The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, November 08, 1976, Page page 5, Image 5
,1 4 H monday, november 8, 1976 daily nebraskan pag3 5 i letters if you must use a cliche he 'Sure you understand it Is vaccina safe? After the reporter left the swine flu seminar on Wednesday Oct. 20, 1 had the opportunity to spcfJc with Dr. (Paul) Stoesz as to my feelings about, the swine flu vaccinating program. We came to no definite conclusions in our discussion: I was still deeply concerned for the well-being of all , students and citizens of Nebraska who are thinking of taking the swine flu shot. It would be much easier for me to drop the whole thing and not .try to convince people of the hazards or the seriousness of the program, but I care about other people and I feel it is worth my time to 1st people know. The day of the ssiriaar students were asking questions as to the safety of the swine flu vaccine. Both doctors claimed that the vaccine was very safe. Then I shared pertinent information about cir cumstances surrounding the isvssissa peo ple in the whole world who have had this so-called swine flu. (Twelve men at Fort Dix and five men in Sabbury, England had similar symptoms as those of the swine flu epidemic of 1928.) v Stoesz said the purpose of the seminar was to educate students about the ino culation progrjun. He was telling students of the safety of the vaccine. I felt it necess ary to open their eyes as to why there is so much controversy oyer the subject of swine.flu shots. There is something sinister about, the near hysteria which certain persons attempted to create throughout America over a swine flu epidemic that was sure to sweep the nation in a matter of months. Most people did not know that anybody was afflicted by it, so how could anyone predict an epidemic? Having created the scare, officials told us sn immdeiate effort was being made to find a vaccine that would be safe and available for all to use. Millions of dollars were spent on the vaccine and. before it had been proven safe they were ready to administer it to prevent the epidemic that was sure to come. Among the first to receive the vaccine were some elderly, and shortly thereafter some of them died. Immediately, vaccine inoculations were stopped Li six states. But upon investigation by certain medical doctors, we were assured that these people were sick and would have died anyway. The vaccine was pronounced safe and the green light was given for further mass inoculations. While vaccines have long been approved by the American Medical Association, if the facts were, known the practice has done V more harm than good. Actually, a virus of the disease is treated and modified and then injected into the bloodstream' so the body builds up a resistance against it, but there is no guarantee that you will not come down with the disease itself. That is why we had all the debate in our country about the swine flu vaccine's safety. It is my opinion that if we have a swine , fir epmic, it will b5 the result of spread ing the disease through inoculation; not from the flu itself. If the millions of dollars v that were spent on the swine flu vaccine had been spent on urging people to eat good and proper food for our health, peo ple generally would have been better off. For too long we have practiced the habit of running to the corner drugstore for pills and drugs to correct our sickness, when a change of diet was all we needed. Pills and drugs are not cures. They simply give us temporary relief while we continue to eat and do the things which made us sick in the first place. , Injecting disease viruses into the blood stream as a means of preventing it is con trary to every law of nature. A healthy" body is immune to disease. Buwhen have you ever heard the American Medical . Association sponsor a health program bas ed on proper diet? In fact, you often find them condemning those who have found cures for certain diseases without using drugs, serums or vaccines. The average American is digging an early grave for himself with his teeth and his intemperance .in eating. He is also fed a lot of processed foods mat ive him little nourishment once Jie eats them, it is no wonder that we . are a nation of many ills; and vaccines and inoculations are not . the answer. v . From a person who took the time to find out, and one who cares about you. Sincerely, Paula Purviance By Theodore M. Bernstein Cliche' confusion. Once before I wrote about what I have dubbed curdled cliches. Those are ones uttered by people with a tin ear or lacking in understanding of what the cliche is alt about. They might say, "Water, water everywhere, but not a drop in the sink." But there are other cliche ' users who get the wording right but misapply the figure of speech. At a cocktail party the other evening I overheard a chap utter this one: "I've got a photo that's as pretty as a picture." . Almost a dirty word. Our culture has a tendency to attach a sexual or vulgar connotation to any word that will stand for it. So says Gary R. Shroat of Fairview Heights, 111., and he decided to coin a term that would describe that tendency. His invention is diascatesis. If that seems like Greek to you, don't fret too much, It is made up of the Greek components dia-, meaning through; skatos, dung or excrement, and -esis; process or action. What the inventor had in mind was the process whereby a word like gay is dragged through a kind of dung so that it has come to mean homosexual. Think you'll have use for that word? Just about due. Far back this rectangle took up what is regarded as the proper use and the improper use of due to. The point to be noted is that due is an adjective and is properly used when it modifies a noun as in, "His illness was due to a virus," where illness is the modified noun. How ever, many grammarians frown upon the use of due when it introduces an adverbial j phrase as in, "He became ill due to a virus." Ralph H. King of the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology offers a simple test of the proper or improper use of the phrase due to. If caused by makes sense, he notes, due to is correct: 'The severe flooding was due to (caused by) rapid snowmen." How-, ever, he goes on, if because of makes sense, due to is not considered proper and another phrase should be substituted: "Owing to (because of) rapid snowmelt the town was inundated." That is how things stand now in the matter of usage, but it is likely that in time due to will achieve sanction in both contexts. Word oddities. A word that there is not much occasion to use in these days and in this country is kypergamy. It means marriage to one who is of higher social status or in a higher community position. It is made up of two Greek elements; hyper-, meaning above, and- -gamy, bernstein on words meaning marriage just as it does in bigamy and polygamy. In the word the accent is on the per. And now you can probably forget it. - " (o) 1976 Theodora M. Bernstein . Special Features Birth defects ore forever Unless you help. "March cf Dlms " TMI PCC CONTRIBUTED BY THE PUBLISHER FREE a PUT YOUR BSST FOOT FCWAHD fn fhsMaxh cf DImss J h 1 W m : 0 r ; 1 i . I 1;."" rg Q 0 dsi Sficppz () Featuring: A foil lins cf iridal gowns ( ) and attendant asi mcther s fcnnals 12-6 Z!cnFri Sat 'M . 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