What a Holistic Response to COVID-19 Might Have Looked Like
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What a Holistic Response to COVID-19 Might Have Looked Like
Stephanie Brail Stephanie Brail Follow Jun 7 · 9 min read It’s now been over a year since the coronavirus pandemic started, and I think we can all agree the whole thing has been a shitshow.
As a holistic practitioner, I’ve been utterly dismayed by the ridiculous and heavy-handed response to COVID-19, not just here in the United States, but globally.
How might we have responded to it more holistically?
First, everyone needs to calm down.
Let’s talk reality here. The coronavirus will not kill the vast majority of people who get it. For those who do have “long covid,” I’ll bet there are holistic ways to treat it. This is not an extinction-level event. So please, let’s stop acting like it is.
Before I continue, let me remind you that you risk death each time you step out of the house. Hell, you risk death just being in the house. You could fall down your stairs and splat, you’re done.
Driving is risky. Being outside in a thunderstorm is risky. Taking a walk at dusk with mosquitos is risky. Drinking too much alcohol is risky. Swimming in a lake with amoeba that can eat your brain is risky.
Each time you take a bite of food, you could accidentally suck it down the wrong windpipe and shuffle off this mortal coil.
I think we have gotten so out of touch with nature that we really think we are going to live forever and death is something to be avoided at all costs.
We’re all going to die, folks. It’s just a matter of when and how painfully.
Keep this in mind, because to me it’s the threat of death that is making everyone coronavirus crazy. This brings me to my next point:
Long-term lockdowns are the worst approach, ever.
I wasn’t against a two-week lockdown to “flatten the curve.” Two weeks turned into four weeks that turned into a year. It’s at that point I started to agree that the lockdowns were probably more about control than helping people.
A year-long lockdown? Sorry, no, that’s ridiculous. So let’s destroy the majority of small businesses, increase the rates of depression and anxiety and thus suicide, and encourage more poor health because people aren’t socializing and getting enough exercise.
What a terrible policy. Can we do a Freakonomics analysis here? Because I would bet money that in the long-term the lives “saved” due to lockdowns will be canceled out by the lives lost in the long run.
Underneath this idea of extended lockdowns is a Western assumption that the only way out of lockdowns is to mass vaccinate. That we must stop any sort of natural spread before the vaccine can come and basically make the pathogen disappear through “herd immunity.”
Please note, I am not anti-vaccine, but I am most definitely against forced vaccinations. And I think vaccines should be used sparingly, not for every cold that comes around. I think they need to be tested rigorously and not pushed on everyone in a panic situation like a sudden pandemic — unless it truly is an extinction-level event.
But COVID-19 is not even halfway extinction-level. It’s so survivable for most that I know of not one, but two women over 90 (one my aunt, another my friend’s mom) who had it and survived it.
Early on, some bogus information came out that COVID-19 antibodies didn’t last, which fueled this fear that vaccines were the only way out.
I knew in my gut that this “data” on temporary COVID-19 antibodies was a load of bullshit. Sure enough, long after extended lockdown policies were instituted that downplayed natural immunity, we were finally given the good news that COVID-19 antibodies do, in fact, last.
Despite this, you’ll see people spreading misinformation on Twitter that the only way to herd immunity is through vaccination.
Nope. Not true. The way to herd immunity is either for enough people to develop natural antibodies and/or get a vaccination.
So now that we know that natural antibodies are lasting, why are people who already got COVID-19 being told they need to get a vaccine? The worst was hearing that a 30something I know was actually considering the vaccine after COVID-19 due to brain fog! That somehow the vaccine would cure this! (Pro tip: The vaccine can also cause brain fog.)
Let’s just back up here and look at the bigger picture.
I don’t want people to die.
But we all die. That’s a fact.
And we need to look at the long-term effects of these policies.
Do we really want to set up a situation where, every time a mildly deadly virus comes out, we stop the planet and try to sterilize it?
Do we want to stop kids from getting a disease that they will most likely survive?
Because what are the long-term consequences of sidestepping natural immunity in favor of gene therapy vaccines? For humanity?
I’m not talking a year from now. I’m talking 100 years from now.
People need to stop panicking and look at the long term.
Sterilizing the planet is not the answer and if we continue down this path, we are likely to breed a human race that has a weakened, dysfunctional immune system.
Think think think. This isn’t going to end well.
This brings me to my next point:
Rushed vaccines are not safe vaccines.
First, if you think kids should be given a vaccine that can give them myocarditis, or heart inflammation, even though they’d survive COVID-19 — under the idea that this is “saving” adults who have already had their vaccines — you’re being damn selfish. I’m sorry.
We should always sacrifice adults for kids, not the other way around!
There is no damn good reason to vaccinate children with an experimental vaccine that we now know may put their heart at risk.
Once again, I’m not anti-vaccine. But I’m also not so pro-vaccine that I just trust any shot they rush to produce. And to me, this entire approach of trying to sterilize the world until mass vaccination happens is problematic on so many levels.
It’s actually really weird to me that so many liberals in America are trusting of a vaccine that President Donald J. Trump helped rush to market because he was up for reelection.
These vaccines were rushed. They were rushed for political reasons. They were only approved for emergency use.
Portion of a testimony from a vaccine victim who had this post pulled from Facebook within 30 minutes as “covid misinformation.” I’ve outlined in a video — which I had to put on Rumble due to YouTube censorship — how the death rates for the COVID-19 vaccines are ridiculously high compared to all other vaccines according to the CDC’s own database.
