Hong Kong doctors and nurses are being honored for treating patients struck by the outbreak of a deadly flu-like virus known as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). SARS has killed 25 people and infected more than 900 others in Hong Kong, and at the Hong Kong Film Awards the front-line medical workers were praised as heroes.
Close to one-quarter of Hong Kong's SARS cases are medical workers who became ill while treating infected patients. Many of the workers who recover from the disease go back into the SARS wards to continue treating patients, leading some to compare their selfless acts of bravery to New York City's heroes of the World Trade Center disaster.
Medical authorities in Hong Kong are preparing for 3,000 SARS patients in the event the outbreak gains momentum. Thousands of people have taken to wearing surgical masks in the hopes of preventing the disease. Meanwhile, an e-mail card, which has been signed by more than 64,000 people, is being circulated to boost the morale of the medical workers.
Worldwide, 104 people have died from SARS and more than 2,600 have been infected. No hospital workers are known to have died from the disease.
Analysts say that many people in Hong Kong have little faith in their government's leadership and are instead pulling behind the doctors and nurses who have risked their lives to treat those with the disease.
Yahoo News April 9, 2003
Despite the panic incited by the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), influenza remains a much greater health risk, killing hundreds of thousands of people around the world each year. So the intent of this comment is to avoid adding additional hype to SARS.
However, I reviewed the above story on the same day that looting in Baghdad started, and it was all but obvious that Iraq is finally liberated from Saddam's rule. I was struck with a noticeable parallel in the two most highlighted news stories to date, SARS and Gulf War 2 : both the soldiers in Iraq and the medical workers on SARS have put their own lives at risk for the benefit of others. To lay down one's life for someone else is one of the highest loves one can demonstrate.
The reason I wanted to comment on this , though , is to point out the obvious. One does not send soldiers into battle without adequate preparation. That is a basic strategy of any war. One needs to be prepared.
While America has clearly demolished the technologically inferior Iraqi army, a similar strategy in the war against SARS will fail miserably.
One can't fight SARS with technology (at least at the current state of medicine as I understand it). It will be an exercise in absolute futility because:
The only solution for treating SARS is to proactively activate your immune system. SARS, HIV, Lyme's, Herpes, and many as yet undiscovered infections... these are NOT the problem. They are only the triggers that highlight the weaknesses in our immune armor.
The traditional medical view does not understand or appreciate this concept, which is why they are blindly going into the SARS battle without protection. This reminds me of the large number of Iraqi soldiers who are charging columns of our M1 Abrams and Bradleys.
It isn't a fair fight and they aren't even considering the bigger picture before charging ahead.
Similarly, these doctors are going in unprepared, and the fact that people are dying is in no way any surprise. This is exactly what can be expected with a deadly viral infection.
To expose yourself to this virus when you are ingesting sugar, not sleeping well and under stress is unwise at the most extreme level.
The medical workers need to be prepared like the soldiers we send into battle, with appropriate supporting armor of an optimized immune system. An optimized immune system is absolutely more than capable of handling SARS or any other infectious challenge.
That is the way God designed us; this is not a design failure. God doesn't make junk. The only reason why SARS is able to kill people is because they have weakened immune systems resulting from:
I am so personally convinced of this truth that I would have no problem treating patients with SARS because I am absolutely confident this virus is no match for my immune system.
As I said last month:
The solution for SARS, and most any other infectious illness, does not involve an expensive drug or nutritional supplement but merely application of the basics that involve eating for your nutritional type, addressing unresolved emotional conflicts with tools like EFT, and staying away from toxic poisons like sugar, mercury and for most people grains.
If you apply these basics your body has no choice but to stay healthy and get better. It is my strong clinical belief and frequent observation in my clinical practice that each of us has been provided with an enormous array of biochemical mechanisms that are designed to generate health. Most of us have to regularly violate these principles for many years before we reap the fruits of our unhealthy choices.
Fortunately, the repair mechanisms work quite well for most of us and are activated once we apply these health basics.
So you don't need to live in fear of these frightening infections any more. Just apply the program.
There are many practical considerations that are difficult to describe on the Web site, but believe me, the bulk of what we do in our clinic for people is just applying the s a me information you'll find in The No-Grain Diet and helping them resolve their emotional challenges with tools like EFT.
nutritional typing has become another profoundly important tool we use for all of our patients now, and we do eventually hope to make that available to non-patients later this year. However, I respectfully ask that you don't contact my office for any information, as the staff will not know any details about this program until it is announced in the newsletter, and my office and Web site are two separate entities. Instead, consider reading "To Succeed at Any Diet, You Must Understand Your nutritional type" for an introduction to this essential concept.
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