- Although viruses are indeed a definite biological entity that can both replicate and change with time, a virus is considered to be “alive”.
- A virus of any type is simply a very small assembly of complicated molecules that include proteins, RNA molecules (or DNA molecules in some viruses), and sometimes fat and sugar molecules.
- Although these biological molecules are highly organized, a virus is incapable of any form of energy production or biochemical metabolism.
- A virus is simply an inert collection of chemicals until it penetrates and enters into a living cell of its host.
- Influenza is actually a viral infection of birds. Studies have shown that approximately one out of four wild birds are infected with some strain of the Influenza virus.
- Instead of affecting the upper airway, the virus infects the intestines of the birds.
- Usually the Influenza virus does not harm the birds but it is shed into the environment though bird droppings.
- Individuals who have been infected with the Influenza virus are infectious to others for a day before they show any symptoms at all through the respiratory droplets they generate while speaking, coughing, and sneezing.
- Their hands are also contaminated by the respiratory droplets they generate, and any surface that they touch can be contaminated by the virus for several hours.
- An infected individual is considered infectious for at least four-days after they begin to show symptoms. Children may remain infectious to others for another several days after they recover from an Influenza infection.
- An infected individual will contaminate all the objects and surfaces around them.
- Scientists knew that Influenza was contagious and that limiting social contact with other people could reduce their chances of becoming infected with Influenza.
- Today these measures are called Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions or NPI.
[I have always done research on the "Spanish Flu." due to what my grandmother Margaret Sweeney Watson told me growing up. She was a very even tempered person, and the only time I saw her upset was when she spoke of the effect of the Spanish Flu in Germantown, Philadelphia when she was young. For several weeks in 1918, horse drawn wooden carts would arrive daily to pick up the dead. Looking back, I realize she was traumatized by seeing this as a young girl. Here is a good description of the Spanish Flu's impact on Philadelphia's citizens.]
- Frequently wash hands using soap and water or alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
- Avoid rubbing your eyes with your hands unless you wash them first.
- Routine surface cleaning of frequently touched surfaces and objects like tables, door knobs, desks, cell phones, and computer keyboards.
- The goal is to slow down the rate of influenza transmission so that hospitals can manage the number of patients that are being admitted for care.
- Traditionally this has been the closure of all public gatherings including schools, movie theaters, church services, bars, restaurants, and the like.
- However, in a heavily urbanized area where people are dependent on mass transit to travel to work, these closures will not be fully effective.
- The Influenza virus can survive up to 3-days when at high concentrations in the presence of respiratory mucus and kept out of the ultraviolet rays of sunlight.
- The hands must be sanitized immediately after handling money.
- Banknotes may well be a significant factor in Influenza transmission, but our research indicates that no federal agency has yet addressed this concern.
If My Hands are Contaminated, Can Scratching My Nose or Rubbing My Eyes Cause Me to Be Infected?
Yes
In a Severe Lethal Influenza Pandemic, Will the Government Tell Me the Truth What is Happening?- Based on past history, it cannot be guaranteed that the US Government will tell its citizens the truth about the severity of an Influenza Pandemic.
Dr. Steven Hatfill Biography
- Dr. Steven Hatfill is a specialist physician and a virologist with a military background and separate master’s degrees in microbial genetics, radiation biochemistry, and experimental pathology. In 1986, he overwintered in Antarctica as a member of the 27th SANAE Antarctic Expedition. In 1992, he demonstrated that the drug Thalidomide exerted a major effect in Leukemia cell cultures. Analogues of this drug are now a mainstay treatment for pre-leukemia and Multiple Myeloma.
Dr Hatfill’s medical fellowships include Oxford University, the NIH in Bethesda, and the NRC where he studied the Ebola Virus at the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick. His background includes training and certification as a UN Weapons Inspector. Since 2005, he has been involved in the directed training of both civilians and the military, in the medical response to mass casualties from blast and ballistic injury.
In 2015, he trained and helped to establish the Rapid Hemorrhagic Fever Response Team for the National Disaster Management Unit in Kenya, Africa. He has numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications. In 2018, he was awarded Honorary U.S. Army Parachute Wings with Bronze Star, in an exchange ceremony with the U.S. Army 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne). He is a National Fellow of the Explorers Club, a board member of several non-profit medical organizations and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in two departments at a leading US Medical School.
While listening to the Steve Bannon War Room show, I heard him talking about the Wuhan Flu with Dr. Steven A. Hatfill.
An alarm went off in my mind and soul.
I knew that name well.
When I worked on anthrax mitigation in 2003, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) went after him with a vengeance. They accused him of being responsible for sending anthrax in envelopes through he mail where it was released in postal facilities and killed people.
That was a total lie on the FBI's part. As today, they were so powerful they did not have to be truthful or accurate in their persecutions.
And as today, they leaked to and used the mainstream media (New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc) as a force multiplier to go after him.
Here is the whole sordid tale of FBI, DOJ and main stream media persecution of this great man.
I knew that name well.
When I worked on anthrax mitigation in 2003, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) went after him with a vengeance. They accused him of being responsible for sending anthrax in envelopes through he mail where it was released in postal facilities and killed people.
That was a total lie on the FBI's part. As today, they were so powerful they did not have to be truthful or accurate in their persecutions.
And as today, they leaked to and used the mainstream media (New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc) as a force multiplier to go after him.
Here is the whole sordid tale of FBI, DOJ and main stream media persecution of this great man.
