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Daily routine is a wonderful blessing, don't you think? I mean
it's the stuff of life that hundreds of millions of Americans
enjoy. So much so, we complain about it jokingly at times, just
because our lives are so...well...so routine. In fact, we take
our peaceful and ordered existence so much for granted, it has
a tendency to lull us to sleep at times.
Therein lies our danger. Our lives and society as we know it
are being threatened by the approach of a disastrous, unstoppable
pestilence. And unless the masses are jarred awake from their
complacency and slumber soon, our generation will experience a hell on
earth like no generation before it.
Perhaps it's because I look at life through 56 year old eyes.
Maybe it's paranoia setting in from watching too many disaster
movies...Then again, maybe it's because every telltale sign is
pointing to it, even though many people are in a lull and can't
see nor hear what the signs are telling us.
Volumes of books have been written about the problems related to
Y2K, but precious little has been said on how a family can expect to
protect themselves against an outbreak of pestilence. The whole
situation is complicated further by a misguided belief that our
government and medical care givers will always have some "magic
bullet" of a vaccine or pill to protect and save us. The truth is
there is no magic bullet and government can do little to protect us
when we may need it the most.
Within the next 24 months from this writing, it is highly likely
your family will be threatened by the presence of a deadly strain of
influenza (a virus), a man-made release of anthrax (a bacteria) ...or
both. The arrivals of which are anticipated, expected, forecasted,
whatever word you wish to use that describes what researchers and
government officials are saying will happen.
INFLUENZA:
Health officials are holding their breath in anticipation of the
next generation of killer virus. They know from history and from
understanding its nature that a major outbreak is overdue.
Robert G. Webster, Ph.D., Chairman of St. Jude Children's Research
Hospital, Department of Virology and Molecular Biology, recently
stated a worldwide influenza epidemic is a "certainty in the near
future" (1). According to Dr. Webster, there are enough susceptible
people to support a global epidemic, or pandemic. Particularly at risk
are children, teens and young adults born after the last appearance in
1968 of the Asian flu subtype, also known as H2, of influenza type A.
More than 70,000 Americans died of the Asian flu when it first
appeared during the 1957-58 flu season.
There is a vast network of virus watchers constantly on watch. Their
mission is to get ahead of any virus outbreak and isolate it from
people. But doing so depends on good communication, the speed of their
response time, and good investigative work. The network depends
heavily on an interdependent system.
But virus researchers will tell you their success or failure to
stop a major viral outbreak is a "crap shoot" at best. The reporting
system in place is not that efficient to begin with, and the
likelihood of getting ahead of an outbreak to isolate and stop it is
not good. Once a new virulent strain makes it past the virus watchers,
the world is on its own.
6 years ago, a group of scientists from government health agencies,
including the Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug
Administration, and the National Institutes of Health formed to lay
the groundwork for a national strategy to cope with the next killer
flu. Nancy Cox, Chairperson of the group from 1993 to 96 had this to
say about being able to stop a pandemic...
"We know we are not going to be able to stop a pandemic. By the
time you realize things are really happening, it's going to be
too late. With a virus spread by respiratory route and with a
quick onset, you're really at a disadvantage." (2)
Typically, some 20,000 people are killed by influenza in the U.S.
every year. They die because a virus infection overpowers their body.
Hundreds of thousands more who become infected annually by a virus,
survive, but only because their body's immune system is able to
overpower the viral invader. If the virus is particularly virulent
(extra potent), more people die.
The death count of the most notorious viral outbreak known killed an
estimated 30 million people world-wide in 1918. Researchers note that if the flu pandemic of 1918
had happened today, it would kill over 200 million people ...This
because so many people have compromised their body's healing system by
their lifestyle, and are unable to withstand a potentially lethal
viral infection.
Your family can survive an influenza pandemic, but only if you
are willing to take an active role in doing so. More on this
later.
ANTHRAX:
Biological warfare is a hideous form of man's inhumanity against
man. While America has enjoyed most of its 223 years free from
internal attack from foreign invaders, that is likely to change
very soon.
