By G H Eliason for The Saker Blog
You’ve heard the US Surgeon General saying, “We should be acting as if we have the virus” to flatten the curve? How is this simple statement hugely relevant to protecting your loved ones and other people, helping medical staff in Malaysia and other countries desperately short of necessary protective equipment, doctors forming Facebook groups on social media to exchange advice on how to keep current patients alive based on their grim failures, and saving doctors in countries such as Philippines and Italy?
Understanding the new environment
I used to build decontamination chambers and work in hazardous environments, hence I’m familiar with hazmat protocols, including locked high radiation situations. People working in hazardous environments do so confidently because of the knowledge ensuring they can perceive their world without fear and the simple steps they take, to keep both them and their families safe.
If you perceive the world the same way, you take the fear of the unknown out of the equation and are taking all the proactive steps that are possible.
Fear of the unknown is the worst enemy you can have today. How you should react to Covid-19 is the unknown. While we don’t know how the outbreak will turn out, there are reasonable, common sense, industry-proven concepts that can replace the stress this unknown brings. It can be done at little to no expense.
It is common sense that all information is subordinate to medical and government pronouncements. It is irresponsible to ignore those because the situation is rapidly developing. We are still at the beginning.
Beyond that, there are no caveats to applying best practices.
Divide the world into 3 parts. Contaminated space-Decontamination space –Clean area
Accept as a fact the entire world is now a contaminated space and respect it as such. Starting with that view takes the guesswork out of everything you need to do. Normal people thrive in much more hazardous environments than this on a daily basis because they respect that fact.
Never forget some people will not try to understand or accept basic facts about this hazardous environment enough to take safeguards and protect themselves and you don’t know who they are.
Decontamination space is needed because you want to minimalize even the remote possibility of contamination from the hazardous environment entering your home. Everything outside regardless of the source has to be considered this way before it’s brought in. Wipe it down.
The clean area is your home. You diminish the potential of contaminating it by simple steps, nothing extravagant is needed. It is the one place on earth you know that nothing can harm you. Protect it.
This is why people leaving areas with high infection rates are more at risk of contracting the virus than people who don’t and are taking precautions. That’s aside from becoming a new point of contagion.
The reason is simple. You are moving into areas and are in contact with unknown people and objects assuming they are safe because of geography. All you do in reality is throw all precautions away and move across a contaminated environment without safeguards. Doing so multiplies the odds of contagion by something as simple as touching the wrong doorknob or a gas station pump that a hundred people you don’t know did before you.
The only safe place is the clean space you know about. That is the first rule of hazardous environments.
Contaminated Space
Contaminated space is every place in the world outside your home. Contaminated items include everything not already inside your home. Think of it as if you were living in space. Your own capsule (home) is the only safe environment until this subsides. The rest of the world and everything in it is part of a hostile environment (space). People in public space are part of this environment.
As an example, during my teen years in the US, we used to swim in water reservoirs. If the police caught you, the fine was more for swimming in bathing suits or shorts than swimming nude. The reason was the clothing you wore that morning going through public spaces had the potential to pick up and introduce any imaginable pathogen or contaminant into a source of public drinking water.
Every item whether it is your own clothes, wallet, watch, etc becomes part of this hostile environment in the same way as soon as it leaves your home. Have you ever noticed in movies that the white Tyvek suits worn in bad environments are a flat fabric? More detail is more surface area, which is something to consider.
If you start to think this way, you’ll limit your exposure and minimalize what you bring into it. If you value something, leave it at home. Not exposing personal items is a common practice for hazardous environment work.
This point isn’t about Draconian measures, merely about developing situational awareness in this unusual set of circumstances affecting many countries globally. You decide what’s best for you. By creating a smaller footprint, you lessen the potential exposure exponentially.
During quarantines, households could have a designated person dealing with public activities like shopping. Masks should be mandatory if available and social distance practice in public is a must.
