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metmom :""Warning to Freepers in flood prone areas of Kalifornia to make preparations in the event of such a scenario. Get your important papers and items together, pack a bag, prep several days of food - all in a ‘grab and go’ level of preparation.Review potential escape routes to high ground and make preliminary plans on where to stay. If with friends/family, make sure you call them and touch base so they aren’t taken by surprise when you show up at the door. Hopefully, the spring will be relatively tame and the snow melt not triggering massive floods. But you...

Taking steps to manage your privacy settings and data is an important part of emergency preparedness actions we all should take.Why Data Privacy Matters Take Control During Data Privacy Week [It's a matter of personal responsibility]

“There’s a scene at the beginning of The Bourne Identity where the film’s protagonist is sitting in a diner, trying to figure out who he is and why he has a bunch of passports and a gun stashed in a safety deposit box. Bourne also notices that he, well, notices things that other people don’t. “ ”That superhuman ability to observe his surroundings and make detailed assessments about his environment? It’s not just a trait of top secret operatives; it’s a skill known as situational awareness, and you can possess it too. “”As the names implies, situational awareness is simply...

HONG KONG — Hospitals in northern China appear to be “overwhelmed with sick children” as the country grapples with a surge in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia, prompting the World Health Organization to ask Beijing for more data.

Three red fox kits died from highly pathogenic avian influenza in Michigan, which is the state's first confirmation of the virus in wild mammals. The fox kits, collected between April 1 and April 14, came from three separate dens in Lapeer, Macomb and St. Clair counties.The DNR received a report from a wildlife rehabilitator in southeastern Michigan about the fox kits exhibiting neurologic signs of avian influenza before death, according to the release. The kits were observed circling, tremoring and seizing. Two of the three died within hours of intake, while one appeared to respond to supportive therapy but then...

Infectious Disease ping - UK - Two additional cases of viral “Monkeypox”, risk remains low to the general public Photos of the infection and explanation of the disease are available at the news website. " Monkeypox is a rare viral infection which kills up to one in ten of those infected but does not spread easily between people.(Emphasis mine) Initial symptoms of monkeypox include fever, headache, muscle aches, backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion. In 2003, the disease was detected in the US when an outbreak occurred following the importation of rodents from Africa."

The practical Way to go : At a minimum, frugal financial planning for preppers simply means living within your means so that you are able to build yourself a financial cushion. For beginning preppers, this is important to ensure that you can build sufficient emergency reserves of supplies and cash (cash on hand, not at the bank). In addition, you will want to gradually reduce your reliance on things that may not be available to you, such as utilities and fuel.

The study, which has not been peer-reviewed, found that people who were infected with Omicron, especially those who were vaccinated, developed enhanced immunity to the Delta variant. The analysis enrolled 33 vaccinated and unvaccinated people who were infected with the Omicron variant in South Africa.

FYI first person account of Covid internment at Howards Springs, Darwin Australia Just posted a few hours ago by Freddie Sayers on the yt “unherd” ( which btw is well worth watching intelligent discussion) channel just posted: https://youtu.be/mGFdWcJU7-0 A Young lady had contact with a friend who’d had contact with an alleged infected person. Police cameras caught her scooter tag leaving friends house. First contact undercover cops in plain clothes to remain discrete and the saga goes on from there... This is a direct result of Australian "Contact Tracing", and leads directly to her internment.

One of the reasons for refusing the experimental covid vaccine is a lack of “ informed consent”. The author presents his reasoning behind his refusal to take the covid vaccine in a succinct and clear manner and presents connected incorporated 'hot links' to actual data to explain his position.

An Introduction to the Art of Food storage done easily, and inexpensively – by Wendy Dewitt A 57 minute instructional video of making sense of economical and logical food storage to: “ store what you eat, and eat what you store”. Learn from those who have experience of storing and actually regularly using their food storage program, and the benefits of regularly rotating your supplies to keep them fresh. This is a training video to maximize the benefits of your food stage, geared to novice, intermediate, and advanced practitioners ; it is chocked full of helpful information ! Wendy presents...

An Ebola outbreak now occurring in Guinea was almost certainly started by someone who survived West Africa’s historic 2014-16 epidemic, harbored the virus for at least five years and then transmitted it via semen to a sex partner, researchers reported on Friday. The current outbreak in Guinea was first recognized in January and has infected at least 18 people and killed nine."(Emphasis Mine) "West Africa’s previous epidemic infected more than 28,000 people, killed more than 11,000 and left thousands of survivors, some of whom were already being shunned because of fears about the disease. "

"Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world." - Henry Kissinger (1974) From : www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/committees/cac/about/en/ "Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) The Codex Alimentarius Commission or CAC is the body responsible for all matters regarding the implementation of the Joint FAO/WHO … "

Prepper Ping - How do you prepare for a revolution? Or for Socialism, where the misery is shared when there is no more money In this article, I want to speak specifically about the practical steps you need to take to be prepared for a revolution if things should come to that point across the country. This article is not about philosophy or right vs. wrong. It’s not about fighting for your “side” whatever side that might be. It’s about surviving. There are lots of links because I’m not reinventing the entire wheel here – that would be a book...

Prepper Ping - re: Oshkalaboomboom's online "Prepper Knowledge Base" – access key Last Call ! Please be advised that Oshkalaboomboom lives in GMT+1 time zone which is 6 hours ahead of American Eastern Standard Time zone. Any Pings received after 6 PM EST on December 25, will be deleted. The Knowledge Base will continue to be updated until it shuts down for good in April 2021. Oshkalaboomboom will look through the FReeper pings to him to confirm people who wanted access, and will send them a ping on Christmas Day with the access code. A reminder that all requests for...

Prepper Ping - Oshkalaboomboom Prepper Knowledge Base- will close Christmas 12/25/2020 I am going to open up the Knowledge Base for members of the Prepper ping list . After Christmas it will be gone and unavailable, with total removal soon thereafter.There are now over 4000 titles and 126GB of information in 15 different directories including Prepping, Survival, Unarmed Combat, Traditional and Alternative Medicine and Homesteading, among others. Preppers should send me a PM and I will let them in. Just because you may have had access before, doesn’t mean they have access now because the access link has been changed,...

How to protect yourself (from coronavirus): "There are currently no vaccines available to protect you against human coronavirus infection. You may be able to reduce your risk of infection by doing the following: (#1) .. wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds (#2) ..avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands (#3) .. avoid close contact with people who are sick " Also: (#4)..stay home while you are sick - don't spread the illness (#5) ..avoid close contact with others (#6).. cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough...

The specifics of how the person contracted the plague have not been revealed Three other people 250 miles (400km) away have been diagnosed this month Two have the bubonic plague while two have the more lethal pneumonic strain One man was treated for the bubonic plague after he ate a wild rabbit, while the first two patients were diagnosed with the more fatal and contagious pneumonic strain.

Former U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan died Monday at age 66 — nearly three years after she was first hospitalized with what doctors later said was encephalitis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes Powassan virus as an illness spread by the bite of infected ticks. Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain often caused by an infection like the Powassan virus, according to the Mayo Clinic. "The recovery process for viral encephalitis varies by case with differing impacts on the brain, speech, vision, memory and muscle control.."

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