For whatever reason Americans may be hated by certain nationalities of
people, President Bill Clinton upped the ante when he ordered missile
attacks last August against Sudan, Afghanistan and Pakistan, supposedly
in an attempt to destroy Osama bin Laden, a Saudi fugitive who is
accused of the U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa last August.
Government officials now fear an attack on American soil using
either Nuclear, Biological or Chemical agents (dubbed NBC agents).
How severe is the threat of a NBC attack on the U.S?
On January 20, 1998, President Clinton said the threat of a
terrorist group launching a germ or chemical attack on American
soil is "highly likely" within the next few years (3). He has
announced a major program to combat exotic forms of terrorism,
which is expected to dominate national defense in the next century.
Clinton said that of all the new threats, the one that "keeps me
awake at night" is the possibility of germ attack. "A chemical
attack would be horrible, but it would be finite," he said,
adding that it would not spread. But a biological attack could
spread, he added, "kind of like the gift that keeps on giving."
In case such a horrendous event occurred, our ordered society
would end as we know it. Marshal law would prevent the normal
flow of commerce. People would not be able to freely seek
medical attention from their family physicians. Medical supplies
would be re-routed to government run facilities. It would be
a mess unlike anything we have experienced.
Under the new defense program, steps would be taken to develop
new vaccines, stockpiling antibiotics, and setting up emergency
medical teams in major cities. You can translate that however
you will, but to me it spells disaster.
Typically, vaccines cannot be created until after the fact. It
takes a minimum of 6 months to make a vaccine once the microbial
agent being used is identified. This is true for viral outbreaks
as well. Precious time is then spent in manufacturing enough of
the vaccine to inoculate the populace. In the time it takes to
do all of this, an entire population could be wiped out. Government
response to an outbreak may be well intentioned, but ineffective in
terms of helping your family.
Your family can survive biological warfare, but only if they are
prepared ahead of time. In the case of an anthrax release, there
is a controversial vaccine being used by the U.S. Military. Because
the vaccine has not been studied for possible side effects, a growing
number of U.S. soldiers are refusing vaccination. There is only a
small supply of the vaccine (not enough for all military personnel),
and it will be years before the federal government stockpiles enough
to vaccinate the entire American citizenry.
Our World:
I have laid out just two likely scenarios, but there are
several more. We live in an era of strange diseases where people
suffer and even die with the medical community helplessly
looking on. From AIDS to mutant flesh-eating streptococcus
bacteria, from deadly hantavirus to nearly invisible "stealth"
parasites like cryptosporidium and giardia, to deadly new strains of
TB, you name it, the world is fast becoming a dangerous place to live.
Sadly, people who do nothing to protect themselves, people who
assume the system will protect them, are the ones who will suffer the
greatest. There are answers and solutions, but they will only work
when and where people are willing to prepare for the inevitable,
themselves!
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Our world is changing about us. Many new challenges lie ahead
which threatens our peaceful existence. Those who prepare will
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References:
2. Rolling Stones Mag., Jan 98, P. 47f, by Hillary Johnson,
3. New York Times, Jan 22, 98, P. 1, by Judith Miller
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related therapy predates the American Medical Association and
Food and Drug Administration by at least 6,000 years. You decide!
PHARMACEUTICAL dispensed drugs are toxic failures not fit for
human consumption. According to JAMA (Journal of the American
Medical Association), Prescribed drug-caused deaths rank 4th on
the list of causes of death. 1994 statistics show 106,000 people
died from unintended drug side-effects. This would be considered
criminal by any other civilized standard.
Dr. Julian Whitaker, M.D., Medical Editor for "Health and
Healing," estimates 18 million more people have survived toxic
side effects from these same drugs prescribed by their
doctors...Over 2 million of them were bad enough to be
hospitalized in 1994 alone. Chemical Drugs and the so-called
"health" system that promotes using them are part of the
problem, not the solution.
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE for your own health, not the AMA, FDA
or your physician. If your physician prescribes a drug for
"treatment," ask him or her what known side-effects exist.
If he or she downplays any risk, ask yourself this question...
Is playing Russian roulette with drugs worth risking your life?
It can and does happen...106,000 deaths every year!!
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Essential Oils Online - Feb 1999
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