Hear hear! When Andrew and I found those same figures (we were trying to convince certain people that I wasn't going to kill my family by canning), we ended up on a research rabbit hole for every disease we had been lectured about. The same super low morbidity and mortality rates apply to polio, tetanus, and all the "SUPER SCARY" things that we are told to fear/get vaccinated against.
Of course, we're not idiots. We're both college-educated adults (a statement that holds less and less water, nowadays) who have backgrounds in research, education, and medicine (in Andrew's case), so we aren't waving healing crystals and hoping for the best when it comes to illness. But I also think that the human body is REALLY well designed, and runs much more robustly when it is fed, nourished, and healed by what the DESIGNER made.
You are controlled by what you fear. As for me and my house, we fear only One, and His good design is far better than the synthetic crap that people use to fabricate safety and security. The powers that be control people's perceptions of themselves, their abilities to heal, and even their abilities to parent through the most insidious fear tactics. As a new, first-time mother two years ago, I had to combat so much fear-hype that it was RIDICULOUS. But fear makes money. And if I type too much longer, I'll start getting really, really heated, haha!
I LOVE your comment!
So glad to hear such like-minded thoughts.
(See my rant commment below too.)
I wrote an article here a bit ago about how FEAR SELLS the pharmaceutical products called vaccines.
https://steemit.com/vaccines/@canadian-coconut/1-successful-sales-method-is-fear-for-pharmaceutical-companies
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I am now following you.
Excellent piece @canadian-coconut!
Which reminded me as I was reading it, when Patrick went to have a CDL physical a few years ago, the doctor freaked out because he found out he had been off the medication for a couple of years. Even though Patrick told him he felt great, the doctor demanded a blood work up and told him "You can't just stop taking your thyroid medicine! You could die!" HAHAHAHA Meanwhile, the nurse who checked his blood pressure and all that had just asked my husband "WHo are you, Superman?" Because it all looked great. By the way, after the blood work, never heard another peep from the doctor, not even to tell us it looked great. Figures
Great comment! We are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Awesome comment!
O yes, and on the tetanus, no shot can prevent you from getting it, it is proper wound care that prevents it.
I did a bit of research on that when my husband cut his head at work one day and ended up refusing their tetanus shot that they thought was so great because it also had the whooping cough vaccine.
A few months after that, my oldest son, who was about 22 and hunting deer at the time, accidentally ran a dirty knife, covered in deer blood through his hand (long story), it was pretty bad. When the doctor suggested a tetanus shot after doing an excellent job washing out the wound as he should have (I know because I watched the whole thing), Ryan refused it because he had been listening to my preaching long enough! haha! Well, he healed up amazingly well without that stupid shot and no need for antibiotics.
There is actually a tetanus immunoglobulin shot that the hospital should give you if they truly suspect tetanus.
If they don't offer you that (it is VERY rare for them to offer it) than they don't truly believe that you are at risk of tetanus. Yet when people have asked for the immunoglobulin, very often the hospitals will say that they don't even have any on hand. The vaccine can't possibly work after-the-fact of being exposed.
https://steemit.com/vaccines/@canadian-coconut/truth-about-tetanus-infection-and-the-vaccine
Wow, I did not know that about the immunoglobulin, not surprising they rarely have it on hand.