“I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.”-Revelation 6:8, New International Bible
Incomplete list of links to news reports about viral outbreaks during the days of 11 to 12 of the Gregorian month of March 2020.
Members of the West Virginia National Guard provided Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) instruction to employees of the Cabell Huntington Hospital, to prepare for possible Pandemic. West Virginia National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston, 11MAR2020.
Video, West Virginia National Guard trains the employees of Cabell Huntington Hospital for handling CoViD-19 victims (not sure why there’s no audio):
Photo by AAron B. Hutchins. Ransacked toilet paper shelves at a Pocatello, Idaho, WinCo store. The toilet paper hoarding continues despite no shortages (note the full cases stacked on the floor awaiting stocking on shelves), and no reason why CoViD-19 would result in toilet paper shortage.
USN SeaBees build ‘environmental enclosures’ at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, the enclosures are meant to provide people with a place to shelter from sudden “hostile weather conditions”. The project began in October 2019 and is still ongoing.
Sign posted at Norfolk Naval Station childcare center in Virginia.
At the U.S. Army basic training base Fort Benning, Georgia; “At this time, there are no known cases of this virus reported on Fort Benning. Should a case come to our attention, the entire team will take immediate measures to address it.” For those concerned checkout https://www.facebook.com/groups/BenningCOVID19forum or 1-800 Tricare Nurse Advice Line at 1-800-874-2273, menu option 1.
U.S. Coast Guard evacuates Grand Princess passenger sick with non-CoViD-19 medical problem, 08MAR2020, San Francisco, California.
Near empty toilet paper shelves at the Chubbuck, Idaho, Walmart, night of 09MAR2020.
Shoppers at the Chubbuck, Idaho, Walmart wondering what to do as all the ‘day-time’ cold/flu symptom treatments were sold out, only the ‘night time’ meds were available.
U.S. Army at Joint Base Lewis McChord holds CoViD-19 ‘town hall’ meeting to alleviate fears, watch the hour long video by clicking here. Unfortunately they gave advice that is proving questionable as proven by how people are mysteriously getting sick around the world.
Tennessee Air National Guard Master Sergeant operates a 1-thousand-kilowatt-hour generator for a water treatment facility after the deadly tornado strikes of 02-03MAR2020.
Patriot South is a yearly natural disaster training exercise for state National Guard units. This year it was held in Mississippi.
In Laurel, Mississippi, members of the non-profit rescue group Team Rubicon take advantage of National Guard exercise Patriot South, to conduct hurricane rescue training, 05MAR2020.
Patriot South-20; video report about Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks’ Special Response Team along with the National Guard, conducting natural disaster flood rescue training:
South Carolina National Guard checks out emergency satellite communications equipment from FirstNet during Patriot South-20, held in Mississippi.
U.S. Army Regional Media Center Europe puts out video stating (as I’ve stated in the past) that alcohol based cleaners do not work, simple soap and water does the trick:
Italy: U.S. Army Group-Italy tries to demonstrate how far away from another person you need to be to avoid viral contamination (at least one meter).
U.S. Army Vicenza video report, grade school is shutdown, but the learning continues:
This is from a store near where I live in Idaho. Notice that their CoViD-19 sale restrictions include propane, a fuel used for camping-cooking, heating or light welding.
Video, California Army National Guard delivers CoViD-19 testing kits to quarantined Grand Princess cruise ship:
Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 23 to 29 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.
For those who think U.S. President Trump is anti-climate change they should realize that he is the Commander in Chief of the U.S. military and the U.S. military is ramping up climate change studies and preparations. President Trump is not ‘anti-climate change’, he just doesn’t agree with the leftist-liberal explanation for the cause of climate change. Please note all the U.S. military climate change operations listed below.
Over the Atlantic Ocean the U.S. Navy (USN) is paying close attention to the Saharan Air Layer (SAL). The SAL can move 14-million-metric-tons (tonnes) of dust from Africa to the Caribbean every year, and with climate change it’s expected to get worse! The USN has joined with NOAA, NASA, and the National Weather Service to establish a ‘baseline’ in order to study health affects of the massive dust transfer and to create an early warning system for people in and around the Caribbean area.
