by Peter Löcke //
The pharmaceutical lobby is under fire. Even if only in the alternative media. This refers to the entire network of billion-dollar non-governmental organizations, politics and the media, Big Tech and the pharmaceutical companies themselves. Because this has been discussed often enough, I'm going to try something different. A change of perspective. There are always two sides to a market. No seller without a buyer. Even the best, most aggressive marketing is useless if there is no demand. What about the maturity and personal responsibility of each individual? I start with subjective perceptions and my own observations.
It was before Corona when a good friend gave me his apartment key so that I could look after the apartment during his vacation. Bring in the post, water the flowers, air the place. The usual. As a reward, I was allowed to make myself comfortable, use the TV and help myself. So far so normal, until I actually accepted the kind offer and opened my friend's fridge. The hope that something edible and a reward beer would be smiling at me in the side compartment was in vain. The fridge resembled a medicine cabinet. Nutritional supplements instead of food. Powders instead of pilsner. And all kinds of boxes of medication. My friend may have been an extreme case, but certainly not an isolated one.
Another more general observation? The image of city centers has changed dramatically in the Internet age. Only two sectors seem to have survived. Firstly, hairdressing salons. There is no app or Amazon for haircuts. Otherwise, pharmacies and drugstores. Prescription or not - there is a solution for every medical and cosmetic problem. A product called a tablet, pill, ointment or spray. A drug solution for treatment or prevention. It's great if it solves problems! That's probably how my friend would argue. I would answer him with Paul Watzlawick.
When the solution is the problem!
If I go online or look in the newspaper, I find out every day what is making me ill. This triggers stress, which also makes me ill. Nicotine, caffeine, alcohol and much more make me ill. My unhealthy eating, sleeping and social habits make me ill. All the so-called diseases of civilization make me ill. Wait a minute. Isn't the healing health industry also a product of civilization? Do you need something to help you sleep? Here you go. You need something to function in everyday life? You're welcome. Do you suffer from depression? I will prescribe you antidepressants, even if they can trigger depression as a side effect. But you rarely read about a widespread disease. There are two million drug addicts in Germany alone. When the solution becomes a problem! Two million individual cases or not collateral damage that is home-made?
There is another way. Perhaps you would like to take me back to my childhood for a moment. My mother was neither an anthroposophist nor did she belong to the militant anti-vaccine scene. She probably didn't even know what these terms meant. However, she knew how helpful lemon socks, a hot water bottle or a chamomile steam bath can be. She knew how important a strong immune system is. I didn't get a six-way vaccination as a baby. Because my mother was reckless and thought that I wouldn't get a sexually transmitted disease at the age of six months or a disease that is considered extinct in Germany? Maybe. Practically speaking, she cooked every day. Food supplements were usually included in the diet.
Back to the roots! Many people are not aware of what the pharmaceutical lobby really is. A market like any other. A health market of supply and demand. What is every seller interested in? Maintaining and expanding their customer base, of course. Is the arms industry interested in global peace? Of course not. So why should the pharmaceutical industry be interested in a healthy world? Nobody who sells gets rid of their own customers.
At this point, I would like to draw a seemingly strange bow. Corona and cancer. Here is the war on virus. The global war against the coronavirus declared in March 2020. It is not the first declared war against a disease. In 1971, over fifty years ago, Richard Nixon declared the war on cancer, the war on cancerproclaimed. The medium-term goal was to eradicate cancer completely. Zero cancer, if you like. Since then, an estimated 200 billion euros have been invested in cancer research in the United States alone. Many times that amount has been earned from cancer. Has cancer been conquered? No. On the contrary. Nevertheless, as a critical person or doctor with an alternative view of the causes and treatment of cancer, you will immediately be labeled a fraud and esoteric.
But there is hope. Partly because of Biontech. There is hope thanks to Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci. These are the two "pandemic heroes" on a health mission who [sic] "Avengers of the pharmaceutical world". The pandemic heroes are now researching vaccines and drugs against cancer. Based on mRNA. Against cancer and for a healthier world. At least that's the tenor of all the articles from Handelsblatt to Der Spiegel and Manager Magazin. Perhaps that is the case.
It makes me suspicious that a certain Bill Gates in his famous interview in the Daily news rejoiced that RNA vaccines for other diseases would also be sought in the future. The same philanthropist who had already in September 2019 invested fifty million euros in an unknown German company called Biontech. The circle is complete.
Where do I see the solution? Not on the supply side. Not in politics, not in the leading media, not in the powerful network of the pharmaceutical lobby. Nothing will change there. Only people can change. A change of perspective is needed. It takes the maturity and personal responsibility of every person to say NO.
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8 Responses
Mr. Löcke, you've picked up on a good topic!
PH company employees are happy to work for the health of mankind. The important question is, why is public opinion not the same? - What other interests are behind this?
The shareholders want profit.
I had an interesting experience in hospital when it comes to taking responsibility for yourself when you are ill: a patient shuffled across the corridor in his bathrobe and wanted to know how to get to the radiotherapy department. I offered to accompany him, as it was also my way. He was surprised at my street clothes and that I was a patient like him.
