WHO: Current Pandemic Threat Level Raised to 5 (out of 6)
Posted by red pill junkie at 22:00, 29 Apr 2009According to this official press release, the WHO has decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5:
All countries should immediately activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.
At this stage, effective and essential measures include heightened surveillance, early detection and treatment of cases, and infection control in all health facilities.
This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions should now be undertaken with increased urgency, and at an accelerated pace.
What does it mean that the threat level has escalated from 4 to 5? It basically means that the disease is transmitted from person to person —something that we already knew since, like, LAST WEEK!— and that is now present in more than 2 regions or countries, causing outbreaks among people who haven't traveled abroad. So other nations are encouraged to begin to put into effect their own pandemic counter-measures.
Level 6 means full pandemic outbreak —presumably followed by rivers of blood and fire falling down from the sky (bad joke, I know)
So it looks like we are all in this together, amigos. Let's do all we can to put an end to it as quickly as possible.
Remember: Being on level 5 does not —repeat: DOES NOT— mean that getting to level 6 is inevitable.
Saludos
PS: And even if we get to level 6, I was just reminded by a friend that we've lived with a level 6 pandemic threat for decades by now; it's called AIDS, and as you already know... people are still having sex :}
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8 April 2006
3 weeks 1 day
What I find disturbing is the lack of honest reporting about this situation. For anyone with 5-10 minutes of time to spare, a simple search will show that, in the United States alone, influenza kills more than 36,000 people every year.
However, politicians are never ones to miss an opportunity, and an alleged crisis of this sort provides all the "opportunity" that the current American Administration needs to further consolidate their power and shred the Constitution.
Since the majority of US Media folks are lap dogs of the "lightworker", I doubt you'll see anything except Chicken Little stories regarding this flu outbreak, and less about the administrations attempts to take advantage of it.
Respects,
Gwedd
12 April 2007
10 min 33 sec
The aggressiveness and death rate of the seasonal is of about .01% of the population; and it usually kills the feeble and elderly.
A flu pandemic has a much higher death rate; of about 5-6%, and it kills the adult population in their 20s-50s. The more healthy the person, the more aggressive the response of the virus.
So, if a seasonal flu kills 36,000 in the US annually, that means that this outbreak could potentially kill tenths of millions in the US alone.
Are the media exploiting this? SURE! They are rejoicing of all the expert panels they are put in front of the cameras to talk about this. Does that mean there's no reason to be worried and take some precautions: ABSOLUTELY NOT.
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Red Pill Junkie
1 May 2004
2 hours 9 sec
Malaria kills 3000 people a day.......what would you call that? Unfortunatly a few people will die, very sad, but the drug company's will gain billions dueing a so called world economic crisses.
Yet another example of fear mongering for profit and power.
Dueing the 1918 flu pandemic over 40million died. Almost all of these were from secondary infection which we easily deal with today.
"Life can be whatever you want it to be, as long as you do what your told."
LRF.
12 April 2007
10 min 33 sec
I fail to see how the death rate of Malaria undermines the risk of this new virus.
IMO, all the countries of the world should struggle to eradicate Malaria. The fact that more drug companies are focused on developing medicines to reduce cholesterol levels or grow hair back on bald people, and not on trying to eliminate maladies that have killed millions of people, is outrageous.
About profit generated by pandemics; maybe this new outbreak could help us force a new policy regarding medicine patents.
You say most of the deaths of 1918 were caused by secondary infections. When you contract AIDS, you don't die of AIDS, you die of some other disease because AIDS weakens your immune system. So is AIDS not something to be worried about?
And yes, we are being told that among the dead reported here in Mexico, apart of the slow response of the sick to get medical attention, there's also the fact that many died from complications brought by other health problems they previously suffered.
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Red Pill Junkie
22 November 2004
4 days 10 hours
Ok, the normal seasonal flu kills 36000 in the US every year. Traffic accidents kill some steady number (going down). Gun violence, heart problems, cancer and so on.
All much more than this flu.
But these numbers are fairly predictable. So we know how to deal with them.
With a new disease, we don't know, and the health people don't know how to prepare for this. The economy doesn't know how to deal with it.
Cruel as it sounds (and cruel as it is), a constant rate of deaths is relatively easy to deal with. When there are big spikes, we don't know how to prepare.
Me personally, I have enough food in the house so I don't have to go shop for 2 weeks or so. But I do rely on the public water supply and electricity.
Unfortunately for me, I don't kiss many women. The women may be better off, sure. Like this newly discovered singer on one of these talent shows, I have never kissed a man. Don't plan to either.
Whether or not this flu has anything to do with swine, I don't recommend kissing pigs. Never tried it, but I can't imagine that it will do you any good, flu or no flu.
