The dangers of Masking

With the HMPV drama, masking is once more a thing. When I call someone I have to hear a full minute of "wear masks, follow social distancing" kind of nonsense before the call goes through. 

Sigh, there we go again! But then, we always knew that Covid was only a trailer. There are more, many more to  come. 

Given this backdrop, it is good to reflect on the following: 

1. Are masks effective in stopping the spread of germs? If they really are, then it would have stopped the flow of air also, and you would be dead by now. 

2. The body has its own immune system to handle viruses, starting with the nasal passage itself. Trust it. 

3. Deep breathing equals health. Shallow breathing equals sickness. ( Read up on it if you don't believe me. Avoid reading any allopathic literature of course, they don't know their nose from their assholes).  Masks make you breathe shallow. Think about it. 

4. The dirty mask is saturated with your own exhaust, and you are breathing IN through that muck. 

5. The microplastics in the masks enter your lungs. 

6. The psychological effect of wearing masks are terrible. 

7. Masking is a psychological tool used by those in power to keep the population in perpetual panic mode. 

8. Those who are working, and especially heading, organisations which have espoused mask policies, will have huge cognitive dissonance in accepting any of this. 

9. Forget science, forget  medicine. What does your common sense tell you?

How a God is turned into a Demon

The Sun is considered as God in every pagan culture. Exposure to sunlight is necessary for good health, Vitamin D being only one of the reasons but a very important one in today's context. Of course, people know all about when and how much exposure to have, wearing turbans / caps, hydrating, cooling drinks, etc. 

Of course, such embedded traditional wisdom is bad for commerce. 

So what do the modern marketers do? 

1. Demonise the sun. Sun exposure causes cancer! Tan! Wrinkles! Skin that looks like parchment! 

2. Embed the fear deep, so that it becomes unquestioned dogma.

3. Put some cheap chemicals in tubes, which is of course bad for the skin ( the skin is a living breathing organ, and you ingest whatever you apply on it) , and convince people that it is good for them. Sun protection is just one example

4. Sell those cheap chemicals at obnoxiously high prices. Do this next time you buy any cosmetic. It is say 300 rupees for a twenty gram tube. That works out to 15,000 rupees a kg. Cold pressed coconut oil which is the best skin remedy in the world costs 450 rupees a kg.

5. Convince people that they need, as in NEED, the chemicals in the tube, in order to live. This thing, convincing people,  modern marketing is highly skilled in doing. As to the ethics of the marketing profession, that is a whole different story for another time. 

6. And then, you reach this stage. Where a "sunscreen" is considered "essential" even when you don't go out in the sun. See the billboards which say so"sunscreen not just for a sunny day, for any day!" 

7. And then people stop going out in the sun, and apply cancer causing chemicals on their skin by the shitloads( pun intended).

We live in an age where all the accumulated wisdom of the ages is being systematically erased. It only takes two or three generations for the process to be complete. 

It is not inconceivable that, fifty or hundred years from now, whoever goes out in the sun is arrested for endangering others since sun exposure can cause infectious diseases, which it will, since people will be so weakened with indoor life and being repeatedly vaccinated,  that they will have to live only in  artificial chambers. 

( Posted to my blog: https://www.dineshgopalan.com )

Mumbai

Mumbai is no longer liveable.

I grew up in Mumbai, and though now in Bangalore, I  keep visiting Mumbai frequently. 

The city always lacked green spaces. People always had to commute long distances in conditions that are similar to prisoners being transported in cattle cars during World War 2.

Real Estate has always been expensive. People used to invest their life's savings and pledge fifteen years of future income to buy a pokey little flat in Dombivi ( a suburb fifty km away). Now, people invest their life's savings and pledge fifteen years of future income to buy a pokey little flat on the seventeenth floor of a highrise building that resembles an anthill in an anthill colony. 

People in Mumbai are earning more and more and spend more and more for getting basic necessities. Taxis cost 60 rupees a km. Paan ordered on Swiggy costs 75 rupees each. And so on. 

Traffic on the road does not move, period. 

Metros, monorails, underground trains, overground trains, and all kinds of "flyovers" and "flyunders" are being built for the ants to commute from one anthill to another bypassing the crowded roads clogged with more ants below. 

Whatever three storeyed buildings exist, are being demolished to build multistireyed buildings. On the same plot of land. Setback from the road is almost nil. Open area nil. Lung space nil. 

But why do you need all that? You can be born inside the ant hill, live inside, work inside, commute inside, reproduce inside, and die inside the anthill without ever seeing the sun or being out in the rain. 

The ants are happy living their busy busy lives. A former ant who is now living outside sees, and wonders, why would people want to live like this?

On medical checkups and the like

So you want to go for your preventive medical checkup? Just bear these points in mind. 

Medical bodies constantly reduce the threshold for all kinds of diseases. For example, post prandial sugar level of upto 250 may be fine, but the threshold is set below that, and constantly reduced. They declare you sick even when you are not. 

And then they push medicines on you. Those medicines make you sick. And you take more medicines. 

The body has a natural ability to cure itself. The body is incredibly complex, and like in any complex system things may go out of whack sometimes. 

In that case, first go off food i.e. fast, and take rest. It gives the body a chance to correct itself. 

In general, take care of sleep, rest, good diet,  less stress, a more balanced lifestyle. The body will bounce back to normalcy. 

Normalcy is not defined as getting parameters within a "normal " range, that is a trap. 

Getting back to medical tests, if you define normal as 95 percent of the population, in each test, five percent are by definition abnormal in any parameter. These parameters themselves are continuously tweaked to make more and more people unhealthy. 

So, you go in for a "preventive" medical check up. That is the front office of the medical mafia. Given that you test yourself on twenty, thirty, or  a hundred parameters, and each one has a, say, five percent chance of being "not within acceptable range", along with the fact that the body is a  constantly  operating piece of complex chemical and biological processes, the chance of you being declared "not healthy" is

 something  like, say,  99  plus percent! 

Once the front office declares you sick, the medical industry takes over. You are pumped with medicines that actually make you sick. 

A few years on these medicines and you can never come out of them. 

Avoid preventive medical checkups, that is the first lesson. 

Now, consider the fact that there are thousands of diseases or "conditions". They have a million different cures. Drill down into those million cures, and a few common factors emerge. The way back to health in each and every case, lies in basic things like sleep, diet, activity, exercise,  people connect, mental stimulation, avoiding stress, etc. 

Why not just educate ourselves on those rules of good health then? There is a problem here. These rules are age old and well known. But your doctor does not know them. Doctors know nothing about health, the moment they register for their MBBS, whatever little common sense they have is systematically driven out of them. So you cannot depend on your doctor for health advice. 

Lesson no. 2, educate yourself on the rules for good health, and follow them, when you are healthy. Don't wait to become sick before you find out about them. And no, your doctor cannot help you here. 

When you have an acute or life threatening  condition, or have broken your leg in an accident, by all means go to the nearest hospital. Once you are out of immediate danger, you need to focus on how to regain your health, for this avoid the allopathic establishment entirely. 

Basically you have to treat the allopathic medical establishment like you treat the local mafia. Go to them when you are in deep shit for an immediate bailout, but avoid all contact thereafter! 

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, and thank God for that.

Ruminations on a Friday morning

There is always a distinction between the Classes and the Masses. 

The Masses are cannon fodder, they have always been. 

Which is why you and I should always aspire to be above the stupid mass, and take care of ourselves. 

This applies in all things, including education, health, medicine, social interactions, vacations, you name it. 

And it doesn't necessarily involve spending money. It involves being clear of what is the "right" thing and making that manifest ( that is the word of the year, by the way) in our lives.