Sanitary wipes for hands are in reality a limited use item. Most of the virus stays intact on your hands and spreadable but it is still better than nothing at all. More than 20 seconds of real handwashing with soap and water is the best practice. Obviously, don’t touch your face in this environment.
Decontamination space
This is important if you are in a high-risk area. You need to stop the potential at the doorstep so you don’t bring contamination into your home. In this case, contamination includes any dirt or dust with the possibility of having the virus clinging to it.
Purchases should be wiped down before they enter your home.
Shoes should stay outside, because of the potential contact they have with the virus from public spaces. Particles on your shoes or clothes can become airborne in a normal environment. An alternate is washing your shoes with alcohol or other disinfectants. Leave them outside anyway.
The best practice would be to have public clothes and in-home clothes. So, change them before entering your home if possible. If not, try to separate clothes worn in public space from the living area and use a disinfectant spray if possible.
Masks should be left outside the living area. Last on the list is washing your hands and face with water before entering your home. This doesn’t cost anything to set up. It is all done in a particular order for a reason.
Normally, a decon is 3-chambered. A dirty room where outside clothes are taken off. Next comes a shower where everything and everyone is washed down. Last is a clean room where respirators are taken off. This isn’t feasible for most people.
Cleanroom
Take a shower after going to a public place. Try to make sure nothing enters your home without a decontaminating wipe-down first. If you purchased something, assume at least 20 other people you don’t know contacted the item on its way to you.
This is where you live. Keep it clean.
The world
With all that said, please do your part and help others. I came across one small effort that should be a model for us all. In Australia, a young couple has elderly neighbors that are at high risk. They had their neighbors put a green sign in the window to indicate they were fine. A red one indicated they needed help, whether it was shopping or whatever.
The entire world is in this together. By taking simple steps, you can protect yourself. Making sure everyone else around you can also do so? Every part matters. That part is what is going to help slow down the epidemic and make it manageable for doctors and nurses while they find a way through.
Do you think my advice sounds hysterical or irrelevant? Take a close look at what is happening in countries outside USA, Europe and the Middle East. And this is online.
Doctors frantically trying to exchange information online to save current and future patients, using social media groups such such as Facebook {1}. Malaysian medical staff desperately short of PPE, therefore using dustbin liners, cling wrap and plastic bags which are clearly inadequate {2}. 61 doctors have died of Covid-19 in Italy, 12 doctors have died of Covid-19 in Philippines {3}. Hospitals in several countries are being overwhelmed by the numbers of patients in such a short span of time.
You do not have to be the Taiwanese anesthesiologist who invented the Aerosol box for anybody to use without profiting off, which his fellow medical colleagues are replicating in countries such as the Philippines to try to protect themselves {4}. You do not have to be South Korea, which has 121 countries seeking their aid in Covid-19 testing{5}. You’re not being asked to help sew masks or gowns in countries such as Russia {6}, although that will help.
Don’t fall sick from Covid-19, by resorting to preventive measures as if you have already been infected with the virus. Being responsible includes knowing when to be civic-minded, knowing how to react mentally and emotionally and physically in a pandemic is vital {7}, and sharing accurate information in our highly-interconnected complex reality worldwide is always welcome.
Hope this helps.
{4} https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2020/03/25/2003733342
{5} https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/coronavirus-covid19-countries-testing-south-korea-12598848
At this time in the 243 year history of the United States of America, we are witness to the purposeful destruction of the entire domestic economy due to an enemy that is invisible, cannot be heard, touched or sensed in any way.
No, it’s not the SARS-CoV-2 virus; it’s the tyranny of fear spread by the cadre of “white coats” (i.e., clinicians and specialists in microbiology with their hair on fire) who have infected the minds of simple-minded politicians in Washington, DC as well as the governors of each of the 50 States that make up the Republic.
