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If you’re looking for an airport gate headed to America, just look for racially mixed groups of fat people. America is one of the fattest nations in the world. Nearly half of all Americans are obese, that is, 40 pounds overweight. One culprit is that American food contains a lot of fattening ingredients. In Europe, they combat them to ensure the people don’t become oversized too. For instance, the EU
- Bans junk food advertisements during children’s cartoons.
- Caps the weight of sugar in children’s cereals.
- Mandates warning labels about addictive/harmful flavor enhancers such as MSG.
- Bans TBHQ, a preservative which is linked to a slowed metabolism.
- Reduces the number of emulsifiers, substances which keep food ingredients separate but once digested strip protective mucus from the intestines.
- Forces US corporations to use healthier ingredients than they use in the US.
The EU affords these protections to everyone, but Americans must buy expensive organic food to avoid these ingredients.
One reason regular American food is so bad is that the US’s Food and Drug Administration or FDA has loose restrictions on food. Companies sometimes even try to get drug ingredients classified as a food additive because the process is much easier. Perhaps if the Sackler family had sold OxyContin as a flavor of ice cream, they would never have got in trouble.
We can’t really blame the Jews for America’s terrible food. Sure, they’re disproportionately behind sugary caffeinated beverages, as Howard Schultz started Starbucks and Rodney Sacks started Monster energy drink, but while they’re something like six times more likely to be billionaires in food and beverages, they’re fifteen times more likely to be billionaires in other fields such as finance, tech, and entertainment. They prefer to spread toxicity morally and financially rather than nutritionally.
Conservative Inc. believes we should be free to eat toxic food and reap the oversized consequences. For example, former VP candidate Sarah Palin flaunted her Big Gulp soda in a speech in 2013 in proud defiance of Michael Bloomberg wanting to ban the beverage. Similarly, Dinesh D’Souza boasted that America was so rich the poor people were fat.
During America’s colonial days, most people were poor and thin, and it was a status symbol have enough food to get fat, but now it’s the reverse. The food is fattening, addictive, and plentiful, and it’s a status symbol to not succumb to its effects. It takes time to work out and effort to resist temptation while dieting. If an American doesn’t start consciously dieting in their 30s, they will get overweight and possibly even obese. Only with time and most importantly money can most Americans avoid becoming fat.
The same spirit making it a luxury to avoid fattening food in America is making it a luxury to send your kid to a normal school. If we were to go back in time to the 1950s, Catholic school on the East Coast was either free or cheap because they had nuns do most of the teaching and paid them very little to do it, but as that religion failed to attract new celibates, the schools had to hire teachers with families which required higher salaries than chaste religious who’d taken vows of poverty. Moreover, rich Catholics no longer donated as much to schools despite having more money. Hence, in many spots Catholic tuition costs as much as elite prep schools, yet some middle-class people still send their kids to them. In many cases it’s because they’re devoutly religious and want that sort of education for their kids, but for some, it’s a way to get their kids into a safer environment than what exists in the public schools around them. These schools are often filled with fast-developing blacks and Hispanics whose testosterone levels in their teens are already as high as a white man’s in his mid-20s.
Instead of acting collectively to stop the expansion of blacks and Hispanics throughout America, whites passive aggressively cope with exorbitant private school tuition bills or move to pricier school districts with higher rents, mortgage payments, and taxes. White people can still escape diversity… but only for the right price. Banished National Review columnist Joe Sobran pointed out that “the purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.”
In the vestigially all-white areas of the Mountain West, rich and poor send their kids to the same school. Class still matters, as the rich kid with the sportscar his dad bought him has an advantage, but they don’t have the excessive cliquishness and snobbery in coastal private schools which serve as the only refuges from diversity in some areas.
The common denominator between forcing people to pay lots of money to escape brown people and feeding them fattening food is pursuing profit at the expense of the collective. They won’t switch off the flow of cheap brown labor or pernicious food ingredients because they’re profitable, but it’s a petty thing because the minute drop in GDP of a few percentage points their absence might cause is hardly worth permanent loss of homelands and nutritional iniquity. White countries would still be among the richest in the world without cheap substitutes in the food or labor market.
