Thoughts For The Week
“Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations
and epochs, it is the Rule.”
Each month this bulletin is sent out to 10,000 people, (most of the people that
it is passed on to are not firearm owners). I receive by email, phone,
face book and personally about 50 compliments and two or three Unsubscribe. The
only negative comments, (about 3 a year) centre on ‘my scaremongering’.
However, if that was really my objective, or my personal insanity, I would be
advocating that people resort to their ‘Bunkers’, or like other scaremongers,
selling the build a bunker plans and doomsday preppers guide list, buy gold
bullion and don’t forget to buy a packet of ammo before you bury yourself.
Please let me know if you can find any of this in the previous 165 editions?
My real objective and I’m sorry if it comes across to all the readers, is to
provoke thought and expose the claptrap that emanates from Government and
mainstream media, so that at least we can find some realism behind the
blindfolds and take political action to keep Australia safe in a very troubled
world. If its scary that is not my fault.
Governments are the ones who use the “scaremongering’ tactics usually
with an agenda, not always obvious to us at the time. Currently, its, “Don’t
panic about the coronavirus”. (COVID-19) Governments naturally have an
aversion to panic. The present official response is “make sure you wash
your hands frequently and cough into your elbow. Buy in a good supply of hand
cleaner and disinfectants”.
Unlike previous epidemics like Sars and HIV this one is airborne, so
coughing into your elbow might stop you from passing it on, but it does nothing
for your protection, same with the mask, it might suppress your ability to pass
it on to others. The masks only protection is to stop you from touching your
nose and mouth if your hands are contaminated, but you have to breath and if
its being pumped out of an air conditioner the mask will not filter it out.
The Commonwealth Government Medical officer did a stint before the camera’s to
allay fears, stating that, “at present fatalities are only 2 % of those
infected,” (never mentioning that the majority of the infected figures are
still sick and might never recover to full health) and said, “ that the
Chinese Government may have not got an accurate “infected figure” and if
that figure was double then the fatality rate would only be 1%. Anyone, who
thinks can soon work out that if the Chinese Government minimalised the
infection rate that they would be easily capable of reducing the fatality rate
to a greater extent. So by admitting that the figures he was basing his
proposition on could be wrong, made it all meaningless. The figures
coming out of Iran are much more thought provocative.
Thursday 27th Feb 20“According to official figures, 26 people have died and
close to 250 have been diagnosed with COVIS-19, revealing a much higher death
rate from infections than the world average of around 3 percent”. That’s over
10 % and the infected have not all fully recovered as yet. Today’s figures
Monday 2nd March 20 BBC report 210 dead and 925 infected.
This government campaign to get everyone to “Wash Their Hands” reminds
me of Pontius Pilate publically washing his hands of the matter and giving the
Jews the choice to execute Jesus or not. He did not want the blood on his
hands, so to is our government’s response, “You catch the Virus because you did
not wash your hands enough”. Your life or death is your responsibility not
ours”.
Yet they say the 180 degree reverse when we ask for the Right to Carry Firearms
for our Defence. Then their answer is your personal security is our
responsibility, this is why we have the Police Force, Your Safety Is Our
Concern, Not Yours. So we know to phone 000 and wait to
die. Death is seconds away and the police will turn up maybe in 45
minutes or maybe tomorrow.
We are all shocked about the wife and three children purposely incinerated in a
car, we all hear constantly about domestic violence but when the government
disarms the most vulnerable what hope do they have against any other human
being who has the fore planning and the intent?
Governments Are Like A Sinking Ship.
Rather then Panic they would save the Captain and make sure that the Passengers
and Crew went to the Bottom.
In the 1960s Government Had the Bunkers, the People had the 3 minutes
Warning.
I am also reminded of the Government ‘Don’t Panic Campaign” in the
1960s when Britain was the most vulnerable target during the Cuban Missile
Crisis. The USSR had lots of the biggest and most powerful thermo nuclear bombs
ever made available to them. Britain had spent a Kings ransom on early warning
systems which gave the government 4 minutes before impact. Just 8 of the
Russian 50 Megaton would kill everyone or at best leave a few survivors in
stone age conditions.
Tsar Bomba 50 Megaton Bomb.
