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Cubrebocas y Otras Locuras

06 Thursday Aug 2020

Posted by Bill Watkins in Covid, Español, México, Mexico, Panic, Pánico, Poetic Blog, Salud

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Amor, Covid, Covid-19, Cubrebocas, Dios, Español, Fe, Health, Joy, Love, Mask, Masks, Medicina, Medicina Occidental, Panic, Paz, Pánico, Peace, Salud, Verdad, Western Medicine

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por Bill Watkins, visitante en México 6/8/2020

El Corona virus y la cura ofrecida por la medicina occidental son de Europa, no México.  Este pánico que infecta a mucha gente y parece todo el gobierno mexicano no viene de las montañas, ranchos y bonito campo de esta tierra—

sino de Europa.

Pánico, miedo… miedo a la gente, miedo de un virus… también no viene de un poder superior como “Dios,” o de la fe en tal poder.  El pánico de medicina occidental en que vivimos en este momento viene de un poder bajo pero poderoso, el mismo que tenta a muchos de tomar drogas, alcohol, o al usar armas letales, explosivos—aun fuegos artificiales que asustan y contaminan a la naturaleza, ofendiendo al Dios de la biblia, su Hijo el príncipe de paz.

El mismo “poder bajo” que tenta la gente a olvidar sus raíces, lenguajes indígenas—a tirar basura en la calle, a no cuidar ni honrar la tierra tan sagrada antes.  ¡La tierra!  ¡¡La primera Madre de todos seres humanos!!

Y en esta tierra tan olvidada y abusada, entra un “virus…”  Cada año hay virus.  Cada año gente vulnerable se muere de influenza.  Cada año gente se muere de enfermedad de corazón, alcoholismo, obesidad, y naturalmente de edad.  Pero… ¿qué es la muerte?  Gente con fe en Dios y una vida futura no cree en la muerte.

Cuando médicos, políticos y reporteros reportan de “muertes” relatado a Covid-19 virus, hablan mucho de si mismos… Que no creen en Dios ni en la vida eterna.  Que es totalmente su derecho, a creer lo que cree… Pero nadie tiene el derecho a empujar otra gente a creer algo que no cree, como que tener miedo de otra gente es saludable, llevando cubrebocas es sano.

Doctores no son dioses.  La historia de medicina occidental manchado con locura y mal, el concepto de quitar sangre de nuestros cuerpos como remedio todavía plagando su “filosofía.”  Hay doctores que andan malos, enfermos, adictos a drogas, alcohólicos—ellos vulnerable a todo bien y mal como tu, el lector ordinario.

Tienen doctores una teoría muy popular con políticos, que tu vas a agarrar un virus si no llevas cubrebocas.  Si no tienes miedo de otra gente, mantener “sana distancia” (una filosofía directamente al contrario del mensaje de, por ejemplo, la enseñanza de Jesús de Nazareth).  En esta época, no escucho a doctores hablando de nuestro increíble sistema inmunitario.

Y el gobierno no acepta otro concepto para la salud, aunque nunca define que exactamente es salud.  Yo repito, no he visto una sola definición de LA SALUD de ningún político ni de doctores.  Parece que doctores de medicina occidental están a cargo del gobierno ahora, aquí en México, allá en un EEUU invalido.

Por todo el mundo, parece que la medicina occidental esta a cargo de gobiernos, en hecho ser la religión mas poderosa del mundo.  Antes fue la iglesia católica, pero dónde esta el papa y ellos sobre Covid-19?  Están escondiendo como ratones, aceptando que médicos están a cargo de todo.  Médicos… que creen en quitando sangre como cura, usando drogas experimentales como dulces del cielo.

Médicos.  Con sus diplomas tan ricos obtenidos por otros humanos falibles… Médicos… ¿Falsos dioses del día?  Tal vez.  Yo no asisto a ellos, mi doctor nombrado Dios.  Yo vivo en el campo de Guanajuato, lleno con paz, salud y aire fresco a pesar de mis dias en San Miguel, agarrando cosas de la tienda, dinero de mi banco, y pánico del gobierno, que cree mas en médicos y miedo que el México verdadero debajo de concreto y pavimento.

