ive been over reading about covid for months and usually just let the stories go, but this one was a well written reminder of the bullshit.
i would guess i was one of the real early ones to figure it out, not cos im smart, i am but because i had spent 20 years looking into biohazards and spent 4 years before covid studying health and had a great understanding of how much medicine is a fraud.
stay away from doctors unless its unavoidable, and at that point dont let them bully you or lie to you, everything is researchable
Whenever I contemplate attempting one of these 'summaries' I end up realizing I'm going to be writing for days.
I remember the 'early' days of covid - I had convinced myself that the IFR was going to turn out to be something in the region of 0.3% (I was a bit on the high side with that assessment) and getting a bit concerned over why everyone decided on lockdowns.
After the lockdown in the UK I did a rough and ready analysis of the derivatives of the 'death' curve in the UK and proved to myself that the disease dynamics were fundamentally altering before lockdown could have had an effect - which convinced me that the 'natural' dynamics of the disease were at play, rather than policy-driven dynamics.
From then on it became like an avalanche of one stupid idea after another from the Experts™ and governments. I couldn't find a single damn thing that made full and proper sense.
Lockdowns, asymptomatic transmission, unprecedented and deadly, the collection of crappy stats, the out of context reporting, masks, one-way systems, plastic screens, masks outside, small business closures but supermarkets still open, excessive hand sanitizing when fomite transmission was a very minor risk, the dissing of the GBD when it clearly made sense based on the very age-stratified risk profile, the censorship and ad-hominem attacks, and so on.
It was like 'we' had lost our collective marbles - and it was surreal.
Then along comes the Goo and another fresh hell broke out. Initially I was hopeful - but back then I was still in "vaccines are wonderful" mode. Where are we now? 5th, 6th "booster" shots? That ain't 'vaccination' that's an addiction!
Bit by bit, every last drop of what faith I had in governmental institutions and 'advice' just got sanded away.
i remember reading the sage groups advice in early may and going ah, its all bullshit. it felt like a confirmation of what i had thought right from january. the document i read was about how to induce behaviour modifications in the population and it was truly sick stuff.
i never wore a mask, i left my job and got another that was outdoors and i didnt follow a single god damn rule, i think i had covid but it was very mild and over in 18h due to taking massive doses of liposomal vitamin C but that wasnt until mid 21 and i spent some time in the company of two friends that had it (both jabbed)
the whole died with/of covid within 28 days was just insulting to the intellect of even the dumbest of us
I spent a large part of my career dealing with risk. When the mRNA jabs came along I couldn't perform an assessment of the risk of getting jabbed because there was no data. There was simply no way to understand the long term risk of getting jabbed. On the other hand, Pfizer was one of the most notoriously corrupt organisations in the world, always ready to harm their customers for profit.
I thought about all this for a couple of nanoseconds and decided there was no way I was letting that stuff anywhere near me. I stood by this decision at considerable personal cost, including early retirement from work. Every day now, I give thanks that I'm not jabbed, particularly because 5 of my ex colleagues died of suddenly in 2021. Im very confident that the vaccines killed them all without warning with heart attacks and strokes in their 40s and 50s. It was all very grim.
On that cheery note...I greatly enjoy your writing. Thanks for your efforts, and a happy and prosperous and idiocy free 2023 to you and your family.
It does seem to be a very common thing - people are reporting friends and colleagues dropping dead at earlier than expected ages. It's very sad.
It did happen before - a family friend who used to take me and our kid to the footy at Maine Road dropped dead at 55 from a heart attack just 6 months after he retired from work. A work colleague had a stroke in his 40's (he survived and recovered).
The thing is, is that these were *unusual* events - not crazy rare, but rare enough to be considered 'bad luck' and out of the ordinary. It's still 'rare' - but my perception from reading so many accounts like yours is that these events, once pretty rare, are now much less rare.
I think 2023 will see a ramping up of the idiocracy - but I fervently wish to be proven wrong on that. All the best for 2023.
Wow, that's a lot of colleagues dying. Good for you for avoiding the goo. 👏👍🏽 I don't know anyone who didn't pay some price, this was a doozy. Take good care. 🙏❤️
Thanks. One of the dead people was an engineer I'd worked with since 1996...25 years. It was very very sad.
