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I'm positively impressed with Pamela Weintraub's book Cure Unknown. It brings to mind a great many considerations, even though I'm only through page 190.
While she doesn't come out and say it within the pages I've read so far, it could be construed by the casual reader that the CDC is willfully tweaking the test so that most people fail on purpose in order to accomplish a hidden agenda of the CDC. I can think of a number of reason why they might do this:
One might be because the health insurance industry would stand to pay and keep paying a lot of money every time some one got infected. That could negatively effect the US economy - but more likely - the pockets of investors in the insurance companies. What ties do CDC top-level political appointees have to top US insurance companies? Has anyone followed the money?
The scientists at the top of the CDC 'worthiness' pyramid have no equivalent to the Hippocratic oath and are too embarrassed to admit they are wrong, even at the peril of human lives. Embarrassment alone couldn't be the answer, though because they have apparently continued to narrow the spectrum of what the test claims to be 'positive' to the point that now, even the number of lyme cases in known lyme areas is falling below original projections. That implies a foul sort of complicity that goes beyond embarrassment. It implies hidden agenda.
A lot of gp's would probably start testing and treating everyone on medicare/medicaid for lyme and associated diseases. If the tests were truly accurate, it is conceivable that a more-than-merely significant number of currently un-diagnosable sicknesses could be attributed directly to an up-until-now hidden tick-borne disease. How many beds would be freed up if patients got cured? Is the business of health today more about curing patients, or is it more about keeping beds full?
Even more 'out-there' is the theory that this has been allowed to continue as a method of control over population growth of citizens who would otherwise be healthy enough to 'propagate'. Yeah, that's pretty far out, but in the 'addled' state of someone with spirochetes spinning through the head, the creativity of a conspiracy theory adds a little jocundity to an otherwise mind-numbingly painful day.
GP's read. A lot. They have to in order to stay current. Why isn't there a larger backlash from the medical community about this?
What if CFS, ALS that whole constellation of rheumatoid diseases implicated in the book were actually all directly attributable to lyme disease? In what light would that put a vast number of rheumatologists who never checked for lyme?
It seems to take sick members of state congress or their immediate family members in order for a state to consider passing a law allowing doctors to practice as they please with regards to chronic lyme or any other chronic disease. What states have so far passed laws allowing doctors to practice treatment of Chronic Lyme without losing their license?
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