White Americans lack a collective warm identity. I’ll explain what I mean. Warm identity is unconditional. It invites charity and unconditional love. Cold identity, on the other hand, is purely transactional. It’s based on doing something in exchange for something else. It takes place between consenting individuals and is thought to be mutually beneficial, though one party usually wins in the long run. Warm identity doesn’t necessarily benefit both parties as individuals. One party may sacrifice themselves for the other party. In individualistic America, warm identity has been relegated to small scale interpersonal dealings, most notably, the nuclear family, and cold identity has been pushed mainly to larger scale endeavors. Without a warm identity on the collective level, the society doesn’t defend itself, and without some cold identity on the small scale, children don’t do chores and learn a sense of discipline and duty.
The question is who is to blame for this toxic system. Who won’t let white Americans seal off their communities and their nations? Who discourages them from passing laws and developing conventions in their collective interest? The answer is the American elite, which is a consortium of about 25% ultra rich Jews and their huckster gentile collaborators. Before addressing how to deal with them, here is some practical advice on how to lose those few extra pounds.
- Get more sleep.
- Chew unsalted, shelled sunflower seeds to occupy your mouth with something that yields very few calories per chomp.
- Drink zero calorie carbonated beverages such as seltzer water which bubble up in your stomach to make you feel full.
- If you live alone, make sure the only ready-to-eat food is low calorie vegetables like cucumbers and celery. This way, laziness discouraging cooking and buying food can work in your favor.
- Count calories and ensure you stay between 1,500 and 2,000.
- Use the stationary bicycle to burn 200-300 calories a day. It’s low-impact on the joints, so you can do it virtually every day.
- Don’t maintain so strong a caloric deficit such that you end up sick. If you die, you can’t lose weight as fast as if you’re alive, and nobody will see your corpse decomposing in the ground anyway as it thins out.
- Consider moving to Europe.
White flight to Europe has already started. They’re looking for the gates at the US airport where medium-body-weight Europeans wait for their flights back home. I predict that within the next decade, more white Americans will start to move to Europe than vice versa. In a decade or two, the US will probably become a typical debt-impoverished Latin American nation. According to its balance of DNA and of national debt, it already is. The crystal ball shows a browner version of Argentina at best and a more negroid version of Venezuela at worst.
I could be wrong about the direction of America, but I’m skeptical that things will change under its current elite. Optimism only takes one so far. Victory is what matters in the end, and as long as the current elites have power, hope isn’t enough.
Victory looks impossible electorally. Because the congressional districts are gerrymandered, once the elites’ candidate is in office, it’s virtually impossible to get them out as TV-controlled Boomers and Gen Xers mindlessly vote for incumbents in every primary.
One might argue that we could just address our concerns directly to elites, ie, billionaires and centimillionaires who control the politicians, but the Jewish ones won’t listen, and they constitute a quarter of them. Most of the rest got rich alongside them in the past eight decades and probably fear them more than we do. Nevertheless, at least there’s some hope to be found in petitioning white gentile elites, especially Old Money dating back to before Jews came to dominate elite wealth to the extent they do now. Specifically, to the 1950s and earlier. Moreover, some individuals who’ve gotten rich in the past two decades of waning Jewish elite influence might be useful. Regardless, it’s no use complaining to Jewish elites like Mark Cuban on X.com. Telling them to cease tyrannizing whites with more immigration is like telling a lion to be a vegetarian. Instead, we need rich white gentiles to mount a campaign to reverse American decline. Their funding is necessary for victory.
We shouldn’t brag about poor Americans being fat like Dinesh D’Souza does, even if just to make a point about there being an abundance of food. We also shouldn’t extol drinking Big Gulp sugary drinks like Sarah Palin did either, even if to support some vulgar notion of libertarianism. Obesity is robbing people of years of their lives, grandparents have less time with their grandchildren. More time with grandparents outranks more ounces of sugary sludge in a Big Gulp.
We should respect fat Americans who are trying to do the right thing in life. The fat truck driver who eats convenience store food as he works to support his family isn’t entirely to blame for his size. If he lived in Europe, maybe he’d just be a little overweight rather than obese. Individual choices matter everywhere, but the options are better in some places. We should try to make life easier on them by making it so they don’t need to be rich to escape bad food or for that matter diversity.
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I didnt know that a J owned company was behind Monster energy drinks. I’ve never drunk it but I see a lot of WNs online drinking it on streams or making memes about it. Do they know they’re being conned or do they just not care.
At least with Redbull, the owner was somewhat based.
I might have to rethink my favorite addiction then!
For some other fun facts, look up who started XM Radio.
