Plague PSA

[I.M. DeBear]

Once again, the Plague is flaring up in MI. It's just taken our Oscoda realtor. It seems to be raging more fiercly in the countryside than in the cities, for some reason. Like Pepys, having a front-row seat provides a realistic perspective, free from the clouds of spin, rumors, and outright lies swirling around the various doctors and jabs.

The one life-saving thing I want to share with my Stamp Bears is this: Chicken broth kills the plague. I've recently witnessed three cases of less-than-24-hours full-on road to recovery, with the most excellent improvement shortly after the first dose in all three cases.

Everyone knows about chicken soup, but not many know how to administer it properly. So, at the first sign of any cold, flu, or plague-like symptoms, this is the technique:

- Use broth, not soup. The noodles and meat have no medicinal value, and merely get in the way.

- The broth MUST be served straight off a rolling boil.

- Serve it in a bowl deep rather than wide, to help maintain the temperature.

- Use a pipette or metal straw, with a bit of paper or cloth wrapped around it for insulation so you can hold it. Plastic straws are not practical for this application.

- Test the soup until it is just cool enough to be consumed without serious injury, then consume it as rapidly as possible. Just below scalding is the ideal temperature.

- Re-boil the soup if the temperature drops even a bit. The efficacy plummets exponentially with the temperature. The cure is probably about 20% in the soup, and 80% in the temperature. Cold broth is ineffective.

If you have cause to use this remedy, please tell about it here. Unbiased first-hand accounts are always useful.

 Stay safe!

            I.M. DeBear

[JerryB]

Hi  I.M. DeBear

In days past, Chicken soup was/is affectionately known as Jewish Penicillin.  At the first sign of a sniffle our grandmothers started making chicken soup.  It always worked.

My Grandfather had another remedy.  He owned a Fruit and Vegetable store.  In the back he had a couple of huge jugs.  Any spoiled produce went into a jug,  If you got sick, he would give you a glass of the liquid.  It was so potent you could not care less what was wrong with you.

Between my Grandmother's Chicken Soup and my Grandfather's concoction, one healed rapidly

Jerry B
 

[sforgca]

"It seems to be raging more fiercely in the countryside than in the cities, for some reason."

Where I live, a city of 175M+ people - 94% vacs. - a few dozen cases no one in ICU,s 
Prevention might also be a good cure

[bethg]

(Let's be really careful not to turn talk of plagues -- current, historic, or hypothetical -- into political talk.)

[crazyquilter]

My Mom's chicken soup was awesome. But my Brother won't touch it because my Dad said he won't hear that rooster anymore. Now after 30 years he still won't try soup

[I.M. DeBear]

Right you are, bethg . This is not about politics, or prevention, or vilifying victims whatever their previous status. This is about a time-tested, low cost, demonstrably effective home-brewed method of alleviating suffering and saving the lives of folks with respiratory viruses. Would that none of us need it, but in the event, several repeat doses are certain to make a believer of anyone.