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Operation CoViD-19: Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines

The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the Department of Defense is doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic.  It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.

CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease-2019

Somewhere in the Philippine Sea a U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman loads an ABI StepOne Plus RT-PCR machine with samples of potential CoViD-19 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), 19MAR2020.

GERMANY: U.S. Defense Logistics Agency’s (DLA) Germersheim Central Distribution Center begin loading pallets of semi-perishable goods on to delivery trucks, 17MAR2020.

Germersheim Central Distribution Center delivers supplies to 33 commissaries, 26 U.S. Embassies and four Navy Exchange marts across Europe and Southwest Asia.

18MAR2020, Wiesbaden High School administrators hand out lap-top computers to students as they switch to online classes only.

ITALY:U.S. Army CoViD-19 instructions posted at a photo shop in Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, 16MAR2020.

Half-a-million U.S. bound CoViD-19 testing kits were loaded onto a Tennessee National Guard C-17 at the U.S. Air Force’s Aviano Air Base.  Shipments of test kits made by Copan Diagnostics, in Italy, began on 14MAR2020, through the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

KOREA:  U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity teachers and administrators on the U.S. Air Force’s Osan Air Base get a CoViD-19 update, 20MAR2020.  Students are now taking classes online.

U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center Korea explains their CoViD-19 mission:

UNITED STATES:

Colorado; Peterson Air Force Base conducting CoViD-19 screenings, 20MAR2020.

Georgia; Moody Air Force Base conducts CoViD-19 screenings:

Hawaii;  The U.S. Navy’s Branch Health Clinic Makalapa conducting CoViD-19 screenings.

Louisiana;  Commander of Air Force Global Strike Command issues statement regarding CoViD-19 and nuclear weapons response capabilities:

Nevada;   Nellis Air Force Base, home to the massive Red Flag aerial wargames, conducting CoViD-19 screenings at  Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center.

New York;  One of many CoViD-19 signs at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.

North Carolina; U.S. Marines and Navy personnel prep Camp Lejeune for CoViD-19 screenings, 19MAR2020.

South Carolina; USAF C-130 and C-17 transport planes of U.S. Southern Command, conducted a CoViD-19 rescue of the U.S. women’s U.S. style tackle-football team in Honduras, arriving at Joint Base Charleston 20MAR2020:

Texas; Lackland Air Force Base explains CoViD-19 rules for its Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center:

Washington;  Crew member onboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) conducts CoViD-19 disinfecting ops while the ship awaits maintenance at Bremerton.

ISOLATION: Separation and restriction of people who ARE SICK with a contagious virus from people who are not sick.

QUARANTINE:  Separation and restriction of people who might have been EXPOSED to a contagious virus to see if they become sick.

OPERATION COVID-19: NATIONAL GUARD RAMPS UP

Operation CoViD-19: National Guard ramps up

The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the various state National Guard units are doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic.  It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.

Arkansas National Guard work the CoViD-19 test lines at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 20MAR2020.

California National Guard activated for Operation CoViD-19. Personnel check-out vehicle mounted radios at the Roseville Armory, 18MAR2020.

Video, California National Guard delivers CoViD-19 test kits to infected Princess Cruise ship, 05MAR2020:

Florida National Guard personnel prep to administer CoViD-19 tests at the Community Based Testing Site, C.B. Smith Park, 20MAR2020.

Hawaii National Guard conduct CoViD-19 response planning, 18MAR2020.

  Louisiana National Guard CoViD-19 testing at Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans, 20MAR2020.

Members of the Maryland National Guard report for duty after being activated, 16MAR2020.  More than 2-thousand were called-up or given early-warning notices for call-up!  Any veteran can tell you what they are carrying.  Maryland National Guard also assisted with transporting passengers from one of the infected Princess Cruise ships on 17MAR2020.

Maryland National Guard personnel set-up emergency triage tents outside Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center in Silver Spring, 19MAR2020.

Video, Michigan National Guard CoViD-19 action on 18MAR2020:

Activated New Jersey National Guard personnel are screened for infections after reporting for duty, 19MAR2020.

New Jersey National Guard assists with operations at the CoViD-19 Community-Based Testing Site at Bergen Community College in Paramus, 20MAR2020.

Video interview, New Jersey National Guard Military Police explain Operation CoViD-19:

New Jersey National Guard transported protective clothing from Hall’s Warehouse Corporation to the CoViD-19 Community-Based Testing Site at Bergen Community College.

