All right, I have to admit it: I am sick. I have some sort of cold and it sucks.
Now what I want to know is how do I cure this thing? To me it seems there should be some sort of cure to the common cold. I mean, we can make bombs that can kill millions of people, level cities, and lay waste to entire countries; yet, we cannot cure the common cold? This is ridiculous!
To illustrate this point I did a little research nd found this quote from the National Institute of Health:
“There is no cure for the common cold, but you can get relief from your cold symptoms by…”
(http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/cold.htm)
Ah Ha! Now follow along with me here and see if you can make the same mental jumps I did. We have so far cured Small Pox, German Measles, Polio, and Mumps. None of which are simple achievements. Why did we cure them? Simple, there is no profit in these diseases for the pharmaceutical companies. You get them once, ever. Now the common cold reoccurs, in infinite variety. Just look at your local grocery store or pharmacy (that’s the chemist for my UK readers). They have shelf after shelf of things to treat the symptoms of a cold, yet not one cure. You will see things listed on the labels as “Cold Remedies”. They lie, just read the fine print on the back of most of them. The even say that “The F.D.A. has not evaluated these statements as to their effectiveness.” In other words, “Yea, we lied, but look here, we are not liable cause we said we lied…we call it marketing.” One of the most common treatments for the symptoms of the common cold is a chemical known as Dextramathorphan Hydrogen Bromide. It is the main ingredient in things like Nyquil and Robitussen DM. It is also a major hallucinogen. So, here you go- they stone you our so you don’t care your sick. Take enough and you may even believe your getting better. Most likely you will also believe that the government has your best interests in mind, they will never lie to you and that the giant space ants in charge are really nice guys. Nyquil, -that sniffling, sneezing, how the hell did I wake up under the kitchen table medicine.
Furthering my search shows there is little funding available to research the common cold’s common cure. So here we feed into the idea there is no money in curing it, only making they symptoms go away.
Myself, I think they could combine research. Put the guys who build nukes on the case. I bet within a year we have a cure. Of course that pill would make you glow like the sun for 1/20 of a second and break wind at 250 miles per hour plus that could knock down buildings and set goats on fire at 3 miles. But what the hell, least you couldn’t be sniffling anymore!
Till next time,
Be mindful and awake
I was always told that we can't really cure the common cold because there are actually millions of completely different viruses that can cause what we call a "cold". *shrugs*
ReplyDeleteAnd I still stand by the fact that NyQuil is a grand thing. Best sleep aid I ever had. :P