Killers All Around
Are Reversing
Human Victories Over Infectious Disease
(A Review of Time Magazine Cover Story)
The Time Magazine cover story begins by reminding us how, not long ago, humanity thought that infectious diseases were rapidly becoming a thing of the past. In the 1970s, the medical world started boasting its imminent victory. And why not? Once deadly illnesses such as polio, small pox, malaria, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus "seemed like quaint reminders of a bygone era, like Model T Fords or silent movies". And antibiotics transformed the most terrifying diseases known to mankind such as tuberculosis, syphilis, pneumonia, bacterial meningitis, and even bubonic plague into "mere inconveniences that if caught could be cured with pills or shots". Medical students were being told not to go into infectious disease, a "declining speciality". Instead, they were advised to concentrate on "real problems" like cancer and heart disease.
But, unfortunately, that era of great medical success and confidence is rapidly giving way to a new era of medical defeat and fear. The Time cover story states, "The question ceased to be, When will infectious disease be wiped out? and became, Where will the next deadly new plague appear?" The article goes on to tell us about new lethal agents emerging in Africa and South America. As population grows and man settles new parts of the world, like a new part of the Brazilian rain forest, for example, new deadly diseases spread from other animals such as monkeys to humans. As those deadly agents adapt to humans, they gain the potential for large-scale deadly pandemics. In today's world of extensive air travel, those deadly agents become just a plane ride from America.
And it gets worse: Antibiotics are our main defense that stand between us and some of the most deadly bacterial diseases. But bacteria evolve and steadily adapt for survival, and now they are well adapting to antibiotics. Very rapidly. In fact, every disease known to man is already resistant to antibiotics of one form or another. Several "outdated", once devastating illnesses are back and on the rise: malaria, cholera, measles, tuberculosis, even bubonic plague. Perhaps even more threatening are the "seemingly prosaic but once deadly infections" staph and strep. They have become much harder to treat. Both spread through the cleanest of hospitals, cured routinely with antibiotics. But as these two infections develop universal resistance, what will happen to our hospitals?
"One of medicine's worst nightmares is the development of a drug-resistant strain of severe invasive strep A," the article states. Severe, invasive strep A killed Muppeteer Jim Henson in 1990, and doctors believe this is on the rise.
Bacteria adapt to antibiotics because, while rapidly multiplying, bacteria will mutate and change slightly, just enough to outwit their combatant drugs.
Viruses, on the other hand, are usually tamed and sometimes even eradicated by the preventive vaccine. But new viruses keep arising. Viruses that have gone undetected, inhabiting animal populations, can and will make the jump to humans. The Time article tells us that is the case with some very lethal new African viruses such as Ebola, which made the jump from monkeys to humans.
But again, it gets worse. Let's quote Time Magazine: "It isn't just new viruses that have doctors worried. Perhaps the most ominous prospect of all is a virulent strain of influenza. Every so often, a highly lethal strain emerges. Unlike HIV, flu moves through the air and is highly contagious. The last killer strain showed up in 1918 and claimed 20 million lives -- more than all the combat deaths in World War I. And that was before global air travel; the next outbreak could be even more devastating."
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The Time Magazine article briefly reviewed above explains what is happening and why we are fast approaching human catastrophes that could claim some of our very own loved ones, especially our own children and grandchildren. A definitive antidote, however, does exist. The only antidote to these approaching human catastrophes is: super rapidly advancing new technology (Neo-Tech). Only super rapidly advancing new technology (Neo-Tech) can win the race against super rapidly evolving infectious diseases, which will soon outpace our vaccines and antibiotics.
Killer Flu
Seattle police wore protective masks during the pandemic of 1918. That killer flu infected 1 billion people and killed more than 20 million in 10 months. The population in 1918 was less than half of today.
As repeatedly warned throughout the national media like the Time Magazine article, we are suddenly losing the race against infectious diseases, with mutant strains of old diseases returning after decades of "absence" and new diseases invading us with sudden terror. A medical defeat to microbes will bring with it great human catastrophes like those experienced in the time of bubonic plague, polio, and killer flus like that in 1918 that infected over one billion people, half the world's population in 1918, and killed over 20 million people in 10 months. Never in the history of the world has there been so many deaths in such a short period of time. Man has never experienced anything close to that catastrophic pandemic since, but scientists fear a repeat may not be far in coming.
