This sort of shit really does my head in and it reminded me of a few moments in my past I want to recount in relation to such ‘news’.

So it’s the Guardian, CNN and Fox reporting the news of a measles case on the Scientology Freewinds.

In a nutshell a crew member arrived from Europe infected with meales. Now I used to be in the Sea Org and they take isolation of people with infection diseases mega seriously. Rightly so and it’s done with compassion to. Care is provided with comfort. But isolation rules are strictly adhered to.

So that’s what happened – someone arrived with meales, they were isolated and care for but… others on the ship could have now contracted it and there is a period of 12 days when someone can have it, pass it on while still not showing any signs of having the disease. So it is a serious issue.

Thus the ship was quarentined. It’s a typical and sensible medical practice. Which is just business as usual anywhere the world over.

But not when Scientologies freewinds is involved. It’s headline news.

But let’s pause for a moment and credit CNN. The guardian, a bastion of genuine journalism in the UK comes up with a tabloid version of events as does Fox while CNN point out 91% of the peeps on board where vax’d and cool to leave.

There is a percent of people in Scn who are not for vaxing. I was not one of them. I think the percent is comparable to any other demographic and I think CNN highlights this.

It happened – and it was business as usual as it would be for anyone else in this world.

Scientology is all for free thinking and if someone decides to vax or no the church takes a stance neither here nor there. For journalist to try imply a correlation is tabliodish to me and irresponsible.

I went to India after the ’05 tsunami as part of a Scientolgy disaster relief team. When in one relief camp one day an elderly women came and tugged at my sleeve almost beckoning me to following her. I did. She led me to her room where her husband was clearly delirious from fever. She’d a cloth with cold water on his head. The meds he needed etc. He was given fluids. All reasonable care, but the fever was not breaking.

She expected me to help. The only technology I had to hand was what I was brought up with and that was Scientology and I thought he needs a dose of Touch Assists.

Simple idea, with echo’s in reiki and even just getting a hug.

A touch assist involves systematically touching the left and then right side of the assistee body from and back, avoiding intimate areas but paying particular attention to each finger tip, toe and joints etc… The idea being it get the spirit to come back into communication with it’s body.

This chap got a dose of it and he reckoned I saved his life. 3 days later he was waving by to me from his balcony and his wife was on her knee’s at my feet trying to say more thanks for saving her husbands life.

Now – anything could have broke the fever. From her care, the medicine, the course of the virius but a thought lingers – did the ‘wise white man from abroad’ placebo just tell him to fight it. Did the assist tip the balance. My argument is they all helped bring him back from his personal hell and wishing for a quick death. He was delirius and suffering badly.

But I returned from India and that experience and seen an article in the Sun saying Scientologist have a practice of probing kids with a finger until the kid says they feel better.

I fucking hate dim witted arse holes tabloid anything and everything they can. It’s too much of a fab now and wont end well.