Our View

The CDC is like MSM. If it bleeds it leads.

In plain English, the Center for Disease Control needs crises to justify its huge bureaucratic turf. Here turf spells existence and taxpayer dough.

Acetycholinesterase, also known as ACHE, is a central nervous system enzyme, the primary cholinesterase in the body. It catalyzes the breakdown of acteylcholine and other choline esters that function as neurotransmitters. So where do we find this stuff, a most likely place, neuromuscular junctions and chemical synapses sensitive to choline that are responsible for transmission.

Transmission is the key word here. Think hacking or the Cold War term jamming. What? Signals or transmissions. So ACHE is, like Arnold, a terminator. It blocks synaptic transmissions. Bug, bird or man, without these transmissions you have a problem. Last we looked bird and man were mammals. And then you bring in another term from the Cold War era, 1953, the discovery of what's known as DEET, a mosquito and insect repellent.

Are you getting the picture yet. So now we fast forward to a French 2009 study: "We've found that DEET is not simply a behavior-modifying chemical but also inhibits the activity of a key central nervous system enzyme, acetycholinesterase, in both insects and mammals." Here's more. It is the primary target used by organophosphorous substances in nerve agents and pesticides.

So how do we know know this? Well, it's in all the textbooks and it's also on Wikipedia. But a more compelling reason is nearly 30 years of practicing medicine and seeing patients with a variety of exposure to industrial and non-industrial chemicals. It comes with what we all know as the workplace, the economic engine for it all.

The next genie that pops out of the bottle and is most difficult to get back is, how much exposure is dangerous. Though the powers that rule will deny it, the answer is the same as that applies to the stock market and when it will tank, nobody really knows.

So how dangerous is this so-called new Zika virus nearly everyone is getting upset about. Yes, it reportedly disfigures fetuses. Yes, it reportedly causes microcephaly in newborns, but we've yet to see the scientific studies substantiating this. Misconstrue not, we're not playing down the seriousness of these things.

DEET is much like a cocktail, with more than one ingredient in that serving. If bacteria can became super bugs via mutations, why not mosquitoes? So the cocktail gets more complex. Recently a physician went of one of the major news networks and suggested that DEET should be the "new perfume for Miami," an area with an apparent Zita outbreak.

But here's what the CDC's own website on the matter says, according to what we've seen and read:

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states on its website that most people who contract Zika do not have any symptoms, and when they do, they are typically mild and include things like joint and muscle pain, headaches and fever.

"People usually don't get sick enough to go to the hospital, and they very rarely die of Zika," the CDC says. "Once a person has been infected with Zika, they are likely to be protected from future infections." 

There are now pictures in the mass media of mass spraying going on in certain areas. Sure we now have had some deaths, not something anyone wanted. All the facts are not in on those yet either. So what you might be seeing here is the usual reaction of big government. To capture or get the few you poison the many.

That's our view. We hope you know yours.