Me and a couple of other unjabbed guys discussed the wave of deaths very quietly. Most people seemed to view it as just a weird coincidence. In the 30 years prior to 2021 we had had one staff member die of natural causes, and then 5 people in 7 months. All without warning. No "short battle with x" or anything, they were fine one day and didn't come to work the next. It was a very weird coincidence indeed.
That is sad, that's a long time to work with someone.
Sometimes I'm amazed that people don't connect health problems and deaths with the covid injection. But as I read what you wrote, I wonder if people generally chalk them up to the tumultuous times we are all in without really thinking or reflecting about it. Whether people believe in the covid injection or not, I think they feel these uncertain tumultuous times. Strange deaths just match with what they're already feeling, in a way. "All these people are dying, these are really weird times."
Sounds like you have a nice family indeed. Happy New Year and thanks for all the laughs amidst the misery. I have difficult thoughts about my extended family which can only be remedied with a hot cup of tea and a cozy rereading of Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God." Boy, were those simpler times, when all you had to worry about was eternal damnation, and also maybe smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid, and all your teeth falling out before you were 40, but that's okay because you were likely already enjoying eternal damnation by then.
"We’ve largely forgotten covid now here in the UK and the vast majority of people are back to ‘normal’."
Things seem different here in the USA, or at least here in super-jabbed and super-fearful Vermont. I see lots of masks in shops, or on lone drivers, or on people walking outdoors, and all the health clinics require them. (I walked into one of these clinics recently and saw two employees NOT wearing masks, yet a mask Nazi still accosted me and asked to put one on. I left.) In other words, the visible signs of fear are everywhere.
I still am not allowed to go back to the piano camp that I used to attend on an annual basis, due to their injection requirement.
Then a week ago I overheard a conversation in town, where somebody was saying, "... and now everybody is getting the friggin' Covid..." So those jabs are certainly proving their effectiveness.
It's just bizarre at this point - particularly the whole mask thing - they are basically just like magic talismans. And all for a disease with a very, very low IFR for younger demographics (below 60) - as the recent analysis has shown.
Rudolf is the first person, other than myself, that I have seen use the word PANICDEMIC to describe the reaction to Covid. I have been using it for a couple of weeks now. This is a wonderful essay which I will widely share. It is now not only rare but unheard of for me to see something so sound and well written. I agree with every word, comma and period.
another one I'm fond of using is "pantodemic" because it highlights the whole performative aspect of it all.
I still find it very hard to believe we did what we did in response to a virus with such a low IFR. We had a flu-level threat to which we responded as if it was an Ebola-level threat.
Thanks for the humorous, factual rundown of the last 2.5 years. 😄
Yes the fear. Sometimes it's fear for fears sake, like Y2K. Sometimes it's fear for the sake of action, like "weapons of mass destruction and we want to avoid the mushroom cloud" war in iraq. Always people make money off the fears. Even Y2K probably netted the media outlets more advertising dollars because more people were watching. The Iraq war shifted billions of dollars into the hands of the military industrial complex.
These fears - that individual people can do nothing about, like the "spread of asymptomatic" covid and climate change - at their core cause people to look outside themselves to solve the fear, and to accept solutions outside themselves that they have no control over. So my answer to "why the fear" is in service of the creation of a centralized world government.
The people spreading the fear have this in mind; create a population waiting for the WHO, WEF to do something. Others spreading the fear believed the propaganda about the viral threat, and spread the fear. Others went along with the crowd, and spread the fear. Others saved their job/ career, including their political career, by spreading the fear. A viral pandemic with symptomatic fearful spread, with PCR testing for ignorance and psychological weakness. Sometimes innocent ignorance, historical ignorance, ignorance of propaganda, ignorance born of a fearful mind being unable to think logically. Psychological weakness with intolerance of resisting the crowd, intolerance of recognizing those in power may not have your best interest in mind.
Where does that leave us? We are some badass people now, hugging our loved ones a little closer, appreciating our blessings a little more, grounded in our principles so deep in the earth as to be unshakable, and minds unswayed by BS (or at least not swayef for long). These things will come in handy in 2023, because like you, I think we only have rockier times ahead of us. 🙏
That's a good point about external vs internal sources of 'fear'. If it's a big 'external' threat beyond our control we do tend to look towards governments etc to sort things out. That's fine for some things, but we always need to guard the guards, so to speak.
