The Abuse of One

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Mental health is essential to physical health. You can't improve one without by default improving the other. This a true statement. There is no divide between our mind and body. Likewise the Abuse of the mind is the abuse of the body; nurture one and nurture the other. Yet over the last year and a half, the overwhelming majority of our governments have aggressively prevented us from taking real care of either under the guise of protecting lives.

No. This is not what they have done. They have harmed us both physically and mentally and created excess death.

A reminder from yesterday.

https://twitter.com/PrydeFoltz/status/1407818765178343428
- PrydeFoltz

It should be noted that Sweden who did not turn their back on social democracy did not experience excess death.

https://shahar-26393.medium.com/not-a-shred-of-doubt-sweden-was-right-32e6dab1f47a

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Sweden exhibits that the loaa of life was not simply attributed to COVID 19, and that healthcare cannot be reduced down to one condition. And ... LISTEN Up. Mental health cannot be ignored. Impair mental health and kill people as effectively as you do when denying medical treatment.

https://twitter.com/PrydeFoltz/status/1408050049586581513
- PrydeFoltz

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It is a biological imperative that we take those masks off and get back out there, or reduce our life spans and certainly our enjoyment of life.

But if you are anything like me: iconoclastic, truthful, and in possession of both an open mind and a critical one, fitting in will prove a problem.

Below is my response to Russell Brand.

Friends are great but right now the desire to fit in can be a rather an unhealthy practice, encouraging people to drink too much and eat too much; replace healthy living with an erroneous faith that science will keep one alive. Timely solitude when combined with meditation(oxytocin), healthy eating (natural fats and the ability to make needed hormones) nature, and exercise (endorphins) could literally save your life.

Alas the same people who are encouraging you to replace healthy living with a pathological reliance on pharmaceutical science, also want you to give up healthy eating and have a desire to colonize our very soil and biomes.

https://twitter.com/PrydeFoltz/status/1408162274582220800
- PrydeFoltz

Engineered food grown on seized and depleted soil is not the answer. Restorative agriculture with mixed herds, results in less death, more diversity, top soil replacement, and net carbon sequestration.

Given it is the bacteria in a ruminants digestive system that produce methane and not the actual animal, the methane argument is moot. When grasses break down to maintain the soil cycle, they emit methane. Naturally produced methane is an essential and rapidly cycling part of our atmosphere. We need it. And indeed more methane is produced from mussels and shellfish and the production of rice. And in the case of rice, with a nutritionally lacking source of nutrition.

Forget what you think about nutrition. Eating guides emphasize economics and not human or environmental health. Yes, epidemiological studies point to an advantage for plant-based diets, but they are rife with confounding factors and stand in comparison to a SAD diet.

Just about anything is better than the consumption of poison.

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The truth staring us in the face is that you can't JUST trust science. It can be used to mislead and sometimes out and out lie.

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It can be used to destroy, divide, and even kill.

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This is the most widespread time of corruption, and strife and yet we are not actually dropping bombs (much). The misuses of science is far more effective and profitable and has us fighting each other while profiteers pretend to be humanitarians and leaders.

The stakes have never been higher; they opportunity to build a better world as never been easier.

A little more from my response to Russell.

Go easy on yourself; and be true to yourself; or lose yourself.

Be kind and hone your listening skills with others. Like people will find you. Those who do not resonate will bounce off you and find someone who does not feel so threatening.

Rejection does indeed keep you safe. Treat it like a gift from the universe.

But let's hope as truth and love rights itself, we will find our way back to each other and with better solutions and care. We are in this together, but this is not demonstrated through compliance to authority; it's demonstrated by each of us contributing what we uniquely have to share with humanity and life.

Let's build a better and healthier world.