Here in New York State, Emperor Cuomo has issued 13 EO’s (Executive Orders) to date, some of which are:
(1) suspends certain provisions in private healthcare insurance contracts – EO 202.1
(2) suspends the right of the public to peacefully assemble – EO 202.1
(3) suspends elections for village positions – EO 202.5
(4) directs that in-person workers of nonessential services be reduced by 100 percent (in other words, shutdown) – EO 202.8
(5) suspends a landlord’s right to evict tenants for non-payment of rent for 90 days – EO 202.8
(6) directs banks to allow forbearance (i.e., more time to repay) of mortgage payments – EO 202.9
(7) provides immunity to clinicians who do not maintain accurate medical records – EO 202.10
(8) suspends the right of the public to worship their faith (i.e., deemed nonessential) in gatherings of any size – EO 202.10
(9) restricts what types of construction projects are allowed to operate – EO 202.13
(10) suspends life insurance premium payments for 90 days – EO 202.13
(13) suspends the right to petition the government for redress of grievances – EO 202.13
The public is being led down to the abattoir to be cleaved by the rapacious Wall Street bankers once the government signals to the masses that, “all is clear – it’s over!” It’s not over; the terror has just begun. Those citizens who have mortgages on real property will be foreclosed if they failed to make monthly mortgage payments. Tenants who are in arrears with rent payments will be evicted or face surcharges imposed upon them by the property owner. Interest on debt will be accrued and payment will be demanded by a lender or even the government for taxes due. All this will happen due to the forced shutdown of commerce.
The Constitution of the United States forbids States from interfering in private contracts with no exception (see: Article 1, Section 10 – impairing the obligation of contracts). Emperor Cuomo has violated that in EO 202.1 along with the first amendment to the Bill of Rights that allows citizens the right of freedom to worship (EO 202.10), peaceably assemble (EO 202.10), and petition the government for redress of grievances (EO 202.13). He also violated the 9th amendment by prohibiting Americans from lawfully engaging in commerce and restricting them to their homes.
This is unprecedented and has not happened since the tyrant Abraham Lincoln suspended the constitutional right of Habeas Corpus during the War of Secession.
There is no justification to stop all commerce in the U.S. because of the numbers of deaths being reported in New York and New Jersey.
Total number of deaths in the U.S. as of today 4/3/2020 is now 6,786.
New York State total deaths – 2,935
New Jersey total deaths are – 646
Twelve of the States total deaths are well under 1,000. The rest of the States are under one hundred each.
During the 1918 Spanish Flu, over 550,000 Americans died of influenza and 29 million were infected with the disease. Commerce did not shut down.
If this ridiculous, government mandated work stoppage continues through the rest of 2020, the entire nation will suffer massive disruptions in logistical supply chain channels for basic necessities such as food, fuel, parts for machines, etc. not to mention the loss of any monies a person has accumulated. There will be riots, there will be injuries, there will be death in the streets. The government is over reacting to this outbreak of COVID-19 and will send the country into an economic depression, without a doubt.
People who are symptomatic must stay home. Those of us who have had no symptoms for more than the upper limit of the incubation period of 24 days should be allowed to return to work.
I have contacted a tradesman and told him that if wishes to perform work for me that I would pay him in cash. An underground economy will emerge to exact civil disobedience against these egregious proclamations akin to the Intolerable Acts imposed upon the American colonists by the King of England in the18th century.
The land of the free and the home of the brave will have no meaning if we the people don’t stand together and resist this despotism.
I cannot disagree with you.
My advice- take care of your own. Monitor your lands, buy guns and ammo, buy food and grow it.
When everyone is unemployed it is going to be tough.
I got a nice new big gun to defend me and my own. If you all recall – Saker warned us to do this at the beginning of the year.
Mark my words friends. People don’t fear talk, but they will fear staring down barrel of gun. During the last hurricane in Florida there was mass looting. My brother and sister bought a shotgun.
Poke the truth
Thank you for you’re common sense comment
You said what I think whole heartily..
Commerce didn’t shutdown in 1918 because we were at war, all the factory’s were running at 100%, all the young-men were in Europe, un-employment was low in the 1918 pandemic.