I forget which poison but the son of michael (savage) weiner invented a variant of that shit. Odd how such an embarrassing surname gets morphed into tough all-amerikan one. Not even Savage-Weiner. You’ll always be a weiner you insufferable jew.
The name of that drink is called Rockstar Energy Drink. It’s kind of ironic in a way because they have teamed up with the Metal Mulisha clothing line in the past. The main logo of the Metal Mulisha clothing line is a skull wearing a German World War Two helmet. That company was criticized years ago by a rabbi for that logo. You can find T-shirts on the internet that have both the Rockstar logo and the metal Mulisha Logo.
“If you live alone, make sure the only ready-to-eat food is low calorie vegetables like cucumbers and celery. This way, laziness discouraging cooking and buying food can work in your favor.”
Good hint. I do that already, the one day of the week they have a farmers market in my urban ghetto. Celery and cucumbers have just enough taste, unlike iceberg lettuce.
Back in 2003 or 2004 the farmers market had lima beans. I would buy a heavy sack of them and gorge, splitting the seams of the pods with my fingers like you do with pistachios, to the point I would get blisters on my index finger. I was boasting about this recently, and my mother said raw lima beans are poisonous. I thought she was joking, but I looked online and there are a lot of sources that say the raw beans are poisonous. Well, either the farmer lied to me and what I was eating was not lima beans but just giant peas, or raw lima beans are not poisonous. I always thought it was funny that people, especially children, hate lima beans, but I think they are royal food, up there with Virginia peanuts.
I agree that victory may be impossible electorally; quite a lot has to be changed on very fundamental levels. If I could personally repeal the 15th and 17th Amendments, I would.
I don’t know what you mean by “Gerrymandered.” This is a process of negotiation where State Legislatures make their mark on the national government by determining the Congressional Districts. It is a scary and “occult” process only because legislature journalism is very boring and nobody follows it unless something actually bleeds. (I get concerneed if the usual suspects are not calling my State Representatives rayciss.)
Gerrymandering is like that other saw that Democrats complain about, the Electoral College ─ without which the “voting cattle,” as H.L. Mencken called them, of the top four big cities would decide Presidential Elections. And without the Electoral College, pols would not ever need to don their cowboy hats and take a hayride during campaign seasons.
By the Democrat way of thinking, if it is good for the ghettoes of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston, then it is good for America.
Incumbency is baked into the system by design to reward good behavior and thus develop senioriy ─ although what happens now is more determined by monied interest groups and campaign financing in ways that might have troubled people like Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.
But incumbency has little to do with Generational Astrology.
By the 2026 Midterms, both sides will have been trying to “Rock the Vote” for 55 years. It never seems to work.
The younger generations have just not cared much about voting since they did away with the Draft, which is the main reason why the voting age got lowered to 18.
Yeah, it is the Boomers and the X’ers who do bother to go to the polls, as it is usually a lot of work and requires some maturity to actually research candidates and especially to go vote in the Midterms. It is just not something that youngsters have ever really liked to do.
This is especially true of the Zoomers, who are coming of age ─ and this will likely be more true of the Alphas, probably also with Zogphones or something worse mainlined right into their noggins.
The idea of the older generations who vote conscientiously being the ones who are controlled by TV is laughable.
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I’ve never seen someone whom I considered to be overweight in the Counter Currents milieu. Stay fit folks.
Would add a couple things:
-just like con inc lolberts says we should be free to consume ourselves to death, commie inc marxoids says we should be free to be fat lazy lumpenproletariat, because fat is beautiful and if you disagree you are a natzee, you gotta agree with what the people want goy.
-the “gentile hucksters” in mention have tended to be secular/protestant “work ethic” liebers – granted, this mindset has infected most self-described catholics and others of our kind.
-trying low carb diets also helps. Also iirc in europe they have healthier fats, such as natural cheeses.
There is an apocryphal story in the UK. A journalist went to Shakespeare’s Globe with a friend, who asked him how different the original would have been. He said that in Will’s time the rich people watching from the gallery would have been fat, and the poor watching from the pit would have been thin.
I don’t quite see how moving from a dying USA to an even-more-quickly dying Europe is an answer.
If America ever becomes a lost cause, and if Europe ever changes their immigration policies to favor Whites, then it might make some sense to ditch this place and make our stand there. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that …
It is implied that Europe bans many of the food additives that one will find in the jumbo-size containers of ultra-processed foods you bring home from Costco. But a lot of people in America do not eat those things anyway.
