Pandemic Misguidance

Despite what arrogant humans often think, microbes rule the world. Occasionally these mighty mites assert their power in spectacular form, such as Justinian’s Plague (541-42 A.D.), which killed around 25 million; the Black Death (1346-53), which killed around 120 million; the Spanish Flu (1918-20), which killed around 30 million (including 675,000 Americans); and the AIDS Epidemic (1981-2020) which killed around 36 million.

More recent microbial attacks have done less damage, due to recent medical advances, but there have been at least seven influenza outbreaks in the past century that have killed over a million. And awesomely-destructive bio-chemical weapons are a looming possibility in an era which loves to appease dictatorships.

So when deadly viruses, bacteria, fungi, and other tiny life forms press in upon mankind, this is the time for private and capitalist medical authorities to step up, take over, and help prevent a global pandemic. This is the time for real experts to assert themselves, assume rightful leadership, and advise us all what to do.

In American terms, this means The Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Mass General, Beth Israel, and the medical departments of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and The University of Chicago need to lead the way. So too the health publications The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine.

What is to be avoided are communist organizations like The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), The National Institutes of Health (NIH), The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and The World Health Organization (WHO), which are grossly incompetent by definition. These mindless, soulless, aggravating, destructive government bureaucracies have no right to exist. In any serious emergency, or even mild medical quandary, they will only make things worse to the extent these collectivist monoliths are allowed to exert their tyrannical authority.

Unfortunately, in today’s post-1918 welfare state world, virtually every American alive turns to these illegitimate and failed communist organizations above. They mostly ignore the real authorities – the effective and competent ones. Most Americans foolishly don’t rely upon or pay heed to the private and capitalist experts and geniuses who might actually know the truth and be able to helpfully tell everybody what to do.

And yet the truth is, whenever a serious medical crisis looms – such as today’s Wuhan Flu pandemic – this is exactly the time for the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Yale, the Lancet, and JAMA to speak up and let their knowledgeable, insightful, wise voices be heard and followed!