Comments on: Cough and fever? — stay at home http://shuswapnews.com/2009/11/10/cough-and-fever-stay-at-home/ Salmon Arm Newspaper | Current Events & Local Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:54:45 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: sherpa http://shuswapnews.com/2009/11/10/cough-and-fever-stay-at-home/comment-page-1/#comment-53 sherpa Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:02:06 +0000 http://shuswapnews.com/?p=1664#comment-53 This appears to be a government press release, which may not reflect the paper's own take on it all. I actually think the story is sort of funny (maybe that's why they published it?) ... Everyone has hyped up this swine flu thing so much and now the BC government is complaining that people are taking it too seriously and overtaxing their emergency rooms. So they are now saying it is mild, etc. and to stay at home unless you get really sick (which they say you likely won't). So reality finally comes back home to roost, lol. The solution would be for the BC government to ask the mainstream news to please turn down the volume a bit :) This appears to be a government press release, which may not reflect the paper’s own take on it all.

I actually think the story is sort of funny (maybe that’s why they published it?) … Everyone has hyped up this swine flu thing so much and now the BC government is complaining that people are taking it too seriously and overtaxing their emergency rooms. So they are now saying it is mild, etc. and to stay at home unless you get really sick (which they say you likely won’t). So reality finally comes back home to roost, lol.

The solution would be for the BC government to ask the mainstream news to please turn down the volume a bit :)

]]> By: Judy Cross http://shuswapnews.com/2009/11/10/cough-and-fever-stay-at-home/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Judy Cross Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:24:52 +0000 http://shuswapnews.com/?p=1664#comment-52 I agree that supporting the body's ability to heal itself is much better than the drug approach, even without involvement of war criminal Rumsfeld. We've known about Vit. C's ability to both kill viruses and heal the damage for over 60 years. New understanding of how Vit D also helps protect against disease has been showing up during the last year in health articles. My favorite sources for the non-drug approach are <a type="external" href="http://www.mercola.com" rel="nofollow">mercola.com</a> and <a type="external" href="http://www.naturalnews.com" rel="nofollow">naturalnews.com</a>. I agree that supporting the body’s ability to heal itself is much better than the drug approach, even without involvement of war criminal Rumsfeld.

We’ve known about Vit. C’s ability to both kill viruses and heal the damage for over 60 years. New understanding of how Vit D also helps protect against disease has been showing up during the last year in health articles.

My favorite sources for the non-drug approach are mercola.com and naturalnews.com.

]]> By: Mia Nony http://shuswapnews.com/2009/11/10/cough-and-fever-stay-at-home/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Mia Nony Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:49:22 +0000 http://shuswapnews.com/?p=1664#comment-51 I hold out hope that your influential paper may reconsider and revise the "official" Tamiflu advice you published above. Similarly to aspirin, which in all its myriad over-the-counter forms is not recommended, precisely because it eliminates fever, which is nature's design for health restoration, Tamiflu can prove deadly. People have forgotten that fever, well managed rather than removed, is a life saver mechanism. Monitor it, cool cloths over 103, but allow it to do its work, please. Certainly microbe, fungus, bacteria, and viruses are provably killed off by FEVER. Donald Rumsfeld, former Minister of Defence owned and oversaw the company that developed Tamiflu, which in turn has earned him a 700% profit over and over again. Tamiflu is an even more dangerous way than aspirin to improperly treat flu and to increase flu's chances of turning very serious indeed. Tamiflu is a protease inhibitor. Not only is it known to cause horrific destruction of one's entire body skin, but, more to the point, Tamiflu sends the flu virus into hiding to replicate at top speed in the absence of the necessary anti viral fever, specifically in the absence of what should be a managed, controlled fever, which, it seems we have long ago forgotten, is the body's very best defence naturally designed to kill off viruses. I hold out hope that your influential paper may reconsider and revise the “official” Tamiflu advice you published above. Similarly to aspirin, which in all its myriad over-the-counter forms is not recommended, precisely because it eliminates fever, which is nature’s design for health restoration, Tamiflu can prove deadly. People have forgotten that fever, well managed rather than removed, is a life saver mechanism. Monitor it, cool cloths over 103, but allow it to do its work, please. Certainly microbe, fungus, bacteria, and viruses are provably killed off by FEVER. Donald Rumsfeld, former Minister of Defence owned and oversaw the company that developed Tamiflu, which in turn has earned him a 700% profit over and over again. Tamiflu is an even more dangerous way than aspirin to improperly treat flu and to increase flu’s chances of turning very serious indeed. Tamiflu is a protease inhibitor. Not only is it known to cause horrific destruction of one’s entire body skin, but, more to the point, Tamiflu sends the flu virus into hiding to replicate at top speed in the absence of the necessary anti viral fever, specifically in the absence of what should be a managed, controlled fever, which, it seems we have long ago forgotten, is the body’s very best defence naturally designed to kill off viruses.

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