Hi all and Welcome to the October Edition of the Survival Series!
This month's topic:
This month's topic:
Here on planet Earth, we come against stifling odds that play against us in every day life. Germs leading to disease prevent us from working at our best--or boredom, that's true--in the hopes that we'll be able to work another day.
One day, your neighbors begin to fall ill. Boils, rashes, bruises, stomach cramps start to make everyone sicker and sicker until the government gets high wind of an outbreak of some sort floating into town. The CDC gets involved, then the military shows up in lieu of a little bug that seems to be spreading at an alarming rate.
Several people have shown signs of good health, yourself included, and the military instructs you to stay in your homes without further information provided. A Need-To-Know basis. They are offering aid to anyone who's falling ill, but there's a good chance the coroner's going to have his hands full.
But, since you've not displayed any of the symptoms as of yet. . . what will you do?
Do you:
*Stay put?
*Make a run for it?
*Play it safe and go get checked right away?
*Do you even have a plan?
*What weapons could you use?
The choice is yours.
Information --
Guide C - Isolation Guidelines: Smallpox
Public Health Powers Needed by a Health Officer in a Bioterrorism Event
1. Collection of Records and Data
a. Reporting of diseases, unusual clusters, and suspicious events.
b. Access to hospital and provider records.
c. Data sharing with law enforcement agencies.
d. Veterinary reporting.
e. Reporting of workplace absenteeism.
f. Reporting from pharmacies.
2. Control of Property
a. Right of access to suspicious premises
b. Emergency closure of facilities
c. Temporary use of hospitals and ability to transfer patients
d. Temporary use of hotel rooms and drive-through facilities
e. Procurement or confiscation of medicines and vaccines
f. Seizure of cell phones and other “walkie-talkie” type equipment
g. Decontamination of buildings
h. Seizure and destruction of contaminated articles
3. Management of Persons
a. Identification of exposed persons
b. Mandatory medical examinations
c. Collect lab specimens and perform tests
d. Rationing of medicines
e. Tracking and follow-up of persons
f. Isolation and quarantine
g. Logistical authority for patient management
h. Enforcement authority through police or National Guard
i. Suspension of licensing authority for medical personnel from outside jurisdictions
j. Authorization of other doctors to perform functions of medical examiner
4. Access to Communications and Public Relations
a. Identification of public health officers (e.g., badges)
b. Dissemination of accurate information, rumor control, 1-800 number
c. Establishment of a command center
d. Access to elected officials
e. Access to experts in human relations and post-traumatic stress syndrome
f. Diversity in training, cultural differences, dissemination of information in multiple languages
1. Collection of Records and Data
a. Reporting of diseases, unusual clusters, and suspicious events.
b. Access to hospital and provider records.
c. Data sharing with law enforcement agencies.
d. Veterinary reporting.
e. Reporting of workplace absenteeism.
f. Reporting from pharmacies.
2. Control of Property
a. Right of access to suspicious premises
b. Emergency closure of facilities
c. Temporary use of hospitals and ability to transfer patients
d. Temporary use of hotel rooms and drive-through facilities
e. Procurement or confiscation of medicines and vaccines
f. Seizure of cell phones and other “walkie-talkie” type equipment
g. Decontamination of buildings
h. Seizure and destruction of contaminated articles
3. Management of Persons
a. Identification of exposed persons
b. Mandatory medical examinations
c. Collect lab specimens and perform tests
d. Rationing of medicines
e. Tracking and follow-up of persons
f. Isolation and quarantine
g. Logistical authority for patient management
h. Enforcement authority through police or National Guard
i. Suspension of licensing authority for medical personnel from outside jurisdictions
j. Authorization of other doctors to perform functions of medical examiner
4. Access to Communications and Public Relations
a. Identification of public health officers (e.g., badges)
b. Dissemination of accurate information, rumor control, 1-800 number
c. Establishment of a command center
d. Access to elected officials
e. Access to experts in human relations and post-traumatic stress syndrome
f. Diversity in training, cultural differences, dissemination of information in multiple languages
Tactics --
* Get sick and die. . .
* Purchase Haz-mat products [link below]
* Kidnapping the President
* Opting out of kidnapping the President
* Give in to the sickness ^_^.
* Stay inside/at home
* Stock up
* wait for food supplies to come in via inventory
* Stay away from the lab coats, lest they turn you into lab mice.
* Find high-ranking official and sneeze on them
* Haul a**!
* come up with a clever way to signal your health in the confines of your home
* Don't Panic!. . . oh wait, this is America.
* tunnel out of the quarantine zone [rudimentary math and tunnel making skills required]
* skip the country, and live the rest of your days under an assumed name
* Lie about a cure to escape--must have charm and rudimentary skills.
Links:
Approved gas masks
Weapons / Tools --
* Haz-mat suit
* gas mask
* chemical suit
* . . . President Obama??
* Syringes of Sickness and a Shotgun.
* Jack Daniels
* Use the sickness as a weapon [works at close range only]
* non-watched area and a map
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Lets talk Government Quarantine Survival!