Whereas you’ll probably find that the ultra-obese critters, the ones our author claims to see at the airport, do much of their shopping in such big-box places, where they’re absolute suckers for the 2-for-1 specials on crates of reconstituted frog butter. Who can pass up that deal…and the cart’s only half-full!
Interesting article! I drink “cold-brewed” green tea, and lift weights five times a week! 🙃
There is a clear correlation between the increase in food additives (and particularly the replacement of refined sugar by High Fructose Corn Syrup and other corn sweeteners), and obesity in the past 40 years. It’s curious to remember that the HFCS revolution came about because farmers were encouraged to grow lots more corn to make ethanol, so we could adulterate our gasoline; and that did not work out very well, because a full tank with 10% ethanol might be slightly cheaper but didn’t take you as far. So: what to do with the extra corn? Ah! Make a market for cheap corn sweeteners!
And too fat so the McCallister family couldn’t run through the airport. An all-White family doing that today would be treated like Al-Qaeda.
The article mentioned something about New York Mayor (((Michael Bloomberg))) when he was in office passing laws banning your ability to order a second Coke at a hipster restaurant.
I would like to point out the obvious, that a glass of Coke actually has fewer calories than an equally-sized glass of orange juice. This is nanny state politics at its worst.
Perhaps a better approach would be a reasonable excise tax on Coke to make it slightly more expensive, and to encourage restaurants to provide ample cold spring water, plus a more generous serving of orange juice than the shot glass of Florida battery acid that you usually get with your New York breakfast.
Margot, your comment about high-fructose corn syrup jogged a distant memory for me which might be amusing about Classic Coke.
First of all, I would like to say that polling data is always problematical and that it is very easy to blur the lines between scientific polling and junk science.
My Dad has an advanced degree in Mathematics & Statistics and would be better than me to comment on this topic, but suffice it to say that the expert polls predicted that Hillary Clinton would landslide the Presidency in 2016.
Political interests have been jiggering polling data for a long time, and this is no less true of polling for marketing purposes.
In fact, the term “Baby Boomer” itself came out of the idea that postwar birthrates had increased remarkably since the Depression ─ although not to early 20th century levels. Therefore this “Baby Boom” could be a great subject for targetted marketing. It was like the “one billion new Chinese consumers” line of its time.
The Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964) were a demographic that could be “flawlessly” marketed to, and things are claimed about marketing to them that many people for some reason believed were true then, and many things still believed true today.
In politics, the notion was spread that the Boomers “got everything that they wanted” (thus, they are buying Brand X smokes) and that now, as they begin to drool in front of Fox News, with their ballots in hand, they do their best to screw the Snowflakes out of their dues somehow.
We are told that we live in a Democracy, so if there is something not right with the Republic, then the Boomers did it.
So here’s the funny story. Back in the early 1980s, the “marketing data” was showing that Pepsi was outdoing Coke in blind taste tests. The Horror!
Nevermind that Coke edged Pepsi in market share by several percentage points. More people drank Coke than Pepsi, by far.
But Pepsi TV advertising had a gimmick where if you give people small samples blindly of Coke and Pepsi, and ask them which one was better, they will usually say it is the Pepsi sample.
That was because Pepsi is sweeter, and even Coke drinkers think so with a test like this ─ not that they are going to start buying Pepsi, simply because most people prefer to drink Coke instead.
Coke was really bothered by the Pepsi Challenge, however, and started to second-guess the actual sales numbers. So in early 1985, they introduced New Coke which was sweeter, like Pepsi. The new product was also made with high-fructose corn syrup, which was cheaper than the old Coke that was then made with real sucrose or table sugar.
So after only a few months of suffering with nothing but New Coke, Coca-Cola reluctantly brought back what they called Classic Coke.
But it wasn’t the same product as the old Coke; the new Classic Coke was now made with HFCS, and it was not much better than the imbroglio of New Coke. The marketing bean counters did not think that we would notice!
New Coke was not horrible ─ and it was around for almost two decades before they killed it for good ─ but it never really found itself. Coca-Cola had in fact shot themselves in the foot by getting rid of the old Coke.
Like with Vietnam War bomb tonnage dropped on jungle trails, never let the beancounters plan your wars.
