Prepare to Not Panic for the Next Wuhan Coronavirus

Note: Toilet paper alternatives may be found here and here.

What do you wish you had ready before this current Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic?

The American National Disaster Medical System is stress tested yearly. It will experience an actual test this year. I have every confidence they will succeed.

Then ask, what can you assemble using common sense for the next one?
Yes, there will be a next one. Study history.
Or review the 42 years of the Journal of Civil Defense we uploaded in 2019 to the American Civil Defense Association (TACDA.ORG) or here.
Here is another way you can prepare for the next event BEFORE it happens.
Scientific background and answers about the Wuhan Coronavirus found here.
And you can purchase vetted items that will help you survive and prosper during the next manmade or natural disaster here.
Our media corporations, rather than informing with evidence-based analysis as here, have chosen to inflame,  misinform, lie, confuse and cause panic. Here is an example of panic buying by an unthinking mob that sadly sometimes leads to violence.
In doing so, they have drowned out the rational, common sense, science- and evidence-based information that could have dampened down the panic.
There was no reason for the gyrations in the stock market, interruptions in factory supply lines,
closed businesses, schools and events.
It could have been different. It can be different next time.
For example, most people who are dying from catching the Wuhan Coronavirus are on average 80 years old with pulmonary, repository, heart and other health conditions.
But to read and hear the corporate media mass hysteria, everyone is at risk and everyone is dying.
This is not backed up the the evidence or data.

Civil Defense Lessons Learned for Wuhan Coronavirus
I have tracked this event from November, 2019 because I knew it offered many civil defense lessons.

1. Do not panic. 
Rational, even-thinking, common sense, simple reactions to any event trump fear porn, worry, anxiety, spreading rumors rather than facts,
The former leads to action. The later leads to chaos and death.


2. Identify, purchase and store supplies BEFORE the event.
This is an old, tested and true civil defense strategy. When you spend months and years aware of the threats in your area and built your emergency supplies to meet those demands. you will be fine. (Most emergencies last less than 72 hours.)
If you do not plan ahead, you may be one of those racing into Costco to get the last roll of toilet paper and the last bottle of water.

3. Learn the peace of being prepared. 
From Aesop's Fable of the Ant and The Grasshopper to the Boy Scout's teaching millions of young men to Be Prepared to the massive insurance industry to the Combat Application Tourniquet, being prepared brings peace of mind.  Peace of mind means correct thinking, no panic, equanimity, and good decision making. Result? Saved lives. This principal has been tested millions of times in combat and in daily life. Use it.

We get 97% of our vaccines from the CCP. Given the way the CCP has eradicated the rare earths industry in the U.S. and has threatened to cut off our vaccines if we don't do what they want, that is not being prepared.
When President Trump heard about America's dependency on the CCP for 97% of our vaccines, he decided to prepare better.
Here is an excellent example of learning the peace of being prepared: "In September 2019, Trump issued an executive order directing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to overhaul seasonal flu vaccine production." The White House said in a statement: "Unfortunately, many of the vaccines we use today are produced overseas, using time-consuming, egg-based technology, which limits their effectiveness and makes production too slow to effectively combat a potential deadly influenza pandemic."

4. Use alternative media to get your facts, evidence and information.
The corporate media is so unreliable these days you must depend on the abundant alternate sources of fact-based evidence and analysis that is available now.
For example, from the early days of the Hubei Province outbreak, Steven K. Bannon created a podcast and radio show called: "War Room: Pandemic."
Numerous times, Steve interviewed phenomenal virology experts such as Dr. Steve Hatfill, the famous author of Three Minutes Until Midnight.
Result? You learn wisdom, data, analysis and recommendations that were science and experience based.