Video of protective gear logistics, 19MAR2020:

New York National Guard operate Staten Island CoViD-19 testing site, note the ‘Hot Zone’ sign in red.

Stony Brook, New York, CoViD-19 testing site, 18MAR2020.

New York National Guard clean toys at a daycare facility in Scarsdale, 16MAR2020.

New York National Guard take calls at the CoViD-19 Hotline call center in Hawthorne, 16MAR2020.

Video interview;  Brigadier General Tommy Mancino, Oklahoma National Guard CoViD-19 Joint Task Force, explains what all those people are doing in front of those computer screens:

Oregon National Guard sets-up tents outside of the Oregon Veterans’ Home (OVH) in Lebanon, 17MAR2020. The tents will be used to test the more than 2-hundred employees working at the OVH.

Oregon National Guard create the Oregon Medical Station (OMS) at the Oregon State Fairgrounds, 19MAR2020.  It will be used to house 250 people from nursing homes.

Time lapse video of creation of Oregon Medical Station:

Video, Pennsylvania National Guard personnel explain why the silly-vilian (civilian) healthcare industry can’t handle mass-testing for CoViD-19:

Puerto Rico National Guard conducting CoViD-19 testing at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport.

Half a million CoViD-19 testing supplies were shipped from Italian suppliers on Tennessee National Guard C-17 Globemaster-3 transports to the Tennessee Air National Guard base in Memphis.

Video interview with aircrew member:

The supplies were then loaded on FedEx trucks, 19MAR2020.

West Virginia National Guard takes calls at the CoViD-19 hotline.

OPERATION CoViD-19: USN QUARANTINE SHIPS

OPERATION CoViD-19: U.S. BORDER PATROL

OPERATION JUPITER: OPERATION CoViD-19 IS FOR REAL

Operation CoViD-19: USN Quarantine Ships

The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the U.S. Navy is doing during this Corona-Virus Disease 2019 pandemic.  It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.

Somewhere at sea, a Hospital Corpsman with the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet tests for diseases using a BioFire Film Array.  The hi-tech machine can test for just short of 30 diseases at the same time. The pic was taken aboard the USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), 14MAR2020.

Medical supplies being loaded onto USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) in San Diego, California, 20MAR2020.

Infected people could be delivered to USNS Mercy via MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopters.

Mercy is one of two hospital ships owned and operated by Military Sealift Command, and operates in the Pacific Ocean.

Video of USNS Mercy being loaded with medical supplies, in San Diego, in preparation for its mission as a quarantine ship:

Apparently they’re expecting to drink a lot of Red Bull?

The other hospital ship is the USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), which normally operates along the Atlantic coast, including providing taxpayer funded medical services to people in Central & South America, and the Caribbean.

A Ejército Mexicano medic, assigned to the USNS Comfort, helps a boy with a severely swollen head in Haiti, November 2019.

Throngs of Haitians line-up for help from the USNS Comfort, November 2019.  Will the same thing happen at U.S. ports?

Coming for you?  A view from inside a MH-60S Sea Hawk assigned to USNS Comfort.

OPERATION CoViD-19: HOT ZONE DAEGU

The Perfect Fear: Pacific Ring of Fire, 08-14 March 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 08 to 14 of Gregorian March 2020.

CHILE: Pic of volcano lightning storm, named The Perfect Fear,  wins international contest

COLOMBIA:  U.S. and Colombian militaries joined with silly-vilian organizations to conduct the Exercise Vita humanitarian response training.

INDONESIA: Three injured, hundreds of houses damaged after magnitude-4.9 earthquake in West Java

NEW ZEALAND: 6.4 earthquake – Kermadec Islands Region

JAPAN:  M5.5 quake 

MEXICO: Magnitude 5.1 earthquake

THAILAND:  Small quake shakes Lampang

UNITED STATES:

Alaska;  3.9 quake

California; 3.7 magnitude earthquake hits Truckee area

Hawaii; The U.S. Army Bombed a Lava Flow. It Didn’t Work.

Oregon; Funding for earthquake warning system dies in dysfunctional 2020 Oregon Legislature

Washington;  Will Seattle at last take action on buildings that can kill when earthquakes hit?