Today, if you compare Coke bottled in the USA with Coke bottled in Mexico, the latter shines. That is because South-of-the-Border they still use cane sugar in the bottled Coke recipe, whereas Coke (Classic) in the United States has not had real sugar since the New Coke abortion of 1985.
Today, as part of MAHA, President Trump wants Coke to make their product with real sucrose again. Coca-Cola seems receptive to this idea, but there may not be enough cane sugar production these days to pull this off. Well, they could easily start a market for beet sugar again ─ if there were a higher demand for sucrose ─ so I don’t see this as a real problem.
The downside of this idea is that if they did start making real Coke with real sugar again, I might start actually drinking it again, LOL. But I was never into Big Gulps anyway. I always found a 12 ounce can sufficient, with maybe another one later.
I’ve never ordered a Coke in New York City anyway, and maybe I never will. Even with Mayor Bloomberg out of office, I doubt their Orange Juice is any better.
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On an extraneous point, I was curious about this remark:
>>If we were to go back in time to the 1950s, Catholic school on the East Coast was either free or cheap because they had nuns do most of the teaching…
Was this merely an East Coast phenomenon? Not true in Santa Monica, Spokane, Pensacola, Kansas City, Royal Oak? If you’re talking about parochial schools at the K-8 level, this was true pretty much everywhere; they were almost always low- or no-tuition because, like the nuns’ convent, they were supported by parish funds. However, in my recollection lay teachers made up a third to a half of the primary school teachers in the early 60s, and their salaries cannot have been far off from those of other teachers in the area.
And then meantime there was the quite different array of Catholic schools that were independent (mostly but not only at the secondary school level), and not joined to any parish or diocese: their tuition was about the same as a Quaker or Episcopal or non-denominational school.
Hate to ruin the fun, but growing obesity among young Europeans has been a concern for quite some time. Part of it is social class, as it is in the USA, and part of it is lifestyle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHIbNOZzEyA
I don’t think that the strange, superfat, distorted body type common today is solely caused by diet. It is more likely the result of a deranged metabolism induced by many, many doses of vaccines into the bodies of babies and children. For some time now, 72 doses by the time you finished school is the practice everywhere. It is true. Read up on what is in these injections and decide for yourself if these substances should be inserted into a growing body.
So vaccines are making Americans into endomorphs?
What does that even mean?
“For school children, the number and specific types of required vaccines vary by state and grade level. Generally, children need to be vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (chickenpox). Some states also require hepatitis B and meningococcal vaccines. Specific doses and timing are dependent on the child’s age and prior vaccination history.”
You don’t want your kid getting any of these diseases, and their comparative lack of prominence is a modern miracle.
I’m old enough to predate the measles vaccine, and actually had the disease twice and the doctors could not believe it.
Just shy of my second birthday, I can still remember my Mom and Dad driving me to a country bumpkin three-story hospital to get tossed into a vat of ice water to prevent brain damage from a high fever.
I was convulsing from the fever so my Mom called my Grandmother, who was a Registered Nurse in the big city, because they did not know what to do. She said to get me under cold water in the bathroom immediately to cool me down, and to drive straight to the hospital while my grandmother called ahead.
We don’t think childhood diseases are dangerous, but this is simply because they no longer feature in our cultural memory. It was not that long ago that such diseases caused serious damage like death, deafness, and blindness.
Losing his hearing is what happened to Jim Goad’s older brother, Bucky, although I am not clear what disease he had ─ probably measles or scarlet fever.
I resented the vaccine mandate for Covid; my employer eventually made it a mandatory condition of employment after losing so much from the Covid lockdown mandates, which at least did not entail permanent layoffs in our case. In fact, I had already gotten the two Covid jabs because I am in a high-risk group and that was the most prudent thing to do.
Covid was no more lethal than influenza, which we have learned to live with, though some of us like me do get a shot for it every year, which has a good chance of working. I have not had the flu since 1985, and I was very sick indeed at that time. We would still fear the flu today if the elderly who die from it every year were actually tested.
Around 1918, influenza killed from 50-100 million people worldwide according to more recent epidemiological analysis. Previously it was thought to be about 22 million if you looked at older media. I wrote a paper on this about 25 years ago and the readers were incredulous about my figures but I had the credible sources.