Back to some seriousness -
Yes one of the problems in Mexico could well be that the death cases were not that healthy to begin with.
But those are typically very young or very old people, statistically at least.
People with a strong immune system being more vulnerable to a viral infection? That seems very strange. People who are under working stress? Perhaps. People who go to work every day on crowded public transit? Hmm. Multiple infections maybe?
I know this is all speculation on my part, but I won't think it is completely idle speculation.
Now for idle speculation stuff, here is this:
People have been looking for Atlantis for a long time. Let us build it someplace, as an underwater Disney-type thing, and then the matter will be settled.
Good luck RPJ, don't kiss even if you love them, don't shake hands, wash your hands. Be safe brother.
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23 December 2008
16 weeks 1 day
Notice how the swine flu has knocked the disastrous world-wide economic situation from being an above the fold news story and a nightly TV news lead?
Not a conspiracy theorist by nature,, but the timing of this public health crisis couldn’t be better for giving people worldwide something else to fear and focus their attention so they’ll stop asking their government leaders to fix the economic mess (the solution to which is most likely flying directly in the face of 30-years worth of dearly cherished, deeply ingrained right-wing economic policies).
22 November 2004
4 days 10 hours
You mean the economic policies which have caused upwards of 1 billion people to NOT live in abject poverty any more?
You prefer that they remain dirt poor and suffering?
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8 April 2006
3 weeks 1 day
It is not my responsibility, nor that of my country, to bring people out of poverty. I cannot do that, my country cannot do that, and to even consider doing so is an abandonment of morality.
People have to bring themselves out of poverty, out of starvation, out of their lot in life.
I refuse, absolutely REFUSE to be a part of some self-inflicted new age pseudo-morality that says whites, or people with money are responsible for everyone else.
I am happy to help someone learn how to fish. I will damned-well NOT give the fish that I caught to them.
It's no different than paying the Dane geld. Once people embrace the cult of victimhood, they will never again accept the responsibility for dealing with their own problems.
People need to find the courage to take risks, to risk their own lives to change their situations. I will gladly lend a hand up, but I will slap down anyone asking for a hand out.
Socialism is the antithesis of Freedom. It is the morale duty, the sacred obligation of free men everywhere to destroy, to strike down, to utterly eradicate anyone and anything that proposes to instill socialism anywhere, at anytime.
I earn my own living. I will be the one who decides if and when I help another person. Not some official, not some beta-male thug with a UN badge, not some tin-pot dictator screeching into a TV camera. It's MY treasure, earned with MY sweat and blood and tears. It's MY choice, not anyone elses.
As soon as the rest of the world realizes that, then things will begin to change. until then, folks will starve, dictators will steal, and UN blue-helmets will rape and enslave their way across Africa.
You want change? It starts with YOU!
Respects,
Gwedd
12 April 2007
10 min 33 sec
I am happy to help someone learn how to fish. I will damned-well NOT give the fish that I caught to them.
What if you found out that your fishing rod was stolen by your grand father from another family. would you feel responsible to give some compensation to the descendants —say, the head of the fish? :)
But enough with the metaphors; I really don't care about compensation, I care about equal opportunity —TRULY equal opportunity —given to the citizens of developing countries. And that means endowing them with a good education and maybe even giving some of them and extra-hand to counter the nasty epigenetic toll that poverty takes on several generations.
And that's what's happening. Slow but true the people of Malaysia and Singapore, of Brazil and Chile, are winning the positions once held only by people from rich countries, who let their kids play with pot and booze in college, instead of hitting the books as hard as they could. The west sit in their laurels thinking that going to the Moon (once)and having a lot of nukes was enough to be always on the lead —they were wrong.
Well, I'm off to bed and watch a little TV —on my SONY Bravia, BTW ;-)
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Red Pill Junkie
22 November 2004
4 days 10 hours
in case someone missed the obvious
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it is exactly the greed of the capitalists that got China, India, and the rest of south Asia that got those places out of their abject poverty. More than a billion people not being dirt poor any more, I think that is a good thing.
It is exactly the communist system that ruined promising countries like Romania, Hungary, Slovakia etc to the bad state that they are in now, still after the Soviets gave up.
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It is not how fast you go
it is when you get there.
14 April 2009
2 hours 7 min
There will always be Greaters and Lessers. There will always be people who are better artists, better mathmeticians, better singers, etc. And the Lessers are more numerous than the Greaters.
To paraphrase a famous white philosopher, I think we should educate the Lessers to stop automatically hating the Greaters (to get out of the victimhood mentality) and to educate the Greaters that their state of Greatness isn't an inherent thing but a gift or duty, to help the Lessers.
