Day Quil, the daytime version of Ny Quil apparently, has a love/hate relationship with Vitamin C. Their new commercial, which I've already seen three times so they must be spending tens of thousands on it, introduces us to a woman with a cold who is so stupid that she is a "Vitamin C freak". Her friends ridicule her for that. The commercial makes it very clear that people who take Vitamin C are eccentric dummies to be humored but ridiculed for their stupidity.

Her co-workers are concerned that she has a cold but she isn't doing anything about it. They want to buy her something to help her, but realizing that she is a moron Vitamin C freak, they humor her by buying Day Quil with Vitamin C. When she sees what they have bought for her, she gets a bit emotional. "You guys.." She feels so loved. She is most excited about the product because it contains Vitamin C.

A war has been going on between the attackers, the pharmaceutical industry, and the victims, the alternative health industry. The attackers spend a hell of a lot of money to discredit the alternative health industry. They have their bullshit storm troopers known as Quack Busters, hired guns to discredit products that work, products like vitamins and minerals. They attack anything that they themselves don't produce. It's an economic war for the dollars of consumers.

The pharmaceutical industry has successfully harmed the vitamin industry in Europe. Their home base is Germany. I've heard that you can't buy vitamins in Germany comparable to the ones you can buy in America. The pharmaceutical industry used its muscle to muscle them out of the drug stores. The German pharmaceutical industry is the former I.G. Farben, makers of Zyklon B gas that murdered millions of Jews in concentration camps. I.G. Farben ran the concentration camps and the Holocaust.

I.G. Farben realized they had to change their name and split up, after the war, because Hitler wasn't around to protect them and employ them anymore. They split into BASF, Hoechst, and Bayer. They are felons, guilty of price fixing in America. They paid nearly a billion dollars in fines for price fixing in America, and yet why should they care? They just pass the fines over to the consumers. We pay their fines. Nobody does jail time. Too bad. It should be taken a bit more seriously when you rip off America.

The pharmaceutical industry is the single biggest contributor to BOTH political parties in the U.S. Think about that. BOTH. They are not exercising their freedom of speech by supporting the party of their choice. They have bought both parties. And it shows. The price of prescription drugs is insane, and our govt does nothing about it. In fact, Bush refused to do anything about it. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

A bottle of any drug at all costs a penny or two to make, and yet may cost hundreds of dollars. These greedy bastards are not simply recovering their research and development costs, which are huge. They are way beyond that. Their profits are filthy. It is an insanely profitable business for them to be in. I'm not saying that the local drug store is ripping you off. It's the guys at the top who are ripping you off.

Day Quil condescended to put a little Vitamin C in their product. That's a big concession, I suppose. They are the enemy of all vitamins, as they show in their hostile commercial. If you pay close attention to their weird commercial, you hear that they are offering the minimum daily requirement of Vitamin C. That is no good at all for someone with a cold. It's just in there for sales, not for health.

The minimum daily requirement for Vitamin C is something like 60 mgs. That's enough to prevent scurvy in a healthy 25 year old male. It's not enough to prevent scurvy in a healthy 25 year old female or in a healthy 50 year old male. And scurvy really isn't the point, because it's not that widespread anymore. The point is the common cold, and 60 mgs doesn't do a shitting thing to prevent or minimize the strength of the common cold. For that you need many times that. You need 500 mgs a day to fight the common cold. I know of people who take thousands of mgs per day with excellent results.

I used to get two really bad colds per year. These colds got to the sore throat stage, where your throat really hurts. Then I started taking 500 mgs of Vitamin C a day. Now I only get one light cold per year, not accompanied by a sore throat. Just sneezing, runny nose, feeling blah, but nothing serious. That is what Vitamin C has done for me.

I used to constantly get the most painful sore throats. I was known for it. Those days are over. It's been decades.

So to wrap this up, Day Quil has decided to cash in on the vitamin craze by offering a product that doesn't contain enough vitamins to make any difference to you, and they ridicule their own product and their own customers by calling them vitamin freaks. What idiot thought up that ad campaign? However, it does show that the industry is beginning to accept vitamins, kicking and screaming as they do so, and offering shit vitamins at that.

It seems that they are saying to their own equals, yes we are betraying our class, yes we are now siding with the enemy, the vitamin enemy, but look, we are ridiculing them at the same time and we really aren't offering them shit, just taking their money and goofing on them.