Like measles, influenza is simply too contagious to be fought with by lockdowns. And the 1918 variety had a secondary bacterial pneumonia alongside it which is what made it so deadly. This was also a time of country doctors without much laboratory training if any. They learned anatomy and medicine by watching corpses get dissected in surgical “theaters.”
I don’t mind questioning vaccines, but people are not weighing the benefits with the potential costs. I think it is atrocious that measles breakouts are happening today because we are starting to lose herd immunity that required enough vaccinated people in the community to keep it from spreading.
I remember the Swine Flu panic in 1976 where there was a crash program from the Ford Administration to vaccinate everyone and potentially save millions of lives, as it was the same H1N1 strain as in 1918. The 1976 H1N1 turned into a nothing-burger, however.
I was a bit skeptical and never actually got the 1976 vaccination as it seemed to me (incorrectly) that the flu was a minor illness. And later it was learned that there was a handful of bad 1976 vaccine doses that caused very serious illness, just as happened once or twice with both the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines many years earlier.
These risks are very rare and the important thing is that many of the diseases have been effectively eradicated. I don’t remember seeing polio patients in iron lungs but my Mother does.
No, vaccines are not 100 percent safe ─ neither is an excessive dose of dihydrogen monoxide ─ but vaccines are generally far safer than the illnesses that they prevent.
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Your personal experiences are anecdotes, not data. The diseases these vaccines supposedly protect against were practically eradicated before the shots came along and took all the credit. The damage caused by the vaccines far outweighs their benefits, if there are benefits
Why don’t you suggest to Scott to read Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History (Paperback) – 10th anniversary edition by Suzanne Humphries MD (Author) & Roman Bystrianyk (Author). I’m done with talking to people who nurture the idea that acute illnesses are somehow caused by not being jabbed in the arm with a list of substances that sound like they come from a chemical supply catalog. All inserted into the blood of a growing child.
This being a controversial topic, is it not interesting that there are no public debates, ever, between equally qualified (in the medical/scientific sense) personnel. The very few debates allowed on the radio (last one I heard was 5 years ago) always have some apparatchik with a shitload of letters after his name taking on an amateur, when anti-vaccination doctors/scientists are available. Guess who the public will believe.
Thanks.
Thank you for the book recommendation, Stronza. I will add it to another recent recommendation, The Moth In The Iron Lung
@CC Reader. Thanks for reminding me of that book, which I’ve never read. I doubt it’s in any public library, so I’m going to have to buy it. I do recall reading in one of my elderly health books about Dr. Fred Klenner of North Carolina treating polio with large doses of intravenous Vitamin C. And a whole bunch of other conditions as well.
I did a quick search and found about 150 libraries worldwide that own the 2013 edition, and about 50 that own the 2023 Tenth Anniversary edition.
If you don’t want to pay Amazon for a paperback, all you need to do is go into any Public Library that you have a card for, and order it via Inter-Library Loan, which will usually be free.
Here is the link to the book’s website:
https://dissolvingillusions.com/
The ISBN and OCLC information is as follows, and your Public Library can I.L.L. it for you:
OCLC: 856519893 ; 1432093313
ISBN: 1480216895 ; 9781480216891 ; 9798986936314
Dissolving Illusions :
disease, vaccines and the forgotten history /
Suzanne Humphries; Roman Bystrianyk
2023, ©2013 10th anniversary edition.
English Book Book xlix, 679 pages : illustrations, charts, photographs ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9798986936314
OCLC: 1432093313
Here is the Contents Listing of the book:
Introduction — Terminology — The not so good ol’ days — Suffer the little children — Disease: a way of life — Smallpox and the first vaccine — Contaminated vaccines — The great demonstration — The rebel experiment — The power of the state — The case of Arthur Smith Jr. — The health revolution — The amazing decline — The “disappearance” of polio — Whooping cough — Measles — Starvation, scurvy, and Vitamin C — Lost remedies — Belief and fear.
Here is the Abstract of the book:
Starting in the mid-1800s, there was a steady drop in deaths from all infectious diseases, decreasing to relatively minor levels by the early 1900s. The history of that transformation involves famine, poverty, filth, lost cures, eugenicist doctrine, individual freedoms versus state might, protests and arrests over vaccine refusal, and much more. But the authors shows that vaccines, antibiotics, and other medical interventions are not responsible for the increase in lifespan and the decline in mortality from infectious diseases.
Btw, I am not arguing against the importance of sanitary infrastructure built in the 19th century ─ and well into the 20th century, before which cities of even modest size could become malodorous deathtraps.