I think we have the capacity to uplift everyone on this Earth to be as wealthy as billionaires.
Just imagine that.
Now we just have to convince the two basic groups, one of which wants everyone to be equally poor, the other who doesn't trust people and believes in an elite helping/controlling their lessers, to be able to see outside of that B.S. (Belief System) To create their own self-fulfilling prophecy of wealth for everyone.
Because like it or not, Pandora's box has been opened, and we live in an interconnected world. What happens in one country has far-reaching affects on others. And we are going to become even more interconnected. So, not only is it altruistic to help the Lessers...it is also in the Greaters self-interest :3
22 November 2004
4 days 10 hours
You say:
If you look at how poor people live in Europe, and compare this to how the kings lived 500 years ago - we have already done that.
So indeed we can do it again.
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It is not how fast you go
it is when you get there.
12 April 2007
10 min 33 sec
It's like that movie with Jean Reno & Christina Applegate —which was a remake of a French movie that Jean Reno had done before— about time travellers from the Middle Ages coming to our modern world. In the end the noble man returns to his time and gives his beloved ad cheap plastic comb, which obviously was the most valuable object in the world for them :)
Yes, there are two types of poor now. There are the poor you find in growing economies and developed nations, that have a quality of life that the nobles of past ages would have turned green with envy (cell phones, TV, etc). And there are the poor of some nations that keep on living as their forefathers did since hundreds or thousands of years; for them running water would be a grand luxury.
And, on the other hand, we have the rich of developed (and developing) nations,who enjoy a life-style that to any person of ancient times would seem, well... god-like! The pharaohs of Egypt would drop their jaw seeing that god-damned program 'MTV's Cribs' which I particularly hate.
So the problem is still that there's such a big disparity between the very rich and the very poor. And there are some of the very poor who get desperate, and try to find ways to get even. Remember that 17-year-old Somali pirate captured by the US Navy a couple of weeks ago? That's just the tip of the iceberg; so it's not enough to hunt down the pirates, because as long as people don't have the opportunities to search for a better life, they will see crime as an easy way out. That doesn't mean to condone the bad deeds; it means eradicate the problem from the root, or it will only grow back again and again.
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It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
8 April 2006
3 weeks 1 day
I am all for eradicating the problem of Somalia, by eradicating Somalia. I suspect that a vast majority of Western nations and peoples would second that idea.
It's not racist. It's recognizing that Somalia is a failed state, and needs a complete do-over.
I also don't give a flying pig foot about why a 17 year old (if he really is that young) Somalian turned to crime. He committed a crime, and it is to the United State's eternal shame that they brought him to New York to stand trial, rather than just hang him from the yard arm of the Frigate, then put his body in a gibbet at the nearest port as a warning to others. Piracy has ALWAYS been beyond the pale, and I have no mercy for anyone who engages in it.
I shed no tears for Somalia. When you lay down with dogs, you should expect to get fleas. Now that Al Qaida has set up shop there, we can all expect more of the same, because those oh-so-poor Somali youth are working for them, and all that loot being stupidly paid by ignorant Corporations as ransom is going to fuel further terrorist activities.
Better to eradicate Somalia and be done with the problem than to continue on the current path. Somalia Delenda Est. The Romans knew how to deal with Carthage. We should recreate that, and more with any nation that harbours pirates and terrorists. Start with Somalia, then move to Yemen.
Respects,
Gwedd
12 April 2007
10 min 33 sec
I am all for eradicating the problem of Somalia, by eradicating Somalia. I suspect that a vast majority of Western nations and peoples would second that idea.
It's not racist. It's recognizing that Somalia is a failed state, and needs a complete do-over.
Well, all I can hope is that there are no alien overlords thinking "you know? the little blue planet in that star system that's near the tip of one of the galaxy's arms needs a complete do-over" ;-)
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It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
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Red Pill Junkie
1 May 2004
4 weeks 3 days
I always like your posts. Its the way I keep up with what people who don't think are thinking. The Romans vs. The Carthaginians, so lets destroy Somalia! Yes kill them all and let god sort it out! Such ignorance.
14 April 2009
2 hours 7 min
"We are as gods and might as well get good at it."
--Stewart Brand
I think there is also the issue that, as we progress, our 'morality' becomes more fine-tuned, in that the amazing progresses that we've accomplished become...less amazing.
So, the relative lack of racism in the USA doesn't become celebrated.
Or, I can forget that people in China are changing radically in such a short time.
Have you ever heard of Stewart Brand? Of the Whole Earth Catalog fame? One of the things that he has been doing (asides from being part of an organization called The Long Now) he has been studying those superslums...and he has found out some very positive things aboot them. I think he did a talk at TED on it.