The 50 Megaton Hydrogen Bombs are believed to be equivalent to the
explosive power from the simultaneous detonation of 3,800 Hiroshima bombs all
at once. The crater would be 30 miles wide, if one of these bombs was dropped
in central London, the thermal radiation radius would stretch 47.88 miles
diameter, meaning people as far south as Eastbourne and as north as Cambridge would
suffer third-degree burns and be trapped by firestorms.
London, the red circle is the crater and outer area the consumed.
The British are known for their stoical resilience, but the
government responded in the usual way by keeping the people in ignorance. The
people knew that nuclear weapons were devastating they knew that at Hiroshima
one bomb had killed 150,000 people and that the USSR might have 200 bombs to
throw at Britain out of its arsenal of 1000s, but they like good soldiers would
always be able to believe that would happen to the other guy and we will be
alright. The people knew that the Russians had Hydrogen bombs but were kept in
the dark as to the full potential of the threat.
The government printed pamphlets “How To Survive” “Survive and
Protect” over a twenty year period, and gave suggestions on the Radio and TV in
the same manner as the Commonwealth Medical Officer above who said “Wash Your
Hands” but that time it was instructions on buying Brown paper and sticky tape
to keep out the Gamma Radiation fallout or if you have no Brown Paper as all
the dutiful housewives quickly emptied the shops we were told to paint the
windows with whitewash and in the 3 minutes after the air raid sirens went off
we had to reinforce the kitchen table and shelter underneath it and not come
out for a fortnight.
Like now with the worlds greatest pestilent threat, the dilemma for the
government at that time was that they knew that their guides “weren’t
necessarily particularly useful.” quote
“But at the same time, they had to be seen to be producing something, as they
couldn’t just admit that we’d all die,” They announced years later. “If they
produce the stuff, people will criticise it as being useless. If they don’t
produce it, then they’ll be criticised for not doing anything.”
The pamphlets were less about imparting knowledge and more about preventing
negative public responses such as riots. A few years ago a writer researching
his book, he found a note by one of the civil servants who prepared
Protect and Survive:
It said something like, ‘We must make people believe that they can survive.’
Not that they could survive, but they needed to believe they could – that kind
of sums up the whole thing. And even if you did survive, then what? You’ve
survived into hell on Earth. Is there any point in living whilst envying the
dead?”
It’s a human response, the people in charge knew that people would
die, but it seems for government that death is preferable to panic.
With a more modern example.
The recommendation to stay in the inner refuge has similarities with the London
Fire Service’s advice in June 2017 to the occupants of Grenfell Tower who were
told to stay in their apartments. Grenfell Tower had a ‘stay put’ fire policy –
essentially, the building design would contain a fire in a single flat for as
long as it took fire crews to bring it under control.
So on the night, residents were told to remain in their flats by the emergency
services, only later to become trapped as the fire blazed out of control and
thick poisonous smoke spread up the single narrow stairwell. This fire which
destroyed Grenfell Tower in June 2017 was one of the UK’s worst modern
disasters. “Just before 01:00 on 14 June, fire broke out in the kitchen of a
fourth floor flat at the 23 storey tower block in North Kensington, West
London. Within minutes, the fire had raced up the exterior of the building and
then spread to all four sides. By 03:00, most of the upper floors were well
alight.
At the Inquiry, Dr Lane said that the stay put policy had “substantially
failed” by 01:26 – less than 30 minutes after the first firefighters were
at the scene.
The stay put advice was finally abandoned at 02:47, when the incident commander
gave the order to “advise people to make efforts to leave the building.”
Counsel to the Grenfell inquiry Richard Millet QC told the 4 June 2018 hearing
that 144 people managed to evacuate before 01:38, but only 36 after the
stay put guidance was abandoned. Seventy-two people died that night.
WUHAN, Feb. 18, 2020 (Xinhua) — Photo taken on Feb. 17, 2020 with a
tilt-shift lens shows a temporary hospital converted from Wuhan Sports Center
in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province.
As Usual Australia is Sleep Walking to Disaster.
