Machines that go PING

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LiveSimply < wrote:

> Unfortunately, both sides have their agendas.. Neither side is

accurate.. (You have to do a lot of work to figure it out... and

then, good luck if you want to try to help others - by God forbid,

sharing that information.. Intentionally or unintentionallty - it

gets drowned out by noise..)

>

The primary source of the obfusticatory " noise " is unexpected, for

it really comes from the sufferers themselves in even greater

amounts than from the disbelievers.

Those who haven't been afflicted don't really care, so they have a

view of " That's impossible " which is easily dismissed.

So called " helpful doctors " and " mold experts " may be trying their

best, but they establish their views based on peer reviewed

literature of statistical testing - which doesn't apply to ANYONE at

the extreme end of illness.

The problem is that because they have " The Appearance of Good

Science " , these misguided views are touted as fact and " The Final

Word " among groups of sufferers.

Take the entrenched concept of " spore counting " for example.

It is a simple matter to remove a possession from a contaminated

place and wash it vigorously - and test it for " Mold Hits " .

This automatically rules out the " Dose makes the poison " concept

upon which spore counting is predicated.

It obviously doesn't take a huge exposure to create an " out of

control " inflammatory response in a sensitized person, yet therapies

aimed at mold sufferers often inherently can do no more than reduce

exposure slightly. Hepa filters aren't going to catch everything,

and if your PIR is at a level in which a contaminated possession can

cause such a response, all efforts of reducing spore counts still

cannot possibly lower exposure to a level that the " Proximity test "

you have already done shows to be far less than the best that can be

achieved by these half measures. It sounds logical that reducing

spores cannot be anything but a good thing, but if your reactivity

is beyond being helped by such measures, the belief that it is a

good thing is a very bad thing - for it will pursuade someone to

remain in a place that has exceeded individualized tolerance.

Those of us who know better simply get drowned out by the " Science "

and " Machines that go PING " which are so dazzlingly impressive and

presented by people with such impeccable credentials that their

views are simply not called into question.

Simply take an object that gives you hits out to a " pristine area " ,

wash it, and try to sleep with it under a pillow you have already

found to be tolerable.

No matter what the " Machine that goes " Ping " indicates on its

dials in terms of statistical figures of spores that experts believe

it takes to make someone feel ill. If you have an unacceptable

response to that object, those numbers do not apply to you.

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