El México que esta en sus lenguajes indígenas.  El México que anda sin armas, sin basura tirada, sin maldichos, sin alcoholismo ni médicos modernos con su lenguaje tan impresionante… y falso.  Crean temores en la gente, y lo presentan como la cura.  El juego de médicos por muchos años… Y ustedes ahora leyendo esta obra humilde de un ingles caído, descendiente de ladrones de tierra y alcohólicos de Europa:

¿Estas comprando las mentiras?

It’s Not the Virus That Kills

31 Friday Jul 2020

Posted by Bill Watkins in Alcohol, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, God, Government, Health, Poetic Blog, Political, Politics, Spirituality

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Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, Covid, Covid-19, Cure, Doctors, Eternal Life, FDR, God, Health, Joy, Love, Mexico, Panic, Peace, Political, Politics, San Miguel, San Miguel de Allende, Spanish, Spirituality, Stephen King, Truth, Volaris, Western Medicine

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-by Bill Watkins 7/31/2020

Death stats are reported by folks who believe deeply in death.  Physical death.  That’s it, we’re done, the physical is all…  But isn’t there another way to live and see life, death and health?  The spiritual way, one under-represented right now in governments world-wide?

Back when I still believed in the invalid United States of America, I wrote an article entitled “What is Health?” which included Twitter poll results from users, who shared their definitions:

1. Bill Watkins:  “Health is a Peace of Mind, Knowing I did the best I could to be the best person I was capable of becoming in all my affairs.”

2. “Duck,” Anti-Circumcision Activist:  “Health is discovering yourself and feeding your truth.”

3. Online T-shirt Salesman:  “Health means your state of being and ability to function naturally.”

4. Aaron V. from Lake Tahoe:  “Health is natural whole foods, clean water, clean air, a nature soundscape with wildlife, good social relationships, the freedom to explore and then see self-improvement or progress, and having a shelter or sanctuary where one can retreat to and be certain to have all of those things despite what else is going on in the world.”

5 Sonya on Twitter:  “I believe saying ‘I am healthy’ is relative to your own circumstances. For me, I feel health is a state of physical wellness as well as mental wellness. I believe it’s hard to say I am healthy if either one is compromised to a degree where we are not enjoying living our lives. If we are feeling the best we can for our age and capacity – in that everything is functioning as well as can be expected – and we are getting through each and every day with quality of life in tact, even if it has to be aided by medication, then to me that is healthy. If body and mind are still functioning well enough for me to enjoy life, then I am healthy.”

6. College Newspaper Staff:  “I’d say health is a state of being. I think it’s a perceived value of physical, emotional, and mental stability and regularity for each individual person. The achievement of ‘healthy’ will differ from person to person based on lifestyle, availability of nourishment and space, and personality.”

7. Dan R., Twitter:  “Being good in mind body and soul.”

8. Yvonne on Twitter:  “Health is a balance of spiritual, mental and physical well-being”

9. Anastacia on Twitter:  “Health to me means that I’m happy, I am not sick, I can laugh with out being in pain.”

10. Poetry Group on Twitter:  “Health is the harmony of our body.”

11. Carlos M. on Twitter:  “Wellness is a holistic approach to life that includes diet and exercise first with traditional medical care second. ”

12. Ariel B. on Twitter:  “Health is Peace of Mind.”

13. Marion W. on Twitter:  “Time set aside in solitude and/or quietness to grow, reflect, write and decompress.”

And… how about Google?

14. Google:  “Health is the state of being free from illness or injury.”

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A lot of different perspectives, so why do governments think they can represent us all on this issue?  They stay away from mixing the state with religion, but aren’t they coming across many of our personal, even religious beliefs by putting their hands into such a controversial bowl of heaven keys?

“Peace of mind” is a short version of my definition for health, as it was for one of my Twitter poll participants—something that has little to do with Western medicine’s extracting blood, focusing on the physical, administering drugs.  Core to the Western medical business is core to religion: giving folks peace of mind, that they will heal from hardship.  Religion goes on to speak of heaven, doctors stop at peace…  Maybe those two words and concepts are in some ways interchangeable.

But in neither heaven nor earth will it ever be right to decide someone else’s health path, if that someone is an adult of sound mind.  Who should decide mental soundness?  I’d say, based on my Twitter poll and personal conviction, more people should be involved in health decisions, from different fields of study, and different beliefs.  There is more to heaven, earth, and health than is cooked up in Western medicine’s cake, and it’s time governments recognize that, call out doctors for the fallible people they are.  They have fancy degrees, I concede the hard work that goes into them, but who can say something divine or perfect grants them?

