Cancer.
HIV & AIDS.
Heart Disease.
We live our day to day existence while afflicted persons struggle with their fight to remain alive.
Just as many if not more struggle with other long term diseases that are perhaps less lethal but debilitating and anathema to maintaining a decent quality of life.
Diabetes.
Alzheimer's.
Lyme's Disease.
The pharmacies' shelves are aflush with powders, pills, syrups and shots - and if one visits at the right time then the Doctor might be in. All at a price, naturally.
An inquiry.
An inspection.
A prescription.
The medicines and the money keep flowing, and you might feel better in a few days - if its the common cold that you suffer from. If it is indeed the same common cold that has haunted us for centuries and yet keeps mutating with an ever more resilient and troublesome strain to overwhelm one's immune system with.
And Yet... Is Something Not Amiss?
When was the last time that a major disease got cured?
Perhaps more pointedly, when was the last time that a major disease got cured through a means other than a vaccine?
Why is this question relevant? Well the thing is that a vaccine is an excellent way to ensure that you know how many units you have to produce. A population makes for a very big market and thats a lot of money, especially when one considers that vaccines are not forever - they can and do wear off over the years.
But really...
Have you not noticed that there exists a conflict of interest in the medical business?
The interest of an honest doctor is to cure a patient.
The interest of a business person is to make a profit.
It is more profitable to treat a disease than to cure a disease...
However it is more profitable still to cause a disease...
than both curing & treating combined.
This simple truth has long troubled me. The reason this is so is because it seems to me that a lot of things are sufficiently aligned to foster doubt in the motives that currently underly and drive forward medical progress.
And this doubt extends far beyond vaccines.
For instance, one could look at the ways that they typically try and deal with Cancer:
Surgical removal
Radiotherapy
Chemo
All the above methods have, shall we say, potential or actual physical and pychological side-effects that are less than desireable to the patient in question.
Once one reaches the conclusion that it does 'not' make economic sense for the medical industry to cure a patient, then it is only a matter of time before the dominos begin to fall and one calls into question other things.
Including the undeserved aura of non-approachability that has been set up around the medical profession such that setting up competition or challenging the operations of such is an uphill struggle.
But perhaps the most important question that one should ask ourselves is this.
If it is more profitable to make us sick or to treat us indefinitely and withold actual cures from us... what will it take for this absurd situation to be remedied?
Will it ever make business sense to prevent or cure a disease and be done with it?
Well! That should get you thinking - and I am quite sure that the comments that shall follow shall be interesting . :c) Do get in on the discussion down below as I am interested in hearing from you regardless of whether you find yourself in agreement or not!
I am also interested in hearing any ideas that you may have to answering the concluding question. :c)
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