And nobody is saying that vaccines cannot have bad batches, which happened with the Salk vaccine (inactivated polio virus) a few times in the 1950s ─ and potentially (though in extremely small instances) with the Sabin vaccine (which was an “attentuated” polio virus).
I remember getting the Sabin “sugar cube” vaccine in school because it was easier to mass-innoculate worldwide that way than the Salk vaccine with a needle.
I don’t remember seeing anybody in my lifetime besides very old people who have ever had Polio.
However, today Polio has just about been wiped out completely like Smallpox, so they don’t even use the Sabin vaccine anymore, just the Salk vaccine, in rare times when necessary.
I suppose it is problematical for some that both Salk and Sabin were Ashkenazi Jews, but that is not how the Jewish Question works.
I had a Jewish pediatrician in Las Vegas when I was a kid. I did not like getting shots at all, but he was beloved by his patients. Some would still call me anti-Semitic if I vouched for him because I challenge the Holocaust dogma.
Hitler loved the Jewish physician who (unsuccessfully) treated his Mother for breast cancer, but the good doctor had to emigrate from Austria before the war just the same.
Also, nobody is arguing that it is impossible to get sick from a vaccine.
I can long remember the debate aobut the vaccine preservative thimerosol, a mercury product. It is not even used in children’s vaccines anymore, and it is being phased out completely for adults. It was never proved to actually cause a problem.
Back in the day evrybody had mercury dental fillings, and fluorescent light bulbs contain mercury. We know that mercury is highly toxic, but that should not illicit reactive responses.
I prefer white dental fillings anyway because they are more aesthetic, and also not harmful as far as we know (we might say differently a hundred years from now).
All risks have to be weighed out rationally, and some experts ultimately have to be trusted.
Probability is something that is incredibly hard for the human mind to fathom, and that is why gambling works, at least for the House.
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These are not just “personal experiences” but a long lifetime of social memory, and I can lookup hard statistics from those times about many diseases, for example.
Getting a last-ditch antibiotic after contracting a systemic staph infection in the ICU probably saved my life after getting hit by a car and nearly killed while riding my bicycle home from the University. I read that Vancomycin antibiotic is highly toxic and that I was luckly not to end up with something like hearing loss ─ sicker than I have ever been in my life.
If Reinhard Heydrich’s doctors had something like Vancomycin in their toolkit when a grenade was thrown at his car by a Czech insurgent in 1942, he might have survived. The Obergruppenführer was only lightly wounded, but the unsterile horsehair insulation in the seats of his staff car that was driven into his body by the blast gave him a wicked staph infection.
I don’t see how Polio, let alone Measles, was eradicated before the vaccines ─ and the same with Smallpox, which has been eradicated for so long that nobody remembers it unless they travelled in the undeveloped world fifty years ago.
I have an ugly SP vaccination scar inside my arm, but I doubt that anyone much younger than me does likewise.
I think it might be that too many vaccinations are indeed required for school children these days, and I am willing to give RFK, Jr. some slack. In any case, all of this should be weighed against possible complications.
But the signal-to-noise ratio leaves much to be desired. If it is not critical of Trump it doesn’t seem to make the news.
We are told that vaccinations cause autism, but other than Jenny McCarthy’s say-so, there is no evidence for that ─ and it has been studied to death.
With Covid, everybody that I know who actually had it (confirmed by laboratory testing) thought of it as a mild to severe cold, and I think it was mostly a danger for the elderly.
A few peopla are complaining about “long” Covid or the residual after-effects of the virus, but I don’t know anything about that. Just because something is hard to pin down does not make it phony. My cousin got bitten by a tick in Connecticut and got Lyme disease but it is much better understood nowadays. It was a very tough situation.
I am glad that I never got Covid, and I am not expecting any vaccine complications. I am not sure if I will get another Covid booster this year, but I will definitely be getting the latest influenza shot when available.
It is odd that Kamalamala Harris in early debates when Trump was President said that the vaccine was not safe, implying the Trump made it unsafe. But as soon as the Bidenistas were in power, it suddenly was safe ─ and then the Democrats mandated lockdowns and vaccinations.
I found it truly bizarre that my employer literally would have let me go if I had not gotten a Covid jab. You would have thought that people were falling dead in the streets from the Coronavirus, but that was just not happening.