This data is being ignored and censored.
Don’t be stupid. There are financial interests involved here as well as political.
If you want to get a COVID-19 vaccine, and you’ve honestly taken a look at the risks with an open mind and decided it was worth the risk, that’s one thing. But if you somehow think these vaccines can’t have serious side effects, and you’re laughing at anyone with concerns, I’d like to ask you this:
Why you trust so much in pharmaceutical companies to never make a mistake? Or politicians? Politicians, who at this point, have dug in to the COVID-19 hysteria and are using vaccine promotion as a way to make themselves look good?
Do you think they really give a damn about your health? I don’t think they do. For example, they have known for a while that vitamin D deficiency is correlated with COVID-19 severity.
Why isn’t free vitamin D being handed out?
Despite the fact that vitamin D deficiency is an epidemic in the United States (over 40% of people), you’ll see no push from our government to encourage vitamin D supplementation.
We know low vitamin D can reduce the efficacy of the immune system. It’s also correlated with chronic illnesses such as fibromyalgia.
Blacks and people with darker skin have more vitamin D deficiency because darker skin doesn’t generate as much in the sun.
Yet, the news is now touting this ridiculous study in PLOS Medicine claiming that vitamin D may not protect against COVID-19 — but did you look at the study carefully?
They only studied people of European ancestry. Right there we have a problem — they only studied white people. Seriously?
They also didn’t study “truly vitamin D deficient patients.”
In other words, the study didn’t look at people with a severe vitamin D deficiency and it was exclusively white people. In other words, it’s only useful in telling us that loading up on extra vitamin D won’t cure COVID-19 for white people who aren’t vitamin D deficient.
I’ll agree, vitamin D is not a cure all…but…
We can reduce the risk of COVID-19 holistically.
The fact is, the people who are at most risk of dying from COVID-19 are the weakened elderly who already had underlying conditions, diabetics, and the severely obese. We do know that blacks may be more prone to dying of COVID-19; it’s my belief this is precisely due to vitamin D deficiency, which apparently no-one thinks is worth studying in blacks.
Regular exercise can also protect against severe covid.
I know this might sound crazy, but how about we focus on getting people healthier overall?
So let’s review our options, now shall we?
OPTION A: The modern Western approach to COVID-19
Lock everyone down and scare the living daylights out of everyone. Wear down their immune systems through isolation and reduced outdoor activity.
Rely solely on rushed, experimental vaccines to bring things back to normal.
Ruthlessly dismiss and censor anyone who brings up adverse reactions to the vaccines, and ignore the adverse reaction data that’s in your own governmental database.
Don’t bother to actually interview, autopsy, or investigate the large numbers of adverse reactions. Instead, share a Big Pharma talking point that they are all a “coincidence” and would happen anyway…without actually showing any historical numerical data adjusted for age to prove this hypothesis (and remember, this analysis of “freak accidental deaths” should also be adjusted for the people who already died of covid and may have accounted for some of those “natural” sudden deaths had they lived).
Completely ignore any possible dietary and holistic preventatives. Don’t tell people to exercise. Don’t check at-risk populations for vitamin D deficiency.
Institute “vaccine passports” that further shame, isolate, and demonize anyone who has concerns about the experimental vaccines with the extremely high rates of adverse events you are ignoring.
In the long run, completely negate natural immunity that has been developed over a millennia of evolution, give Mother Nature the big finger, and possibly set future generations up with immune system problems ranging from autoimmune to immunocompromised systems…because the human immune system needs stress in order to adapt and improve. If you remove stress (i.e. pathogens) from the human immune system, it won’t learn. It will weaken.
OPTION B: A more holistic approach to COVID-19
Lockdown temporarily only to flatten the curve. Afterwards, isolate only the people at high risk.
Let everyone else who is not at high risk contract the 99.9% survivable disease naturally (i.e., healthy people under 50 — check out this COVID-19 survival rate calculator). Find treatments that work, both holistic and Western, and use them. Don’t censor doctors from sharing what has worked on their patients.
Reach herd immunity naturally. (BTW, I’ll wager that natural immunity should also protect against variants as much as the vaccines…they are trying to promote fear on this point with worry porn that natural immunity may not protect against future variants…while ironically stating that you may need vaccine boosters in the future. Let’s assume for now the natural immunity is still the best immunity. Either way, relying on early natural immunity provides time for the development of safer vaccines as opposed to rushed vaccines.)
Meanwhile, continue to research Western and holistic treatments for the disease.
Do studies on common vitamin deficiencies and immunity. Offer free lab testing and supplementation to find and treat people with vitamin D deficiency, with special focus on black communities. Give away free vitamin D supplements.
Ban censorship so we can have innovation and honest discussions about possible treatments.
Prioritize the development of vaccines, but only release a new vaccine after enough study has been done to ensure it is safe. Methodically and honestly review the vaccine reaction data. Remove liability protection from pharmaceutical companies so they have an incentive to get things right the first time.
Work to improve the health of everyone, but especially the vulnerable, through holistic diet and lifestyle changes, so they can reduce their risk of death by covid.
OPTION A in my mind is the road to insanity, to a medical dictatorship that doesn’t take into account a holistic view of what makes people sick and what makes them well. OPTION B is what I’d like to see. But I’m not holding my breath.
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