according to the CDC it is only 40-60% effective which is why we don't have A vaccine but we have new vaccines every year. There's got to be something out there ... polio! Yes, we have eradicated polio using a vaccine developed in the 1950's! Well kind of. In July of 2021 there were only 2 cases of wild polio registered in the world, but the vaccine is a leaky vaccine so with "vaccine assisted polio" (a situation where the disease propagation is actually assisted by the vaccine), polio is making a resurgence.

Are there other ways of interrupting the virus' infection and replication cycle out there? Probably, but we won't find them because the man in charge of the paying bureaucracy will only pay for vaccine research. I think I'm beginning to understand what Fauci meant when he said "I am the science!"

Fauci in his dogged pursuit down a dead end path casts a spotlight on one of the true reasons America has to tip over one of these days: Kings. At one point in human history Kings were how societies were led but as we became more able to control our surroundings the idea of democracy (or at least republic) cropped up. The big problem with kings (or emperors or dictators) is that they are the only ones who are able to make decisions for a society. No other idea is tolerated. Of course if a king begins to see his problems through the lens of hubris, or focus on one solution to the exclusion of all else, then the entire society is bound to tip over the cliff of destruction because the king will have led them there.

I would argue that America's overthrow of the idea of a king (and our war with a king to get here) is actually a pillar of our success. Time was, if the country needed an answer to a problem, it simply needed to let the people know what the problem was and a thousand inventors would run off to their garages to research answers to the problem. That of course implies trust of the government that the resulting ideas won't be stolen or treated cavalierly or rejected outright. Instead of having one mind thinking for the country, many minds were thinking for the country. This is the practical reason behind the concept of free speech.

Not anymore. Anyone who has been paying attention over the last 50 years or anyone who has been alive for the past 3 knows that democracy has been transformed into the image of democracy and that a group of kings (both public and hidden) run the country. A student of history has many examples showing that bad, self centered, myopic decisions and social decline follow kings who are disconnected from the people. Need I point out that the lives of our kings are quite disconnected from our lives? While I am on the subject, maybe I should also take the time to point out that for the last paragraph to work, the people have to trust that their kings and government will treat them honorably, and I don't see much of that belief anymore. That's even before the subject of corruption comes up. Yes, Fauci was a king. A sub-king actually. A sub-king that made mistakes in his focus, in his humility, and in the decisions that come from those moral centers. A sub-king whose mistakes we are paying for. The land where no one is above the law has become the land where even sub-kings can make mistakes, kill millions of people, and walk away with no personal consequences.

The most bizarre aspect of this turn of history is what Christianity says about where all of this is headed: Jesus King and Priest. That's right, one world government headed by a king. Who is Christ. And to make things more difficult, the prophesy is that we get the anti-christ as king of a world government before we get Christ. The key thing for Christians to remember is that Jesus is unlike any other king. He is personally concerned for us, he is humble in his approach to setting an example, and he knows all things. So how do I know that Jesus is a non-King king? Even more than that how am I supposed to choose Jesus over the republic I have or the anti-christ to come? That's the role that faith plays. You do have to have a modicum of faith that everything the bible says about Jesus is true. No king, no earthly king, no group of kings, not even a machine king is capable of running the entire human race unless every decision they make always turns out good for all humanity. So the physical miracles that Jesus did (raising from the dead, turning water into wine, etc.) are not as important as his spiritual center in describing why he made the decisions he did. Love and sacrifice for his Father, love and sacrifice for us, show more about why we should trust him than the physical outcome. "I and my Father are one", "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life", "For the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost", "For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.”, “No servant can serve two masters ... You cannot serve both God and money", "Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven", "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends". It takes faith to recognize that Christ is a worthy king and that his path is a good one. Otherwise we end up choosing a republic populated with kings like Fauci.

Robert Wayman

Musselshell

 

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