'Germ theory' hooks us to drugs and needles

But if it's not germs or viruses, why do we get sick?

Hello again! Glad to see you’ve returned, or just joined, to learn more of my thoughts on why it’s so important for us to understand that viruses don’t exist. My first article, It matters that viruses don’t exist, listed five reasons why I have opened a Substack to share my thoughts on this, and my second article, Stop the next plandemic before it starts, unpacked the first reason, which is the dead certainty that more plandemics will be coming down the pike as long as people continue to be afraid that these fictitious entities might kill them.

This article will elaborate on Reason #2: “Germ theory” (including “viruses”) and contagion are part of a larger and highly disempowering pack of lies we have been told for centuries about health, how the body works, what “illness” is, and how to maintain health. This is a very large topic, so it may require more than one article, and will certainly rely on references to researchers from whom I have learned, who have done deep dives on these subjects.

Childhood ‘colds’ and ‘flu epidemics’

I grew up in the US being taught, both in school and at home (my mom was a nurse), that childhood diseases were caused by germs or “viruses.” I learned that when I got a stuffy nose, sore throat, cough, and/or fever, it was a “cold” or “the flu.” (Though for me, it was never “the flu,” since even when supposed “flu epidemics” swept through the schools in the early 1960s, I was always one of the handful of kids sitting among the empty desks while half or more of my classmates were home sick.)

“Germ theory” is the idea that every disease is caused by one specific type of microbe. Thus we have the polio “virus,” the measles “virus,” the smallpox “virus,” strep throat caused by Streptococcus bacteria, whooping cough caused by Bordatella pertussis bacteria, etc. , all different particles.

Each of these diseases supposedly has its identifiable set of symptoms by which cases are diagnosed, though if you look closer, “measles” and “smallpox” are very similar to each other and to “chickenpox,” and the “disease” that was a recent plandemic flop, “monkeypox,” also features a skin rash. Likewise, symptoms of respiratory “illnesses” like “colds,” “flu,” and pneumonia, which can purportedly be caused by either a “virus” or bacteria, resemble each other very closely, as do symptoms of “Covid-19.”

(The need to use quotation marks to indicate I’m using these words and phrases not in a literal sense may get a little tedious—sorry! It’s necessary because I do not want to normalize these words. They do not mean what they are usually taken to mean.)

Yet, according to “germ theory,” these are all distinct “illnesses,” and each has its own particular microbe. Many of them (with the exception of the “common cold”) also have their own vaccine, required almost universally in school districts for children to attend. Vaccines are also being more and more strongly urged on adults, especially older adults, for flu, shingles, pneumonia, hepatitis B, RSV (respiratory syncyitial virus, another name for respiratory symptoms), and others. This is a key fact to keep in mind when putting “germ theory” under the mental microscope. There is an obvious major financial incentive for the medical-industrial complex to keep people believing in viruses and getting their children and themselves vaccinated.

“Germ theory” also relies on a corollary: contagion. All the above and every other illness supposedly caused by microbes is called “infectious.” The story is that these microscopic entities are passed between people through the air when they cough and sneeze, or on surfaces that ill people touched, or when you drink out of the same cup as your sniffly kid in the bathroom when brushing your teeth. And speaking of kids, every parent knows that as soon as the littles go to day care or school, they start bringing home all the “germs” that their peers bring to school.

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(The myth of contagion is a whole topic unto itself that I will cover in another article. It deserves its own refutation, and there is plenty to say about it.)

One of the insidious things about “germ theory” is that it seems to be corroborated by our own experience, day in and day out. That’s how it was for me. I believed all of this while growing up, while raising my children, and while navigating “winter colds” and coughing co-workers. I always felt fortunate in the genetics roulette that I seemed to have been born with a strong “immune system” and I hardly ever got sick. A few “colds” here and there, and that’s it. (Still is.)

(For this reason, I never have taken a “flu” shot, and initially had the same response to the idea that I should get a “Covid-19” shot: I just don’t need that kind of “help” to stay healthy. By now, of course, I have many more reasons to avoid not just these, but all injections, and to regret that I ever allowed any needles to be stuck into my kids.)

