Your Immune System -- Use it or Lose it

When I was a young, I used to get "sick" (have a fever, get the flu, etc.). I had the measles, I had the mumps, I had something called "Echo Virus". When I was seven, I kissed my best friend Ellen because she had the chicken pox and I wanted to get them (I didn't get them until almost 30 years later and then I had such a mild case -- I had a milder case than the children who gave it to me!)

Back then, getting sick was part of life -- we would get sick and stay home from school for a few days and Mom would coddle us and cuddle us and spoil us with, in my case, pineapple-grapefruit juice that I loved. I got to watch the quiz shows on TV and, during baseball season I got to watch my Mets.

So being "sick" was nothing to be upset about (unless it came in the summer or any other "off" day). We didn't have a ton of shots (aka vaccines) -- I had a smallpox vaccine that I only know about because I had a "vaccination mark" on the outer side of my upper left arm (which I could see). I was told I had a polio vaccine (and when I was about 8 or so I had another "immunization" polio sugar cube) and the first shot I remember was the DPT (what I think is now called DTaP)

Now we are in a generation where vaccines and medication are rampant -- where people are afraid of measles and mumps and chicken pox (yes, even mild but uncomfortable chicken pox!) which set the stage for the morbid fear of CoVid -- a fear so deep that people acted as though exposure to someone who MIGHT have CoVid was an instant death warrant. This is a disease that over 99% of the people who had it survived and most were safe from getting it again (unless they got a toxic vaccine, but I digress). The only person I was worried about was my 90 year old father (with good reason -- this "virus" was used as an excuse to ignore him, not treat him after they exposed him to it in his nursing home). At the time, I was trying to find out how to get him out of the nursing home but everything was happening so fast that within a month after the nursing homes shut us out of visiting he was gone.

Why is there such a fear of germs? Why don't people understand that G-d created the human body brilliantly, with G-d level intelligence and wisdom, G-d built our bodies to repair themselves. Some viruses and bacteria strengthen the body while vaccinations weaken the body and bypass the strengthening process. It is as though a person ignores lifting weights or aerobic exercise and then doesn't understand why their muscles atrophy.

And the left, Democrats, the Sleepy Joes, Kommunist Harrises, Fancy Nancy Pantsys, "Chuck it all" Schumers, use a normal, natural mild childhood type illness as a means to press compliance, the type of compliance that Communist leaders like Stalin and Mao, Castro and Chavez and more recently Putin and Xi force on their people (I almost said "followers" but these "leaders" have no followers -- they have mental slaves, people who do what they need to survive).

On this Memorial Day, I think the most important thing we can do is fight for the things that our soldiers fought for (and, in many cases, died for). We need to protect our G-d given rights (including Medical Freedom). We can't be complacent and think The Constitution will protect us if we don't protect the Constitution (and our rules of law). Let us bow our heads in silent prayer and ask G-d to protect us from those who would take our freedom. And while we're at it, let us do what we can do to be a part of that process. Stand up and defend our rights and our Constitution.

Have a meaningful Memorial Day.

Roe, roe, roe your wade....

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1973 was the year the Mets made it to their second world series, the year of the Yom Kippur war and my year at Livingston College. 1973 was also the year Roe vs Wade became the law of the land, and was the first year I could vote. I remember being excited over the prospect of voting, but I don't recall whom I voted for.

At the time, I had fallen for the lines about saving women's lives by making abortion clean, surgical, and relatively safe compared to back alley abortions or wire hangers. I never gave much thought to the unborn children.

Fast forward a few years. My Mom worked for the Department of Social Services (Welfare) and as part of her job, she chauffeured clients to Planned Parenthood. She wasn't allowed (even if she hadn't supported abortion on demand) to give the young mothers any other advise on what to do to deal with their pregnancy besides abortion (one of her co-workers tried and was reprimanded).

Fast Forward again to 2016. Donald Trump had just won the election (I, like the good liberal that I was, had voted for Hillary, despite misgivings about her position on Israel and the Middle East in general). I was talking with my Mom about how upset I was over Trump's victory. She gave me the same advice she gave me when Obama won (and I was unhappy) "You're stuck with him for 4 years anyway. Why not give him a chance?" So I did and he won me over.

So now I'm in an unusual position. I've gone conservative (or was I already there without knowing it?) because for the most part the conservatives seem to hold the same values as I do (albeit with a different religion, though they, as I, put G-d, fear of G-d and a G-dly life at the center of our world.) And, as an Orthodox Jew, I know that the Jewish view of abortion is not the same as, say, the Catholic view. So I want to make certain that Jewish law would be honored in a case where Jewish law and Catholic law diverge.

But by the same token, I do not consider the "pro-choice" position a viable option (especially since they don't give mothers a choice. How can you call yourself "pro-choice" if you don't give a choice?)

The Party of "Depopulation" is choosing the planet, a piece of rock with water, over the people who live here. Nature's goal is to keep the species alive. Democrats are interested in saving the planet (and their fiefdoms) while sacrificing the serfs (and the next generation). As long as Roe vs. Wade represents that way of looking at Earth and the people thereof, I am glad to see it go. Abortion won't be outlawed. The overturning of Roe vs. Wade only kicks the issue back to the states, as it should be based on the 10th Amendment of the constitution. Many states will remain unchanged on this issue (probably NY and California, for example). But others might do what Texas did -- outlaw late term "abortions". Abortion is such a nice clean term for violently murdering an unborn baby.

Don't make this your only issue. Make your decision based on truth, not rumors.