On the other hand, during the Great Recession from 2008, my employer was proud that they let 10 percent of their workforce go in order to weed out deadwood as though they had been listening to too many free-market financial gurus. These guys basically teach that if somebody has more than five years of experience on a job, they are by definition “deadwood.”
All the force-reductions meant for me is that I suddenly had a bunch of other people’s jobs to do now and less time to do it. That might be business “efficiency” according to market-hawk weasels.
Anyway, at least we had no force-reductions during Covid, and I could basically work from a computer almost anywhere without the obligatory freeway commute. It was quite instructive that the Phoenix smog went away during this time period.
Many people don’t even understand the Germ Theory of Disease, so it is understandable that they are incapable of rational analysis on such matters as medicine and public health. This does not mean that all diseases are caused by bacteria and viruses, of course. Nor is the theory the same today as it was over a hundred years ago.
At one extreme ultra-Orthodox Jews believe that the Torah is the literal Truth, so they don’t eat pork or shellfish, or anything not blessed by a Rabbi. And also, the Evangelical Christians, they believe that the New Testament is the literal Truth and that all you need theefore is clean, locally-sourced food, clean bowels, and pious asceticism.
There was a book I once read as a young man called Back to Eden by Jethro Kloss (1939). It is probably available on the Internet Archive. The book made all kinds of old-fashioned arguments, and many hard-money Conservatives were enamored about it.
Dr. Kellogg’s Corn Flakes was invented by an eponymous Seventh-Day Adventist meat-abstainer who thought that eating a high-fiber diet would cure everything.
Jethro Kloss was a therapist who worked with his co-religionist, Dr. Kellogg at the Battle Creek, Michigan sanitarium, and in the book I found some of the back-to-nature advice questionable. Dill Pickles were bad because they were cured with vinegar (rotten wine) and instead you should eat lemons if you are so inclined ─ if they are grown locally, as God intended. So unless bananas or kiwi fruits are grown locally, that is obviously what gave you the prostate cancer ─ that and having sex with your menopausal wife.
Or it was the Devil.
The Mormons don’t do alcohol or tobacco. I remember when almost everyone smoked, and to me it is pretty obvious that abstaining from booze and cigarettes is a healthier lifestyle, although many studies do suggest than sometimes wine has healthful properties.
There was intense tobacco industry influence before the 1964 Surgeon General’s warning to refute epidemiological data that clearly showed that smoking was deadly, and cigarette advertisements were eventually banned from TV altogether in 1971.
Anyone who has ever worked in a nursing home ─ for my first real job, I worked in a hospital kitchen and delivered their food trays ─ knows that smoking is deadly for long-term health.
However, the human brain is wired so that people have a hard time seeing threats or recognizing patterns that are long-term and cumulative.
If the medical authorities are not credible sources, then we are truly in trouble as a society the way that I see it. Sure, nobody disputes the virtues of clean living, but the “medicine” in something like Back to Eden is atrocious.
At some point you have to make up your own mind on things like race-mixing, vaccination, and “consuming the Chi of dead sentient things” (meat). I am not a fan of Vegans, and also have quite a few Seventh-Day Adventists on my Grandfather’s side of the family. David Koresh and Jim Jones had big followings who thought they were great Christians.
“Weird, Wild Stuff,” as Johnny Carson used to say.
Like every kid that I knew, I had Chickenpox and recovered, so I now have the viral pathogen dormant in my system. But I am unsure about getting the Shingle’s vaccine today.
Every time I go into a Walgreens they ask me about it, and I think that my insurance will cover the cost. I don’t know. I am not a fad-oriented person, but my Mother did get Shingles, and it was pretty nasty for her, so maybe I should get the Vaxx for that.
What do the Commentariat at Counter-Currents think?
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Fine article. Agree with everything; I’d only add a note on the dietary recommendations.
There’s been plenty of recent research on obesity. From observation and personal experience, I think Dr Ken D. Berry, MD, has reached the correct conclusions. Keto or carnivore, and some of his advice is surprising. He gives good advice for surviving in a declining culture.
He is especially good for people with tight budget or time constraints, which includes most of us most of the time. You don’t have to be a millionaire to get butt and healthy.
https://www.youtube.com/@KenDBerryMD/videos
You are seriously misinformed if you think the FDA and USDA are interested in protecting your health. They are just two more bloated, massive govt bureaucracies that serve interests other than yours.
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