Wyoming;  Study reveals that Unusual Uplift at Yellowstone Volcano Caused by Magma Rising 

Pacific Ring of Fire, 01-07 March 2020: SURVIVE BY EATING GIANT SPIDERS?

Operation CoViD-19: Hot Zone Daegu

On 13MAR2020, soldiers with the U.S. Army, and the Republic of Korea (RoK), took part in disinfection ops in the hot zone known as Daegu.

Video, U.S. Army Installation Clean Teams:

Video, U.S. Army Trace Teams, or how they can trace where an infected military members has been:

Operation CoViD-19: U.S. Border Patrol, 13MAR2020

Operation Jupiter: Operation CoViD-19 is for real

CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease 2019

U.S. military updates as of 14-15MAR2020.

At Camp Pendleton, California, U.S. Marine Corps held a Installations West meeting to discuss scenarios for CoViD-19 response.

Marines onboard Camp Pendleton also built a quarantine site for anybody who test positive for the virus.

Video of U.S. Marines building a quarantine site on Camp Pendleton:

Official video announcement, USMC Camp Pendleton shuts down or reduces onboard services due to CoViD-19:

In the New Rochelle area of New York state, the Army National Guard began preparations for Operation CoViD-19.

Official video report, New York Army National Guard CoViD-19 Mobile Testing Center in Glenn Island Park:

Effective March 14, 2020, gate guards will no longer handle I-D cards, instead they’ll use a scanner.  Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, video explainer:

Video, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, implements new CoViD-19 gate checks:

On 11 March, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, issues video explaining what you should do if you think you’re infected:

THE DAY AFTER MEDICAL-MARTIAL-LAW WAS DECLARED: SHOPPING MAYHEM AT POCATELLO WINCO!

Going Viral, 11-12 March 2020: “STOP SAYING IT’S A BAD FLU!”

OPERATION JUPITER: U.S. SOLDIER INFECTED, U.S. BASES PREPPING FOR EVACUATIONS!

Survive by eating giant Spiders?: Pacific Ring of Fire, 01-07 March 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 01 to 07 of Gregorian March 2020.

It’s all about money as Earthquake Insurance Market analysts predict rapid sales growth thru-2025!

AUSTRALIA: bans travel from Korea over virus

CHINA:  enlists A-I to speed up monitoring and prediction of earthquakes

INDONESIA: airport shutdown after Java volcano erupts

JAPAN:  Ceremony marking 9 yrs since quake-tsunami canceled amid virus fears

Video of U.S.-Japan Tomodachi Rescue Exercise (which took place at the end of February):

KOREA:  Releases 221 Foreigners From Coronavirus Quarantine

U.S. Air Force 51st Aerospace Medicine Squadron updates its CoViD-19 map, 04MAR2020, Osan Air Base. (CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease 2019)

MEXICO: 5.6 quake shakes U.S. border towns

THAILAND: Can you survive the jungle? Video not for the weak:

UNITED STATES: Cascadia Subduction Zone; Silent earthquakes are tied to changes in fluid deep below 

Alaska;  After two months of activity, Pavlof Volcano has been downgraded to a ‘normal’ alert level.

California; San Diego faces critical earthquake danger from fault long believed to be inactive

Utah; 3.1 quake Box Elder County

Wyoming; USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) recorded 222 earthquakes in the Yellowstone area

Pacific Ring of Fire, 23-29 February 2020: “HOSTILE WEATHER CONDITIONS”

Climate Change, 01-07 March 2020: TREES ARE MAXED OUT!

The Day After Medical-Martial-Law Was Declared: Shopping mayhem at Pocatello WinCo!

14 March 2020 / 09:19 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 24 Esfand 1398/19 Rajab 1441/21 Ji-Mao 4718

CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease 2019

On the morning of 13 March, Idaho’s Governor Brad Little declared a State of Emergency over the CoViD-19 pandemic.  Shortly after that President Donald Trump declared a National Emergency.  Later in the day Governor Little revealed the first confirmed case of coronavirus in Idaho.  Without warning the store I prefer to do my grocery shopping at, and the only remaining 24 hours operation in the Pocatello/Chubbuck area, suspended their overnight sales purportedly to “clean” the store as a result of the CoViD-19 pandemic.

“24 Hours of Savings WinCo Foods” re-opened at 05:00 (5am), I arrived at 05:30 and it was already mayhem!