To me health is a peace of mind, knowing I did my best to be the best person I’m capable of becoming—a spiritual concept, borrowed shamelessly from the late, great John Wooden.  “Death” to this humble citizen of Mexico, the invalid United States and someday England: doesn’t exist, if with faith in God you lived a good life.  “No good thing ever dies,” mused Stephen King once upon a time, and I agree.  So why all the talk of “Covid deaths?”  Did those souls not live?  Why not talk about their life?  Where is the gratitude for the air we breathe, for the lives we get to live, for our amazing immune systems?  If this was our last day to live on earth, what would you do with it?  Panic?  Complain about death?  Whine about a virus?

Not me.  The above set of questions reminds me of my old life, one in which I was spiritually dead, playing sports and drinking alcohol instead of loving my parents, life, a woman, and being an honest, honorable person.  There are worse things than physical death…  Among them, a life in fear, and as such out of love—if you adhere to St. Paul’s ideal.  So love life!  Live today!!  Say thanks to what you say thanks to, because tomorrow is a big question mark, salvation for me in peace of mind, something I’ll never get wearing a mask or fearing my fellow man for any reason whatsoever.

Fear is the killer, folks, FDR echoed here…  Fear is the virus.  Inoculate yourself against it by living great days in faith, in love and free of alcohol or drugs…  Thanks for your attention, an open mind following truth as a key to serenity, willingness putting us on the road, proper relations with our fellows and the earth a guarantee for eternal life.  Never death

En México, La Conquista Sigue

01 Wednesday Jul 2020

Posted by Bill Watkins in España, Español, Mexico, Poetic Blog, Spanish

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Covid-19, España, Historia, History, Joy, La Conquista, Love, Mexico, Peace

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por Bill Watkins, Visitante, 20/6/2020

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Basura es de España.

Enfermedades, incluyendo armas y bebidas alcohólicas, son de España… El idioma de México, el que trato de usar para bien ahora es de… España.  Entonces, ¿Dónde esta México? ¿Qué es y dónde está su alma?

Yo soy un descendente de ladrones de tierra, personas Europeos de Escandinavia, Inglaterra y Italia que como los Españoles trajeron sus enfermedades aquí hasta “América…” América es otra palabra Europea, para una tierra no Europea, una tierra con nombres indígenas a tiempo olvidados: ¿Aztlán? En el Norte, donde mis antepasados robaron tierra de Indios (otra nombre Europeo, de Cristóbal Colon), se llamaba cosas como “Isla de Tortuga” en sus idiomas allá.

A los conquistadores con sus biblias y armas no importaron mucho los idiomas nativas… Conquistar es un acto obviamente egoísta.  ¿Pero justificado por la Iglesia Católica y sus papas, entonces con la voluntad de Dios, si?  Jeje.  Puedes reírse a eso, querido lector, sabiendo ahora si no sabías antes: Esta porción de tierra referido como “América” por Europeos, marcado primero un cartógrafo holandés desde el nombre del Explorador Italiano Amerigo Vespucci (Ame/Rica), es de cualquier nombre bonita y gloriosa.

Pero capturada y robada por Europeos para sus razones egoístas y diabólicas, la tierra sufre.  El Dios de la biblia y ese libro si mismo no perdonan a los pecados de matar, amenazar, remover, y convertir la gente natural de esta región desde el punto de espadas y armas letales.  En México hoy, “celebramos” con fuegos artificiales, llamado “tradición…” ¿Tradición de quien?  De España… No de México.

¿Bombas a celebrar que?  ¿Dios y su Hijo, que fue el Príncipe de Paz?  O son las bombas un recuerdo de la época en que España con su Iglesia estaba encima de una gente natural y pacifica aquí, amenazándolos y abusándolos alrededor la hora de la misa.  “¡Vaya a la misa!”  BOMBA.  “¡Vaya a la misa!”  BOMBA.  “¡Vaya a la misa!” BOMBA.  “Y si no vaya a la misa….”  BOMBA.