Going by public sentiment expressed in Sweden (since we are much the same, though the norwegians are even more socially sensitive to the will of the crowd than us), it's this:
"If a vaccine is safe for pregnant women, and by extension the fetus, then it's safe for everyone."
The last thing they want spread around is that these vaccines have in two years caused more deaths than all other vaccines together from the 1950s to today.
I base that claim on the official data, where Covid-vaccination is given as the cause of death for almost 500 swedish recipients, to date.
Keeping in mind what we've all seen hopping around wildly in broad daylight for the last 3 years, now take a retrospective look at the various big and little events of life before AoC. I'd say the Time Lords have granted us all a Rosetta Stone helpful for making much better sense of the great, fuzzy ball of chaos that surprisingly makes up so much of human life and human history.
Thanks Rudolph. I have reached the conclusion that the medical profession is simply a numbers game; the pharmaceuticals set the parameters for doctors to determine if a patient is within an established range (blood pressure, cholesterol, PSA, etc). Should you fall outside the range, you will be prescribed medications to correct the so called problem, medications that you will probably be on for the rest of your life. It's another form of fear mongering; forget all their BS tests, eat sensibly and try Intermittent Fasting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuOvn4UqznU&t=12s&ab_channel=TheGalenFoundation).
Wishing you and your family all the best for 2023.
Last summer I had a blood test which showed an elevated PSA level (14%). I only had the test because my brother had been diagnosed with a T2 prostate cancer. No symptoms, just the result of a biopsy. He was given female hormones for 3 months and then intensive radio therapy. He felt bloody (and I think still does) but is apparently “cured”. I had a MRI scan last October which apparently revealed a couple of “suspicious” lesions on my prostate. I went to Greece for the winter and drank a herbal tea which the Greek apothecary said was good for prostate problems. My GP was a little upset. When I returned in February I went to see her and explained I wasn’t really sure I wanted to do anything further, because even if they did a biopsy and it proved I had prostate cancer, I didn’t think I wanted to do anything about it, apart from palliative care. She was sympathetic but persuaded me to see a urologist anyway, which I did, who arranged a biopsy which was carried out 2 weeks ago. I will see the urologist for the results in a couple of days.
If the biopsy indicates I have an aggressive prostate cancer, I will presumably be offered a similar course of treatment to my brother. But I feel fine (I am 70) and have no symptoms of cancer that I’m aware of. So from August 2022 until now, apart from the inevitable anxiety induced by the tests, I have just had doctors and laboratories telling me there is something wrong with me - no pain, just squiggles on screens and bits of paper and the considered opinions of experts on what these squiggles signify.
It all reminds me a little of COVID hysteria and inclines me to tell my GP and urologist that I will not be doing anything. It also makes me wonder how many men blithely accept the advice of their doctors and receive the treatment and are thus “cured”, who, if left alone, might have been perfectly alright. If everyone wears masks, gets vaccinated, tests regularly, isolates when infected, and only 20 million die, clearly the treatment worked.
Speaking of the 'pill for every ill' model, a few years ago during a new patient appointment with my general practitioner, she was very surprised, almost incredulous, that a 47-year old was not on any pharmaceutical drugs. Perplexed by this, I asked her why she was so surprised, and she said because almost all of her patients my age had some chronic condition or another (pain, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, acid reflux, etc), and often more than one, which "required" lifelong medication to "manage" the symptoms. When she asked how I was "lucky enough" to avoid such health conditions, I said, "Simple. I take care of myself." When I reflected on that conversation afterward, I wept for humanity.
I’m 70 and the only drugs I take are omega3 (cod liver oil pills I think) cos I don’t eat enough oily fish, apparently, and marine magnesium cos it’s good for lowering blood pressure, apparently.
I have commuted to work by bicycle for nearly 50 years
ive been over reading about covid for months and usually just let the stories go, but this one was a well written reminder of the bullshit.
i would guess i was one of the real early ones to figure it out, not cos im smart, i am but because i had spent 20 years looking into biohazards and spent 4 years before covid studying health and had a great understanding of how much medicine is a fraud.
stay away from doctors unless its unavoidable, and at that point dont let them bully you or lie to you, everything is researchable
Whenever I contemplate attempting one of these 'summaries' I end up realizing I'm going to be writing for days.
I remember the 'early' days of covid - I had convinced myself that the IFR was going to turn out to be something in the region of 0.3% (I was a bit on the high side with that assessment) and getting a bit concerned over why everyone decided on lockdowns.
