Below is the English translation of the blogger’s column article published in Nanyang Siang Pau on Tuesday, January 5, 2021. Note that the translation is requested by Dr. Lim Ju Boo, google-translated by Ms. Chiew Mui Kheng and edited by the blogger.
林如武博士“外太空病毒”论 / 刘泰安
2021年01月05日
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| Dr. Lim's pic taken in Nov. 2020 |
He spent 15 years studying in India and the United Kingdom, where he obtained bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees in medical physiology, zoology, nutrition, food technology and quality control, natural medicine respectively. After graduation, he worked as a researcher at the Bangkok-based MIT of US and the Cancer Research Center of Lyon in France, before joining the IMR in Malaysia till his retirement in 1994.
Dr. Lim is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health in London and also the Founding President of the Astronomical Society of Malaysia.
His great achievement since retirement includes being one of the judges for the Malaysia International Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition (ITEX) every year.
Most admirable is his spirit of life-long learning with which he at the golden age of 80 went to the Universities of Cambridge abd Oxford, UK to pursue postdoctoral courses in evolution and forensic science in toxicology and astronomy respectively.
I have all this while respectfully called Dr. Lim as "the Great Sifu" because of his profound knowledge, superior memory, first-class writing skill, as well as a wide range of hobbies including astronomy, mathematics, nature study, microscopy, violin, flute, reading, writing, giving speeches and so on.
I have read a lot of articles written by him over the last 11 years via emails in the early days and WhatsApp chat group nowadays, and I have posted 148 of them into my blog so as to reach out to the concerned public.
Dr. Lim has unique insights on some of the issues related to Covid-19 pandemic that is ravaging the world today, and I wish to briefly share as follows:
He believes that coronavirus and disease-carrying particles may have been seeded from the outer space over the entire outer surface of Earth in chorus by passing comets, just like the past pandemics struck the world at lightning speed. What an innovative viewpoint!
Dr. Lim is not surprised that of late new strains of coronavirus have rapidly emerged and reasoned that this is just part of nature. From the evidences of chemical fossils discovered some 3.8 billion years ago and other facts, all life beings will try to protect their own existence by adapting and surviving through adverse challenges till today, and coronavirus is no exception.
On the role of vaccines, he noted that they would not change after they are introduced into the body and that once the virus mutated into different strains, the vaccine would be useless. In fact, the virus can be transformed into a variety of viruses, and the most reliable resistance is through our own natural immunity.
Waves of pandemic and epidemics from malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy, influenza, smallpox, SARS, HIV and etc. sweeping across the globe since the time of the Greek civilization in 430 BC came and vanished naturally without vaccines. This can also apply to the coronavirus disease.
Natural immunizations through sharing acquired immunoglobulins from person-to-person is much safer and effective, because even if the virus mutates, the body can also correspondingly "mutate" its immunological and bio-chemical scenarios to meet the same challenges.
Dr. Lim recommends as preventive measures and curative management for coronavirus diseases to use steam inhalation with a blend of antiviral aromatic oils added into hot water plus many types of antiviral herbs and other biosimilar adjuncts, to take mega doses of vitamin A from cod liver oil, plus 1000 mg of vitamin C, so as to enhance the production of lymphocytic T cells and help fight the virus.
Dr. Lim believes that the current norm of taking body temperature for Covid-19 in crowded places is actually not accurate, because a fever may not necessarily be the first response of the body to Covid-19 infection, but may be due to a body response to other disease infections, or other kinds of chemical pyrogen or drug side effects.
High body temperatures may be caused by hyperthyroidism, sun exposure, or steam baths. Some people who have been infected with the virus may not show any fever, i.e. asymptomatic; and if there is going to be a fever, it may take an incubation period of several days.
The most reliable way of a screening test of the disease is the use of Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) , but this test is expensive and time-consuming (5 to 6 hours) to perform and hence not practical to be used in crowded places.
In any case, detection of immunoglobulins or antibodies produced by our own body is ultimately the best diagnostic test. As such, under the present extraordinary moment of time, it is best to stay home and stay safe.
Finally, allow me to take this opportunity of my first column article in the new year to wish everybody "to get rid of 2020 the Year of the difficult Rat, to usher in 2021 the Year of the turnaround Ox". Not to mention Covid is as hard as steel, to begin to overcome with long strides in the New Year!
(2020年鼠(属)实不易，2021年牛(扭)转乾坤。冠病漫道真如铁，新年迈步从头越！)
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| Newspaper-cutting of the original article published in Nanyang Siang Pau on 05/01/2021 |