Safe and Effective My Arse

A look at just a few medicines available to make a broader point

We often hear the mantra “Safe and Effective” screamed from the mouths of proponents of medicines of all kinds, especially “vaccines”.  I’m not “anti-vax” (that term is getting very old!) or anti-medicine.  What I am is pro-informed consent or choice of what goes inside of a person’s body.  One of the greatest blurbs I’ve heard over the last 20 months or so is, “Where there is risk to the individual, there must be choice.”  It’s amazing to me that all of a sudden, supposedly, there’s literally no risk from chemical compounds, synthetic soups, heavy metals, and all of the other things that we have been told for decades we should avoid at all cost.  Now it’s fine to have these things shot into our bodies and we better take them inside of ourselves and we better like it if we want to eat, play or work in the “new” society. 

I’m a label reader.  I’m one of those who will find that matchbook sized insert inside of a product and unfold it into the poster size document it is and find the “possible side effects” section and read it.  I read the labels on every type of food that I purchase for consumption and will put back anything that has more items that I can’t pronounce in it than things I do recognize.  I’ve been one of those people that others chuckle about when they say to me, “but Rob, there’s only a one in a million chance that you would be affected by (fill in the blank).”  And I retort, “Yes, but what if I’m THE ONE!” 

My friends, what if you are the one?  The one out of a million that has your life forever changed by something you put into your body?  Shouldn’t that be your choice?  What if there’s a one in a billion chance… what if you are the one?  Again, shouldn’t that be your choice? 

Another thing we keep hearing is how everyone is the same and that people that experience side effects from a medicine are just imagining it or need a psychiatrist.  Why is this something we hear now, but we never heard in the past regarding the literally thousands of drugs and concoctions on the market?  So, I am supposed to believe that all of the studies for those drugs and shots and concoctions were just made up or something?  Because from what I’ve read in the studies done on many of these “medicines” is that people WEREN’T the same.  That some people reacted differently to these medicines.  That, for a portion of the public these medicines aren’t “safe and effective” (or, maybe safe but ineffective or maybe effective but not so safe).   We are NOT the same and we are NOT “in this together.”  Sorry, we just aren’t.  Every one of us is basically the same as far as our makeup, but we all have differences genetically and otherwise.  If we were all the same, we would all be allergic to the same thing and we would have the same intolerance for certain substances etc.

Anyway, reflecting on all of this got me thinking.  Just what ARE the side effects possible from some things that people don’t even think twice about grabbing off the shelf and putting in their bodies (keeping in mind that many of these products are made by the EXACT SAME COMPANIES PUSHING THEIR “VACCINES” ON US)?  Again, I don’t care, I’ve taken some of these things myself (after weighing the pros and cons).  But again, we CHOOSE to take the risk in hopes that a product may help us endure an illness or other malady.  That being said, here are a few:

Acetaminophen (Tylenol or other generic): Bloody or black tarry stools, bloody or cloudy urine, fever with or without chills, unusual bleeding or bruising, tiredness or weakness (the list goes on and on and these few are not even the actual complete list on the official insert)

Primatene Mist (OTC asthma "medicine"): Vomiting, nervousness, dizziness, shaking, trouble sleeping, cough, painful urination, high blood pressure (again, this is just some of them)

Nyquil: Pounding heartbeat or fluttering in your chest, anxiety, hallucinations, feeling of fear, little or no urinating, dangerously high blood pressure, buzzing in the ears, blurred vision (again, the list is crazy long)

I’ll stop there as I think I’ve made my point with just 3 of the thousands of “medicines” available. And keep in mind, these are just over the counter substances. I looked at prescription medications as well and the possible side effects are even more concerning.

One common theme with every single substance I researched was this: “In rare cases, (fill in the medicine) may cause (fill in the reaction) that can be FATAL.  This could occur even if you took (fill in the medicine) in the past and had no reaction.  Stop taking this medicine and call your doctor right away if you have (fill in the reaction).”   EVERY SINGLE MEDICATION I STUDIED HAD THIS BLURB (or some variation of it).  In other words, there are negative effects that can happen with every single medicine and sometimes those effects are, quite literally, fatal (that means we could die). 

Again, I’m not saying people shouldn’t be able to take whatever they want.  What I am saying, once again, is it should be our choice.  Period.  ALL medications are risky.  From Baby Aspirin to Preparation H, there are negative side effects that can happen to certain people.  Again, PERIOD. 

No one.  And I mean no one.  No government, no individual, no institution, no church, no politician, no “official” has the right to tell someone that they HAVE to take a product INSIDE OF THEIR BODY.  I don’t care whether the risk is “minimal” or how “safe and effective” that product is in the eyes of the person telling us that we have to take it.  Nope.  That’s our choice.  To say otherwise is quite literally, insane.

I’m sick of hearing how someone who doesn’t take something that they do not want inside of their own body is killing someone who made the choice to take that substance for themselves.  I don’t care what it is.  This notion that if something truly works for the person taking that product can be harmed by someone that chooses not to take it is quite literally… madness. 

None of these products work 100% of the time.  And I mean NONE OF THEM.  NONE are without risk.   That goes for every pill, shot or procedure on the planet.  That cannot be disputed.  The fact remains that, as I said in the beginning, “Where there is risk to the individual, there MUST be choice.”