After the lockdown in the UK I did a rough and ready analysis of the derivatives of the 'death' curve in the UK and proved to myself that the disease dynamics were fundamentally altering before lockdown could have had an effect - which convinced me that the 'natural' dynamics of the disease were at play, rather than policy-driven dynamics.
From then on it became like an avalanche of one stupid idea after another from the Experts™ and governments. I couldn't find a single damn thing that made full and proper sense.
Lockdowns, asymptomatic transmission, unprecedented and deadly, the collection of crappy stats, the out of context reporting, masks, one-way systems, plastic screens, masks outside, small business closures but supermarkets still open, excessive hand sanitizing when fomite transmission was a very minor risk, the dissing of the GBD when it clearly made sense based on the very age-stratified risk profile, the censorship and ad-hominem attacks, and so on.
It was like 'we' had lost our collective marbles - and it was surreal.
Then along comes the Goo and another fresh hell broke out. Initially I was hopeful - but back then I was still in "vaccines are wonderful" mode. Where are we now? 5th, 6th "booster" shots? That ain't 'vaccination' that's an addiction!
Bit by bit, every last drop of what faith I had in governmental institutions and 'advice' just got sanded away.
It's been quite a Rona-coaster ride hasn't it?
i remember reading the sage groups advice in early may and going ah, its all bullshit. it felt like a confirmation of what i had thought right from january. the document i read was about how to induce behaviour modifications in the population and it was truly sick stuff.
i never wore a mask, i left my job and got another that was outdoors and i didnt follow a single god damn rule, i think i had covid but it was very mild and over in 18h due to taking massive doses of liposomal vitamin C but that wasnt until mid 21 and i spent some time in the company of two friends that had it (both jabbed)
the whole died with/of covid within 28 days was just insulting to the intellect of even the dumbest of us
I spent a large part of my career dealing with risk. When the mRNA jabs came along I couldn't perform an assessment of the risk of getting jabbed because there was no data. There was simply no way to understand the long term risk of getting jabbed. On the other hand, Pfizer was one of the most notoriously corrupt organisations in the world, always ready to harm their customers for profit.
I thought about all this for a couple of nanoseconds and decided there was no way I was letting that stuff anywhere near me. I stood by this decision at considerable personal cost, including early retirement from work. Every day now, I give thanks that I'm not jabbed, particularly because 5 of my ex colleagues died of suddenly in 2021. Im very confident that the vaccines killed them all without warning with heart attacks and strokes in their 40s and 50s. It was all very grim.
On that cheery note...I greatly enjoy your writing. Thanks for your efforts, and a happy and prosperous and idiocy free 2023 to you and your family.
It does seem to be a very common thing - people are reporting friends and colleagues dropping dead at earlier than expected ages. It's very sad.
It did happen before - a family friend who used to take me and our kid to the footy at Maine Road dropped dead at 55 from a heart attack just 6 months after he retired from work. A work colleague had a stroke in his 40's (he survived and recovered).
The thing is, is that these were *unusual* events - not crazy rare, but rare enough to be considered 'bad luck' and out of the ordinary. It's still 'rare' - but my perception from reading so many accounts like yours is that these events, once pretty rare, are now much less rare.
I think 2023 will see a ramping up of the idiocracy - but I fervently wish to be proven wrong on that. All the best for 2023.
Wow, that's a lot of colleagues dying. Good for you for avoiding the goo. 👏👍🏽 I don't know anyone who didn't pay some price, this was a doozy. Take good care. 🙏❤️
Thanks. One of the dead people was an engineer I'd worked with since 1996...25 years. It was very very sad.
Me and a couple of other unjabbed guys discussed the wave of deaths very quietly. Most people seemed to view it as just a weird coincidence. In the 30 years prior to 2021 we had had one staff member die of natural causes, and then 5 people in 7 months. All without warning. No "short battle with x" or anything, they were fine one day and didn't come to work the next. It was a very weird coincidence indeed.
That is sad, that's a long time to work with someone.
Sometimes I'm amazed that people don't connect health problems and deaths with the covid injection. But as I read what you wrote, I wonder if people generally chalk them up to the tumultuous times we are all in without really thinking or reflecting about it. Whether people believe in the covid injection or not, I think they feel these uncertain tumultuous times. Strange deaths just match with what they're already feeling, in a way. "All these people are dying, these are really weird times."
