Give Me The Tinfoil Medicine

If anyone has links about the ruling elite of this world having their own separate classes of medications, please post links now.

We got sick – very sick – on what we came to understand is an “adenovirus.”  It was the first time a sickness has taken me down in about eight years.

This instant pneumonia strain came down on the gringo express, sickening all kinds of people for weeks, an illness that gladly makes limitless deadly encores for those who overestimate their convalescence, and has emptied restaurants, leaving people gaping 20 feet away from the adenovirus’ victims for fear of succumbing to the racking coughs themselves.  People are terrified of this cough, which others tell us will linger for weeks.

Ah but not doctors.  We went to a Mexican/American doctor who speaks perfect English, and my husband suggested he even stand back, that he not get what we had.  The doctor smiled as if the questions of contamination by his own patients had never occurred to him in his life.  He was fearless throughout the examination, dismissing our worries for his health with a remark that he saw so many patients he “guessed” they gave him immunity.

I call bullfeathers.  It doesn’t work for teachers.  They are shutting schools down for fear of viruses in the US, because 40% of teachers are falling sick in some schools.  If mass exposure to sickness brought immunity, teachers would benefit the most.

Which leads us to larger questions:  why don’t members of Congress die of common things like cancer more often?  How can candidates campaign fearlessly, gladhanding with the masses without catching the epidemics going around?  How can they have no fear, mingling broadly with a largely sick public and yet never fall ill themselves?

I’m not even going to argue the point with anyone as to whether there are separate classes medicines available to the ruling elite of the world (and doctors) which are not given to common people.  I have not a doubt in my mind, after seeing a doctor laugh at what was almost killing us.  He KNEW he would not get what we had, but certainly did not offer us a shot of whatever protected him.

So tell me, who has any links on the separate realms of medications available to rich elite versus the rest of us?