5. Again, find and follow genuine experts.
Here is an example.
Dr. Steven Hatfill is the primary author and team lead for this book. He is a specialist physician and a virologist with a military background. He holds Master's degrees in microbial genetics, radiation biochemistry, and a Master's degree in Medicine where he was the first to demonstrate Thalidomide as a drug for possible use in hematological malignancies. 
His medical fellowships include Oxford University, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Research Council where he studied the Ebola, Marburg, and Monkeypox viruses at the US Army Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick. His background includes training and certification as a UN Weapons Inspector and over a decade of teaching the emergency medical and mass casualty response to blast and ballistic injuries. 
His medical experience includes serving as the Overwinter Team Physician for the 27th South African National Antarctic Expedition, and Casualty Officer at the Conradie General Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. While at Science Applications International Corporation, he served as a course developer and senior lecturer for the Hospital Provider Section of the Nunn-Luger Domestic Preparedness Program and he developed and conducted specialized training for the US military and State Department. He has served as a guest lecturer for numerous Federal agencies. In 2015, he trained and helped to establish the first Rapid Hemorrhagic Fever Response Teams for the National Disaster Medical 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 between the U.S. Army 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne) and a former African Army Regiment. He is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at a leading Medical School in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine and the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership. He is a National Fellow of the Explorers Club and is a board member of several non-profit medical organizations.

6. Globalization has been a Disaster

Here is just one example: 

David Vance

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Many Italians in Northern Italy sold their leather goods and textiles companies to China. Italy then allowed 100,000 Chinese from Wuhan/Wenzhou to move to Italy to work in these factories, with direct Wuhan flights. Result: Northern Italy is Europe’s hotspot for Wuhan Coronavirus

Sadly, the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) sent both legal and illegal immigrants to work in factories in Northern Italy. Many went home to China for the Chines New Year, contracted Wuhan Coronavirus, and returned to Northern Italy and spread it around.

Italy's biggest Chinese community clashes with police near Florence Source

Made in little Wenxhou, Italy: the latest label from Tuscany Source
"According to the foreign ministry in Beijing, this Tuscan textile city and its surrounding province has the highest concentration of Chinese in any administrative district outside China itself. Silvia Pieraccini, a local journalist and author of a book, L'Assedio Cinese (The Chinese Siege), reckons there are 50,000 Chinese in Prato, and that they make up about 30% of the city's population. But no one knows, because so many – well over half, says Pieraccini – are there illegally."

6. Beware False Flag Operations
Due to the secrecy. lying, propaganda expertise and the many politicians and international business people in the West the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has purchased, the Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak has been a false flag operation from the beginning.
There are thousands of examples of this sophisticated message control operation. Here is my favorite.
Rather than being honest and stating cause of death as the Wuhan Coronavirus, the CCP has made funeral homes name the cause of death as "Unidentified Pneumonia."
I kid you not. Here is the source.

7. Bring the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Factory's Back to the United States
Now...imagine an intel operation that is so sophisticated that you not only lie at the front end about the epidemic, but you make sure to continue to lie to the graveyard by misidentifying the Wuhan Coronavirus flu cause of death for "unidentified pneumonia." 
More about the CCP  offensive false flag operation here. 
The Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic, and especially our dependency on the CCjP for 97% of our vaccines, has demonstrated the irrational thinking behind sending the American pharmacy and medical device industries to China to save a few dollars.
The CCP ordering ships with surgical masks and pharmaceuticals to return to China when they were in the supply chain to go to the United States is proof enough.
China Law Blog does outstanding legal work to help you remove your factories from China here.
Many of our most critical pharmacy products are only made in China. Source
Good News: Big Pharma will Exit China and Come Back to the USA Source

9. Resources
There are so many suppliers of emergency management equipment, supplies and knowledge. Here are a few.
Poetslife Blogspot (Over 20 years of disaster planning)
North American Rescue
The American Civil Defense Association (Survival Store)
Journal of Civil Defense (42 years of strategy, history, and experience)
The Provident Prepper - Products
The Provident Prepper - YouTube
The Provident Prepper - Action Plans
Alternative Medicine for Veterans CDB
Prepared Hero
Noveske

Dealing with the Wuhan Coronavirus

Civil defense strategies for dealing with the Wuhan Coronavirus here.

Note: Toilet paper alternatives may be found here and here.
Here is an easy, simple quiz to see if you are likely to contract Wuhan Coronavirus.

