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Some of the orthopedic medical groups in the Tampa Bay area have been advertising about using the stem cell therapy for joint and other repair. Any blips out in the ether about using stem cells for heart repair?
The government and industry response to Wuhan/Covid-19 has been strange, unexpected, "out of step", to previous similar events. The targeting of children to be injured, maimed, killed is something I have never seen before.
Feels like a new set of rules is in place ... not to my benefit.
This one has been going through my mind for a couple years at least and is one area where I don't completely agree with our host.
Do I think money/greed had a lot to do with where we are now? Absolutely. But I also think there is an evil out there who leveraged that greed to enact their own agenda.
You remember hearing about old civilizations that started sacrificing their young toward the end of their existence. Carthage, Myans, etc.
- We had what amounts to an abortion free for all in our country, even more liberal than most of Europe. Just allowing our states to take back the control of that access led to a pushback like none other. And don't tell me it's "my body, my choice" because those same people tried to vax everyone against their will.
- School shutdowns. We sacrificed two years of our children's development to "save" the old and unhealthy. Literally ruining our future to benefit those who should be doing the sacrificing.
- I noticed a commercial for RSV a few months ago. "Be on the lookout because it's now affecting the elderly, we're working on a vaccine for it." Was the gist of it. Nobody gave a shit as it killed hundreds of kids every year, hell, my two week old got it and it was the worst week of my life. And definitely worse than covid. But threaten the elderly and the world needs to stop for it.
- The sexualization of our children, forcing them to grow up before their time and make life-altering decisions they have no business making.
- Stem cells, as you bring up, sacrifice babies in the womb to keep us alive a bit longer.
Do I think we'll be stabbing babies in the street any time soon or throwing them into volcanoes? God I hope not, but put a 21st century spin on child sacrifice and what I'm seeing concerns me. Our first goal as a species should be to do everything to make the next generation succeed, even if it negatively impacts us, we do the exact opposite as a society.
Sorry if it's tin, I'll stop.
@Forever_young -- It's not tin to take the two points you raise: (1)
we should do everything to make the next generation succeed and (2)
the past several decades, and especially the last few years, have flipped this on its head: sacrificing the young to the benefit of the elder.The illustration you make of abortion as an on-demand service is quite explicit, but we can see it in the form of the erection of barriers to success in financial & familial success (coupled with their demonizing, e.g.
Millennials are killing vacations, dining out, and weddings! or "
if you don't wear the mask and get the shot, you're killing grandma!" or inflation**) --and socially we can see this in the corporations that wring their employees dry and throw them away, or in our political caste who impose ever more onerous burdens while exempting themselves-- are
all sowing very bad things in their sectors of life.
The collapse of small businesses in favor for the mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Amazon being forced by the government (i.e. the "shutdowns") is one example; notice how the injection mandates were really pushed by the corporations and employers: they could have said "
Fuck Off!" to OSHA's blatantly illegal & illegitimate*... instead, we got the corporations joining in and pushing it with their own "
take it or lose your job!"
The thing that is striking here is that it's not just the passive injustice of failing the obligations to the lesser (meaning weaker/less-capable/defenseless), but more... it's the
active injustice of working against that obligation, just like those RSV ads you mention and the "kill infants to save grandma!"-mindset we're seeing. -- Now, I don't think that "most" Americans support this mindset, but the reason they're not fighting back is because of the learned helplessness, the sense of eternal impotence in achieving policy-impact.
I think the only answer there is to turn to Jesus, pray, and do what you can, even if it's only a little... even if it's something you think is probably "doomed to failure". As the ticker on courage from Ishmael pointed out, it only took a strike of four days when the nurses found their balls.
* Read the opinion that the USSC put out when they struck down the OSHA mandates: they took a bit of initiative to smack it down
hard, which they
could have easily avoided by focusing more strictly on the pure issue that was brought up. (As contrasted with decisions where they afford deference to "
standard operating procedure", like when they talked in circles around striking down "exigent circumstances" and warrantless searches.)
** See
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/15/millenni.....
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along with their overlords.