Common as muck

I recently read the term ‘common illness’ and thought I would explore this term.

From the outset I am thinking illness of any kind should not be common at all. Our default state is healthy, that is what should be common among us. However good health seems to be increasingly rare.

Next with the known shenanigans of the medical industry actually creating illnesses out of thin air as described admirably here how does one (or any) illness qualify as being common?

I thought I’d do a little search on common illnesses and found this UK site which lists a few.

https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/a-to-z#Y

I haven’t totted them up from this listing but there would seem to be a couple of hundred in my estimation. There are 37 beginning with ‘A’ alone but none beginning with ‘Q’ or ‘X’.

But what is it exactly that makes an illness common? I asked the internet and it said this:

An illness becomes common primarily due to the high transmissibility of its causative pathogens, widespread environmental exposure, and lifestyle or genetic risk factors that affect large populations.

Infectious and Communicable Diseases
Illnesses caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites are common because these pathogens spread easily through airborne droplets, contaminated surfaces, food, water, or insect bites.

For example, the common cold is the most frequent illness because it is caused by over 200 different viruses (primarily rhinoviruses) and spreads effortlessly through close contact in schools and workplaces, leading to 6–10 cases per year for children.

Other common infectious conditions include the flu, strep throat, and gastroenteritis.

Chronic and Lifestyle-Related Conditions
Many non-infectious illnesses are common due to unfavourable exchanges with the external environment and evolutionary or design failures in the human body.

Chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and respiratory conditions (e.g., asthma, COPD) are prevalent due to poor nutrition, physical inactivity, smoking, and environmental factors like air pollution.

Additionally, genetic conditions (e.g., Huntington’s disease) and mental health disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression) are common due to inherent biological vulnerabilities and socioeconomic stressors.

Key Drivers of Prevalence

• Transmission Efficiency: Pathogens that survive well in the environment or spread via respiratory droplets infect more people.

• Environmental Exposure: Air pollution, contaminated water, and poor sanitation increase exposure to harmful agents.

• Risk Behaviors: Smoking, poor diet, and lack of exercise drive the rise in chronic diseases.

• Demographic Factors: Children and older adults are at higher risk due to developing or weakened immune systems.

• Social Determinants: Socioeconomic status and access to healthcare influence the prevalence and severity of many conditions.

With a terrain perspective there are countless ways to tear this description to shreds, especially given that that:

• viruses have never been shown to exist,

• a pathogen of any description is an equally dubious term based purely on germ theory and

• contagion (aka transmissible or infectious) is a totally mythical unproven concept which we just assume takes place.

So straight away we can dismiss a good half of what the internet says makes an illness ‘common’ as being pure rubbish and made up twaddle.

The part about ‘Chronic and Lifestyle-Related Conditions’ is interesting where it says many non-infectious illnesses are common due to unfavourable exchanges with the external environment and evolutionary or design failures in the human body.

This touches on the terrain outlook saying basically that common illnesses can occur from unfavourable exchanges with your environment. But I’m not so sure any human bodies come with any design failures — evolutionary or otherwise which the definition also asserts.

Where it talks about ‘Chronic diseases’ it says mostly what the terrain view can endorse. These include: poor nutrition, physical inactivity, smoking, and environmental factors like air pollution. But I’m really not sure any diseases are genetic in nature because an historically shared terrain by members of the same family could easily present as something looking ‘genetic’ in nature.

All the ‘Key Drivers of Prevalence’ part seems very blah, blah, as if to suggest being ill is something you should reasonably expect and certainly you ought not to be able to dodge.

Common

But I’m still left wondering how common is common?

Taking just three of the listed common illnesses from the website I found beginning with A (at random) we have:

• Ankle sprain

• Anal cancer and

• Anorexia nervosa

Please don’t tell me any of these are common which is to say: lots of people have these.

It is my view that all these illnesses are being lumped together to try and support the idea of illness as a whole being common which is yet more indoctrination. They want people to believe illness is just an everyday part of living.

So in essence while not a single one of these is ‘common’ as you would think (ie being perhaps something most people have or will have) they kind of seed a general expectation of illness. And maybe when you expect to be ill …then you are ill.

I am left guessing what things are actually ‘common’ due to great numbers being similarly afflicted. This is ‘common’ according to the dictionary definition:

adjective

1. Belonging equally to or shared equally by two or more; joint.

   common interests.

2. Of or relating to the community as a whole; public.

   for the common good.

3. Widespread; prevalent.

   Gas stations became common as the use of cars grew.

Perhaps the internet doesn’t mean what it said which was ‘common’ by being widespread and prevalent …which is ‘3’ above. Perhaps they are trying to convince us that illnesses are ‘common’ more in line with ‘2’ above — because they relate to the community as a whole.

I don't buy this and do not accept anything about being ill should ever be considered remotely ‘community-wide’. It sort of also taps into the notion of ‘pandemics’ which is another scam as we have seen.

But sadly ‘common sense’ which should be community-wide is becoming increasingly rare.

Adopt a more scientific view of maintaining health and wellbeing by visiting Reality of Illness where you will see many notable professionals who adopt this outlook along with their evidence.