La basura es de España.  Malas palabras son de España.  La cerveza es de España. Bombas de España, armas explosivas y letales… O, y los doctores a quien muchos rezan en vez de Dios durante este Pánico de 2020, son de España.  México tiene sus propios idiomas no españoles.  México tiene sus propios dioses, tradiciones y costumbres no españoles.  Los de antes la “Conquista.”  Agradecidos para todos regalos del Creador los nativos eran, no había razón para tirar basura en “una calle,” también porque no habían calles ni el ruido de civilización.

Civilización es de… Grecia, dicen, y Roma empezó a su Conquista demandando que sus subjetos abandonan sus tradiciones viviendo con la naturaleza para edificios y leyes escritos.  Tenían razón en sus mentes los Romanos porque tenían mejores armas de guerra.  Podían matar mejor que ellos que cayeron debajo de sus espadas… ¿La violencia hace lo correcto?

Tal vez podemos reflexionar un momento en qué es correcto.

Buena suerte en eso…

My Bout with Covid-19

11 Monday May 2020

Posted by Bill Watkins in Covid, God, Health, Poetic Blog, Spiritual, Spirituality

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Christian Science, Covid, Covid-19, God, Health, Joy, Love, Panic, Peace, Science, Western Medicine

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by Bill Watkins 5/11/2020

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I picked up a weird virus a couple months ago.  Something I had never felt before, a dramatic ache starting in the supermarket one day, then a strong three week fever.  No cold symptoms, just the fever and a horrible headache, which seemed an exaggeration of the one I had before picking up the virus.

I get sick when I’m off-balanced in life, in this case I had been writing too much, eight days in a row without a break.  When I write a lot, I rest a lot.  If I rest too much, including the use of ice packs to my neck, I will develop a headache from too much pillow contact… That’s how I came into the supermarket that day, and I picked up an ugly bug.

I blame no one.  Not the little girl I met on the bus to town, whose mom said she had diarrhea and was heading to the doctor’s.  Not the people I greeted at the market, or anyone else on my bus… This was the beginning of the Covid-19 panic, and all the market employees were wearing masks, making me think I was searching for produce in a hospital emergency room.

There was fear of illness, my own headache and being off-balance, and there you go… I got the evil thing that was out there.  Was it Covid-19?  I’ll never know, because I don’t go to doctors or believe in Western medicine.  I’m sober eighteen years, live in the mountains, know what is healthy for me and do it (most of the time).  Doctors’ offices are overcrowded, over-air-conditioned and over-priced.  No thanks.  I fail to see the health there.

Drawing blood out of my body, where I always thought it would do the most good; giving me experimental drugs at a hint of depression; selling experimental science as if it were factual; compromising itself with politics, getting rich and those viper insurance companies hiking up already exorbitant prices!  No thanks.  I prefer the country, my faith in God, dabble in Christian Science—using the bible and prayer for a positive attitude and health.

But I did get sick!  I get sick about every other year… I admit, this one was wild, stayed with me for a couple months off and on, just that fever ickiness washing over me every once in a while… Sickness!  I got it because I was off-balanced and my immune system was down from its normal strength.  Did I get it because someone “infected me?” Did I get it because I wasn’t wearing a mask?  Did I get it because I was not practicing the blatantly un-Christian concept of “social distancing?”  No.  No.  No.  I reject all of those theories posing as facts for governments to use in their irresponsible, un-Christian, anti-spiritual, pro-Western medicine, shady legislating. Why shady?  The U.S. Government (nor any other I know) has never even defined the word “health…” That’s a big deal when bills try to address “health”-care!

I like good science.  X-rays are cool, for instance… Facts!  I’m saddened by the Covid-19 Panic of 2020 for two reasons: 1. It’s bad spirituality on display and 2. it’s bad science as well.  Yelling out a virus’ name, being scared of it, obsessing about it creates a false god.  Religions which have cowered from the virus should be ashamed, re-read the Ten Commandments in the bible, and “Have no gods” before the One God!  Yell out God’s name!  Fear that!!  Center thoughts on God, love and Faith, then…. “Where the heck did that silly virus go?”  It goes away, like every other flu that’s ever hit a flu season!!

