Melanie Grasso: To survive as a human is not about never being sick

To The Daily Sun,

One has to consider what will happen to us if we continue down this path as a nation,  with continuous COVID hysteria and economic destruction. Where the schools are potential danger zones... where going into a regular office in a normal manner, or eating in a workplace cafeteria and sitting with others, normally, would seem too scandalous to even mention. What is going to happen to us as a society? Where does it go from here?

We have disabled ourselves. No longer able to care for ourselves fully and completely; our default position seems to be: (regardless of where one actually lives, or even what the true mortality rate shows-similar to flu) Stay at home as much as possible. Wear a mask — all the time. But this “quick fix” does not solve the larger problem we face as a society. We slip further down the rabbit hole in our helpless trance. We must awaken, awaken from the devastating lockdown, and face the facts.

We cannot try to make planet Earth a sterile bubble. Or in our immediate surroundings, or in our immediate air at hand. It cannot work; that principle is not good for us. To survive as a human being is not about never getting sick. It is our immune system's ability, given to us from God, and perfect in its creation, to be able to fight off and defeat whatever germs and yes, viruses, may come our way!

When we catch a cold, it does not make us weaker! It gives us immunity, for a period of time, and it makes our body stronger. We have all battled countless ever-changing strains of cold, even flu strains, in our lifetimes. We came out the other side healthy and strong. Public health policy that focuses, even INSISTS, on no one fundamentally ever “being allowed” to be sick at all is misguided.

When we are faced with a graver virus someday, which one day will surely come, it is only those who have a truly healthy immune system that will be able to pull through. This is achieved through natural direct sunlight exposure-and yes, on our faces all year round, healthy food, exercise, breathing in and out unobstructed. As little medication and medical manipulation as possible. Ongoing exposure in a normal way to the germs and viruses that live among us in our world. This is what we need to survive!

Looking at it from that perspective, we need not live in fear. We have defeated the virus, learned to co-exist. Statistics tell you with a mortality rate similar to the flu, that it is indeed under control. Herd immunity is closer to being achieved, and will occur one way or the other. Life will never be 100 percent perfect, but even the yearly cold and flu strains that go around will never be, either. They are here forever, among us they mutate, yet humanity has survived.

We need our strong society back. Declare victory and move on.

Melanie Grasso

Laconia