The USN recently concluded data collection for their study of Monsoon Intra-Seasonal Oscillations (MISO) in the Indian Ocean. Researchers from University of Notre Dame, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, and National Aquatic Research and Resources Agency in Sri Lanka, also took part. The purpose is to better predict rapidly changing weather patterns affecting the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and South China Sea.
NORWAY:On 24 February, NATO forces conducted a bomb search in a smoke filled house during the extreme cold weather training event known as Exercise Cold Response.
Also during Exercise Cold Response, NATO personnel conducted an ice dive, 25 February, to train for port damage repair, and hydrographic surveying in an extreme cold weather/ice environment.
UNITED STATES: Apparently the Goldsboro Police, in North Carolina, believe that future flooding is going to become so powerful that they need an MRAP to conduct flood rescues:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began taking snowpack samples in North Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Measuring snowpack allows officials to estimate the amount of water runoff/flooding when the snow melts.
The US Army Corps of Engineers plans to increase releases from Gavins Point Dam in order to “…provide the greatest amount of flood risk reduction across the basin.” The dam affects areas of Nebraska and South Dakota.
New Hampshire Army National Guard flew to Alaska to take part in an extreme cold weather contamination training event. Note the Corona(virus) beer bottles.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that after years of upgrades to the Center Hill Lake Dam the lake is soon to return to ‘normal’ operations, and will allow the Nashville District to handle additional water flows into the reservoir.
I was in a department store in eastern Idaho, looking at face masks. I already knew that surgical masks are actually designed to protect a person who is being operated on from the germs in the doctors’ and nurses’ breath, and are not designed to do the reverse. I wanted to check out the hardware section’s dust/paint masks and was surprised to find most of them were gone. However, when I checked the labels on those remaining I discovered in the fine print that these masks not only won’t protect you from germs, they don’t even protect you from the harmful chemicals used in paints/glues or created in a construction environment; the small print on all the remaining masks stated “not for use in a NON-HARMFUL environment” (and NON-HARMFUL was in all-caps on the labels). Basically the bottom-of-the-line industrial dust masks are primarily designed to ‘protect’ you from the smell of the chemicals you are using, but not the toxins.
I was also looking at air conditioning (cooling and/or heating) filters for your home. Yes, there are house filters designed to capture viruses and bacteria, some even coming with electronic devices that wire-lessly connect to your smart phone to let you know when to change the filter, but I had an epiphany about home air treatment filters that renders them ‘too little too late’.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (aka CDC) states that surgical masks should be used only as a “last resort”, when no other masks are available. ‘Masks’ that are rated for protecting the wearer from airmobile microbes are known officially as respirators.
In the U.S. such respirators have a NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) rating. Currently the only respirators rated to filter out the coronavirus (specifically SARS-CoViD) are those rated N-95.
The N in N-95 means Not resistant to oil.
Even knowing which respirator will work, the CDC and United Nation’s World Health Organization say that only healthcare workers dealing with infected people need to wear a respirator. This is because infected people who end up in a hospital, or in quarantine, are in a confined, somewhat controllable, environment with close contact to other people. Hospitals are the worst place to be if you’re trying to avoid getting sick.
Those of us in the general public are in an open environment that really can’t be controlled, and when you are dealing with an airmobile disease, like CoViD-19 and influenza, there’s very little you can do. For proof of that, for this season’s influenza the U.S. vaccine has been given a 45% effectiveness rating, meaning that the majority of people who got this year’s flu shot could still get sick. There’s no vaccine for CoViD-19.
Even with hand washing, covering your mouth when you cough, all that is malarkey because it takes only one microscopic virus to make it inside your body to infect you. It’s estimated that one sneeze can expel 100-thousand infection-ous particles! Sneezes are so powerful that putting your hand over your mouth, or burying your mouth in your elbow will not stop all those particles from spreading.
This brings me to those more costly home air conditioning filters claiming to remove germs. Your air conditioning (cooling and/or heating) system does not run all the time (unless you can afford to have it running all the time), and if you have a sick guest (whether they know they are sick or not, as is proving the case with CoViD-19) most likely they will have filled your living room with germs that you then breath in before your air conditioning system turns on.
Also, your air conditioning system cannot instantly suck the infected air through the filter, it takes several tens of minutes to fully circulate the air (depending on the size of your house/apartment). This is why I call reliance on home air conditioning filters too-little-too-late.