It is always amazing to me to encounter infectious laughter. Whether in a crowd at a comedy club, or hanging out with a group of friends. To observe and be a part of the very real phenomenon of the infectious spread of energy amongst people is one of the most satisfying of human experiences. Almost as interesting is to observe those members of the group who don’t laugh, don’t participate in that shared energy. Why don’t they laugh? Did they not understand the joke? Maybe they already heard it and so are “immune” to the funny. Some laugh late, after a majority has joined in, but some can truly not be moved (infected). Regardless, that kind of an infection is an indicator of health. It is good for us to experience joy, and it can spread like an epidemic. The principles of epidemiology can even be used to track such a joy infection. So, obviously, that is not an illness. But we think about infection as being related to illness, right? I suggest that is a misguided and incorrect concept. What if infection is simply the transmission of information?
Now consider another type of infection: Candida. Candida is a fungus that can cause severe illness in vulnerable people. Yet, if we test for the presence of it on anyone, it will be found – in the healthy and the ill alike. It is considered a commensal organism, meaning that it belongs in and on us. Every human has Candida, but very few will ever be ill with it. As a commensal, it gives and receives information to us and from us. When that flow of information breaks down, that is when illness ensues. Does the medical system do widespread testing for the presence of Candida? No. Why? Because that would serve no useful purpose – we already know it’s there. We wait for an ill person, with a clinical picture of fungal disease before we do the appropriate test to characterize it. That approach to clinical and diagnostic medicine was crushed and tossed into the waste bin of history at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Science and his lackies would like to keep it that way.
Take a look at the attempts that the Disease Industrial Complex (DIC) – my term of endearment – has made to entrap us into fear and compliance. Swine Flu, West Nile Virus, Ebola, Zika, COVID. More recently – Monkey Pox, Bird Flu, Disease X. Bird Flu is their current effort. We’re told to fear the milk we drink, and we’re fed dramatic stories about people being infected – and having, wait for it, red eyes. Now, the DICs are attempting to scare is with the news that a man in Mexico died from the Bird Flu. Yet… the Mexican health ministry disputes that report, and even the WHO admits that the man had been in an extended hospitalization with multiple medical problems and he had no exposure to the animals that might have carried the Flu. As for our farm animals, once you dig through the hype you cannot find any credible information that birds or mammals are showing an epidemic spread of flu illness. Animal deaths are reported, but the why is revealing as to the hidden agenda. Recent aggressive testing has uncovered more “infection”, and infection leads to culling of the animals. So, similar to the COVID pandemic, increased infection (positive tests) has led to increased death – but from the misguided actions taken by people, not the disease process.I expect this Bird Flu nonsense to go the way of the Monkey Pox. But I’m not reassured. Each iteration of the abortive epidemics is a learning laboratory for the DICs. They are working to perfect their art of the scare. Watch and wait for Disease X.As our society struggles to move past the “global pandemic”, there is an inertia that works to hold us ensnared in a mind trap. That trap is baited with fear. We have been convinced that there is always a catastrophic illness waiting in the dark, over in some remote part of the world, or brewing in the environment around us. The tricky part of that fear form is that it leads us to believe that we have no control, no personal ability to identify the risk, protect ourselves, or recover from an encounter with that deadly disease. We have been indoctrinated into an illusion of incompetence.Somehow every other lifeform on the planet has the ability to sense its environment, identify and avoid harms, move toward what is beneficial, and recover from injury or disease. But not the modern human (known as Homo Sapiens Domesticus – hat tip to Daniel Vitalis). We have been enculturated into a state of being fearful of infection. There is a fundamental lack of understanding about our relationship to the world we live in and the elements of health and disease.Here is the foundational element: Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.This definition comes from the World Health Organization. I like it because of its focus on well-being, which, interestingly, is rarely discussed, measured, or incorporated into any treatment plan in the allopathic medical model. It suggests that health involves balance in those aspects of our lives. Along with that we still maintain health while dealing with disease or infirmity. Many people in remission from cancer or living with controlled Diabetes or Hypertension or other chronic conditions see themselves as healthy. I encounter them daily in my practice. If we shift focus to being well, much of the fear and uncertainty around illness and disease can be brushed away. Stay well until you don’t feel well, then do the common sense things to get better. If you’re a dairy farmer who gets red eyes, go home and rest them. If you’re at school and you get a fever and a cough, go home and get some vitamin C and warm soup. All the while, focus on that complete state of balanced health. Should those measures not work and things get worse, then get some professional help. The take away message is – don’t test for infection. You only become a tool of the DICs. You (and the others being tested) will be used by them to manufacture the next pandemic state of fear. Testing is reserved for unexplained illness. I guarantee that testing for infection will spread the fear pandemic more quickly and widely than any healthy, infectious laughter will be able to overcome.
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