loski01 said...
Again maybe not that lyme itself was artificially engineered, but that something happened to make it more problematic. As we know its rarely one thing..
this is what i think has actually happened - and is continuing to happen
as its not just tick born disease that is is increasing rapidly as a stand alone phenomenon
all chronic disease is increasing exponentially in the West over the last 5+ decades - basically since the 1950's
heart disease, metabolic diseases, lung disease, auto-immunity, allergies, cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinsons etc
this is too rapid a rise for it to be driven by anything other than our environment.
and co-incidentally we have been pumping thousands of new substances into our environment every year and industrialising our food since around the 1950's
chemicals including pesticides, herbicides, flame retardants, emulsifiers, antiseptics, dyes and pigments, plastics, "perfumes" to name a few
there are also all the invisible chemicals used in our industrial processes that make their way into the environment via the air, waste water as well as the products themselves.
many of these compounds are known to cause endocrine disruption, immune disruption or inflammation of some sort. studies continue to find harmful effects at lower and lower doses - especially when people are exposed to more than one - even if individual levels of each are below what is considered the safe level. the reality is very likely that there simply is no safe level.
and we know that all chronic diseases are inflammatory in their mechanism.
so rather than Lyme and co causing this epidemic of chronic disease - i think it more appropriate to see these conditions as opportunistic infections that are only able to take hold when the host's immune system is suppressed or disturbed in some way and they can get in and take hold/ weak havoc.
and that's the big change - pretty much all humans are exposed (for example: forever chemicals are found in every human tested so far - including Inuit tribespeople from remote Alaskan settlements ).
And at the same time - we as a culture in the western world - have also stepped further away from our historical template - ie the one that we were best biologically adapted for:
-we eat the wrong foods -
-we get less sleep than ever before
-we stare at screen for many hours a day
-we are permanently stressed by work, money worries, social pressures, news cycles etc
and we are lonelier than ever before
each one of these factors is already known to significantly increase the risk of chronic illness.
when combined with the immune disruption from environmental pollutants its enough to explain the chronic disease epidemic
but also - think about
it -
Lyme is not really just Lyme - its a complex of opportunistic pathogens that conspire to subjugate the hosts immune system
i don't think there is good evidence that Lyme has really been engineered in any way - it has a very different genetic makeup to other bacteria because its a weird spiral shaped thing on its own branch of the evolutionary tree of life - so that's exactly as you would expect.
also - it was already present all over the world - and tick borne illness associated with it was well documented - even in England in the 19th century - so it isn't actually salient whether ticks with it in them were released at some point in time in the USA or not.
but lets say it was - there are 28 pathogenic species of bartonella - also present around the world - which may in fact be a bigger issue than Lyme itself - do we think these were somehow created or amplified by some government program in the USA also?
similar story with Babesia - maybe a dozen species and hundreds of strains - and often causes lyme to be much more of a problem - but its incidence is also increasing - were all these strains also lab generated.
that's just the top 3 infections in the lyme complex - there are also anaplasma, erhlichia, rickettsia, TBRF and on and on
if you think bout how humans evolved and lived right up to the last few hundred years - most of us would have hunted game, carried it back to our camp on our backs, lived with our animals, foraged in the woods etc
in other words - we will have been exposed to ticks and the diseases they carry on a daily basis
much like in the animal populations - only the weak became ill (or we wouldn't all be here today to talk about
it) and hence Lyme was just a part of natural selection.
people with these underserved and very challenging illnesses - often feel let down by the state - the health system - the government - feel disenfranchised by their experiences - angry at their lack of treatment or support - and are often more than ready to believe conspiracy theories - especially if they point to someone to blame for their misfortune (which conspiracy theories always do).
but the truth is - if we really engage our critical reasoning powers - we look for more than just the confirmation of our own narratives - at the wider picture and what doesn't line up or support that story -at the alternative explanations - then we can see we don't need a conspiracy theory to explain what we see around us today - yes there where likely dubious experiments that may have exposed the public to risks they should not have - just like the atom bomb tests in the 50's and 60's where people were exposed to radiation or fallout when someone guessed the the wind direction wrong etc - and yes, whenever there are governments and institutions there will be wrongdoing on occasions - but it doesn't mean the global epidemic of tick born diseases we have today are in any way connected.