Sounds like you have a nice family indeed. Happy New Year and thanks for all the laughs amidst the misery. I have difficult thoughts about my extended family which can only be remedied with a hot cup of tea and a cozy rereading of Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God." Boy, were those simpler times, when all you had to worry about was eternal damnation, and also maybe smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid, and all your teeth falling out before you were 40, but that's okay because you were likely already enjoying eternal damnation by then.
Thanks Diana
I think my family are awesome - they have to be to tolerate me 🤣
All the best for 2023
"We’ve largely forgotten covid now here in the UK and the vast majority of people are back to ‘normal’."
Things seem different here in the USA, or at least here in super-jabbed and super-fearful Vermont. I see lots of masks in shops, or on lone drivers, or on people walking outdoors, and all the health clinics require them. (I walked into one of these clinics recently and saw two employees NOT wearing masks, yet a mask Nazi still accosted me and asked to put one on. I left.) In other words, the visible signs of fear are everywhere.
I still am not allowed to go back to the piano camp that I used to attend on an annual basis, due to their injection requirement.
Then a week ago I overheard a conversation in town, where somebody was saying, "... and now everybody is getting the friggin' Covid..." So those jabs are certainly proving their effectiveness.
It's just bizarre at this point - particularly the whole mask thing - they are basically just like magic talismans. And all for a disease with a very, very low IFR for younger demographics (below 60) - as the recent analysis has shown.
Rudolf is the first person, other than myself, that I have seen use the word PANICDEMIC to describe the reaction to Covid. I have been using it for a couple of weeks now. This is a wonderful essay which I will widely share. It is now not only rare but unheard of for me to see something so sound and well written. I agree with every word, comma and period.
Thanks Terence
another one I'm fond of using is "pantodemic" because it highlights the whole performative aspect of it all.
I still find it very hard to believe we did what we did in response to a virus with such a low IFR. We had a flu-level threat to which we responded as if it was an Ebola-level threat.
Thanks for the humorous, factual rundown of the last 2.5 years. 😄
Yes the fear. Sometimes it's fear for fears sake, like Y2K. Sometimes it's fear for the sake of action, like "weapons of mass destruction and we want to avoid the mushroom cloud" war in iraq. Always people make money off the fears. Even Y2K probably netted the media outlets more advertising dollars because more people were watching. The Iraq war shifted billions of dollars into the hands of the military industrial complex.
These fears - that individual people can do nothing about, like the "spread of asymptomatic" covid and climate change - at their core cause people to look outside themselves to solve the fear, and to accept solutions outside themselves that they have no control over. So my answer to "why the fear" is in service of the creation of a centralized world government.
The people spreading the fear have this in mind; create a population waiting for the WHO, WEF to do something. Others spreading the fear believed the propaganda about the viral threat, and spread the fear. Others went along with the crowd, and spread the fear. Others saved their job/ career, including their political career, by spreading the fear. A viral pandemic with symptomatic fearful spread, with PCR testing for ignorance and psychological weakness. Sometimes innocent ignorance, historical ignorance, ignorance of propaganda, ignorance born of a fearful mind being unable to think logically. Psychological weakness with intolerance of resisting the crowd, intolerance of recognizing those in power may not have your best interest in mind.
Where does that leave us? We are some badass people now, hugging our loved ones a little closer, appreciating our blessings a little more, grounded in our principles so deep in the earth as to be unshakable, and minds unswayed by BS (or at least not swayef for long). These things will come in handy in 2023, because like you, I think we only have rockier times ahead of us. 🙏
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. 💕🎄⛄🥳
That's a good point about external vs internal sources of 'fear'. If it's a big 'external' threat beyond our control we do tend to look towards governments etc to sort things out. That's fine for some things, but we always need to guard the guards, so to speak.
Have a great 2023 Nova
You too Ru.
You're being awfully charitable Rudolph.
lol - at least it's an improvement on simply being awful 🤪
" The Nordic nations seem to have come to their senses and have stopped promoting this horrendous shite to anyone under the age of 50".
not quite!
norway advises pregnant women to get vaccinated.....
I didn't know that.
That's a bit odd given their withdrawal of recommendations for younger people. Wonder what their 'thinking' is on that one?
Going by public sentiment expressed in Sweden (since we are much the same, though the norwegians are even more socially sensitive to the will of the crowd than us), it's this:
"If a vaccine is safe for pregnant women, and by extension the fetus, then it's safe for everyone."
