Pandemic Panic: Once Dead Diseases Rise & Rampage

World Health Organization plays Politics with people lives in the balance

"WHO has acknowledged acting too slowly to control the Ebola epidemic. In its defense, the agency says the virus' spread was unprecedented and blames factors including lack of resources and intelligence from the field. Internal documents obtained by AP, however, show WHO's top leaders were informed of how dire the situation was. But they held off on declaring an emergency in part because it could have angered the countries involved, interfered with their mining interests or restricted the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in October."

So, how many lives were lost because the WHO, was worried about making someone upset?

And how many times has this happened in the past?

And how will this affect future outbreaks?

Are you willing to put your life on the line?  What about your children's lives?  Your grand children's lives?

The WHO is supposed to be apolitical, with out politics.  Without borders.

And yet their own intenal e-mails show just the opposite.

And people DIED, because of that.

Government Spying and Lies

"AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The hack was perpetrated by a joint unit consisting of operatives from the NSA and its British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. The breach, detailed in a secret 2010 GCHQ document, gave the surveillance agencies the potential to secretly monitor a large portion of the world’s cellular communications, including both voice and data."

So no matter what precautions you take, they can still access your communications and your device. Meaning, you have NO privacy and they can go through your data, text messages, voice mails, videos and phots anytime they feel like it.

"(Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives.

That long-sought and closely guarded ability was part of a cluster of spying programs discovered by Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based security software maker that has exposed a series of Western cyberespionage operations.

Kaspersky said it found personal computers in 30 countries infected with one or more of the spying programs, with the most infections seen in Iran, followed by Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Mali, Syria, Yemen and Algeria. The targets included government and military institutions, telecommunication companies, banks, energy companies, nuclear researchers, media, and Islamic activists, Kaspersky said."

So you have an over 60% chance that the hard drive in your computer has a hidden back door allowing "A Security Agency" access to everything on your computer. Even if you have a clean drive in addition to the infected drive, they have access. Also depending on how this program interacts with the BIOS, any device you plug into your computer could become infected as well. Your Cell phone, Tablet, Kindle, Nook, Fire etc.

"A team of prominent researchers suggested Thursday that limited airborne transmission of the Ebola virus is "very likely," a hypothesis that could reignite the debate that started last fall after one of the scientists offered the same opinion.

"It is very likely that at least some degree of Ebola virus transmission currently occurs via infectious aerosols generated from the gastrointestinal tract, the respiratory tract, or medical procedures, although this has been difficult to definitively demonstrate or rule out, since those exposed to infectious aerosols also are most likely to be in close proximity to, and in direct contact with, an infected case," the scientists wrote. Their peer-reviewed study was published in mBio, a journal of the American Society of Microbiology.

The study's lead author, Michael T. Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, touched off a small furor and was condemned by some experts last Sept. 11 when he raised the same possibility in an op-ed piece in the New York Times as concern over the spread of the deadly disease was increasing rapidly....

"There was almost a rush to ensure the public that we knew a lot more than we did," Osterholm said in an interview Wednesday night, repeating a theme he has raised many times before. "But we're saying you can't rule out respiratory transmission."

Oh really?  A chance to inflate your sense of importance?  And you didn't take it?  How unusual.  And to do it with the lives of millions if not billions of people.  How do you people stand yourselves?

EBOLA!!!!!!!! Kurzgesagt has the skinny

Ebola, Quarantine and Medical Staffing

Peter has a post discussing all three of those with links and excerpts from BookFace and Elsewhere.  I'll just throw in a small excerpt which you can click on to go read Peter's post.

"The United States (and virtually all other countries) require a myriad of tests and often quarantine prior to bringing in a foreign animal.

I can’t legally cross state lines in the United States with a horse or cow without a health certificate signed by a USDA accredited veterinarian stating that the animal has been inspected and found free of infectious disease. In most cases blood tests are also required.

. . .

If I am a resident of Liberia incubating Ebola, to enter the United States all I need to do is present a valid visa, and lie when asked if I have been exposed to Ebola. Within hours (no quarantine required) I can be walking the streets of any city in the United States.

I feel very fortunate to live in a country that values our animals so highly."

Seriously go RTWT

Obama Administration setting us up for either a Pandemic or

a total take over under a type of martial law.

"Instead of grappling with these concerns, and tightening some of the parameters around how quarantine would be used through a revised regulation, the Obama Administration abruptly pulled the rule, and replaced it with nothing. President Obama signed a patchwork of executive orders to give CDC clear quarantine authority in regards to some emerging respiratory pathogens like SARS and MERS. But the regulation interpreting the federal quarantine authority remained outdated."

