According to current worldwide statistics, over 400 million patients listed as RECOVERED from COVID-19. Not one is listed as cured. At the same time, many companies are publishing successful research into vaccines for COVID-19. Why does this happen? Why can we produce vaccines but not cures. There are two main reasons, both stemming from our medical views of cure and prevention.
Cure
Cured is not defined for COVID-19. This should not be a surprise. Our medical systems generally ignore cured except for infectious diseases cured by a medicine that kills the infectious cause. What about COVID-19?
Most cases of COVID-19, over 95 percent, are cured by health. Just like the common cold. Our medical systems say: “there is no cure for the common cold“. Millions of colds are cured — nobody cares. There are no statistics of patients cured of the common cold.
There is not a single report of COVID-19 cured. There are lots of claims and lots of denials. What about proof? Proof of COVID-19 cured is not possible. Cured is not defined. There are no tests for COVID-19 cured. Note: It is also not possible to prove COVID-19 “not cured” because cured is not defined medically. There is no medical distinction possible between a case of COVID-19 recovered, one in remission, and a case of COVID-19 cured. Because cured is not defined, we can’t tell if any second case in the same patient is a remission or a new case. Without a scientific definition of cured we can’t tell. But no definition exists.
Our medical systems often confuse “is cured” with “has been cured.” Medically, has been cured requires an approved medicine. Is cured, on the other hand, might happen because of natural healthy processes or from alternative treatments – but those cures don’t count, so they are not counted.
COVID-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Cured is generally not defined for viral diseases. Viruses are dead, so no medicine can kill them. Measles is cured by health, but medically, “there is no cure for measles,” according to the Mayo Health Clinic. The same is true of influenza and AIDS. It’s not about the virus. I’ve had measles. It’s cured. But, there is no scientific or medical definition of measles cured.
When we work to create a definition of cure, it soon gets complicated. A serious case of COVID-19 consists of several elements of illness. First, there’s the viral infection. We believe that most cases of SARS-COV-2 infection are asymptomatic. They don’t even advance to a stage where COVID-19 can be diagnosed. So COVID-19 cannot be cured in those cases. Then as the infection becomes more serious, it can cause many signs and symptoms, like a cough, possible loss of smell, and others, which need to be cured. If or when the disease continues to advance, there can be a possibility of a cytokine storm, and in some cases ARDS — Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, possibly followed by COVID pneumonia and COVID-Treatment PTSD. Each element or stage of COVID-19 requires a unique cure.
Our current medical system has no concept of a partial cure, no concept of a disease that requires a partial or elementary cure. In addition, although cured is defined for pneumonia, it is not (cannot be) defined scientifically for ARDS or PTSD in our current medical paradigm.
It’s not difficult to study cure and cured for any disease. Our medical systems and researchers are currently not interested. No one is exploring the concepts of COVID-19 cured scientifically.
This is the normal situation for most diseases. Most cures come from health, not from medicines. There is no generalized scientific definition of cure in any conventional or alternative medical theory. Cured is only medically defined for an infectious disease where the infectious agent is killed or removed by an approved medicine or a surgery.
Curing COVID-19, and proving it cured, is impossible in the current medical paradigm. The elephant is in the room – but we can’t see it.
Prevention
Prevention, on the other hand, does not require proof. Proof is not possible. It is not possible to prove an individual case of disease have been prevented. Maybe it wouldn’t have happened. It’s not there. Prevention is statistical, as in the famous quote “lies, damn lies, and statistics”.
As a result, it’s easy to develop a preventative: gloves, hand sanitizer, face masks, social distancing, and vaccines. The burden of proof is low. Sales are driven by fear. Failures are easily explained away; the patient didn’t do it right, the doctor didn’t do it right, the preventative is not perfect….and so on.
Preventatives are profitable. Preventatives make money from every sale. Even social distancing sells floor stickers and warning signs. Everybody needs a preventative. The paradigm that ignores or dismisses cures and sells prevention is very profitable. Prevention is better than cure is easily converted to a fear tool. It is true and useful in some cases, but it has more power as a marketing tool.
Preventatives are sold by marketing fear. BE AFRAID! There are no cures for COVID-19.
Prevention vs Cure:
When someone has COVID-19, a preventative is no use. Preventatives don’t cure. But even after patients recover we can sell them a preventative. Maybe they’re not protected. Generating fear increases sales.
Cures, on the other hand, are the most powerful preventatives. If we cure the infection quickly, it can’t create a cytokine storm, ARDS, COVID-19 Pneumonia, or COVID-19 PTSD. If we cure the ARDS quickly, we can prevent the pneumonia and PTSD. Curing each stage prevents the next.
When we have COVID-19, cures are better than preventatives… but.. Most people only have COVID-19 for a few days or weeks. After that, they don’t need a cure anymore. But, we can still sell them preventatives. Preventatives are constantly marketable, continuously profitable.
A cure is a one-time sale, whether it works or not. A vaccine is a revenue stream. As long as we live in fear — even as the frequency of disease drops, profits continue to grow. Prevention’s marketers want us to maintain constant vigilance – and keep buying.
To your health, Tracy
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This post is based on my answer to the Quora question: Why were the vaccines for COVID created quicker than the cures? You can click the link to see the original question and the answers from other people as well.
