THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS

Something overheardon the bus today made me consider diseases, mortality, and the short distance between springy youthfulness and verlepte krakelige old age. "He was so young, only forty six. They found him in his yurt one day. Such a loss! A brilliant architect!" He had been a non-member of several congregations. Maybe when the non-brilliant snuff it, it doesn't matter how old they are. And likely it's not such a loss.
Leastways, not considered as such.

So of course I shan't mention my own age.

Years ago someone surnamed Patel blithely told me that it was just impossible for Indians to get Aids. That was something only white people got, Indians were much better.
Clean people, protected by the gods and their caste.

A person from the Deep South once informed me in all seriousness that good Christians absolutely would not catch diseases that they couldn't pronounce.

The huge number of deaths and hospitalizations in the southern states during the pandemic are probably because of all those confederate heathens, eh?

In the first years of Covid Indian politicians and holy men went on record as recommending panchagavya to cure the disease. A miraculous remedy, blessed, and part of the priceless spiritual heritage of the subcontinent.

Panchagavya is made by combining milk, dung, urine, curds, and ghee, and letting the mixture ferment a bit. It can then be used to treat several ailments, including cancer, liver toxicity, bodily impurities, and brittle hair. Additionally it strengthens immunity, realigns the psyche. May cause leptospirosis, and counter-act all accusations of sane behaviour.

[Leptospirosis is a blood infection that leads to headaches, muscle pains, fever jaundice, possible kidney failure, and, not infrequently, severe pulmonary haemorrhage.]

Panchagavya has been used as therapy against AIDS. Of which there are about four million cases in India, possibly quite a bit more. The jury on it's effectiveness is still out, however, as numerous religious nuts hold positions of power at the state and local level there.

It is precisely as effective against Covid as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, and considerably cheaper. Southerners and Christians, take note.



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