Healthcare in America

A TRIBUTE TO LOUIS PASTEUR: (The following is an excerpt from my book):

“Louis Pasteur was the GOAT (greatest of all time). Why do I believe this? Because Pasteur helped mankind directly with his science. It was practical science. He changed the way we do things in everyday life. He changed the way we live and think about things. He improved the goods and products which are available at the grocery store and shopping mall for us. He gave science to people in a way we could understand. His public experiments not only proved what he intended to show us, but they laid open the possibility to immediately change and apply his techniques to save lives and improve the ways of doing things. He saved countless lives through his experiments and inventions and new methods. And he did not focus on money, but selflessly focused on how to help others and how to make the world a better place with little thought or regard for himself and his own health…

… Louis Pasteur is why we have clean and purified water coming out of our taps at home. He is the reason why the beer, wine, and milk we buy at the store tastes good after traveling far and wide to arrive at the store for us to purchase. He is the reason we wash our hands often and do it almost as an afterthought today. He is the reason doctors and nurses wash their hands between patients. He is the reason for antiseptic conditions in the hospitals and maternity wards. He is the reason the silk industry in the world was saved from ruin, and therefore he is the main reason we still have and enjoy silk today. Pasteur created the first laboratory made vaccines and is the reason we have many of the vaccines we do today. He is the main reason we are able to enjoy the standard of living that we currently do.

Pasteur is the reason the cattle, sheep, and livestock industries were saved from anthrax, which was the result of the second vaccine created in a lab. The first vaccine he created was for chicken cholera. These vaccines were developed to save lives when disease and death were rampant and appeared inevitable. He discovered the causes of these diseases, and he created vaccines to prevent them. He developed the first lab created vaccine for use by people, which is for rabies, and it is still in use today. Rabies has a 100% fatality rate, so it is an easy choice to make whether to receive this vaccine or not when you have been bitten by a rabid dog and contracted rabies. The choice is insanity and a painful death, or the chance that the vaccine can save you. A simple choice to make.

In a nutshell, these are his triumphs over death and disease. Amazingly, this is not even a complete list of his discoveries and breakthroughs in science and medicine. It is only a partial list. He achieved immortality in the scientific world through these discoveries, methods of implementation, and vaccines, which were made by use of the microscope, which showed us life on a microscopic scale, and also by his brilliant mind and experimental methods, which he altered for each of his breakthroughs as need be. For example, rabies is a virus, and he could not see it through his microscope, so he concluded correctly that the virus which caused rabies was too small to be seen. Therefore, he adjusted his experiments to account for this fact.

In a few words, ‘Thank You, Louis Pasteur’ for having lived and having such a love for people which drove you to want to help the world and its people with your discoveries. Thank you for focusing on the science which made this possible, and not on money. Money appears to be the main focus of scientific endeavor in our modern world. If we could simply get back to scientific progress and breakthroughs, and not pursuit of money, perhaps we could expand upon the great gifts Pasteur gave us and keep on improving life here on earth for everyone.”