Tag: common sense

What can the average person do to prepare?

Get enough sleep and rest.
Relax and avoid stress.
Exercise at least three to four days a week.
Eat a healthy diet. Take vitamin supplements if you feel you don’t eat well enough.

What can an average person do to be prepared?

The basics for preparing for a pandemic is similar to preparing for a regional disaster, such as hurricane or ice storm, except for a few added precautions:

  • Have at least two weeks worth of stored food that does not need refrigeration. Don’t forget to store enough for kids, pets and other special diets. Increase your supplies if you have the means or the space.
  • Store enough water for your family for at least two weeks- the recommended amount is at least one gallon per person per day.
  • Have a power outage kit, which means backup lighting, cooking and communications, in case of power disruptions, Your car survival kit should also be fully stocked.
  • Have some emergency cash.
  • Keep a fully stocked first aid kit, complete with backup prescriptions
  • Make sure you also have toilet and sanitation provisions
  • Be aware – pay attention to the news, both mainstream and alternate sources.

Stock up on additional supplies if you can, including:

  • N-95 face masks
  • goggles
  • gloves
  • hand soap and antibacterial wipes
  • bleach – a good standby when in comes to disinfect surfaces. According to the Clorox website, use 2 tbsp bleach to one gallon of water, to sanitize a surface. Bleach loses its potency so always mix a fresh batch for cleaning.
  • garbage bags for disposal of waste

Bolster your Immune System

Strengthening your immune system is always good to do, whether there is a risk or pandemic or not:

  • Get enough sleep and rest.
  • Relax and avoid stress.
  • Exercise at least three to four days a week.
  • Eat a healthy diet. Take vitamin supplements if you feel you don’t eat well enough.

A few other tips:

Avoid crowds Being among lots of people increases your chances of getting contaminated. If you live in a condo or apartment complex, you would need to avoid common areas, possibly take the stairs that are used less frequently than elevators. If you must be around others, you’d need to wear a mask

Wash your hands Get everyone in the family in the habit of washing their hands as they come home from public places and before eating. If you cannot wash your hands right away, use antibacterial wipes.

Cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze Use tissues or a handkerchief to cover up and avoid spreading germs.

Stop touching your eyes and face Once you touch something with germs, and you touch near your eyes or mouth, you can instantly catch a disease. Be aware of this and if you cannot wash your hands right away, at least keep your hands away from your face.

Disinfect surfaces around you Droplets from coughing and sneezing travel several feet. These germ filled droplets can last for hours on surfaces such as paper, steel or plastic. For this reason, keep a box of antibacterial wipes and clean door knobs, light switches and other commonly touched items around you.

Learn basic first aid and herbal remedies If there is a pandemic, hospital emergency rooms and doctors’ office would be overwhelmed, and also filled with contagious people. If you had a minor issue such as a cut or a cold, and can take care of it at home using first aid or over the counter remedies, you are better off avoiding these places.

Preparing for a pandemic is similar to being prepared for other disasters. There is no need to panic or live in fear – being prepared will help you sleep better at night.

Something to think about

The government has instituted Draconian measures FOR OUR OWN GOOD!

“Remember a month or so ago when people were complaining about being sick and couldn’t get rid of it for weeks?

Let’s do some critical thinking. COVID-19 started emerging in early December. Given the incubation period, that means infection started in November, and given international travel and tourism rates, it DID NOT TAKE 3+ months for it to come here. It’s been here.

I’ve had numerous friends across the country who’ve had crazy bad colds in the last few months, that I now believe were actually Coronavirus.

US authorities only just started testing for it, and even now the testing is severely limited, so in all likelihood, many have had or do have it, and it’s gotten passed off as just a typical cold – because (AHEM, NEWSFLASH) it IS just a bad cold for the vast majority of people who get it.

The normal colds and flu that we’ve already been dealing with kill thousands every season – it just doesn’t get talked about because it’s nothing new and the media can’t use it to panic us at this point. It’s sad but expected that elderly and immunocompromised people are prone to complications from those viruses. This is no different.

Wash your hands, eat your vegetables, don’t touch any old people (for their safety) and calm the heck down.

Panic is what’s going to crash the market. Panic is what’s going to empty stores. Panic is what’s going to lead to serious economic impacts from this – YOU are causing economic impacts – not the virus.”

President Trump announced on Wednesday that he will be invoking the Defense Production Act in an effort to help the private sector ramp-up manufacturing and distribution of emergency medical supplies and equipment amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The act, which was first enacted in 1950 as a response to the Korean War and has since been re-invoked more than 50 times since, will streamline production of medical supplies to help the country battle the coronavirus pandemic and require businesses to sign contracts or fulfill orders deemed necessary for national defense.