Not perfect, but it provides an educated guess.
Scientific background and answers about the Wuhan Coronavirus found here.
The American National Disaster Medical System is stress tested yearly. 

It will experience an actual test this year. 

I have every confidence they will succeed.
The American people will deal with the Wuhan Coronavirus like the South Koreans, not the Chinese Communist Party China.

And we will succeed.

The failure of the CCP to identify patient zero, to notify the world of the outbreak when it happened, and to destroy medical data proves the failure of the largest socialized medical system in the world.

For correct water storage, use WaterBricks. Source

For excellent medical kits. Source

For background from the "Spanish" flu. Source The second wave gets you.

Three Seconds to Midnight. Source

Steve K. Bannon has broadcast accurate information about the Wuhan Coronavirus from the beginning. Helps he is fluent in Chinese from his Naval officer days. Source

Preparedness Tips for the Elderly Source

Time to prepare is now. Source

Pulmonologist and Critical Care Specialist Roger Seheult, MD explains the Wuhan Coronavirus and the impact of the pandemic in plain English. Source

Below is a data dump from his YouTube channel. He provides excellent medical advice in an easy to understand way.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update 33 with pulmonologist & critical care specialist Roger Seheult, MD of https://www.MedCram.com 

 Dr. Seheult illustrates how medications like remdesivir may work on a cellular level to stop viral replication. 

South Korea has now tested almost 200,000 people for COVID-19 as the rest of the world lags behind and may be experiencing “the tip of the confirmed coronavirus cases iceberg.” 

 LINKS from this video: https://www.worldometers.info/coronav... https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/ap... https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-... https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/understandin... https://www.jbc.org/content/early/202... Previous videos from this series: - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 32: Important Data from South Korea, Can Zinc Help Prevent COVID-19? https://youtu.be/Eeh054-Hx1U - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 31: Mortality Rate, Cleaning Products, A More/Less Severe Virus Strain? https://youtu.be/7YI2tOoVVpk - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 30: More Global COVID-19 Outbreaks, Vitamin D May Aid Prevention: https://youtu.be/gmqgGwT6bw0 - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 29: Testing problems, mutations, COVID-19 in Washington & Iran: https://youtu.be/XjEacUyp4vY - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 28: Practical Prevention Strategies, Patient Age vs. Case Fatality Rate: https://youtu.be/quDYb_x54DM - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 27: Testing accuracy for COVID-19 (CT Scan vs. RT-PCR), California Cases and Coronavirus Los Angeles: https://youtu.be/xQwfuJgJ9lo - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 26: Treatment Updates, Stock Markets, Germany & San Francisco, Pandemic? https://youtu.be/bV1CZxJ-uvU - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 25: Vaccine Developments, Italy's Response, and Mortality Rate Trends: https://youtu.be/UImSVhLLeGY - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 24: Coronavirus Infections in Italy, Transmissibility, COVID-19 Symptoms: https://youtu.be/UImSVhLLeGY - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 23: Infections in Kids & Pregnancy, South Korea, Spillover From Bats: https://youtu.be/JGhwAGiAnJo - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 22: Spread Without Symptoms, Cruise Quarantine, Asymptomatic Testing: https://youtu.be/OqpHvK0XADY - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 21: Antibodies, Case Fatality, Clinical Recommendations, 2nd Infections?: https://youtu.be/9BYaywITXYk - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 20: Misinformation Spread, Infection Severity, Cruise Ship, Origins: https://youtu.be/Ka48UZDDzLY - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 19: Treatment and Medication Clinical Trials: https://youtu.be/4HK9QEy1KJ8 - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 18: Cellphone Tracking, Increase in Hospitalizations, More Sleep Tips: https://youtu.be/vE4pBkslqS4 - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 17: Spike in Confirmed Cases, Fighting Infections with Sleep (COVID-19): https://youtu.be/wlbM6VVkVZM - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 16: Strengthening Your Immune Response to Viral Infections (COVID-19): https://youtu.be/qqZYEgREuZ8 - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 15: Underreporting, Prevention, 24 Day Incubation? (COVID19) https://youtu.be/o804wu5h_ms - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 14: Hospital spread of infection, WHO allowed in China, N-95 masks: https://youtu.be/pDnmHu8x9C4 - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 13: Li Wenliang, nCoV vs Influenza, Dip in Daily Cases, Spread to Canada: https://youtu.be/0UgrPgJdzp0 - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 12: Unsupported Theories, Pneumonia, ACE2 & nCoV: https://youtu.be/GT3_A1bf9pU - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 11: Antiviral Drugs, Treatment Trials for nCoV (Remdesivir, Chloroquine): https://youtu.be/pfGpdFNHoqQ - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 10: New Studies, Transmission, Spread from Wuhan, Prevention (2019-nCoV): https://youtu.be/gPwfiQgGsFo - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 9: Fecal-Oral Transmission, Recovery vs Death Rate: https://youtu.be/8Hjy3UfaTSc - Coronavirus Outbreak Update 8: Travel Ban, Spread Outside of China, Quarantine, & MRSA: https://youtu.be/GpbUoLvpdCo - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 7: Global Health Emergency Declared, Viral Shedding: https://youtu.be/nW3xqcGidpQ - Coronavirus Outbreak Update 6: Asymptomatic Transmission & Incubation Period: https://youtu.be/UGxgNebx1pg - Coronavirus Epidemic Update 5: Mortality Rate vs SARS / Influenza: https://youtu.be/MN9-UXsvPBY - Coronavirus outbreak, transmission, and pathophysiology: https://youtu.be/9vMXSkKLg2I - Coronavirus symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment: https://youtu.be/UCG3xqtcL3c - Coronavirus Update 3: Spread, Quarantine, Projections, & Vaccine: https://youtu.be/SJBYwUtB83o - How Coronavirus Kills: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) & Treatment: https://youtu.be/okg7uq_HrhQ Speaker: Roger Seheult, MD Produced by Kyle Allred, PA MedCram medical videos are for medical education and exam preparation, and NOT intended to replace recommendations from your doctor. #Coronavirus #COVID19 #SARSCoV2