Oh, and thank you for giving me info in regards to my Mexico question :3
14 April 2009
2 hours 7 min
Thank you for the reminder.
One of the things that saddens me is that we have situations where, like the USA solves starvation in its own country, and it isn't a news story. At all.
I guess there are too many people who are using certain B.S. that use loser scripts...or who can't see past their own Marxism.
And btw, thanks for info in regards my Mexico query.
6 April 2009
35 weeks 6 days
I read all your posts,and updates concerning this,and its wonderful to see people who genuinely care get so involved and active,raising peoples awareness..I did'nt comment before,for the simple reason that issues like this and worse plague Africa on a daily basis,yet very little is brought out by the mass media.Deadly pandemics rock Africa,and woe betide the activists who try to expose the corruptions,stupidity,selfishness and incompetence of those who rule,and dictate(not lead).
12 April 2007
10 min 33 sec
Hating Bill Gates was the ultimate cliché in the nineties. Any person owning a PC would easily fall into that category.
But the effort He & his wife are doig to end Malaria in Africa is tuly commendable. If he manages to eradicate this Maladi in that continent in the next 10 years, then I'll forgive him for every time my computer crashed and displayed the infamous blue screen of death :)
Likewise, there are still horrible diseases that afflict the 3rd world. Worms that can deform a man, whose only sin was to drink polluted water.
A portable purifying water system should be the basis of an X-prize competition. The Moon can wait; so does the space Elevator. Let's get some smart people devising a way for poor folks to get pure water for their children.
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It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
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Red Pill Junkie
22 November 2004
4 days 10 hours
True, Africans have suffered, and keep suffering.
And the rich countries have tried to help in various ways, even during colonial times.
But it doesn't seem to work very well. Why is Nigeria such a mess, with all their oil money?
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It is not how fast you go
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12 April 2007
10 min 33 sec
In a poor country, the worst thing that could happen is to have rich natural resources.
Mexico swam in oil for decades. We should be the richest country in Latin America.
But all of that money was squandered. It was used to maintain a corrupt political system.
You should see the watches the leader of the oilers' union likes to wear! A regular worker would have to work 10 years to buy a jewel lke that.
PS: the problem in Africa will be resolved using John Lennon´s formula:
You see, in Africa there have always been some puppet tyrant coming before the western powers and saying: "We need help; I represent the people, so give the money to me". And the West have always said "Hmmm... this guy seems easy to control, let's give him the money, provided he signs some contracts granting us access to his nation's natural resources". With time the tyrant gets overthrown and a new tyrant emerges, and the cycle repeats ad infinitum :-/
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It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
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Red Pill Junkie
6 April 2009
35 weeks 6 days
My dear, you have been reading all the propaganda. No ! I will speak for West Africa that is incredibly rich in natural resources; Gold,Diamonds,Oil,Natural gas,Cacao,to name a few. The colonials plundered Africa's wealth on an unimaginable scale,They took the African people aboard slave ships to build their new lands,they instigate all the wars that are still raging,and destroying Africa (there is enough proof,and evidence to corroborate these FACTS) The corrupt rulers,and dictators,from the very top to the middle ranks are all collaborating with "the big boys of the so called western,civillized countries", And these are well known facts that get exposed every now and then,when they make mistakes,or for other reasons. So please,no offence meant,but get your facts straight.
22 November 2004
4 days 10 hours
Yes, plundering and such related activities were the main purposes why the Europeans were there.
It was also why the Arabs where there.
This is all very true.
However, some other facets of the European occupation was installing some infrastructure. YTrue they installed this infrastructure so they could get the goods out faster and use them. The slaves were provided by Africans. They still are, it is just that today they don't go to the Americas any more.
Some of the infrastructure was trains, airports, cities, seaports. True, useful tools to extract minerals and wood more efficiently.
More importantly education. the Europeans needed local help for all this exploitation.
Some of the African rulers were installed by the colonialists, that is true as well.
However, most of them seem to have learned only that it is easy to enrich yourself, and your relatives, with this infrastructure.
Why are there not any rulers, raising up from the middle ranks, why change the situation?
The history is pretty certain. The present is pretty uncertain, unless these people take their fate into their own hands, and do something productive in an organized way.
Consider other places where totalitarian governments were thrown out. Or where they resigned, gave up, or reformed. That is to say, everywhere.
Is there progress in some places? Yes. But the progress in Africa is just behind the times,
They should try harder to make progress, and the ruling thugs should give up in a civilized manner. It is their fault at this point. They have the means to make things better, and they should.
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it is when you get there.