No policy in place.  So when not if Ebola starts to have outbreaks in the general population, the Obama Administration will have no choice but 'benevolently' take over.

There are many people who think that I'm blowing those out of proportion and Ebola can't become an issue and a dozen or more things I'm supposed to be wrong about.

Are you willing to risk your families lives on the possibility that I am wrong?

Are you willing to risk your children's lives?

When a simply paying attention and getting involved in the legislative process could prevent this?

Call your Representative, Call your Senator.  Call your Governor.  GET INVOLVED!

Make the people who are supposed to represent and lead DO THEIR JOBS!

An ER Physician talks Ebola and the Flu

"I’ve been walking the earth for a half a century, so I’m sure I’ve picked up a bit along the way. I know the Gettysburg Address by heart. I can recite all the presidents. I can taste the difference between Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi, and I’m fairly certain I can tell you the starting lineup from the 1976 Cincinnati Reds. But if you ask me if I’m worried about Ebola, if our hospital is ready or if our nurses and staff are up to the challenge, chances are you will probably hear me say this:

“Hell if I know.”

I have been practicing emergency medicine for more than 20 years and I’ve seen close to 100,000 patients. I’ve written a few books, published some papers, lectured a bunch of times, pissed off about 10,000 soccer moms when I wrote an article telling them their kids weren’t playing the pros. I once even testified in front of a congressional sub-committee on hospital disaster preparedness. I’m still beating myself for at least not stealing a pen, but it was part of my duty as the physician director of mass casualty preparedness for our emergency department."

The lowest common denominator to this is "Personnel".  Having enough people to do the jobs they are supposed to do when they are supposed to do it.

Why can't this patient get up to the floor into a room?  Because housekeeping hasn't cleaned the room.  Where is housekeeping?  They didn't come in.  Why didn't they come in?  Because they aren't getting paid enough to risk getting sick.  Or they just didn't feel like coming in.

LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR

The kicker quote:

 “Dr. Profeta, will they – the staff, you, your partners – show up? “ “That, I don’t know.”


And what about "Blue Flu"?

Ebola Patients being "Disappeared"?

I don't normally read Alex Jones InfoWars site, but when Drudge links him as he sometimes does I give it a look to see what claims he is making.

And when I read the following linked story I know there is some truth to it.  As there have been some possible cases of Patients with Enterovirus D68 who went to the hospital and have then "Disappeared" AMA, (Against Medical Advice).  I have a "Friend" who works in the medical field, and they have told me of a death that was from EVD68, but was reported as simple pneumonia, and of several patients, 2 of them children who checked in, then 8-10  hours later checked out AMA and have "Disappeared".  No answer at the phone numbers left, and when medical staff were going to have Law Enforcement and Children Protective Service check on the patients, they were told by "DHS" the patients are being properly cared for and to transfer all records to "DHS".

My "Friend" doesn't have a reason to lie to me, that I am aware of, but if this is true, it is very frightening.

Now on to Alex Jones post.


"A doctor has exclusively revealed to Infowars that health authorities are covering up Ebola cases in the United States and disappearing patients in an effort to avoid hysteria.

James Lawrenzi, DO, who has two clinics in Garden City and Archie, Missouri, appeared on the Alex Jones Show today to warn that the true scale of the situation was being deliberately downplayed. It is important to note that none of these potential Ebola outbreaks occurred at the clinics in which Lawrenzi works."

So if the .GOV is hiding Ebola and EVD68 cases from the public, what ELSE is being hidden?

I hate sounding like a Conspiracy Theorist, but there is too much happening that doesn't make sense legally, medically or ethically.

So make your own determination, read all of the stories, look for yourself.  Don't take my word for it.  Just do your own research.  And you will probably find that things don't quite pass the smell test when it comes to the .GOV's handling of Ebola, EVD68 and other things.

Another Strike against the CDC - Lyme Disease

If you've ever gone through my blogroll you should have come upon Squeeky.  AKA Bonnie.  She has been fighting a chronic condition that too over 11 years to properly diagnose and at least 2 years before she could get proper treatment for it.

I'll do a brief excerpt, but you really need to RTWT at her blog.

"a friend of mine with Lyme says, “You…need to ask your doctor about this.” He then proceeded to tell me that I shouldn’t get the CDC test, because even if it shows positive bands (they’re all assigned to different parts of the Lyme bacteria – it’s basically the Lyme’s trash that the test sees, since there aren’t antibodies to it), you’re not considered actually sick unless you show something like 7 bands, which almost never happens. This, incidentally, is why the CDC only had 30,000 new cases of Lyme per year until 2013.