President Trump was not specific on the details of what the act would be used for – besides mentioning ventilators and masks. The act also provides the government with the authority to obtain information from businesses, authorizes establishment of the National Defense Executive Reserve, and a Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States – which works on the effects on national security of certain mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers related to foreign investment in the U.S.

Borders have been closed. Public gatherings of more than 10 persons are strongly discouraged. Many municipalities, counties and some states have made “social distancing” , (A/K/A quarantining), mandatory with legal sanctions for violation. Restaurants are closed. Places of amusement are closed. Churches are closed. The town of new Rochelle, New York is under mandatory quarantine enforced by the national guard.

Actual where the military has been deployed isn’t really locked down. The NY National Guard is helping with everything from cleaning to food delivery. They’re not armed and they’re not enforcing movements. For now. So that’s probably only going to be the first move.

The government has instituted Draconian measures FOR OUR OWN GOOD!

Once the government provides you with basic utilities…
the government can then decide when to turn them on and off!!

Once the government pays for all your education…
the government cab decide what education and what career you get to have!

Once the government provides you with food…
the government can then decide who much OR IF you get to eat!

Once the government pays for your housing…
the government gets to determine where you live!

Once the government controls your healthcare and medicine…
the government gets to decide whether or not you are valuable enough to live!

Once a government gets you to agree to gun control…
you have NO way to prevent that government from doing what is listed above!

Consider the parable of the boiling frog.

If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out. But if you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low, it will float there quite placidly. As the water gradually heats up, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will un-resistingly allow itself to be boiled to death.

It is also used to reinforce that change needs to be gradual to be accepted.

Feeling a bit warm froggy?

Corona Virus Common Sense

The following video produced by Dr Eric Berg DC is straightforward and a common sense explanation regarding COVID-19 and other viruses and how to help protect yourself from them.

This post is for informational purposes only and is not intended to treat or cure disease.

There is a lot of hype and misinformation regarding the Wuhan Corona virus.

The following video produced by Dr Eric Berg DC is straightforward and a common sense explanation regarding COVID-19 and other viruses and how to help protect yourself from them.

The video runs for 14 minutes 3 seconds.

OUTBREAK!

What this world needs is a LOT LESS MEDIA, a lot more caring for each other, and a heck of a lot more faith.

Received from George Roof. Penned by Dawn Merrill

With all that is going on concerning the coronavirus, it might pay to do a little remembering.

I was born in the midst of the Polio epidemic in the late 40’s and early 50’s. I heard my parents speak of happenings many times. Being of the Lutheran faith that performs the rite of baptism usually in infancy, this was a great concern to my parents. In that I was the last delivery by the stork, the kindly minister waited until I arrived and then, three weeks later, my parents and myself, along with eight other sets of parents and their babies, arrived at the church on a Sunday afternoon.

The only other person present was the minister who administered the Rite of Baptism to nine infants. I would not be in church for almost two more years. The same applied to my husband, who was born in March, but was not baptized until July.

Again, his minister waited until the stork made the last delivery, and his baptism was on Sunday afternoon also – 150 miles away from where I was baptized. There was no visiting among neighbors, especially if a young child was present in the home. One parent was always home, and parents did not worship together for quite a while.

As winter approached, it was apparent that this little baby was beginning to walk and needed shoes. So my dad took a piece of cardboard, and drew around my foot. He then drove to the nearest town, walked in the shoe store, and talked to the manager. The manager looked at the drawing and gave my dad three different pairs of shoes. Daddy drove back home, tried the shoes on me, selected the one that fit the best, and then returned to the store to give back the two pair he did not want, and pay for the pair he kept. It’s simply called neighbor helping neighbor and trusting, and being honest.

How many of you remember getting a polio vaccine shot in elementary school, or later as a teenager, getting the polio vaccine on a lump of sugar? How soon we forget.

In a similar vein, I heard more than once the story of the 1918 flu epidemic. The closest neighbor to my great Aunt and Uncle had the flu and survived. Therefore, he became the person to “do” for everyone else. Every two or three weeks, we would “get word” that he was going into town. On the morning of the appointed day, neighbors for as much as two miles away would come to his house before daybreak and hang a basket in a tree. In the basket would be what they were sending for barter, along with a little money and a list.

He would go by horse and wagon to the nearest town, spend the greater part of the day bartering and buying and loading the baskets with the appointed items, then return home, and once again hang the baskets in the tree (this prevented animals from getting the goods). Shortly thereafter, people would begin arriving to get their goods, but only ONE horse and wagon would be in the yard at a time.

