In 1936, in India, recounts Nobel Laureate Bernard Lown in "The Lost Art of Healing," an astonishing experiment was conducted on a prisoner condemned to die by hanging. He was given the choice instead of being "exsanguinated," or having his blood let out, because this would be gradual and relatively painless. The victim agreed, was strapped to the bed and blindfolded.
Unbeknownst to him, water containers were attached to the four bedposts and drip buckets set up below. Then after light scratches were made on his four extremities, the fake drip brigade began: First rapidly, then slowly, always loudly. "As the dripping of water stopped, the healthy young man's heart stopped also. He was dead, having lost not a drop of blood."
People expected to get 'covid' because the propaganda was that "everyone was at risk" ( Gove promoted that early on), and then people could be asymptomatic with 'covid'. The long list of symptoms, a runny nose, sore throat, fever, chills, stomach upset, eg would mean any one or two of those symptoms would lead ( and did lead) to people believing they had contracted 'covid'. That new label given to a set of symptoms, common to colds and flu like illness (fli), inevitably enhanced how those symptoms were felt by many individuals.
Thus, people reported that they felt "terrible" because they had 'covid', and, the PCR 'test' confirmed how "awful" they felt! A common or garden winter cold or, an fli, was elevated by propaganda in to being something 'special', so how people felt on being 'told' they had 'covid'(by the ubiquitous and flawed tests) was magnified.
This isn't to dismiss those who did have a very rough time and died because of their old age and multiple comorbidities, or, underlying health issues. Pneumonia can then develop, which takes many to the end.
Essentially, the rampant propaganda about 'covid' caused a great deal of harm to populations...not just physically but psychologically. The nocebo result of the propaganda.....was it forseen and 'encouraged', or, just an unintentional 'by-product'?
[ETA: One other point, that I forgot to mention initially. The great Stoic thinkers make a huge deal of conveying how one's view of events has a direct effect on how much that event actually matters. As Seneca said, "There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality." I might assert that "suffer more in imagination" is a pertinent example of the nocebo effect.]
One other point of embellishment that is somewhat pertinent to this discussion. At least a couple years back, I came across a paper that described the attempts to transmit some type of virus between patients in a hospital. I think it was Spanish Flu, but I cannot locate the citation right now. In any event, they had patients--all of whom were convicts, by the way--intentionally breathe into each other's faces. No one got sick. The premise was that the infection, whatever it was, would be transmitted by close contact, which is, of course, the same premise as was applied during the Great Covid Debacle. Seems to me that the 1930 paper, which I have NOT yet completely read, provides the same finding?
I think that’s exactly what they were attempting to induce in the first large media event of the pandemic, the Princess Diamond cruise ship event. Locking down a bunch of elderly and pumping them full of fear hoping to cause maximum death and sickness.
Yep, the expert in a white coat effect has been utilised well. Eg they use it to create the 'die on time' effect after a cancer diagnosis. Pronouncements of life-time left, as if the Dr has God like powers. Superstition is well and truly alive in our society. The inducement to die is aided by using 'treatments/torture' that cause the most suffering. Death becomes an attractive means to escape the pain.
B cells, T cells, neutrophils, natural killer cells, dendritic cells, macrophages, eosiniphils, basophils, DAMPS/PAMPS, AMPS, antibodies, complement, toll-like receptors, pattern recognition receptors, major histocompatibility complex, checkpoint receptors, germinal centers, marginal zone, etc. Such a wealth of knowledge about all the components of the immune system. Does modern science begin to have any clue as to how neurons in your brain interface with any of these components in fighting infections or promoting healing? Or do we just throw our hands up and say "placebo"? "Placebo" - tacit acknowledgment of an enormous knowledge gap - so let's pretend that what we do know is all there is to know in developing prophylactics and therapeutics.
One of my concerns of making everyone aware of what's really been going on, plandemic, no need for "vaccines", dangers of them, etc., could make people who, up to now, only had mild, shortlived side effects like sore arm, headache, start to believe they will die suddenly or aquire some cancer, autoimmune disease. To be honest, I believe that this is very possible and we know we need to try to prevent people getting more of them but how to do it without scaring them to death?
In 1936, in India, recounts Nobel Laureate Bernard Lown in "The Lost Art of Healing," an astonishing experiment was conducted on a prisoner condemned to die by hanging. He was given the choice instead of being "exsanguinated," or having his blood let out, because this would be gradual and relatively painless. The victim agreed, was strapped to the bed and blindfolded.
Unbeknownst to him, water containers were attached to the four bedposts and drip buckets set up below. Then after light scratches were made on his four extremities, the fake drip brigade began: First rapidly, then slowly, always loudly. "As the dripping of water stopped, the healthy young man's heart stopped also. He was dead, having lost not a drop of blood."