So I am sympathetic to the challenge it may be to be hearing all this for the first time (“mind blown”). And it’s natural to ask, what then does make people sick? “How do you explain why four people who were together at a concert got sick with the same symptoms the next day?” “Why is it that the kids get sick a lot after they start school, and then the whole family would get sick too?”

“Germ theory” seems to explain this so well—and, of course, it is the only reason ever offered so most of us naturally accepted it. But it isn’t the only possible explanation for illness (it isn’t even a possible explanation itself, since it is actually not a theory at all but a disproven hypothesis).

Second Thoughts on the Germ Theory

When we assume “germ theory” is the explanation and don’t look further, we allow ourselves to continue being led by the western medical narrative into doctors’ offices, screening appointments, vaccine clinics, hospital ERs, and drug stores in search of health.

Our bodies are way smarter than we think

So what does make people ill if not viruses they “catch” from someone who’s sick? This question is much too big to answer in a couple of paragraphs, and in fact it is impossible to answer scientifically because there are so many variables that scientific investigation is basically impossible. Since I’m not a scientist, I’ll just jump in and tell you what I think.

First, our bodies are ingeniously designed to stay healthy. Our systems are intricately interdependent and are always seeking balance. When a substance or an influence shows up that the body does not want, it has numerous mechanisms for getting that substance or influence out, and all of them are what we call “symptoms” of “illness.” These include vomiting, diarrhea, sneezing, coughing, runny nose, fever, skin rashes, watery eyes or crying, and tiredness. When we are exposed to diesel fumes, for example, we cough, maybe our eyes water. When we have eaten bad food, we will likely vomit and/or have diarrhea within a few hours.

We also often have buildups of toxins that our bodies need to periodically cleanse. When we breathe in all manner of air pollution day in and day out, eat a diet that includes non-food substances like chemical additives, breathe stagnant indoor air all winter, sit too many hours of the day so our lymph gets sluggish and our digestion slows down, we have “junk” inside that needs to be cleared out. This is often the reason for a “cold” or “flu,” when the body uses all the detox pathways to burn up the detritus (fever), cleanse the mucus membranes (nasal congestion), and eject waste products via the lungs (coughing and sneezing). Bacteria have a significant role in these detox experiences, since their reason for being is to clean up dead and damaged tissue, thus stimulating the elimination of these waste products via one or more of the symptomatic detox pathways.

If we understood these “symptoms” as means by which our bodies were getting rid of something unwanted or cleaning up some of the stagnant debris including dead cells inside, we wouldn’t worry about being “sick,” and we’d rest, drink fluids, and support our bodies’ cleansing efforts instead of trying to stop them.

Very often, when the body goes into these clean-up modes, or when it develops chronic “disease” “symptoms,” it’s because some type of toxin has entered. Not a “virus,” unless you want to use the original meaning of that word: poison. There are SO MANY toxins in the world, more now than ever in history, and the body does its best to eliminate them when they are present. For a deep dive on this, I highly recommend a book by Dawn Lester and David Parker, What Really Makes You Ill: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong. All their sources are right there in the text.

Toxins, starvation, or injury

For me, what makes the most sense as to what causes the body to create “symptoms” in its efforts at recovering health and balance, are these three things: toxins, starvation, and injury (thanks to Dr. Tom Cowan for this list). Each of these categories includes not just physical influences but emotional, mental, social, environmental, and spiritual influences as well. A toxin can be a pollutant in the air, non-native EMFs that interfere with our own electromagnetic system, a heavy metal in a vaccine or a mercury filling in a tooth, a toxic relationship at home or work, a toxic belief about getting sick, or a toxic emotion like fear that hangs on. Injuries can be outward like a cut or broken bone, damage to internal organs from food ingredients that tear the gut lining or tax the liver, or stress, which causes untold damage both inside and out.

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Malnutrition or starvation can be not getting nutrients the body needs from food, which is a real thing even in an overfed nation like the US. Soil depletion and excessive use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers has resulted in vegetables and fruits with fewer nutrients than those of 70 or 80 years ago; and the junk foods on supermarket shelves are lacking in nutrients and full of chemical colorings, flavorings, etc. (i.e., toxins). When we don’t give our bodies the components they need to conduct all the minutely choreographed processes required to operate maximally, there will be tissue damage (injury) and things won’t work right (sluggish blood flow, lymphatic stagnation, diminished lung capacity, aching joints, brain fog, and so many more).

