Trillions of viruses are all around us, and in the human body. They are key to life, but can become a problem when the terrain of the body becomes unbalanced, and this is happening increasingly, as we destroy the natural world and all life in it with chemicals, pollution, poisonous food system; as we fuel stress, via increasing inequality and poverty; etc.
That’s my understanding, having spent many hours listening to interviews and talks with Dr Zach Bush, and others.
Is the theory correct? It makes sense to me.
I feel as though I’ve been conditioned to hate and fear germs and disease similarly to how we are conditioned to hate ‘enemy’ states of US Empire. The purpose of the conditioning is the same - to advance the interests of big business; the war industry, the oil industry... the pharmaceutical industry. A war mentality is required to maintain an economic system that requires perpetual profit and growth. Though saying that, I think this relationship we have with nature runs deeper than capitalism - we have been this way since before capitalism. (Well, not all of us).
Was our adoption of Germ Theory a new phase in our war on the world? We’re now literally making ourselves go extinct, via an infertility and disease crises, (and via climate change). Is the war mentality, including our war on disease, to blame? Is that, and what we have done to the environment and our food system, causing an imbalance in our bodies, and making us increasingly vulnerable? Have we been fighting mother nature when we should be trying to live in harmony with her, and allowing her to heal us?
It seems that we need to radically change our approach. We focus on suppressing symptoms, when we need a holistic approach to address the root cause of these symptoms. And this root cause appears to me to be our disconnection from nature, and an economic system that requires that disconnection to continue, so that nature can be plundered for profit. We need to reconnect with nature, and we need to focus more on the terrain. We need to escape the short-sighted and ecocidal war mentality.
The global response to Covid is just the latest example of this counterproductive, reductionistic war mentality. What negatively affects the terrain (and thus our ability to be unaffected by something like Covid)? Fear, lack of exercise, lack of sunlight, isolation, depression, poor diet/junk food takeaways... It's as though we have been encouraged, (or required by law), to make ourselves more vulnerable.
And why did we not consider the repercussions of lockdowns in a globalized world, in which poor countries have been made reliant on exploitative rich countries, for the very survival of their people? We now have a ginormous increase in global hunger and poverty, with 10,000 more children dying a month now, according to the UN. (It has also led to a massive transfer of wealth upwards, so that now, power is even more concentrated than previously, making the big changes we need even harder to achieve).
Covid has done one thing, however - it has proven that unity and enormous change is possible overnight, if there is the collective will. Hopefully there will be more pressure from the masses, now that the genie is out of the bottle. But we must become more conscious, collectively, of what really needs to be done; we must start looking at everything holistically. Or else we will continue with a war mentality and disconnection from nature that has put us on a path towards a concrete world in which we all keep our distance from each, cover our faces, and live in perpetual fear, bleakness and isolation. It's a world that will not survive for very long. Our species, like all the others currently going extinct, will be victim of it eventually. Biodiversity is key.
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Some links:
It’s the terrain, not the germ, that is the most important determinant of health.
Read here: In 2005, 133million Americans were living with at least one chronic condition. In 2020, this is expected to grow to 157 million
Read here: Over half of US children now suffer from a chronic condition
Read here: Between 14.7 million and 23.5 million Americans suffer from an autoimmune disease, and the prevalence is rising
Read here: One in 59 children in the US has autism, rising 15% in just two years
Read here: Most men in the US and Europe could be infertile by 2060
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