Washing our Hands is important, but with no cure, no vaccine, no
magic bullet the only factor that slows the virus progress is quarantine. Our
government had all the advanced time to organise our biological defences as the
Wuhan outbreak was announced to the world in November 2019. If it wanted to
protect Australia all incoming passengers and crew, sea and air should have
been placed in Quarantine gosh they do that with our dogs and cats to safeguard
our pets why could they not do this to protect the people? The answer to that
one is sadly simple. Government knows our borders are not secure, (not just
Northern Australian ports) eventually one person from a fishing boat could
bring it in without their own knowledge, they knew that total Quarantine would
have to be in place for 12 months and that people would have to stay in
quarantine for at least 14 days. Qantas and the tourist industry would close
down and worse than that it would cause people to … Panic.
On Sunday 10th March Health Minister Greg Hunt announces that they have purchased
another 54 million face masks. That does not mean that we the people get two
each, it means that they are expecting a huge epidemic and announced that these
masks are for the health department staff.
No Matter What Anyone Says, No One Really Knows How Many Are
Infected, or How Many Fatalities.
Knowing that the Chinese Government never tells the truth, especially when they
do not want to cause Panic, only admitting to its diagnosis a month after it
began and then minimalising the infected and deaths is quite normal. (
Remember, they claimed that only 8 to 100 people died after the Tiananmen
Square purge, they have suppressed the millions of deaths due to their Great
Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution for 50 years)
A fortnight ago I did some sums using the figures released by the so called
experts that access that each person infected has a 14 day period before
symptoms appear in which they spread the Virus, which they calculate infects an
average of 14 other people. This is called the reproduction number. The average
is probably calculated where one person goes on a cruise ship and infects 3000
people, or another helps at an aged care centre and infects 294 and another
person infects no one else.
Not If When.
My figures (and I hope Im wrong)
In Australia when 50 are infected, they will each infect 14 others within the
time that they are unaware they have it and the time they are quarantined.
(These figures so not allow for the percentage of people that have it and will
spread it but never show any symptoms at all, or the people who have it and are
diagnosed with some other ailment) But the government has already done these
figures or similar ones and they know we are all going to be exposed to it.
|
14 day Infection period
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Number
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x 14
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1
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50
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700
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2
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700
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9,800
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3
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9,800
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137,200
|
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4
|
137,200
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1,920,800
|
|
5
|
1,920,800
|
26,891,200
|
As you can see only quarantine can prevent us all from all being
infected to some degree.
Today it was announced that Australia had 74 people diagnosed with the Virus.
The number of countries affected by coronavirus has grown to 95.
105,000 people have now been offically diagnosed with corona virus and
3600 is the official number of fatalities.
The Harvard epidemiology professor Marc Lipsitch said “I think the
likely outcome is that it will ultimately not be containable.” Lipsitch
predicts that within the coming year, some 40 to 70 percent of people around
the world will be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. But, he
clarifies emphatically, this does not mean that all will have severe illnesses.
“It’s likely that many will have mild disease, or may be asymptomatic,” he
said. As with influenza, which is often life-threatening to people with chronic
health conditions and of older age, most cases pass without medical care.
(Overall, about 14 percent of people with influenza have no symptoms.)
“Whatever the number is, it’s gonna take a toll. If it really does spread as
widely as that projection says, and that’s what I think is likely to happen,
then there are gonna be millions of people dying. And I don’t think there’s any
way to get around that. And so I think there’s real reason for people to be
concerned. I also think that we can turn that concern into actions that will
make the situation better. I think it is now almost inevitable that this will
transmit in a global fashion and take a big toll on essentially the entire
globe. I just don’t see any way around that given the number of places where we
know about it and the number of places where we haven’t looked, and therefore,
can infer that some of those places also probably have it.”
On Tuesday (March 5), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World
Health Organization, said during a news conference that about 3.4% of reported
COVID-19 patients around the world have died. In a Chinese analysis of more
than 72,000 case records, 2.3% of those confirmed or suspected (based on
symptoms and exposure) to have the virus died. Patients above 80 years of age
had an alarmingly high fatality rate of 14.8%. Patients ages 70 to 79 years had
a fatality rate of 8%. In Italy, where the death toll from the virus stood at
52 as of March 4, the fatalities were all in people over age 60.
These numbers shouldn’t be taken as the inevitable toll of the virus, however.