Source: https://www.poconorecord.com/story/lifestyle/2004/01/23/bleeding-to-death-without-losing/51060683007/
People expected to get 'covid' because the propaganda was that "everyone was at risk" ( Gove promoted that early on), and then people could be asymptomatic with 'covid'. The long list of symptoms, a runny nose, sore throat, fever, chills, stomach upset, eg would mean any one or two of those symptoms would lead ( and did lead) to people believing they had contracted 'covid'. That new label given to a set of symptoms, common to colds and flu like illness (fli), inevitably enhanced how those symptoms were felt by many individuals.
Thus, people reported that they felt "terrible" because they had 'covid', and, the PCR 'test' confirmed how "awful" they felt! A common or garden winter cold or, an fli, was elevated by propaganda in to being something 'special', so how people felt on being 'told' they had 'covid'(by the ubiquitous and flawed tests) was magnified.
This isn't to dismiss those who did have a very rough time and died because of their old age and multiple comorbidities, or, underlying health issues. Pneumonia can then develop, which takes many to the end.
Essentially, the rampant propaganda about 'covid' caused a great deal of harm to populations...not just physically but psychologically. The nocebo result of the propaganda.....was it forseen and 'encouraged', or, just an unintentional 'by-product'?
Fascinating stuff, Doc! #AsAManThinketh
[ETA: One other point, that I forgot to mention initially. The great Stoic thinkers make a huge deal of conveying how one's view of events has a direct effect on how much that event actually matters. As Seneca said, "There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality." I might assert that "suffer more in imagination" is a pertinent example of the nocebo effect.]
Byron Katie: Who would you be without your story?, illustrates our suffering is created by the narrative we choose to tell ourself.
One other point of embellishment that is somewhat pertinent to this discussion. At least a couple years back, I came across a paper that described the attempts to transmit some type of virus between patients in a hospital. I think it was Spanish Flu, but I cannot locate the citation right now. In any event, they had patients--all of whom were convicts, by the way--intentionally breathe into each other's faces. No one got sick. The premise was that the infection, whatever it was, would be transmitted by close contact, which is, of course, the same premise as was applied during the Great Covid Debacle. Seems to me that the 1930 paper, which I have NOT yet completely read, provides the same finding?
You’d be referring to Rosenau I think:
https://www.ggarchives.com/Influenza/TheRosenauExperiment-1918-1919.html
Indeed. There are one hundred years of negative findings (lack of transfer of acute respiratory illness symptoms).
Conclusions:
Acute respiratory illnesses aren’t contagious. They’re not viral in aetiology either. We’ve been lied to for a long time.
Of course it did. Just one of the many reasons why this intentional plandemic is so monstrous
I think that’s exactly what they were attempting to induce in the first large media event of the pandemic, the Princess Diamond cruise ship event. Locking down a bunch of elderly and pumping them full of fear hoping to cause maximum death and sickness.
Yet, it did not!
Yep, the expert in a white coat effect has been utilised well. Eg they use it to create the 'die on time' effect after a cancer diagnosis. Pronouncements of life-time left, as if the Dr has God like powers. Superstition is well and truly alive in our society. The inducement to die is aided by using 'treatments/torture' that cause the most suffering. Death becomes an attractive means to escape the pain.
B cells, T cells, neutrophils, natural killer cells, dendritic cells, macrophages, eosiniphils, basophils, DAMPS/PAMPS, AMPS, antibodies, complement, toll-like receptors, pattern recognition receptors, major histocompatibility complex, checkpoint receptors, germinal centers, marginal zone, etc. Such a wealth of knowledge about all the components of the immune system. Does modern science begin to have any clue as to how neurons in your brain interface with any of these components in fighting infections or promoting healing? Or do we just throw our hands up and say "placebo"? "Placebo" - tacit acknowledgment of an enormous knowledge gap - so let's pretend that what we do know is all there is to know in developing prophylactics and therapeutics.
I have a longish series on the placebo/noceboneffect on my site blog of peace-ia-happy.org. Dopamine levels effect our gullibility.
I had a look (typo in that link but I found it)…where specifically on the website is the material on nocebo effect?
Here's one https://www.peace-is-happy.org/post/exosomes-pheromones-and-the-placebo-or-nocebo-effect
And https://www.peace-is-happy.org/post/impressionable-may-have-more-dopamine-than-average
And this has links to earlier posts in the series https://www.peace-is-happy.org/post/exosomes-the-placebo-effect
Jonathan, you should read Daniel Royas' book Can you catch a cold?
A super interesting review of the literature.
The study referred to in this article is cited by Daniel in his book as an example of the nocebo effect.
The big mistake being made by everyone when it comes to medicine is believing medicine is 100% science.
It's not.
It's 50% science and 50% human psychology.
One of my concerns of making everyone aware of what's really been going on, plandemic, no need for "vaccines", dangers of them, etc., could make people who, up to now, only had mild, shortlived side effects like sore arm, headache, start to believe they will die suddenly or aquire some cancer, autoimmune disease. To be honest, I believe that this is very possible and we know we need to try to prevent people getting more of them but how to do it without scaring them to death?
This fascinating book describes how the mind can create real pain and discomfort. It changed my life: https://www.amazon.com/Mindbody-Prescription-Healing-Body-Pain/dp/0446675156