I asked my doctor, first (I’d gotten a new one, I liked her, I trusted her to not be a dick about it), and got the CDC test to see if I needed to pursue anything further. I showed positive on the band that indicates that Lyme flagella are floating around. That’s trash that’s small enough that were it left over, my body would have gotten rid of it within a week. Basically, it meant I was still infected.

I found an LLMD in my area (lucky, honestly – there aren’t too many, and I’ll go into that in a bit), showed him the test, and he was like “…yeeeah, I’m going to do an examination, ask you some questions, and we’ll go from there.”

I was clinically diagnosed with Lyme disease in March 2011. This means that upon examination of symptoms, a thorough interview, and a physical examination, a doctor learned in Lyme and other tick-borne diseases has made the judgment that I have the disease and should be treated for it as soon as possible.

You know who hates clinical diagnoses? The CDC. They want to see the bullseye rash, they want the over-kill on the positive test, they don’t want anything but disaster-level illness, because that’s the kind that’s most likely to be curable."

So for 16 years, she has been suffering from a sickness, that COULD have been treated much earlier.  IF the CDC didn't try to hide the facts.

I don't know about you, but this makes me angry and more than a little nervous about the current Ebola threat and how the CDC is handling it.  Especially considering the CDC's past history.

Divemedic on Ebola

Ebola thoughts

HIV is a pretty well known and understood virus. We know that it is a blood bourne virus, and the only way to get it is to share body fluids with an infected person. That means that if you do not expose your blood to the bodily fluids of a person infected with the virus, you won't get HIV or AIDS. With that being said, about 50,000 people per year are diagnosed with HIV. About 60% of the people who are infected with HIV go on to develop AIDS. Of the ones who develop AIDS, about 25% of them die.So, to summarize, HIV has a mortality rate of about 15%.

Click on that to go Read The Whole Thing

Conspiracy theorying

That is where you look around at all of the information available to you, public or otherwise, and a germ of an idea starts to take root in your head.

Fact, Illegal Aliens are bringing diseases into this country, the gov, knows about this but refuses to do anything about it.

Fact, A HIGHLY DEADLY and INFECTIOUS Disease has already been brought into the country and possibly hundreds if not thousands of people have been exposed to it.

Fact, for the last several years, the Gov has been arming the police and encouraging a dangerous mindset in said officers and departments.

Fact, The military has been gutted of a LOT of competent officers some for legitimate reasons but many for unusual reasons.

Fact, The military is being downsized forcing many troops into a stagnant job market with little opportunity.

Fact, The Gov is arming so called moderate indigenous fighters who are just as bad in some cases as those they are intended to fight.

Fact, The Gov is NOT arming the indigenous fighters who are ACTUALLY the good guys and WILL fight.

Fact, Various Executive Orders have been singed and issued degrading the Constitutional Rights of American Citizens, but have no affect on Illegal Aliens.

There are many other Facts, but to get to my point here I will include the Theorying I've been thinking about.

Theorem:  The current mess is intentional as a preface to the possible declaration of a type of Martial Law due to exigent circumstances supposedly to stop the spread of Ebola, Marburg and Enterovirus D68.

Which is why common sense travel restrictions nor proper security of the border being undertaken.

Certain persons WANT the outbreak to happen and get worse.

Why?

One train of thought is to force the Gov to take over fully   And any resistance to the takeover which they are hoping for, would give them a reason to use the so-called "FEMA Camps".

The problem here is I have seen certain facilities way out in the hinterland that have no purpose for being there.  I'm not saying that they ARE FEMA Concentration Camps, remember I'm just "Theorying" here.

The Gov has already put into place banking (<~~ That is a PDF) and other regulations that would allow them to freeze or seize the assets of anyone it chooses to.

So if things do go in to the khazi, your savings would be taken, your home and all of your stuff would be taken and you and your family would be "Relocated" until the end off the emergency.

Now you have probably heard dozens if not HUNDREDS of Conspiracy Theorists saying similar things to what I just typed.

Unlike them I'm not trying to convince of anything other that to look around for yourself.

Read and research for yourself.

I have never demanded you believe anything I write, just that you keep an open mind and go look for yourself.

I'm just theorying here, not theorizing, no broaching hypotheticals.

Why ELSE would the Gov take the "Non-Measures" they have as it come in regard to Ebola, Marburg and ENVD68?

So maybe my thoughts are out of whack, but I personally cannot believe the Gov is THIS Incompetent.  And there has to be some reason other than stupidity on the parts of the Gov/CDC.