The case-fatality rate is determined by dividing the number of deaths by the
total number of cases and we are only working on fatalities figures mainly
sourced from China. As Australia is an aging population and the World figure
3.4 % figure has to be compared and averaged with the figures coming from Iran
and Florida (also with an aging population) we should plan for 5% and so that
could come to about a million people mainly in the over 60s.
What You Should Know. (This was sent to me by friends in the
USA)
James Robb, MD UC San Diego.
Subject: What I am doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus)
pandemic
“Dear Colleagues, as some of you may recall, when I was a professor
of pathology at the University of California San Diego, I was one of the
first molecular virologists in the world to work on coronaviruses (the
1970s). I was the first to demonstrate the number of genes the virus
contained. Since then, I have kept up with the coronavirus field and its
multiple clinical transfers into the human population (e.g., SARS, MERS),
from different animal sources.
The current projections for its expansion in the US are only
probable, due
to continued insufficient worldwide data, but it is most likely to
be widespread in the US by mid to late March and April.
Here is what I have done and the precautions that I take and will
take.
These are the same precautions I currently use during our influenza
seasons, except for the mask and gloves.:
1) NO HANDSHAKING! Use a fist bump, slight bow, elbow bump, etc.
2) Use ONLY your knuckle to touch light switches. elevator buttons,
etc.. Lift the gasoline dispenser with a paper towel or use a disposable
glove.
3) Open doors with your closed fist or hip – do not grasp the handle
with your hand, unless there is no other way to open the door.
Especially important on bathroom and post office/commercial doors.
4) Use disinfectant wipes at the stores when they are available,
including wiping the handle and child seat in grocery carts.
5) Wash your hands with soap for 10-20 seconds and/or use a greater
than 60% alcohol-based hand sanitizer whenever you return home from ANY
activity that involves locations where other people have been.
6) Keep a bottle of sanitizer available at each of your home’s
entrances. AND in your car for use after getting gas or touching other
contaminated objects when you can’t immediately wash your hands.
7) If possible, cough or sneeze into a disposable tissue and discard.
Use your elbow only if you have to. The clothing on your elbow will
contain infectious virus that can be passed on for up to a week or more!
What I have stocked in preparation for the pandemic spread to the US:
1) Latex or nitrile latex disposable gloves for use when going
shopping, using the gasoline pump, and all other outside activity when you
come in contact with contaminated areas.
Note: This virus is spread in large droplets by coughing and
sneezing. This means that the air will not infect you! BUT all the
surfaces where these droplets land are infectious for about a week on
average – everything that is associated with infected people will be
contaminated and potentially infectious. The virus is on surfaces and you
will not be infected unless your unprotected face is directly coughed or
sneezed upon. This virus only has cell receptors for lung cells (it only
infects your lungs) The only way for the virus to infect you is through
your nose or mouth via your hands or an infected cough or sneeze onto or
into your nose or mouth.
2) Stock up now with disposable surgical masks and use them to
prevent you from touching your nose and/or mouth (We touch our nose/mouth
90X/day without knowing it!). This is the only way this virus can infect
you – it is lung-specific. The mask will not prevent the virus in a direct
sneeze from getting into your nose or mouth – it is only to keep you from
touching your nose or mouth.
3) Stock up now with hand sanitizers and latex/nitrile gloves (get
the appropriate sizes for your family). The hand sanitizers must
be alcohol-based and greater than 60% alcohol to be effective.
4) Stock up now with zinc lozenges. These lozenges have been proven
to be effective in blocking coronavirus (and most other viruses) from
multiplying in your throat and nasopharynx. Use as directed several times
each day when you begin to feel ANY “cold-like” symptoms beginning. It is
best to lie down and let the lozenge dissolve in the back of your throat
and nasopharynx. Cold-Eeze lozenges is one brand available, but there are
other brands available.
I, as many others do, hope that this pandemic will be reasonably
contained, BUT I personally do not think it will be. Humans have never
seen this snake-associated virus before and have no internal defense
against it.
Tremendous worldwide efforts are being made to understand the molecular
and clinical virology of this virus. Unbelievable molecular knowledge
about the genomics, structure, and virulence of this virus has already
been achieved.
BUT, there will be NO drugs or vaccines available this year to protect us
or limit the infection within us. Only symptomatic support is available.
