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Hulu, Netflix, and Friends do not traffic in real controversy. You will get your Vaxxsick show when it becomes mainstream acceptable to attack Pfizer et. al for the vaccines.

It is mainstream-acceptable to care about the "opioid epidemic" and hold its progenitors responsible. It is still the province of racist homophobic Islamophobes to criticize vaccines.

Let the SADS travesty play out for a few more months, let a few lawsuits happen. When there's another rush to change jerseys in popular culture, you'll see this story told with the same breathless drama as the Purdue scumbags.

Mainstream TV shows and movies get made when arguments have basically already been settled in popular culture. Not before.

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They always show us. Predictive programming. Keaton did a good job in Dopesick, though.

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Incredible comment. So true. It's no longer even mind-boggling to me that people just don't make the connection. So many are just so numb by the unrelenting news, pills, and cares of day-to-day life. Pop culture flows to the widest outlet, not the back tributaries. I guess that's why it's called "popular" culture.

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Sep 8, 2022·edited Sep 8, 2022Liked by BHerr

Funny thing. Six years ago I had a little household accident and ended up with five fractured bones in my foot, a sprained ankle and a split-open forehead. Spent the night in the emergency bay in the hospital, was given one of those dinosaur boots, had my forehead stitched up and was sent home with a prescription for Tramadol which I was strongly urged to fill, and did. Tramadol is regarded as the least-dangerous maybe-not-quite-real-opioid that one can take for pain.

I didn't take it at first, but by the second day I was in very serious pain, so I took it only at night so I could sleep.

But I don't like drugs; further, opioids may work on pain but do nothing for inflammation, and the dinosaur boot, throwing off my gait, was leading to inflammation, pain and swelling of the knee on the other leg. (First week I was told not to put weight on the fractured foot so used a walker and this was quite rough on the other leg leading to the inflammation and swelling.)

So I started taking, instead, the highest one-time dose of regular aspirin (325mg x 3) every six hours as label allows, and that was the magic trick.

I also sometimes get migraines and nothing, nothing, not even that aspirin regimen helped.

Until I discovered that extra-strength back-and-body aspirin 500mg x 2 did the trick perfectly. Note that's only a 25mg increase over the regular aspirin for the maximum one-time dose.

I'll bet pain-management doctors don't even think of experimenting with good old aspirin, because you know it might cause stomach bleeding, or something.

You gotta use common sense of your own because few professionals you encounter will have any. And it's not in the healthcare industry's interest to talk about the cheap reliable stuff.

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My family doctor is a long-time family friend, but I only go to him now...well, I don't. Whenever I do have to again, I'm going to have to think long and hard. It's so unfortunate.

And I'm sorry about that injury, but it sounds like you took a much better path forward than most people. I was using these pills for awhile, recreationally, and man, they really are insanely powerful and addictive.

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My dad was an alcoholic, and I had a year of living dangerously (extremely good friend was a low-level drug dealer) and then, you know, I got smarter. Fortunately no method of getting high ever gave me any sort of exhilaration so it was pretty easy to put that world behind me (and my dealer friend was in fact a very good friend and kept me away from harder stuff).

So I'm always mindful of what can happen if you don't know yourself and keep yourself in line, and I spoke very frankly to my kid when kid was an adolescent, about my briefly wastrel youth and how easy it is to make dangerous choices, and thank God kid's crowd was always as sensible as kid turned out too.

Doctors refuse to believe patients who may use alternative remedies, have personal experience that they work, and decline them great pharmaceuticals.

FYI two excellent home references are The Green Pharmacy (James Duke) and Your Healthy Child (Alice Duncan). Good advice on when seeing or consulting a regular physician is prudent and when you should use your best judgment and alternative remedies.

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I'm so glad to hear that you were spared that life that you passed that down to your kid. That's good parenting and good humaning right there, especially coming from a parent that abused something. Those things can very easily become generational.

Now more than ever, it's evident that many "doctors" are simply glorified drug dealers and automatons in many ways. McDoctors. That said, I'm VERY grateful for good doctors and other medical professionals, and I'm still so very grateful for science and medicine, because if I lived in another time, I'd be dead at least three times. Two of my internal organs have ruptured, and my vein system is a work of art, far different than other people. It's miraculous I'm still alive, and I credit the medical minds that have healed and helped me.

Yet the McDonaldizing of the medical institution has turned people into an assembly line. "Take this pill, wash, rinse, repeat." And culture has turned a vast majority of people into half-zombies. The food we eat, the way we sleep, the mental and spiritual approach to health, it's just so toxic. Sick care.

I'm jotting down the books you referenced, thank you.

Also would recommend a book called The Crazy Makers by Carole Simontacchi. Really fascinating book on how everything like vitamins, minerals, protein, etc. all really work in our bodies in this beautiful symphony, and what the food we eat and how we eat affects us. I think this is a must-read.

https://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Makers-Industry-Destroying-Children/dp/1585426261

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I appreciate that reference.

And I wish you good health and may you always have the service of wise providers.

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Thanks! It's amazing what good mental health, personal development, taking vitamins and supplements, staying active, and drinking a bunch of water do.

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I watched this last winter, and you're completely correct that it's the same people doing the same shit. "You're not REALLY addicted, you just need to double the dosage!"

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Think about how long it took for the true reality of this to actually manifest into action. Action which eventually bankrupted Purdue. And look at the wake of devastation that continues to this day. Think about how the doctors became robots, mindlessly prescribing and profiting. Think about how the strategy took advantage of "simple folk" who trusted their doctors. It's mind-boggling, but entirely predictable.

And yet...Hollywood, where are you?

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That's exactly what I thought while I was watching. "This is a glimpse into 2035."

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Sep 9, 2022Liked by BHerr

I said the same thing. We will be seeing a movie about the vaxx 20 years from now. So pathetic that anyone would fall for Big Pharma lies.

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I'm going to agree and also disagree. I think there WILL be some kind of propaganda about this created, but it won't be in a way that vilifies it. Our societies will be far too gone. Individual medical freedom, personal freedoms will be a thing of the past. The state will be fully in charge of every aspect of life, pumping mandated drugs, procedures, and technology into the minds and bodies of every human on earth. These will be the glory days for them, the point where they broke the will of the masses and allowed the floodgates to be opened to their bio-tech wet dreams.

That's UNLESS we stop it now, dead in its tracks. I'm an optimist, but I'm also a realist. I'm pretty good at reading the signs. And all signs point to this as our reality unless the masses get their heads out of their asses, realize what time it truly is, and force this darkness back into oblivion. I just don't see that happening though right now, and if it's not now, when?

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Sep 8, 2022Liked by BHerr

Glad to see you check this one out! Great write up, and you're absolutely correct.

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Yessir, thanks for the recommendation!

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I admire you for being able to watch that! Lol. I can't even look at any shows that have a "virus" or pharma theme anymore. The Last Ship, 12 Monkeys, Strain, and a HUGE list of these shows that have been pumped out to the public over the last decade shocks the heck outta me. I knew they were "conditioning shows" when they came out and would once in awhile check them out. But post 15 days to flatten the curve...nope. Never again. I see a mask, a shot, "virus" fear porn, pharma lauding or anything like it in a show, I instantly remove from watchlist, dislike and guard my brain from the absolute madness surrounding all of it. It keeps me from throwing things at my TV. 😅.

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Just wait until you get to 'individualized dosing'. It's almost as good as 'breakthrough infection' and makes you ponder how man has survived on Earth for this long. Doctors all need their heads checked.

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