The Cold, Norman Rockwell

PEOPLE say there is no cure for the common cold.

But, I believe the cure was found ages ago, in distant history, and people just don’t want to accept it. They want drugs. They want something “scientific.” They want a quick fix that doesn’t disrupt their lives. And that’s why they have not found the best response to sore throats, coughs and stuffed noses.

The cure is rest. A pillow, a bed or soft couch, a glass of water nearby, maybe something light and entertaining to read or watch — that’s all that is needed.

A friend told me that she turned on the TV the other day and an “expert” was telling people to go to the hospital if they get “Covid” — a term of quackery for all kinds of respiratory conditions, including the common cold. What nonsense. Covid is pure invention, the re-branding of colds, flus, pneumonias and other illnesses for the purposes of social engineering on a global scale. Imagine all those who have needlessly and perhaps disastrously run to the hospital. (NOTE: Obviously some have needed acute care. I am not saying here that no one has gotten seriously ill or died.)

Getting back to the cure: resting at the very first sign of a cold, avoiding all stress and work for at least 24 hours when symptoms are still mild, will invariably, I have found, shorten the length and severity of a cold, except in those who are suffering from especially poor health, which is often the case today. Serious rest at any stage is good, but if delayed it will have less immediate benefits. The demands of life unfortunately make it impossible for some people to take this cure and they may end up with illness that lasts for weeks.

I am no expert so you can disregard what I say. At least I’m not selling you anything. I’m not seeking to control you. I don’t get a sick thrill out of decimating your creative energies for the sake of power. Years of observation and trial-and-error have simply taught me this cure, which has ZERO harmful side effects. Did you read that? No harmful side effects. Read the warning labels on your Tylenol and Sudafed or some of the outrageous treatments being proffered today for colds, even in the alternative media, and consider the difference. The cold, being very common and profitable, has spawned an empire of sales gimmicks, all of them costly failures.

Again, rest is the cure. Not rest for an hour. But sustained rest and avoidance of all mental and physical activity that is in any way taxing or stimulating. (Working in bed or watching a thriller while in bed do NOT count as rest. Trying to solve personal problems on the phone while in bed does NOT count as rest.) What a mind-blowing, radical idea. Hell will freeze over before the World Health Organization, which couldn’t care less about your health, tells you the importance of rest. That’s a lesson that has no benefits for its sponsors — for governments or “philanthropists” or major pharmaceutical companies.

The psychology of a cold is an interesting, related subject. A cold can be made worse by a dread of slowing down and doing nothing, but also by the neurotic belief that a cold is a bad thing, that it is an interference or an unnatural occurrence. Dread and anxiety can be self-fulfilling.

Colds, though unpleasant, are necessary to the sustenance of existence. They detoxify the body, the respiratory organs being used for excretion. It makes sense that rest would aid this work. So intelligently are our bodies designed that they possess different processes of elimination. The sneeze, the cough, the runny nose — they are synergistic reactions to our environment and the substances we absorb, some of which we must expel in order to survive. Our bodies are eliminating what they don’t need and what could be harmful. Sadly many people resent their own bodies and are disastrously alienated from them, believing they are machines that should “function” at all times. So they are ticked off when they get colds. In the history of the human race, people have probably never embraced this mechanistic and ungrateful view of the body as completely or enthusiastically as they do now.

Colds are cyclical, happening more often in the darkness of winter, which makes sense because then the crops are harvested and human beings can afford to expend some effort to throw off a build-up of wastes. Like trees shedding their leaves at the same time, people living under the same conditions get colds at the same time. They are eating and breathing in the same things. They are experiencing the same light and the same air, the same fabrics and the same detergents, the same chemtrails and electromagnetic waves. If they all got sick at different times, these recuperative processes of elimination would be much more disruptive of society.

We don’t live in spite of colds. We live because of colds. A cold is the road to health. If we accept its demands with rest and light, proper nutrition (another subject), we will find ourselves only stronger after it is gone.

— Comments —

Hurricane Betsy writes:

“Covid is pure invention, the re-branding of colds, flus, pneumonias and other illnesses for the purposes of social engineering on a global scale. “

LOL!    I’m pretty sure that 90% of everyone who is presented with your article would fly into a rage and call you names.

So many wonderful observations in your article.  I wish the whole world would read it.  “Flu” and cold are not one and the same.  A “natural healer” pointed this out to me.  Yes, they are both ARS – acute respiratory syndromes.  But you can (usually) still function while having a cold.  With influenza, you are pretty badly debilitated.  Rest is mandatory.  Indeed, there’s no choice – you will find yourself prone  no matter what important tasks you think you have to deal with.  There’s chills, shaking, fever, chest and/or nose congestion, discharge of yellow or green stuff  and much more depending on how bad your particular case is.  Maybe sweating.  A real sense of suffering. And you can find yourself helpless and in bed for a week.  Hot ginger tea – lots of it – helps immensely.  For me, anyway.

Some people get colds and others tend to be flu-prone.  But as you imply, we would die off early if we did not come down with one type of (S)ARS or another.   That’s why measles is good – it is a discharge.  Most kids don’t get measles anymore and they are not healthier for it, but quite the opposite.

Many thanks.  I’m spreading this one around.

Laura writes:

You’re welcome, and thanks!

One point I’m trying to emphasize is that many people wait until the acute phase before they rest. If they rested at the first sign of symptoms, I think the outcome would be better. Again, I’m not selling anything here! And rest can never hurt you.

But resting — truly resting — when you’re not super sick is a counter-cultural kind of thing. It suggests laziness.

Right now a lot of people are sick with colds and flus. They are probably detoxing from heavy loads of refined sugar and alcohol during Christmas. Almost everyone, even the most anti-lockdown right-winger, is mentally affected by the propaganda and reacting with panic. Again, the mind makes a huge difference. Negativity can make us sicker just like placebos can make us feel well.

Avoid all processed foods (non-foods) and refined sugars when sick. If one-hundredth of the energy expended on avoiding phantom germs was expended on avoiding toxic foods (really, they are non-foods), we would be noticeably healthier.

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