Now when you bring retail-spending to a halt, you kill the USA economy, and without a war, the unemployment will sky-rocket, without demand the factorys’ close.
The FED has a plan, then & now.
There will be War.
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Federal Reserve Plan, written ten years ago.
If there is every a pandemic, like the 1918-flu in the USA, this is what the FED will do.
https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/files/pdfs/community-development/research-reports/pandemic_flu_report.pdf
read it and comment. I find it to be mostly distortions of history, but the facts say what they are.
In order to lock people down, aka bring retail spending to a halt, in the last pandemic we had a war, which kept the factory’s running, and the un-employment low. This time we need to start a War ASAP.
”If this ridiculous, government mandated work stoppage continues through the rest of 2020, the entire nation will suffer massive disruptions in logistical supply chain channels for basic necessities such as food, fuel, parts for machines, etc. not to mention the loss of any monies a person has accumulated. There will be riots, there will be injuries, there will be death in the streets.”
Sounds promising — bring it on! The world will rejoice as it did on 911. This time around, angry noises about the Axis of Evil will still do the trick with the Pindos, but the world’s non-exceptional, dispensable peoples are in a much better position to fight off any forces from the Axis of Kindness.
I can’t help it, but every time when I look at a ‘flattening the curve’ graph I question how come both surfaces are of near equal values. Is it really to just relieve the healthcare system?
https://off-guardian.org/2020/04/02/coronavirus-fact-check-1-flu-doesnt-overwhelm-our-hospitals/
thanks for practical first paragraphs – I listened to Catherine Austin Fitts 4 minute interview with Thomas Meyer yesterday- and it was all about the effects of fear on a population
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xTxwwxirVI
and your second part about all Earth a contaminated space made me think of those new satellites that Elon Musk has been putting – and will continue to put until 2025 – into our space environment – seems coincidental
As far as the careful aspect of dealing with this – it only works for people who can afford it.
Come on man, try to be more objective. Just as an example: {2}. 61 doctors have died of Covid-19 in Italy
You don’t bother to state that you have no idea how many of that number were actually working, but its just a bit of data they leak out that isn’t really useful. Analysis of that data does seem to imply most of the 61 doctors that have died were already retired based on age, but you don’t know either way. One thing you do know, is that per capita deaths of doctors is way lower than general population.
Dear friends, Pepe Escobar has a wonderful essay on Strategic-culture.org called “Ground Control to Planet Lockdown: This is Only a Test”. Highly recommended! (Hopefully it will be posted here as well.)
Similar to the Satanist’s push of their sick & twisted sxual perversions (genders, LGBT, etc) on the masses, i can clearly see that they are using this ‘pandemic’ to spread the acceptance of their hatred against humanity. Everybody is to be seen as dirty and a source of danger.
The accepted belief is that hell comes in the afterlife.
But for the fearful, hell is here, now.
Thanks G H Eliason. We did this in our house .. designated an area as decontamination space and are treating the world as contaminated. Once one gets ones mind around that we’re actually dealing with something, and you are willing to work with it, it becomes easier.
But I must admit, it is hard work to be self-quarantined or under house arrest as as it is quaintly put .. “shelter at home” or “in place”. We have to call it by name really.
We also made the decision, to quarantine, as a measure of self-responsibility, before our government called it. We knew it was coming but just a bit of not keeping within government dictate. Just a small bit of keeping the responsibility within our own hands – even a small act of defiance within our power during these times.
With all the controversy about wearing or not wearings masks, which is really government designed to hide the fact that they did not prepare and have no stock, we also wore masks before anyone around us did. It is quite funny, you go into a supermarket with a mask, nobody else has one, and just in a little while you are a trendsetter as one after the other quickly pull their masks out of their pockets and now suddenly everyone wears a mask. One cannot be shy in these times to do what you consider correct as a personal decision.
