A Health Care Crisis Is No Time For Political Games
I feel that I am forced to preface this post with some comments on my feelings towards Donald Trump. I personally do not like him as a president. I disagree with many of his policies. I did not vote for him.
I am not a supporter of the republican or democratic party. In the last presidential election I actually voted for Jill Stein and Green Party.
Nonetheless, just because I disagree with the president on many issues, that does not mean I am automatically against anything he says, just because he said it.
At a recent press conference Trump make commends about investigating treatments for coronavirus using UV light or disinfectants. See the short clip of him speaking below:
In response to this pundits on "the Left" (for lack of better word) jumped all over Trump. I saw multiple social media posts making fun of him, telling people to not inject bleach into their veins.
What this really comes down to is people using the crisis to distort the president’s words and play political games. They are automatically against anything Trump says, simply because Trump said it.
Personally, just because I often disagree with Trump, if he says something that is worth agreeing with, I have no problem admitting it.
This will be a quick posts of 2 treatments that may fall into the category radiation and disinfectant treatments. I am not an expert in these treatments, as unfortunately naturopathic doctors have a very limited scope in most states (including New York). However, these are non-drug options that may be used for severe infection.
Ultra Violet Irradiation of Blood
UV irradiation of blood was most commonly done in the 1940's and 50's. This is a procedure where blood was taken from a patient, exposed to ultraviolet light and then put back into patient.
It then lost popularity for several reasons. One was the popularity of antibiotics. The other was confusion over how it worked.
It may seem at first the UV irradiation worked by radiating microbes to death. This turned out to not be the case, as the amount of blood irradiated to make the procedure work best was not that much. Therefore it seemed to work more by having an oxidative effect on the blood.
This treatment was used for various conditions including: infectious arthritis, sepsis, osteoarthritis, tuberculosis, chronic blepharitis, mastoiditisis, uveitis, furunculosis, sinusitis, acne and secondary anemia. One of the criticism of UV irradiation seems to have been that it helped so many different conditions, so it is therefore too good to be true.
So given the history of UV therapy was president Trump wrong in suggesting that this is something worth looking into?
For more information of UV blood irradiation please following this link
Ozone Therapy
For Ozone Therapy I do not wish to say too much about it, since as a ND in New York State, it is not something I am currently offering.
It’s another oxidative treatment, commonly given as an IV (although there are other methods) and has been used for a wide range of different infection.
For in depth information about ozone I suggest the website https://ozonewithoutborders.ngo
Ozone, as an oxidative treatment can be considered a disinfectant. So, is president Trump wrong for suggesting we look into such alternative treatments?
What Do The People Who Make Fun Of Trump Propose?
As I am writing this, the global economy is in lockdown. Tens of millions of people in the United States alone have lost their jobs. Many businesses are gone, never to reopen. The lockdown itself besides causes an economic crisis, is creating a health crisis as well.
Just a few health issues caused by the lockdown include:
- Economic stress
- People unable to leave abusive living situations
- Doctors, dentists, naturopaths, chiropractic, acupuncture, massage therapy, physical therapy and other health offices closed, leaving people without proper care. In some cases procedures are delayed which may become life threatening in itself
- Increase in depression and anxiety
- Breathing issue and hypoxia due to chronic mask wearing
In the meantime there is no conventional treatment for coronavirus. What many Trump opponents are waiting for is a vaccine which could take more than a year to develop.
After that point is this to be given to the whole country without any knowledge of possibly adverse effects? How well will this vaccine work in everyone (they are usually only tested on healthy adults). How will it combine with other vaccines? How may it effect the immune system in terms of susceptibility to other infections?
Vaccines are not all safe. There is great potential for injury by bringing out a rushed vaccine and forcing it on the whole country.
Therefore, this vaccine is a product that does not yet exist, and if it does would constitute a massive medical experiment on the whole population.
So what should the president do? Nothing but hope for a vaccine? Or perhaps investigate other treatments that may be available now, but have simply not been fully embraced by conventional medicine.
You would think the whole country would be in agreement to do anything an everything to bring this crisis to a quick end. Trump opponents would prefer to forgo alternative treatments for no other reason than to spite Trump and further their own political agenda.
Trump did not tell people to inject or swallow bleach. He is simply looking for alternative treatments other than a non-existent vaccine.
I am not a Trump supporter. But on this one issue, I see no reason other to agree with Trump that other treatments should be investigated other than waiting/hoping for a vaccines to materialize.
If anything many more resources should have already been put into looking for alternative treatments rather than an all or nothing vaccine approach which many are advocating for. My criticism of Trump is that for so long he has only seemed to listen to a handful of “experts” and only now do we hear such statements.