I KNOW for a fact that USARMIID had a plan for possible infectious outbreaks wayyyyy back in 1985.  How do I know?  I was a Medical Specialist assigned to a Army Reserve Hospital and we we TRAINED on the plan before the groups doing their two weeks training in Guatemala and El Salvador left for the airport.  For two months PRIOR to them going, our drill weekends were nothing but going OVER that plan that USARMID had sent down to ALL Medical units in the CONUS.  Regular, Reserve and National Guard.

We were instructed and TRAINED to use FULL PPE countermeasures.  Including Decontamination, Negative and Positive Pressure Rooms, Air Filtration Systems Maintenance and Operations.

This was back in 1985!!!

What happened since then?

And back then we were already concerned with Anthrax and Ebola.  Those were the two things which we drilled for preventing and treating outbreaks of.

Remember?  This was the Gulf of Sidra time, Grenada time.

Myself and many others were practically convinced our unit was going to be activated at any time.  Our units Pre-Po in Germany, had been inspected.  I came very close to being on the team that went to do that.  Nevermind that it was 8 months since the last inspection and normally it was only inspected every 18 months.

So I've seen some things in my time.

And I look around now, and there is NO WAY the people in charge are THAT Incompetent and Stupid, unless it is intentional.

So take from my little Theorying what you will.  All I ask is that you look around you, read all the news reports and make your own determination.

Ebola Links

if you have not been over to Western Rifle Shooters in awhile, I strongly suggest you do go over there and check out the link dumps they have compiled for news about not just Ebola, but Marburgs Disease and the Enterovirus.

Western Rifle Shooters Association

Afghanistan Elections - Is he a sore loser or is there a conspiracy?

"KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah said Monday that he will not accept the expected official results of the election, breaking a pledge he made to the U.S. secretary of state and injecting new tension into an already drawn-out political process.

Appearing tired and nervous, Abdullah told a nationally televised news conference that he believes he won both times Afghans voted this year - in April and again in a June runoff. He accused election authorities of violating the desires of voters by ignoring widespread fraud and preparing to declare his opponent, former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, the winner."

This could cause a renewal of the clashes and violence, and it could mean the death of the Afghanistan Government.  Even with US troop involvement, without a stable government, Afghanistan cannot stand.

Then we have more issues in Africa.

"MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- The United States and Britain will send medical equipment and military personnel to help contain West Africa's Ebola outbreak, as the World Health Organization warned Monday that many thousands of new infections are expected in Liberia in the coming weeks.

The current Ebola outbreak is the largest on record. It has spread from Guinea to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal and killed more than 2,000 people. An "exponential increase" in new cases is expected in the hardest-hit countries in coming weeks, the U.N. health agency warned."

As I've said MANY times.  We are just one plane ride away from a world pandemic.  And it doesn't have to be accidental.  In one case it MAY be intentional.

"The FBI and CDC are investigating an attack on a federal air marshal who was injected with a syringe full of an unknown substance inside the Lagos, Nigeria airport on Sunday, according to a Situational Awareness notice obtained by FoxNews.com.

A federal air marshal reported being attacked by a subject while on the public side of the Lagos Airport on Sunday, according to an alert from TSA's Transportation Security Operations Center distributed throughout the agency on Monday afternoon."

It looks like someone is TRYING to intentionally infect people with something.  While this is overt, there are other ways which cannot be detected.  All it would take would be for one person who was knowingly infected with an airborne virus to board a plane.  A couple of sneezes or coughs, and several people to the whole plane could be infected depending on the infection itself.

Too many things are going on in the world for someone to ignore.  And while many people get their only news through facebook or their friends, they really need to open their eyes and look at the whole picture.

"CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of children in more than 10 states have been sickened by a severe respiratory illness that public health officials say may be caused by an uncommon virus similar to the germ that causes the common cold.

Nearly 500 children have been treated at one hospital alone — Children's Mercy in Kansas City, Missouri — and some required intensive care, according to authorities."

A Mosquito Bite away from an epidemic

I've written before about just how fragile and how easy it is for there to be a major epidemic not just in our nation, but worldwide. 

Now we have a few rather disturbing stories which you really should read and take into consideration.


Mosquito-borne virus sickens 20 in NJ

Ebola outbreak: Victim who sparked fears of global epidemic was on way home to US

Ebola is carried by fruit bats and pigs. Can it be transmitted by mosquitoes?

There are many viruses and parasites that can be transmitted by mosquito bites. Who is to say it might not be possible to transmit Ebola that way? With our porous border and thousands of unscreened people getting in to our country that just puts us more at risk of an outbreak.

Can we prevent it? Yes, but the politicians in D.C. have to want to do so. Instead we have a leadership that is exploiting our border problems for political gain. Disregarding the possibility that we could have a major outbreak of many communicable diseases.

What do they care? All they will do is blame the Republican party, and the media will support that.