Leadership Quote by Stan Jones

The line lands with the offhand intimacy of a diary entry, but it’s really a little manifesto about authority: whose expertise counts when your body feels vulnerable. “I can feel a cold coming on” is the classic pre-illness moment where anxiety outruns symptoms, and Jones immediately answers that anxiety with action. Not rest, not a test, not a call to a clinician, but “I am going to start using colloidal silver again” - the “again” doing the heavy lifting. It signals a personal history of self-treatment, a ritualized remedy, and an identity: I’m the kind of person who doesn’t wait for permission.

As a politician, that choice isn’t just private wellness chatter. It telegraphs a worldview aligned with suspicion of institutions and a preference for folk or alternative solutions, often framed as “common sense” against elites. The phrasing is casual, almost stubbornly unceremonious, which helps it work rhetorically: if it sounds like a harmless habit, criticism can be dismissed as overreaction.

Context matters because colloidal silver sits in a cultural zone where “natural” is marketed as both purity and rebellion, despite medical warnings about its ineffectiveness and potential harms. Jones isn’t arguing; he’s modeling. The intent is less to persuade with evidence than to normalize a posture: intuition over expertise, autonomy over guidance. In the political arena, that posture reads as authenticity to supporters and as dog-whistle skepticism to critics - a small sentence that smuggles in a larger campaign of distrust.