Despite everything she has gone through, she stood tall to all the agony and potentially lethal insults. Reason being majority of the cells are remarkably and unbelievably in good shape or in fact done better in anatomical and physiological terms as evident by lowest maternal mortality, high literacy and much higher life expectancy of its people than her other neighbors.
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by Nipuna Parahitiyawa
(June 15, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Having spent a considerable time of my youth in the Medical School and among the ailing patients, I have developed the peculiar habit of likening anything I come across, be it live, inanimate or, a political scenario to the human body. In this pair of spectacles I view my country analogous to a human being battling a chronic infection. To begin with, it all started with continuous disregard and disrespect to its own self by its own cells that is its own people arguably more than the offending or infectious agents or the so called and much hyped foreign forces.
Looking at the history, or the past medical history, she was quite self sufficient and good looking at the time the mentally deranged bunch of Europeans, desperate for more wealth and probably health, as they were battling the black death of medieval times, arrived at, or invaded this beauty. First, similar to any naïve animal who come across an offending infectious agent, she was quite excited, partly as a result of some of the higher center cells of hers, or the politicos of that time were thriving upon, at least what they believed to be, on the offending agent (s).
The fact all those did not know or have conveniently ignored was that they were in fact fed on its own people. At the beginning it was only a mere foreplay by the drunken Portuguese sailors. Later the apparently disguised savior named the Dutch joined the party. Finally the act of rape was completed by you know who. Interestingly though the last bunch of rapists had shown or thrown an element of romance towards the hapless victim. They seemingly cared about the victim’s physical and intellectual well being probably as a tradeoff for a better climax! Remnants of which are even evident today as the rail network, hospitals and Universities, the little pleasantries that were gifted by the assailants. Above all, they had a very good system of controlling her. They implemented a good hierarchal system upon which the needs of the victim was seemingly looked after in a manner that was least troublesome for the assailant. It has to be said however, much to the displeasure of present day pundits that the rapist was not a murderer, as evident in similar scenarios around the globe such as in the desserts of Middle East or Africa.
The infection, took a new twist as the rapists left, although those who are red blooded wont agree with me that they have left at all. In fairness to both parties, let us assume that the physical presence is not evident and our patient was taken control by a intrinsic yet extrinsically primed clusters of cells. As in immune imbalance, the ‘body’ behaved and continues to behave, in an idiosyncratic manner. We have gone through the times where more ‘destructive’ cells taking over as in the insurgencies of ‘71 and ’89. The raging ‘inflammatory’ responses were so marked that the body was on the verge of collapse of multiple organ dysfunction..
Despite everything she has gone through, she stood tall to all the agony and potentially lethal insults. Reason being majority of the cells are remarkably and unbelievably in good shape or in fact done better in anatomical and physiological terms as evident by lowest maternal mortality, high literacy and much higher life expectancy of its people than her other neighbors.
The war that has been dragging on for a almost entire length of my life so far is likened to a critical blow through a hyperinfection to the already moribund patient of mine. What triggered it is as controversial as the aetiology of some unknown disease. While most point the finger towards the extrinsic invaders or the three nations that ruled us particularly the last, I am in the group that believes that failure of tolerance, hyperacute aggression, lack of responsiveness and opportunism of the neural centers or the breed of cells known as politicos is responsible. Remedies have been attempted, sadly though most of these have been at best, palliative. Even the aggressive and mutilating surgeries which were on the verge of knocking down the superinfection was abandoned as a result of environmental changes that the victim failed to withstand as in 1987. Failing clinical trials which have been on the fore from time to time from 1984 and reached a climax (or anticlimax) in 2002 which is metaphorically analogous to giving steroids to a patient in a terminal condition with fulminant infection. The ‘feel good’ factor of hot water springs and tours down A9 has vigorously blinded or desensitized the vigilant cells. This was so powerful to the extent that mere voicing of concern considered a treacherous warmongering act of a type one hypersensitivity reaction. Much to the dissatisfaction of its creators, these temporary ecstasies have faded away like a morphine shot in a patient with terminal cancer pain as the real picture of the disease was demystified. The reason was not the powerful nature of the pathogen but the inability to perceive the true pathogenic potential under the guise of the ‘feel good factor’ of the mass steroid treatment. It has to be said however, that this type of trial and error approaches cannot even be contemplated in the present context of modern science. The approach has to be targeted, well defined and oriented towards the needs of the patient. Similar to a disorganized immune system in hypersensitivity or immunodeficiency there seems no coordination in the near future to circumvent the problems that she is facing today.
In content, this is the critical moment in the observation chart of our patient. The rejuvenated immune system, probably as a result of transplantation is circumventing the pathogen eroding in to the lesions and territories. The problem however, is whether the patient is strong enough to sustain the adverse reactions of the current treatment modality or merely get killed by the graft versus host disease. As it for now at least, it is evident that the supportive treatment is not doing enough in terms of nutrients to the ‘would be’ used cells to regenerate once the pathological lesions are cleared off. If war is an infection one cannot prescribe steroids, at least, in a majority of situations. But the cells or the people are intelligent enough to be primed and change the receptor expressions in a metabolically less active manner if the control mechanisms first show the way.
