I have an aunt, the sole survivor of my mother’s family of seven sisters, who is now 99 years old, and on her way out. The family is around her, and one of her daughters quit her job to move her to a place closer to other family members. Imagine, however, that she was alone, in virtual quarantine in a nursing home, relatives not allowed to visit. She would die (or would have already died) in utter isolation.
In my letter to the our Governor Polis, a low and unworthy human being, I used these words:
“… orders from your office have already superseded the 1st (right to assemble), 4th (privacy) and 9th (travel) Amendments to the US Constitution, Amendments that delineate rights that are inalienable. I guess they are not.”
I should have a added another amendment that is gone out the window, the Eighth:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
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The medical establishment has become a major threat to health. The disabling impact of professional control over medicine has reached the proportions of an epidemic. Iatrogenesis, the name for this new epidemic, comes from iatros, the Greek word for “physician,” and genesis, meaning “origin.” Discussion of the disease of medical progress has moved up on the agendas of medical conferences, researchers concentrate on the sick-making powers of diagnosis and therapy, and reports on paradoxical damage caused by cures for sickness take-up increasing space in medical dope sheets.
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