The pics were taken with my phone cam which has a fogged lens.  These checkout lines are what greeted me at 05:30, just 30 minutes after WinCo re-opened! They run to the back of the warehouse style store.

Many of the fresh meat items were gone, all the fresh ground beef was gone, by 05:30!

The empty shelves on the left side of the above pic used to be filled with pancake syrup.  Pancake syrup, really, do you people need that much pancake syrup?  The empty shelves on the right of the pic is where sugar used to be, all gone now.

The infamous toilet paper isle, this time WinCo was not able to re-stock before opening.

I bought $60 worth of food.  I got in at 05:30 and didn’t get out until 07:00, the lines were that long, and despite most of WinCo’s check stands being open.

I stopped in at the next door Fred Meyer, they weren’t crowded, but were missing many items as well.  An employee told me things have been getting crazy after 08:30 and they’ve been having trouble getting orders into corporate.   One of the items I noticed they were out of was bottled water, mmmm, I don’t remember CoViD-19 being able to shut-off your water supply.

pocatello fred meyer

Fred Meyer at the former Pocatello Mall location

The employee I talked to pointed out something that makes sense; many people in eastern Idaho save up their money for the end of year holiday season, but people are now spending money like mad due to the CoViD-19 fear-mongering, on top of that people are already being told not to come to work, the result will be that many people here in eastern Idaho are not going to have money to spend for the end of year holidays.

MORE ECONOMIC DECLINE FOR EASTERN IDAHO: COVID-19 SHUTDOWN 24HRS WINCO?

More economic decline for eastern Idaho: CoViD-19 shutdown 24hrs WinCo?

14 March 2020 / 05:15 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 24 Esfand 1398/19 Rajab 1441/21 Ji-Mao 4718

CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease 2019

No more “24 Hours of Savings WinCo Foods”, at least for a week.

After yesterday’s declaration of State of Emergency by Idaho’s Governor Brad Little, then followed by President Donald Trump’s declaration of National Emergency, the store I prefer to do my grocery shopping at, and the only remaining 24 hours operation in the Pocatello/Chubbuck area, halted their 24 Hours of Savings!

I’ve always shopped there after midnight because I don’t like crowded grocery stores.  I and several dozen people arrived after midnight, 14 March, to find the doors closed for the first time.  No signage was posted to explain it.

I drove back home and checked Boise based WinCo’s website and sure enough there is a message saying they’re halting 24hr operations at selected stores due to CoViD-19.

March 13, 2020

Dear WinCo Customers,

As we all deal with the Coronavirus fallout in these unprecedented times, WinCo Foods remains committed to taking care of our customers, our communities and our employee owners.

As we experience higher than normal demand on a variety of products, we are working around the clock to not only keep our stores open, but also clean and as stocked as possible. We are also ever-mindful of keeping our employee owners, our customers and our communities as safe as possible. To that end we are working with the CDC and local Health Agencies to make sure we follow all Coronavirus protocol, as well as our own internal hygiene and food safety protocols.

We at WinCo Foods understand that you are relying on us in these difficult days to continue providing you with quality food at the lowest possible prices. On behalf of our 19,000+ employee owners, we have no intention of closing our stores and every intention of keeping our shelves as stocked as we possibly can. To help this, we will be temporarily closing various locations between the hours of 12am and 5am for the next week, so the stores can clean and re-stock. We will re-evaluate this policy after this week has passed.

We appreciate your patience while we do this. WinCo remains committed to all of you, and to providing you with foods for your hungry families.

 

Thank you,

The employee owners of WinCo Foods”

I guess the ’employees of WinCo’ don’t realize that most people are not going to think of checking WinCo’s website before heading out to the store.

This was WinCo’s toilet paper isle several days prior to their overnight lockdown.

The only difference between a State of Emergency and martial law is that under martial law the military is in total control: “States of emergency can also be used as a rationale or pretext for suspending rights and freedoms guaranteed under a country’s constitution or basic law.” 

Going Viral, 11-12 March 2020: “STOP SAYING IT’S A BAD FLU!”

MORE ECONOMIC DECLINE: NO MORE IDAHO SHOPKO? THERE NEVER WAS A SHOPKO IN POCATELLO!

2013: ECONOMIC RECOVERY? WINCO ABOUT TO CLOSE STORE NUMBER 5 IN POCATELLO!