Again, neighbor helping neighbor. In both instances, there was no media as such. There weren’t even radios around. People were told there was a disease present, and they needed to take care and they did.

While a lot of people did contract polio, and a lot of people died from the flu, in an age when there were no “modern” medicines, people did survive. What this world needs is a LOT LESS MEDIA, a lot more caring for each other, and a heck of a lot more faith. We also need desperately to learn to take care of ourselves in such situations.

Too many people live day to day and never plan for tomorrow. How sad. DFM

CoVid-19 preparation

I have to wonder if smoking plays a role. The Chinese have the world’s largest percentage of smokers in their population. Italy is not far off, nor is Iran and other similar locations.

There’s a lot of “Chicken Little, the sky is falling” coverage over the CoVid-19 virus. Much conflicting information is bandied about.

In his press conference last week, President Trump attempted to calm fears by saying so far, it is under control here and the government has moved quickly. He has also stated that there is no need to worry too much about personal protective gear such as face masks.

On the other hand, the Center for Disease Control has come out with a memo that says men who wear facial hair should shave it because it interferes with the proper fitting of face masks.

The Democratic majority in Congress has claimed that the Trump administration has not done enough to combat the illness.

We need to be more concerned about supply chain issues here than about the virus. The virus itself may or may not be bad here. There are, however, some common sense measures that you can take to protect yourself and your family.

Fake info or real? This is like a game of wack a mole, look here is fact, no, over there, a better fact.

Health factors realistically factor in. Let’s look at US.

How many smoke, cigarettes or dope, vape or abuse drugs?

How many have diabetes, are obese, or have a compromised immune system?

Crowded living conditions, look at any multi-story building with shared elevators, doors, laundry, etc.

Think people are clean in the US? Just clean a bathroom used by the public or high school kids. Used products, diapers, tampons, are commonly left out of the trash. I remember going into a men’s room and finding a dirty diaper.

Touching your face, how often do those with face piercings do that?

I have to wonder if smoking plays a role. The Chinese have the world’s largest percentage of smokers in their population. Italy is not far off, nor is Iran and other similar locations.

Smokers touch their face more. Touch their cigarette, cigarette goes into mouth.

Hand has touched everything everyone else has.

So, wash your hands and don’t touch your face, no eating, drinking, smoking, or chewing…… add vaping.

Pretty simple.

There are those who will say that we have a higher standard of sanitation than China or Korea or Mexico. Not sure we are that much more sanitary….

How the Sheep are Fleeced

Tell the bleeding hearts, until we cant find a hungry or homeless child in America, until we have provided for our damaged or indigent war fighters, until we have addressed the influx of criminals and criminal enterprises across our borders, not a penny should be spent on foreign aid. It is time for US taxpayers to stop paying the tab for the entire world.

SOURCE: https://results.usaid.gov/results

” On behalf of the American people, we promote and demonstrate democratic values abroad, and advance a free, peaceful, and prosperous world. In support of America’s foreign policy, the U.S. Agency for International Development leads the U.S. Government’s international development and disaster assistance through partnerships and investments that save lives, reduce poverty, strengthen democratic governance, and help people emerge from humanitarian crises and progress beyond assistance.”

Handing out money to countries that honestly hate us must stop this year.

Our VETERANS and HOMELESS here at home could use ever penny of that money.

Sample US Foreign Aid 2000-16:

Nigeria: $6.2 billion

Ethiopia: $11.7 billion

Jordan: $15.9 billion

Egypt: $33.3 billion

Lebanon: $3.6 billion

Pakistan: $17.9 billion

Colombia: $13.6 billion

South Africa: $6.2 billion

Countries with nuclear militaries, oil wells, space programs, propaganda/lobbying offices, holocaust monuments & museums in every major city all over the world don’t need handouts from American taxpayers.

How much of that goes into the pockets of people like Hunter Biden or their own crooked politicians? I’d go even further. We should stop all payment to the UN and tell them they have 1 yr. to find another place for their headquarters. That would destroy the nest of spies and save us more money.

I love how the Deep Staters use the word “invests” when they mean bribe. And it’s less than 1% of the federal budget as if that makes it Ok. Using that logic, building the domestic wall should have been simple.

I would demand that we have a complete an audit of all foreign aid.

And to those who constantly cry about saving the children in these countries I respond;

Tell the bleeding hearts, until we cant find a hungry or homeless child in America, until we have provided for our damaged or indigent war fighters, until we have addressed the influx of criminals and criminal enterprises across our borders, not a penny should be spent on foreign aid. It is time for US taxpayers to stop paying the tab for the entire world.