I showed him the way through a basement corridor to the next building and told him that I normally always walk outside in daylight to the therapy building and would also like to combine it with a short walk because it was good for me. The patient was very surprised at me.
– „Ja, dann arbeiten Sie an ihrer Therapie ja mit?“ sagte er mit verwunderter und leicht vorwurfsvoller Stimme. –
This personal responsibility is not something that our society provides for.
For me, home remedies and the knowledge of how to use them (such as sour cherry juice) belong in every household. They do a good job at the first signs of illness and have prevented many an infection from breaking out. But if we can't get any further with home remedies, we need active pharmaceutical ingredients! We need several treatment options side by side.
Kind regards
Burghild
Bravo! Reads like a hymn I've been singing for years to the personal responsibility of each individual, and not just from a health perspective.
People listen to me, but at the same time they smile at my request. Parents of small children in particular accuse me of having a Stone Age attitude and that everything is different and much better nowadays, which is why vaccinations are a blessing for the little ones. I think the blessing is rather that the working mother runs less risk of having to stay at home because of a child's illness. A terrible burden! Because unfortunately (!) mothers today have to work a full-time job and at best have a career, while the little ones (from the age of 1) are looked after in crèches. This is the only way for today's woman to meet the demands of pleasing everyone and everything in all areas of life. What a nonsense!!!
Über die Wichtigkeit von Kinderkrankheiten für die physisch-psychische Entwicklung von Kleinkindern empfehle ich das Buch „Vom Sinn der Kinderkrankheiten“, verfasst von Dr. Manfred von Ungern-Sternberg. Nichts ist steinzeitlich an der Meinung und Empfehlung des Arztes und daher auch nicht an seinem brillanten Werk.
Ich muss an dieser Stelle aufhören, denn ich merke, dass Aufregung in mir kocht. Das ist das mit dem Stress … nein Danke! Aber ich wünschte, Ihren Text würden Menschen nicht nur lesen, sondern auch umdenken. Aber das ist das mit dem Denken – „man“ überlässt es bequemerweise anderen, von denen „man“ meint, dass sie es besser wüssten und richtig machen. Wird diese Erwartung nicht erfüllt, sind die vermeintlich besser Wissenden es dann auch schuld. Das ist das mit der Verantwortung. Die übernimmt „man“ dann auch nicht fürs eigene Handeln. Ist das Leben nicht herrlich bequem?
I can only agree with the comments here. Personal responsibility also means saying no. Nevertheless, there are illnesses for which medication can certainly be helpful. But I see that in my circle of friends, most people think that a lot helps a lot. I have a friend who still believes that the fourth injection for coronavirus will help her. Others moan about the shortage of medication such as fever syrups etc. My mother didn't have any fever syrup for us. If it got a bit worse, we had calf compresses and sour cherry juice. Besides, a fever is a defensive reaction of the body. Nowadays there's a pill for everything. And I'm always asked after my operation why don't you take any painkillers. Quite simply because IBU and the like do nothing against nerve pain. Only antidepressants or antiepileptics help, thank God the neurologist advises me not to take them because he knows about the side effects. Otherwise, just slow down, eat healthily and use TENS. That's not easy either, but I've taken on this personal responsibility for myself.....
Only by abolishing a society based on profit and growth, while at the same time eliminating the elite, would we have the opportunity to bring about real sustainable change.
21.12.2022
Dear Mr. Löcke,
further words are, here and now, from my
view (almost) unnecessary.
I generally agree with you.
With one question:
Because how do we get a change of perspective?
maturity and personal responsibility,
of every (or only most) people,
eben auch „NEIN“ zu sagen zu Netzwerken und
organized networks of, for example, quite diverse
misinformation and often (sometimes very massive)
Manipulations...?
This essential answer is obvious to me
unfortunately not at the moment.
Okay, still often enough for me personally:
Thank God! Thank you...
But that's enough for the big picture
not...
Yours sincerely,
Lucy
The key area to focus on for the change in perspective is education! The top protagonists of the crisis(es) very cleverly focused on it a long time ago, like a farmer on the soil to be tilled. A lot of money was pumped into it long before Biontech. At the same time, this sobers hopes of a rapid change in current developments ...
If you take this further, you cannot avoid the realization that there is little hope without independent schools. It is no coincidence that the Waldorf education movement is not only under attack from the outside, but is also being infiltrated from within. Those who want to put education for freedom on the back burner began using the education system for their agenda decades ago. Apparently there are cells in individual ministries that are working towards a social credit system. The ministers have no idea, nor do the majority of parliamentarians, as it is a covert operation, formerly known as a conspiracy. I call this a hypothesis, a working assumption that needs to be tested or refuted. There is work to be done, and pupils and students are expressly called upon to do it. After all, freedom is not given as a charitable gift by those who are in charge. That is the only reason why human and civil rights were declared in 1789 - they do not fall from the sky. Much more decisive than voting and hoping for politics is the action of individuals, however small it may be, yet it is part of a general change in thinking. Nothing is as irresistible as an idea whose time has come.
Have you noticed the similarities between agriculture, defense and medicine?
The main aim is to suppress the symptoms, not to heal the imbalances in the system.
This philosophy is based on the Old Testament, basically anti-Christian.