Thing is this thing is not going to die, unless it has no more food to eat, and you and I are its food. So responsibility will help all of us.
Yes i had this experience too. The only trendsetter with a home made mask since we can’t buy them here :)
Same as you I decided to not be bothered by the stares and fearful looks, its will be routine soon enough.
Interesting link :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3096&v=1BiM1YYIPCo&feature=emb_logo
I totally agree with this doctor . Start from 25th min, if you don’t want to watch everything.
I watched the whole thing last night over at tapnewswire
I am most impressed with everything this man has accomplished and believes in
How he fares as a politician is beyond my understanding. Nevertheless, I admire his courage standing against Big Pharma and the entire sickness industry, naming it for what it is.
It was shocking to see an Elizabeth Warren supporter attack Dr Shiva for ‘being racist’
I completely endorse Dr Shiva’s concept of the three interacting pillars of Truth, Freedom and Health.
How we return to such common sense simplicity is
to the ongoing battle we face
What a great link, Lidia. Thanks so much. This is the area that I work in as a homoeopath – concentrating on traditional cultures, foods healing practices, along with proven homoeopathic medicine. This man is a true doctor – a healer, and desperately need in today’s twisted world. Anyone who supports vaccines and modern drugs needs to listen to this. I watched the lot, like Babuska.
The cure is more deadly than the disease.
Just this very moment, 11:30 PM ET in Toronto CP24 News we learned that US and Canada are on collision course – they don’t want to sell us face masks, so our PM gave them a stern warning: no masks, no nurses going from Windsor to Detroit, to care for your corona cases. take that Trump, eh.
We see on TV that police are coming to streets, to measure distance between people, 700 CD fine (about 500 U$). Until yesterday, there were no police, kept low profile, now they are threatening people all over TV news.
Somewhere in the maritime provinces police are checking if people follow the rules, going door to door, to see if people with symptoms are isolated in their own room. And no singing in the front-yard even with >6 feet distance.
Propaganda is shifting to higher gear.
Appears that all human contact is suspended indefinitely. I understand, family people (married or living together) are locked at home. What about many couples, from teen ages to mid forties who do not live together, how can they get in contact? Maybe have some sex – oh no, no sex, no procreation. At least until June, and perhaps 18 months. Thy can do it virtually, I know, but old fashioned people preferred it more organic.
Don’t get me wrong, I am 60+ years old, qualified for Corona. I don’t care if I die, corona or no corona. But my children and grandchildren will be forced for next 18 months not to touch another human being, to protect me from corona? Work from home, use phones to contact and see people, but no personal contacts. Are we humans programmed to endure things like that for a long time? No girlfriends, no boyfriends, just virtual contact. Virtual contact does not make babies – but – who needs babies?
Because “models” show that we can have anywhere between 1,000 and 80,000 deaths in Ontario. So far we had 20-30, but hey, models a models. Nice range. And how many deaths we have in Canada daily – 720, based on data on Stat Canada, from all other causes. This evening at least 6 cases are shown for people of 90+ old people dying because of Crona. Heartbreaking, really, to see how sad their children are, because dad or spouse died suddenly, 92 years old, on permanent care in nursing home, in their sleep, having long term lung and kidney illness, dementia. They keep dying, and I don’t see how the isolation, self or enforced, prevents that
Premier in tears announced how one person can die every 2 hours in following days if we don’t continue with self isolation. I have news for him: in each hour, every day in a year, 720 humans die in Canada, perhaps half of that in Ontario, given its population. So 720 a day is 30 per hour. And it was like that for at least 5 years back, stats are from 2015-2018. No corona.
God help us all.
Everyone here knows that this is about crashing the financial system in favor of the elite 1%. Creating a new world order run by and for the elite 1% and forcing the masses, at gunpoint if necessary, to profess that everything is being done, is for their own good.
On the televised news yesterday one official said that joking about social distancing or other necessary measures will not be tolerated.
1984 is starting to look somewhat quaint now.