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Thank you for such an articulate and well thought out post. This thread comes at a well placed moment in time.

I wonder if anyone remembers the media attention to super germs in the 90's? At that time doctors were the culprit for over prescribing antibiotics and now a strain which was resistant to treatment came on the scene. We had just barely caught our breath from this threat to our health when the idea of viruses took on a new threshold of meaning and unlike a decade before, we had to let the virus run its course and simply suffer through it.

During this decade, there was also a lot of attention and accusations with legal implications that vaccines were the reason for a more than 600 percent increase of autism. Parents were forced to have their children inoculated despite the growing evidence of harm to the children. About the same time, a flue shot was made available to prevent people getting the flu.

Now 10 years later we are faced with a strain which is potentially lethal, and vaccinations enforced. People are tense and afraid.

It is unfortunate that things got out of control in Zurich, but an emotional outburst also happened in Barcelona, albeit for different reasons. Something is amiss if the organizing we do to find prevention and strength in numbers can fall apart so easily.

Dan Burisch and Steven Greer, both doctors and both have made tremendous sacrifice for their values and beliefs-- they are subject to all the pressures we face and more as their reputations are further at stake with the very people they have made the sacrifices for.

I believe that we are all subject to 'catch' a bug, but just as much overcome it by the amount of awareness and self healing that is made available via the internet etc. I think that far too much emphasis has been placed in hyper mode of fear, possible panic from pandemics and while a grim outcome is possible its far better to look and pay attention to what increases immunity.

I dont think there are easy solutions, especially when emotions are volatile and can overthrow our collective efforts so easily. Humanity has faced pandemics before, small pox and influenza for native american's, bubonic plague in the middle ages, and yet we discovered how much vitamin C helped, prevented and in some cases brought seeminly miraculous cures.

We surely will find the same with this crisis before us as well as future situations.

Perhaps we might find new arenas within our humanity which demonstrate the miraculous and this emergent strain of flu virus will hasten its awareness. Perhaps what is before us is a remarkable challenge that will bring about changes that we have all wanted for a long time.

In a small way, this forum were people such as yourselves can express and share views and information is the direct result our creativity in the face of survival -- which was caused by potentially life threatening situations.

We must all find new ways to understand, think, envision and assimilate emotionally what faces us today for tomorrow.

its my view that I am deeply appreciative that there are folks such as yourselves to learn from and inspire creative, calm and clear insights.

In this way we are truly at the grassroots level of allowing solutions to present themselves