That’s what my strange virus did over time, like any other sickness I’ve ever felt.  It went away… It was a hard struggle, horrible headaches, fever, aches, losing pizazz and my passion for life, not being able to write more than a couple paragraphs in three weeks!  Bummers galore!  I even cursed God out, I have to admit, more than once!  Mostly because in the middle of my sickness the locals where I live in Mexico set off fireworks a stone’s throw from my house, the week of Saint Joseph, littering our peace with bombs.  Went right to my temple, throbbing, shooting pain to go with the chest pain and twitches I always get around those stupid things.

Then the mosquitoes came… Just when I’m getting some sleep to bash that virus out, the buzz at my ear, and I’d have to hunt down the buggers for an hour!  Calamity! Injustice!  Why’d you make this horrible crap, God!?!?  I was ticked.  And sick… Near suicidal, flashing thoughts of self-harm… But… little by little… I apologized to God, that saint’s week of dumb fireworks passed, the mosquitoes gave me a break.

In 12-Step groups, I used to hear the expression, “God never gives us more than we can handle.”  I think there’s something there.  I was brought to the brink, but I had enough faith, positive thinking through my Christian Science training, and patience to gut it out and win.

Faith and Fear Amid Covid Panic

04 Monday May 2020

Posted by Bill Watkins in God, Health, Poetic Blog, Positive Thinking, Positivism

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Covid, Covid-19, Earth, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, God, Joy, Love, Mary Baker Eddy, Mexico, Native American, Panic, Peace, Positivism, Spirituality, USA, Western Medicine

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Talk health.  The dreary, never-changing tale
Of mortal maladies is worn and stale.
You cannot charm, or interest, or please
By harping on that minor chord, disease.
Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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You ever lean back and track your thoughts?  Decide if they are positive or negative… Helpful or harmful?

A new strain of flu comes from a foreign land, so what do the masses do?  They do what masses do…  Panic.  What did the Catholic Church do?  Here where I live in Mexico and I think worldwide, they did to mass what masses do… they listened to a bunch of men preach, evicted God and headed for their masks and homes!

“Fear people, stay inside, stay away…” If someone was to track orders from the U.S. and other governments around this Covid virus panic, you’d have to say they were sort of negative. Certainly anti-Christian!  The answer to the question, “What would Jesus do?” or even Mother Teresa is in obvious contrast to what public officials are doing, panicking at the direction of Western medicine.

Western medicine is the world’s number one religion, I’m finally admitting, a weird thought but true in light of who’s calling the shots for government action in crisis.  So far, there’s a playful tone to this, but are you ready for a serious one?  I hope so… Here it is: God is waiting to be our guide again, Higher Power—call it what you want. The Native Americans called it the Great Spirit, something one can connect with in nature.

But the American government killed and removed Native Americans so they could build the “greatest democracy on earth.”  Concrete, asphalt and monuments to ourselves amidst the trash and noise of helicopters, littered cigarette butts and beer cans.  Covid-19 is a false god pitched by over-paid medical experts, keeping their money rolling in as the world’s economy stays at home afraid…

There’s a wonderful answer and cure to Fear, developed over many years of human existence.  It’s called Faith.  Say it with a smile, then find within you the First People spirit, that inner Druid, that innocent child in love with Creation, breathing in air freely and joyfully without a mask.  Faith… that I can move a mountain, sing in that musical, write that book, dance that dance to celebrate in the way God as I understand God wants me to celebrate!

But fear established the United States, ran from England to steal this land before Spain grabbed it, brought those guns to scare the natives, cannons to blow them and nature up with deer and peace killing blasts.  We could stop and apologize. Start listening to nature, God and the Native American Great Spirit, smile and be happy one day at a time… Stay home if sick, but if well be merry and thank the Creator for another day by loving it with all your heart, inside or out of the home!

We could decide to stop listening to fear and negativity, that people are going to infect us, start again having faith that they’re more likely to bless us… Band together, re-discover that love and faith destroys Death.  Love and faith are eternal, so let’s call out the News for lying to us about Covid deaths.  STOP WHINING AND COWERING, WORLD!!!

Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.