 

Social Media as a Valuable Tool for Emergency Management

The Provident Prepper just published my article about social media as a valuable tool for emergency management. They also created a YouTube video with the main concepts. They did an outstanding job with both. 

Both have great information for you and your family that can save your or a family members life. But you must ACT NOW to identify, download, and use these apps. Details below.

Blog post:  https://theprovidentprepper.org/social-media-valuable-tool-for-emergency-communication/

Youtube:  https://youtu.be/JM-vbW55RYw

Flu Infection: Three Seconds Until Midnight Review

Dr. Steven A. Hatfill,  specialist physician, virologiist, bio-defense researcher, working in a Level 4 lab, is who you want to follow to understand the current Wuhan flu. Here is his website from which I draw this material

What is a virus? Are viruses alive?

• 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.

Where did the Influenza virus come from?

• 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.

How is Influenza Transmitted from Person to Person?

• 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.

In 1918, there was no understanding of viruses, no drugs, and no vaccine. What steps could individuals take to prevent becoming infected?

• 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.]

What Individual Measures Can Be Taken to Avoid Influenza Infection?

• 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.

What Community Measures Can Be Taken to Avoid Influenza Infection?

• 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.

Can the Handling of Money Transmit the Influenza Virus from Person to Person?

• 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.
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  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.
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  • 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.

Keep Combat Application Tourniquets (CAT) Nearby

One of the most overlooked items for use in civil defense is  the tourniquet.

Unfortunately, I've heard many say, "I'll just use a belt." 

Not good.
Patients often bleed out from just using a belt.
Instead, buy several CATs (Combat Application Tourniquet's).
The CAT is a life saving tool that has been proven in combat. You can learn to apply it in minutes and to put it on in seconds.
In that Golden Hour, it keeps a patient from bleeding out before they can get medical attention to the wound.
Many police, fire fighters, EMTs, and other first responders keep a CAT on their belt, in the car, and at home to help staunch bleeding.

Keep a CAT on your sun visor in your vehicle so you can reach it quickly if it turns over on the road.