The last thing they want spread around is that these vaccines have in two years caused more deaths than all other vaccines together from the 1950s to today.
I base that claim on the official data, where Covid-vaccination is given as the cause of death for almost 500 swedish recipients, to date.
Keeping in mind what we've all seen hopping around wildly in broad daylight for the last 3 years, now take a retrospective look at the various big and little events of life before AoC. I'd say the Time Lords have granted us all a Rosetta Stone helpful for making much better sense of the great, fuzzy ball of chaos that surprisingly makes up so much of human life and human history.
Yup - it kind of makes you wonder about past events and the level of misplaced trust that might have been afforded to these muppets.
Bouncing off those last few thoughts and your original post some more: https://larryturner.substack.com/p/retrospect
Thanks Larry - the shout out is much appreciated
IN-OCC-UL-ATE! IN-OCC-UL-ATE!
Honestly, doesn't Fauci look at bit too much like Davros?
...to wit...'Meet the First Daleks! | Genesis of the Daleks | Doctor Who'
youtube.com/watch?v=4YR8fp0RF8o
God bless you, Rudolph. And have a blessed and happy new year.
Thanks Mikey - you too - have a good one
I would suggest that the climate is far more advanced and was the model for the Covid bs
Experts
Models
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Thanks Rudolph. I have reached the conclusion that the medical profession is simply a numbers game; the pharmaceuticals set the parameters for doctors to determine if a patient is within an established range (blood pressure, cholesterol, PSA, etc). Should you fall outside the range, you will be prescribed medications to correct the so called problem, medications that you will probably be on for the rest of your life. It's another form of fear mongering; forget all their BS tests, eat sensibly and try Intermittent Fasting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuOvn4UqznU&t=12s&ab_channel=TheGalenFoundation).
Wishing you and your family all the best for 2023.
Last summer I had a blood test which showed an elevated PSA level (14%). I only had the test because my brother had been diagnosed with a T2 prostate cancer. No symptoms, just the result of a biopsy. He was given female hormones for 3 months and then intensive radio therapy. He felt bloody (and I think still does) but is apparently “cured”. I had a MRI scan last October which apparently revealed a couple of “suspicious” lesions on my prostate. I went to Greece for the winter and drank a herbal tea which the Greek apothecary said was good for prostate problems. My GP was a little upset. When I returned in February I went to see her and explained I wasn’t really sure I wanted to do anything further, because even if they did a biopsy and it proved I had prostate cancer, I didn’t think I wanted to do anything about it, apart from palliative care. She was sympathetic but persuaded me to see a urologist anyway, which I did, who arranged a biopsy which was carried out 2 weeks ago. I will see the urologist for the results in a couple of days.
If the biopsy indicates I have an aggressive prostate cancer, I will presumably be offered a similar course of treatment to my brother. But I feel fine (I am 70) and have no symptoms of cancer that I’m aware of. So from August 2022 until now, apart from the inevitable anxiety induced by the tests, I have just had doctors and laboratories telling me there is something wrong with me - no pain, just squiggles on screens and bits of paper and the considered opinions of experts on what these squiggles signify.
It all reminds me a little of COVID hysteria and inclines me to tell my GP and urologist that I will not be doing anything. It also makes me wonder how many men blithely accept the advice of their doctors and receive the treatment and are thus “cured”, who, if left alone, might have been perfectly alright. If everyone wears masks, gets vaccinated, tests regularly, isolates when infected, and only 20 million die, clearly the treatment worked.
Speaking of the 'pill for every ill' model, a few years ago during a new patient appointment with my general practitioner, she was very surprised, almost incredulous, that a 47-year old was not on any pharmaceutical drugs. Perplexed by this, I asked her why she was so surprised, and she said because almost all of her patients my age had some chronic condition or another (pain, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, acid reflux, etc), and often more than one, which "required" lifelong medication to "manage" the symptoms. When she asked how I was "lucky enough" to avoid such health conditions, I said, "Simple. I take care of myself." When I reflected on that conversation afterward, I wept for humanity.
I’m 70 and the only drugs I take are omega3 (cod liver oil pills I think) cos I don’t eat enough oily fish, apparently, and marine magnesium cos it’s good for lowering blood pressure, apparently.
I have commuted to work by bicycle for nearly 50 years