The 1918 Spanish Flu as it was called because of its extraordinary devastation in Spain, actually started right here in the United States and infected 25% of our population and killed one out of every 50 infected Americans. Sadly, scientists and doctors say that logistically "we are due" for another killer strain. In fact, in 1976, we survived a great scare -- a false alarm, or perhaps more apropos, a fair warning: A soldier at Fort Dix, New Jersey got the flu and died. The medical world was stunned when the virus taken from the dead soldier was a descendent of the 1918 killer swine-flu! The medical world braced itself for another catastrophe of unthinkable proportions. But by the grace of God, the deadly swine-flu virus that made the jump from pigs to humans was an isolated case unable, this time, of passing among humans. This time, we were lucky. Next time...
Only super rapidly advancing new technology can prevent a "next time". For example, the new technology of genetic engineering has the potential to permanently and universally stop deadly viruses and bacteria. The problem with this promising new technology, however, is that it is not super rapidly advancing. Remember, Neo-Tech is super rapidly advancing new technology. Simply put, the way things are now, we will lose the race and live to experience a great human catastrophe.
The following brief review from the same issue of Time Magazine tells of new technologies currently pursued by doctors, scientists, and businessmen (but again, missing the key ingredient of super rapidly advancing):
"Doctors and the public were not alone in feeling cocky about infectious
disease a decade ago. The drug companies did too," so begins this article.
"More than 100 antibiotics were on the market, and they had most bacterial
diseases on the run, if not on the verge of eradication." The pharmaceutical
industry simply modified existing antibiotics to stay one step ahead of the
bacteria. But that approach no longer works. So, researchers are turning to
new technologies to get back in the lead against disease.
One dynamic approach is called "rational" drug design. Scientists study the
molecular structure of a bacterium, particularly the active site of the enzyme
used by the bacterium to fight off the antibiotic. Next, scientists attempt to
design a molecule to "plug up" the active site of that enzyme. Without the
effect of that enzyme, the bacterium will once again be killed by the original
drug.
The same concept in reverse is being pursued against viruses. You see, viruses
cause their destruction by invading our bodies' living cells. To invade a
living cell involves receptor sites, like little hooks, where the virus joins.
Similarly, a molecule could be designed to block the receptor site so the virus
remains harmless to our bodies. ...So goes the search for such defendant
molecules through "combinatorial" chemistry.
Again, the problem with all this new medical technology is that it is not
super rapidly advancing...not like it should be, not like, say, computer
technology. How, then, does our country get medical technology to super
rapidly advance to prevent great human catastrophes in which some of your
very own loved ones might die? We must now radically pour private
research funds into medical technology and multiply businesses' aggressiveness
in the face of this great threat. If not, as the Time Magazine article
points out, millions will die. In the United States as well as in every
country abroad, each incremental increase of politicizing the medical industry
drastically bureaucratizes and slows advancing new technology, which in turn
dramatically drives away private research funds. Everything becomes too
inefficient and cost-prohibitive for businesses to invest. On the other hand,
each incremental step the other way -- depoliticizing the medical industry --
drastically speeds up advancing technology, which in turn dramatically attracts
private research funds. If our country is going to win this race against
microbes, we must dramatically depoliticize the medical industry to make it as
free as the computer industry.
Dramatically depoliticizing the medical industry will bring to it Neo-Tech --
super rapidly advancing new technology. Only Neo-Tech will save us from
the coming human catastrophes.
Another force is also at work: America's megatrend against big government.
Economically driven, that megatrend will not stop until it depoliticizes
America. Thrust ahead by that megatrend is yet a third and more specific force
at work: With the mission to blockade the coming human catastrophes, three
businessmen led by Dr. Frank R. Wallace, a former Senior Research Chemist for
Du Pont who was involved in progressive disease cures while at Du Pont, formed
an alliance. That alliance was dedicated to bringing Neo-Tech beyond the
computer industry to the medical industry and to all American industries -- the
only antidote to the coming medical and economic catastrophes. Demonstrating
that only depoliticizing the medical field and businesses like Du Pont will
bring us the super rapidly advancing new technology necessary to win the
race against infectious diseases and blockade the coming human catastrophe, the
alliance has grown from three men to hundreds of thousands of men and women who
are now exposing millions of others, all now being organized into the Neo-Tech
Party: the party for depoliticizing America. (See Chapter
Four for details.)