Here is a good description of the tourniquet from North American Rescue.
https://www.narescue.com/combat-application-tourniquet-c-a-t.html
"Official Tourniquet of the U.S. Army
Proven to be 100% effective in occluding blood flow in both upper & lower extremities by the U.S. Army’s Institute of Surgical Research
NEW Single Routing Buckle for faster application, decreased blood loss, effective slack removal, fewer windlass turns, and simplified training with single protocol application standards
Includes reinforced windlass, stabilization plate, windlass clip and writeable windlass security strap
Featuring North American Rescue's signature Red Tip Technology® elliptical tab providing added visual clues during application

It has been tested and proven effective and was listed as the best pre-hospital tourniquet in the February 2008 supplement of The Journal of Trauma

The patented C-A-T® is a true one-handed tourniquet proven to be 100% effective by the U.S. Army’s Institute of Surgical Research. Tests proved that the CAT completely occluded blood flow of an extremity in the event of a traumatic wound with significant hemorrhage.

The Gen 7 CAT utilizes a durable windlass system with a patented free-moving internal band providing true circumferential pressure to the extremity. Once adequately tightened, bleeding will cease and the windlass is locked into place. A hook and loop windlass retention strap is then applied, securing the windlass to maintain pressure during casualty evacuation. The CAT’s unique dual securing system avoids the use of screws and clips which can become difficult to operate under survival stress or where fine motor skills are compromised.

The patented Combat Application Tourniquet® (C-A-T®) featuring the proprietary red tip design and the mechanical advantage of a band within a band has been the Official Tourniquet of the U.S. Army since 2005.

The CAT Tourniquet uses a durable windlass system with a patented free-moving internal band providing true circumferential pressure to the extremity. Once adequately tightened, bleeding will cease and the windlass is locked into place. A hook and loop windlass retention strap is then applied, securing the windlass to maintain pressure during casualty evacuation. The tourniquets unique dual securing system avoids the use of screws and clips which can become difficult to operate under survival."

What I Did on 9/11

1. Got permission from my boss to get my children and go home.
2. Called my wife and said I would get the kids. She’s a corporate travel agent so she had to work the next 14 hours getting people home.
3. Went to the day care to get my younger ones. The teachers were in a panic and I reminded them they had to be calm for the kids and parents.
4. Went to my older ones high school. He refused to leave because he had track practice. Knowing you can’t argue with someone who is stuck on an idea even if wrong, I asked him if he would agree to leave if his coach said so. He said yes. When we tried to find his coach they dismissed the entire school.
   
5. Stopped at the ATM and got cash out.
6. Went to the grocery store for extra food. One women was in a panic in line spreading rumors and negativity. I could see the panic spreading. I reminded her people do great things in a crisis and I expected she would do the same.
7. Got home, put the younger one down for a nap, the older one went in to take a nap as well.
8. Monitored the news in multiple ways.
9. Did the CBRNe (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) circles for our house.
10. Realizing we were inside the circles and there was a mosque going up down the street, made the decision that day to move my family to a safer area.
11. [UPDATE: The mosque/fort (Islamic Society of Germantown) planned in 2001 I reference above proved my point in 2019. A jihadi who indoctrinates there (“Osman Alaalla, 61, came to pray Monday evening at a 5 p.m. service at the Islamic Society of Germantown. He said Henry typically led that service.” Maryland man inspired by Islamic State attack plotted to drive truck into National Harbor pedestrians, officials say
12. Called my specops brother-in-law. As his unit in WV was fully qualed he told me he was on his way to Afghanistan.
13. Three weeks later put money down on a house that has a well, an acre and 4 groceries within walking distance. Also, my wife has family here and most of neighbors are intelligence officers, police officers, fire fighters, military, etc.
14. Committed to doing more for my family and all Americans that day and began to study civil defense which I had learned in my 20s. Soon joined the American Civil Defense Association, eventually writing 15 articles for the Journal of Civil Defense. Was invited to the TACDA Board of Directors and now VP. https://tacda.org/journal-topic/journal-of-civil-defense/
15. ISIS Use of Social Media as a Force Multiplier
16. Yes, that day changed my life in even more ways, in ways too long to explain here.