- Sri Lanka Guardian
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by Nipuna Parahitiyawa
(June 15, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Having spent a considerable time of my youth in the Medical School and among the ailing patients, I have developed the peculiar habit of likening anything I come across, be it live, inanimate or, a political scenario to the human body. In this pair of spectacles I view my country analogous to a human being battling a chronic infection. To begin with, it all started with continuous disregard and disrespect to its own self by its own cells that is its own people arguably more than the offending or infectious agents or the so called and much hyped foreign forces.
Looking at the history, or the past medical history, she was quite self sufficient and good looking at the time the mentally deranged bunch of Europeans, desperate for more wealth and probably health, as they were battling the black death of medieval times, arrived at, or invaded this beauty. First, similar to any naïve animal who come across an offending infectious agent, she was quite excited, partly as a result of some of the higher center cells of hers, or the politicos of that time were thriving upon, at least what they believed to be, on the offending agent (s).
The fact all those did not know or have conveniently ignored was that they were in fact fed on its own people. At the beginning it was only a mere foreplay by the drunken Portuguese sailors. Later the apparently disguised savior named the Dutch joined the party. Finally the act of rape was completed by you know who. Interestingly though the last bunch of rapists had shown or thrown an element of romance towards the hapless victim. They seemingly cared about the victim’s physical and intellectual well being probably as a tradeoff for a better climax! Remnants of which are even evident today as the rail network, hospitals and Universities, the little pleasantries that were gifted by the assailants. Above all, they had a very good system of controlling her. They implemented a good hierarchal system upon which the needs of the victim was seemingly looked after in a manner that was least troublesome for the assailant. It has to be said however, much to the displeasure of present day pundits that the rapist was not a murderer, as evident in similar scenarios around the globe such as in the desserts of Middle East or Africa.
The infection, took a new twist as the rapists left, although those who are red blooded wont agree with me that they have left at all. In fairness to both parties, let us assume that the physical presence is not evident and our patient was taken control by a intrinsic yet extrinsically primed clusters of cells. As in immune imbalance, the ‘body’ behaved and continues to behave, in an idiosyncratic manner. We have gone through the times where more ‘destructive’ cells taking over as in the insurgencies of ‘71 and ’89. The raging ‘inflammatory’ responses were so marked that the body was on the verge of collapse of multiple organ dysfunction..
Despite everything she has gone through, she stood tall to all the agony and potentially lethal insults. Reason being majority of the cells are remarkably and unbelievably in good shape or in fact done better in anatomical and physiological terms as evident by lowest maternal mortality, high literacy and much higher life expectancy of its people than her other neighbors.
The war that has been dragging on for a almost entire length of my life so far is likened to a critical blow through a hyperinfection to the already moribund patient of mine. What triggered it is as controversial as the aetiology of some unknown disease. While most point the finger towards the extrinsic invaders or the three nations that ruled us particularly the last, I am in the group that believes that failure of tolerance, hyperacute aggression, lack of responsiveness and opportunism of the neural centers or the breed of cells known as politicos is responsible. Remedies have been attempted, sadly though most of these have been at best, palliative. Even the aggressive and mutilating surgeries which were on the verge of knocking down the superinfection was abandoned as a result of environmental changes that the victim failed to withstand as in 1987. Failing clinical trials which have been on the fore from time to time from 1984 and reached a climax (or anticlimax) in 2002 which is metaphorically analogous to giving steroids to a patient in a terminal condition with fulminant infection. The ‘feel good’ factor of hot water springs and tours down A9 has vigorously blinded or desensitized the vigilant cells. This was so powerful to the extent that mere voicing of concern considered a treacherous warmongering act of a type one hypersensitivity reaction. Much to the dissatisfaction of its creators, these temporary ecstasies have faded away like a morphine shot in a patient with terminal cancer pain as the real picture of the disease was demystified. The reason was not the powerful nature of the pathogen but the inability to perceive the true pathogenic potential under the guise of the ‘feel good factor’ of the mass steroid treatment. It has to be said however, that this type of trial and error approaches cannot even be contemplated in the present context of modern science. The approach has to be targeted, well defined and oriented towards the needs of the patient. Similar to a disorganized immune system in hypersensitivity or immunodeficiency there seems no coordination in the near future to circumvent the problems that she is facing today.
In content, this is the critical moment in the observation chart of our patient. The rejuvenated immune system, probably as a result of transplantation is circumventing the pathogen eroding in to the lesions and territories. The problem however, is whether the patient is strong enough to sustain the adverse reactions of the current treatment modality or merely get killed by the graft versus host disease. As it for now at least, it is evident that the supportive treatment is not doing enough in terms of nutrients to the ‘would be’ used cells to regenerate once the pathological lesions are cleared off. If war is an infection one cannot prescribe steroids, at least, in a majority of situations. But the cells or the people are intelligent enough to be primed and change the receptor expressions in a metabolically less active manner if the control mechanisms first show the way.
- Sri Lanka Guardian
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