I hope these personal thoughts will be helpful during this
potentially
catastrophic pandemic. You are welcome to share this email. Good luck to all of
us! Jim
James Robb, MD FCAP
This came from a Doctor who’s graduated with a master’s degree and
who worked in Shenzhen Hospital (Guangdong Province, China) and sent him the
following notes on Coronavirus for guidance:
1. If you have a runny nose and sputum, you have a common cold
2. Coronavirus pneumonia is a dry cough with no runny nose.
3. This new virus is not heat-resistant and will be killed by a temperature of
just 26/27 degrees. It hates the Sun.
4. If someone sneezes with it, it takes about 10 feet before it drops to the
ground and is no longer airborne.
5. If it drops on a metal surface it will live for at least 12 hours – so if
you come into contact with any metal surface – wash your hands as soon as you
can with a bacterial soap.
6. On fabric it can survive for 6-12 hours. normal laundry detergent will kill
it.
7. Drinking warm water is effective for all viruses. Try not to drink liquids
with ice.
8. Wash your hands frequently as the virus can only live on your hands for 5-10
minutes, but – a lot can happen during that time – you can rub your eyes, pick
your nose unwittingly and so on.
9. You should also gargle as a prevention. A simple solution of salt in warm
water will suffice.
10. Can’t emphasize enough – drink plenty of water!
THE SYMPTOMS
1. It will first infect the throat, so you’ll have a sore throat lasting 3/4
days
2. The virus then blends into a nasal fluid that enters the trachea and then
the lungs, causing pneumonia. This takes about 5/6 days further.
3. With the pneumonia comes high fever and difficulty in breathing.
4. The nasal congestion is not like the normal kind. You feel like you’re
drowning. It’s imperative you then seek immediate attention.
The only points that have not been covered above is that like
Legionaries’ disease this Virus can live comfortably in air conditioners and re
infect all who breath the air as it operates in low temperatures even minus
centigrade and can survive up to the low 20 C.
All we can do is to keep as healthy as we can when we can so that our
antibodies can fight it off when we are confronted with the virus. The
Government has wasted our resources checking body temperature at the airports
as most who are infected would not be showing symptoms, but could have by
imposing stricter quarantine restrictions contain much of the spread, But that
might cause Panic, and it would be a very difficult pill for the government to
take.
This is not China’s Chernobyl.
China is still the Dragon on Australia’s Doorstep, and even if it lost 200
million people it would not go back to sleep. Its military and commercial
industries are undamaged, even if they lost half of their population they would
still have enough to work the factories and fill the armed forces. When China
gets back to work there will be a world desperate for Chinese goods, its supply
and demand and the Chinese will supply those who offer the highest price
“The hand that pours the ladle rules the world” The Foundry man.
We the western nations and Australia have bought and paid for the Chinese
Industrial Colossus and now we ‘Kow -Tou’ to China in the same way that Chinese
peasants Kow -Tou to the Emperor of China. The Coruna virus has caused
shortages which have made us all aware of how dependent we are on China’s
industry, yet no one suggests that we return to tarriffs on imported goods and
with that extra money is used to pay bounties to exporters. A simple mechanism
that built Australian industry prior to 1974 and the signing of the UN Lima Agreement.
That same method built Chinese industry during the 1970s to date. Try to import
a bicycle or a pair of binoculars into China and pay 7000 % tarriff /duty. We
need Australian sovereign industries and work hard to create them, but we are
betrayed by our own government and forced to compete using Chinese goods or
face further closures of our industry.
Australia is ‘sleepwalking into an era of unprecedented danger’ with
communist China
Sky News contributor Catherine McGregor says “For the first time since European
settlement, we cannot rely on a major ally to provide the underpinning of our
security,”
“The real risk emanating from China is its brutal totalitarian ideology and
ruthless determination to pursue hegemony in our region – threatening our vital
sea lanes of communication,”“we are sleepwalking into an era of unprecedented
danger” in Australia, as the threat from China extends further than just the
corona virus.”
Thank goodness other people have began to think and speak out.
Ayn Rand said
“Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake,
that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that
the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that
society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it
deems to be its own tribal, collective good.””
That describes perfectly the doctrine that China imposes on its people and
wishes to expand into every country that it can control, we have to try and
change its direction before we are swamped by the worst virus in the world.
War.
