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What the Government Plans to do if the Pandemic Gets Worse
Interim Pre-pandemic Planning Guidance:Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation in the U ^
| February 2007
| CDC
Posted on 04/28/2009 8:24:00 AM PDT by Pete
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To: AMiller
Just saw the article. Look for my post page 2
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posted on
04/28/2009 9:10:48 AM PDT
by
Vendome
To: Pete
It’s always a good idea to keep the pantry stocked with non-perishables and bottled water, the medicine cabinet stocked with unexpired OTC and prescriptions, and cleansers including alcohol (the rubbing kind, oh ok, both kinds!) and clorox. The need could come from any event including a pandemic, loss of income, natural disaster, power outages, etc. Just be prepared.
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posted on
04/28/2009 9:12:48 AM PDT
by
bgill
(The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
To: Pete
Things don't really take off until day 10. Before that, the graph shows very little activity. When is day 10? I've lost track of when this thing really started.
43
posted on
04/28/2009 9:12:58 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
To: bgill
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posted on
04/28/2009 9:13:01 AM PDT
by
Vendome
To: pgkdan
When is day 10? I've lost track of when this thing really started. That is a good question. I am looking over CDC and WHO websites to see if I can find out. I know that in the US, the news first started developing on Friday which means it probably started in the US earlier in the week. However, in Mexico, it was at least 10 days ago. Probably 10-15. Today, Mexico closed all public eateries in Mexico City. The next week will tell us a lot. According to the CDC graphs, it peaks on day 20. Of course, that assumes it is a real pandemic, which has not been established, at is based on modeling and past pandemics, which don't necessarily apply to future events.
Watch the WHO closely. If they go to phase 5, we are in big trouble.
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posted on
04/28/2009 9:20:45 AM PDT
by
Pete
To: bgill
Its always a good idea to keep the pantry stocked with non-perishables and bottled water, the medicine cabinet stocked with unexpired OTC and prescriptions, and cleansers including alcohol (the rubbing kind, oh ok, both kinds!) and clorox. The need could come from any event including a pandemic, loss of income, natural disaster, power outages, etc. Just be prepared. Agreed and done. One upside to a Pandemic (if one can say such a thing) is that essential services like water and power are not necessarily affected, like in a natural disaster.
46
posted on
04/28/2009 9:22:17 AM PDT
by
Pete
To: Pete
Again, we are at phase 4. Page 32 of this report estimates deaths in US between 900,000 and 1.8 million for a phase 4 event. That's some interesting and sobering information right there.
47
posted on
04/28/2009 9:22:56 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
To: cyborg
Again, we are at phase 4. Page 32 of this report estimates deaths in US between 900,000 and 1.8 million for a phase 4 event. That's some interesting and sobering information right there.
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posted on
04/28/2009 9:23:19 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
To: al baby
"Social Distancing" . . . Who thinks up these names?Sounds like my senior prom.
49
posted on
04/28/2009 9:25:15 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
To: Pete
One upside to a Pandemic (if one can say such a thing) is that essential services like water and power are not necessarily affected, like in a natural disaster. ********************
Not immediately, no, but within a relatively short period of time workers will become ill or afraid to leave their homes lest they contract the disease, or unable to leave home because they are needed to nurse their families. Even without widespread shortages of healthy people to staff various departments, all kinds of problems can result, just in upkeep of services.
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posted on
04/28/2009 9:27:52 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: goodnesswins
You mean you stayed in bed the whole time???
To: Pete
Thanks for the information.
52
posted on
04/28/2009 9:48:18 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(We either Free America ourselves, or it is midnight for humanity for a thousand years.)
To: Vendome
Do what?Read the link in #16.
53
posted on
04/28/2009 9:54:23 AM PDT
by
bgill
(The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
To: Pete
“Again, we are at phase 4. Page 32 of this report estimates deaths in US between 900,000 and 1.8 million for a phase 4 event. Other than the 1918 flu pandemic, which was a phase 5, we have not had an event above a phase 2 in the 20th or 21st centuries.”
I’m pretty sure the above greatly overstates the risk level we are at. The report you cite has only FIVE risk levels (see page 32). The WHO, on the other hand, who just put us at a level 4, has SIX risk levels. In other words, regarding the two scales, you are comparing apples and oranges—they are different scales. Level 4 on the WHO scale is not comparable to level 4 in the attached pdf.
I don’t read WHO’s description of Risk Level 4 as anything close to the risk level 4 described in your document.
To: proudtobeanamerican1
HA...no....we took a trip to Guadaljara....and I can STILL remember the bathroom (and smell) of THAT small hotel room...and all the 7up I drank while we toured the area...
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posted on
04/28/2009 10:19:43 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(Free Speech for THEE, but NOT for ME????)
To: Enterprise
Naa the Obammunists will use the swine flu as a reason to create ore government programs no matter how unrelated to the swine flu..
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posted on
04/28/2009 10:22:43 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
To: Pete
The government has very detailed plans already written and tested for this. They thought it was going to be bird flu, but this will work the same. Think Martial law and roadblocks manned by troops in MOPP4. the laws are already on the books and I am sure they are being dusted off right now. We are just waiting for the declaration of a national emergency by Obama, that will set this in motion. To give Obama some credit, he may not have a choice, this could be the big one and he has to take some big steps to save the nation. That being said, I think he will screw it up.
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posted on
04/28/2009 10:23:26 AM PDT
by
ClayinVA
("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
To: Pete
maybe, but I think the stores will be closed. who wants to stand around getting exposed to a deadly flu all day for minimum wage.
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posted on
04/28/2009 10:28:37 AM PDT
by
ClayinVA
("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
To: ClayinVA
The government has very detailed plans already written and tested for this. They thought it was going to be bird flu, but this will work the same. Think Martial law and roadblocks manned by troops in MOPP4. the laws are already on the books and I am sure they are being dusted off right now. We are just waiting for the declaration of a national emergency by Obama, that will set this in motion. To give Obama some credit, he may not have a choice, this could be the big one and he has to take some big steps to save the nation. That being said, I think he will screw it up. I agree with all of that.
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posted on
04/28/2009 10:35:45 AM PDT
by
Pete
To: kidd
hey, you're gonna get in trouble for leaking their strategy. oops, never mind—leaking strategies is “modus operandi” with this bunch.
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posted on
04/28/2009 10:40:21 AM PDT
by
GOP_Thug_Mom
(Iibera nos a malo (Obama))
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