Malnutrition can also be a lack of emotional, spiritual, social, and psychological nourishment: an inadequate social support network; not enough physical or eye contact, which we all need, not just babies; lack of a sense of purpose in life; not having a creative outlet; feeling not seen or heard; isolation; or disconnection from nature. I’m sure you can think of others.

Interesting that almost all of these things are regular features of life in a highly polluted biosphere and inhumane economic and social environments. And none of them are even considered by most allopathic doctors when diagnosing a “disease” in a patient. The very idea that emotions, electromagnetic disturbances, or spiritual injuries or toxicities could cause your body to be ill is far outside the narrow lens of western medicine.

As long as germ theory is the only game in town for considering what causes everyday, chronic, and severe illness, all other kinds of human needs and experiences will be ignored by medical professionals—and often by us ourselves, if we are caught up in the “germ theory” paradigm.

Among other things, this lets industrial polluters, big pharma, big food, big ag, and purveyors of 5G entirely off the hook for any role in the vast increase of ill-health in the US and the world over the past 50 years. All the poison pesticides and herbicides, the “medications” that interfere with the body’s processes, all the waves that mess with our bodies’ electromagnetic fields, all the synthetic “food” ingredients our bodies can’t deal with, all those tens of thousands of chemicals in use, some known carcinogens and the vast majority untested for their effects on health, especially in combination—all these are given almost a complete pass by medical professionals and by individuals who believe disease is caused by germs or forces “ unknown.”

Other paradigms also exist for explaining what makes people ill. German New Medicine is one I know of, focusing on emotional and psychological shocks. And there are others also (e.g., emotions cause problems in particular parts of the body (Louise Hay); imbalances of cell salts lead to tissue injury; electricity and electromagnetic radiation are the root cause of all illness by messing with cellular activity, etc.). The important thing to know is that believing in “germ theory” stops us from looking at any of the other possible causes of illness and explanations for why our bodies or brains aren’t healthy. And most of all, it gives us radically wrong ideas about how our bodies work and pushes us into the arms of the medical-industrial complex.

The exciting thing about all this is that we can start to see that a) we are NOT simply walking random victims of microbes flying through the air or waiting for us on the handle of the grocery cart, and b) we have MUCH more control over our state of health than we have believed: e.g., we can become aware of our toxic exposures and detox the ones we can’t avoid; give our bodies all the nutrients they require for tip-top function and effective cleansing; deepen our awareness of our mental, emotional and spiritual needs and know they are as important as our physical needs. We can learn how our bodies really work, how actually powerful they are at self-healing if we allow them—and how we can support their innate processes rather than interfering with them.

This is one of the reasons I call this Substack “This Changes Everything.” Knowing viruses don’t exist and germs don’t cause disease means that not only does no one need the “Covid-19 vaccine”—no one needs ANY vaccine since the whole vaccine program is predicated on viruses causing diseases. The whole childhood vaccine schedule is out the window, along with all the injuries that these injections cause. This change would shake the very foundations of pharma-based medicine—and think about the babies and children who get to grow up with their entire systems intact, uncompromised by anything delivered through a needle!

But that’s not all. Ditching “germ theory” and “virology” directs us away from almost ALL productions of the medical-industrial complex (I’d argue all of them, but there may be occasions where allopathy has something useful to offer) and gives us back the agency and responsibility we should have over our own health. In doing so, it has the potential to change how we understand our own being, our capacities, our vulnerabilities, and the innate beauty and power of our bodies and spirits. To me, this awareness opens a door to a whole new range of possibilities for what it means to be human.

Exploring more of this will be the topic of future articles here. For next week, staying in the realm of how virology and “germ theory” mislead us about illness, I will address how those paradigms are preventing many from connecting the dots about the massive increase in illness and death since people started getting the “Covid” jabs—Reason #3 why it is imperative to know that “viruses” do not exist.

Resources for lies about health and what really makes us ill

Dawn Lester’s Substack, Dawn’s Writings

Why Pathogens Don't Exist

Measles Magic