If America embraces Neo-Tech, three benefits will surface by the year 2001, as
follows:
Let us take a close look at those three phenomenal benefits: First, super
rapidly advancing new technology brings with it near-perfect health to the
young, the old, and to those in the prime of their lives. Neo-Tech brings
perfect health and, quickly, health-care coverage. We all know that
health-care coverage via government regulation would end up like welfare
sufferance, but worse. Why? Because we are literally in a race for our lives
against the dark side of Mother Nature. For decades we have stayed several
steps ahead of that dark side. But politicization of any industry slows
progress to a snail's pace. The increased politicization of the health
industry now has the dark side of Mother Nature advancing faster than man.
Technology and medical progress must stay ahead in this race. Failure
to do so is death by the millions. The way to win the race is to depoliticize
America. For, only with the resulting super-rapid advancement of new
technology will we become free from disease.
But with Neo-Tech and the rapid elimination of infectious diseases, who will be
able to afford all the new treatments and cures? Everyone would easily
afford to be disease free. You see, super-rapid advancement of modern
technology drives prices to fractions. The most recent example: super rapidly
advancing computer technology during the '80s and '90s. The only politically
free major industry during the '80s and '90s, computer technology raced
forward, driving prices to fractions...to the point that buying power
multiplied a thousand times. Indeed, everyone will be able to afford the
coming cures to all diseases, as long as the medical industry and related
businesses are politically free like the computer industry.
All America will eventually go Neo-Tech; politically free cyberspace guarantees
it. The Neo-Tech Party[ 4 ] offers a catalyst, if America embraces
Neo-Tech. And the growing American megatrend against big government is a good
sign that depoliticizing America has begun. Indeed, depoliticizing America
versus politicizing America is a matter of life versus death, a matter of
rapidly advancing new technology (Neo-Tech) quickly outrunning infectious
diseases before it is too late and they outrun us. Moreover, depoliticizing
America is a matter of quality of life. For, when technology is set free in
every industry, then all costs of living, not just computers,
will be driven down to fractions. Just as minimum-wage computer consumers
became computer rich, all ordinary people -- yes you -- will
actually become rich and live in luxury.
Moreover, you will become the person you always dreamed of, the person you were
meant to be. You see, the whole working world will change as technology soars
and industries race ahead. In that rapidly advancing Neo-Tech state, no longer
will you work a boring routine-rut job. Like those lucky few in the early days
of Apple Computer, you will be trained to work an exciting job of the mind that
releases your unknown creative self.
In summary, the arrival of Neo-Tech in America means three things for you:
Upon depoliticizing America, your money will, in essence, multiply 100 times or
more, maybe much more as amply demonstrated by the computer industry of
the '80s and '90s. You see, the personal computers sprang up out of nowhere so
rapidly, they flourished free of government regulations and legislation.
During just a few years, computer buying power multiplied a thousand times --
unprecedented throughout history. Minimum-wage computer consumers became
computer rich as their buying power multiplied 100,000%...a demonstration of
the catalytic wealth-explosion that comes from mixing modern technology with
depoliticizing American industry. That awesome computer revolution was a sneak
preview of the coming, great Technological Revolution upon depoliticizing
all industries. As with the computers, the costs of living over
everything will drop to fractions; your buying power will explode,
conservatively speaking, 100 times or more. Even minimum-wage consumers will
become rich.
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The Three Forces Bringing Us Neo-Tech
Of course, Neo-Tech already exists in the computer industry. The great new
technology -- the Internet's worldwide web inviting everyone into
cyberspace -- is ownerless and politically free. It offers a place where other
industries can safely escape the politicization that holds them back, meaning
that Neo-Tech can come to those other industries through a civilization not
vulnerable to politicization -- cyberspace. The not-yet-understood bonanza of
cyberspace is that it will eventually bring Neo-Tech beyond the computer
industry to all other industries, including the medical industry.
Of course, the first benefit of near-perfect health
upon defeating all diseases with super rapidly advancing new technology is
obvious. Let us now look at the second benefit of super rapidly advancing new
technology, starting with a millionaire fact:The Wealth Fact:
Answer these questions to yourself: "What is my savings?" "What is my
income?" Now, answer this to yourself: "How many times do I need to multiply
my savings and income to live like a millionaire?" What's your answer? A
dozen times...a hundred times...a thousand times? Say you have a couple
thousand dollars saved and say you make $15,000 a year. In other words, like
most people, say you are just getting by. How many times would you need to
multiply your savings and income to live like a rich millionaire? A hundred
times would be plenty, for then you would have $200,000 in a rapidly growing
savings with a yearly income of $1.5 million.
You
Will Live Like A Millionaire!
Chapter 2 Continues
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