Religion, Logic and Covid Response

19 Sunday Apr 2020

Posted by Bill Watkins in Blog, Blogs, Christian, Christian Science, Health, Poetic Blog, Religion

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AA, Christian Science, Covid, Covid-19, Eric Garcetti, Garcetti, Health, Healthy Living, Higher Power, Love, Mary Baker Eddy, Mayor of LA, Panic, Religion, Spirituality, Truth, USA

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To preface this piece, I am a United States citizen who does not believe in the validity of the U.S. government, nor do I believe that Western medicine is health.  Makes a visit home to Los Angeles from Mexico last week a tough one, facing the rules of a government that never got consent to rule over Native Americans here, one that claims free speech and to be a protector of everyone’s right to worship the religion of his or her choice.  That is unless there is a virus panic, I guess…

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A while back I called Nancy Pelosi’s Washington D.C. office to ask her people a question.  Then I called Bernie Sanders’ folks, also trying the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington.  My question was: “What is your definition of health?”  I thought it a very important and obvious concept to nail down since everybody in the U.S. Government seems so interested in passing laws about it…  I got nothing from those offices, came back to Senator Dianne Feinstein, Senator Kamala Harris and Congressman Jimmy Gomez, who represented me locally.  Nothing.

The obscurity of “health” and government is playing out more than ever with what I call the virus panic of 2020.  Western medicine has been co-opted by our government in a silent deal made I don’t know when.  This piece will attempt to address the religious, spiritual and logical consequences of turning our wills and lives over to “medical experts” through our political representatives, who call themselves healthcare champions without defining health.

My definition of health is a peace of mind I get by doing what I feel is God’s will for me, one day at a time.  Very “AA” of me, but in my life, I find it all goes better when the spiritual leads the emotional and physical.  Spirit, spirit, spirit!  It’s powerful stuff, that and faith, and I’ll declare now proudly that if I had one type of healthcare to name it would be Christian Science, a religion founded by Mary Baker Eddy which applied the bible (especially its gospels) to our day to day health.  An elderly woman I drove around as a service back in the 1990’s related this religious view of health to me, and I like it.  It works for me and it has a great price tag: it’s free.

Let’s put that aside as one person’s view of health in a large country.  There are over 300 million people in the U.S. and hence over 300 million views, which I imagine range from totally unlike mine to slightly different.  We all have different beliefs on many topics, the U.S. Government through its First Amendment to the Constitution purporting to allow for that, explicitly in the area of religion and in the press. My version of health has a very strong, in fact dominant religious and spiritual component to it.  Am I the only one? I sincerely doubt that, as the population of Christian Scientists alone would clearly testify, a number over a couple hundred thousand to be sure.

If health has a religious connection to more than just me, why is Government so adamant that it should be involved with it?  Let’s look at that famous Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

The U.S. Government needs a clear definition of terms before it can be a valid legislator on health; perhaps one that would cross a religious line, so render it the wrong institution to in fact legislate on the topic.

I visited Los Angeles last week from my home in Mexico to note that its mayor is making citizens wear masks in any public place.  This is one of many instances over the years of Government taking sides with Western medicine, calling their “experts” health.  A silent arrangement, but an unproven link lingers, as I know I don’t see or feel health in an over-air-conditioned, over-priced doctor’s office.  I have the Christian Science, yes, but even the Native American Great Spirit—the natural, earth-based approach to health—fills me with peace of mind more than Western offices, concrete, asphalt, pills and surgeries.  It’s okay for someone reading that to be upset and claim a different point of view!  Perhaps you get great peace of mind from Western medicine, which is fine, so wear your mask without making me wear one please.

We should all be free to decide our own health path in the United States or anywhere else.  This is a hard article to write, as I don’t actually believe in the United States as a valid government, for it was founded in armed theft and violence against the native people here.  In fact, at no time has the United States Government received consent of the native peoples to govern here that was not forced at gunpoint—and by John Locke’s definition of government, that it validates itself by the “consent of the governed…” we have a failure.  That being said, one has to live by even invalid constructs, and in the case of the U.S. there is a law that’s supposed to give us free speech, and it also claims so proudly to be a democracy.

But during a panic, over a new flu less powerful than the old one, the Government feels it has an excuse to squash free speech, mandate quarantines and masks—lending to the problem in logic I have with such a response.   If one is living a healthy life, making positive choices and walking a path with conviction and belief—why would that person change such a path because of an over-hyped virus?  The U.S. and other governments aligned with Western medicine ask and demand that we be afraid of people, keep distances.  This is against Christian practice, asks that I believe the lie that my brother or sister human being out on the road is more likely to curse me than bless me.  I’ll never believe that, nor will I ever believe in a government that doesn’t allow me to believe what I want to believe.

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