I go to Asia on business, apparently I left the U.S. State Department notifications on from my last trip to Japan...they just sent me this: Exercise Increased Caution due to an outbreak of COVID-19 (also known as the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2). A novel (new) coronavirus disease, recently designated as COVID-19, is causing an outbreak of respiratory illness. The first cases of COVID-19 were reported in China in December 2019.On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization determined the rapidly spreading outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Many cases of COVID-19 have been associated with travel to or from mainland China or close contact with a travel-related case, but sustained community spread has been reported in Japan.Sustained community spread means that people in Japan have been infected with the virus, but how or where they became infected is not known, and the spread is ongoing. The CDC has issued a Level 2 Travel Health Notice. Because older adults and those with chronic medical conditions may be at higher risk for severe disease, people in these groups should discuss travel with a healthcare provider and consider postponing nonessential travel. Travelers should review and follow the Centers for Disease Control¿s guidelines for the prevention of coronavirus if they decide to travel to Japan. If suspected to have Coronavirus in Japan, you may face travel delays, quarantine, and extremely expensive medical costs. If you travel to Japan, you should: Avoid contact with sick people. Discuss travel to Japan with your healthcare provider. Older adults and travelers with underlying health issues may be at risk for more severe disease. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands Clean your hands often by washing them with soap and water for at least 20 seconds or using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at 60%¿95% alcohol. Soap and water should be used if hands are visibly dirty. Enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) to receive Alerts and make it easier to locate you in an emergency. Follow the Department of State on Facebook and Twitter. Review the Crime and Safety Report for Japan. Prepare a contingency plan for emergency situations. Review the Traveler¿s Checklist See https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/novel-coronavirus-2019.html for additional guidance.
More rogue State Department underlings defy President's orders: State Department Employee in Japan Ignored President Trump’s Orders and Allowed Americans with Coronavirus to Fly Back to the US President Trump is reportedly furious after a State Department underling in Japan ignored the President’s orders and allowed Americans, sick with the coronavirus, to return to the US from Japan. Ian Brownlee, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Consular Affairs, appears to feel he was right in overriding the President’s directives. Ian Brownlee, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Consular Affairs, in Japan has worked in the State Department for years. MORE: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...icans-with-coronavirus-to-fly-back-to-the-us/
Apparently we have two boatloads of quaranteened people landing in Mobile Bay this week. They are going to some special hospital affiliated with the CDC. That is just across the bay from me. Guess it's getting close! But throwing something out there, RAW honey is one if the best antibiotics you can take. I always keep it on hand, requires no refrigeration and is one of God's best foods. Just make sure it is raw and not processed.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/22/emergency-coronavirus-funding-116761 White House to ask Congress for emergency coronavirus funding However, the amount could be significantly lower than some public health officials have argued is necessary. A White House official said that the pending request for aid is still preliminary and the sum could change. | Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images By DAN DIAMOND 02/22/2020 11:19 PM EST The White House will soon ask Congress for emergency funds to fight the coronavirus outbreak, after weeks of hesitation by the administration to press for additional funding, said four individuals with knowledge of the pending request. However, the amount could be significantly lower than some public health officials have argued is necessary — potentially as little as $1 billion, said two individuals, which could be rapidly exhausted by development of potential vaccines, widespread lab tests and numerous other investments. A White House official told POLITICO that the pending request is still preliminary and the sum could change. A congressional aide said that lawmakers have been told to expect the request in the coming days. three dozen confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States, almost two-thirds are citizens who were flown home after contracting the virus abroad, including 18 who were evacuated from a cruise ship last week. Scientists have warned that many aspects of the virus — which can be spread by people with no outward symptoms and appears to pose a significant risk to the elderly — remain largely unknown. For instance, the incubation period may last longer than the two-week quarantine that governments around the world have imposed on at-risk patients. Congressional Democrats have been pressing the administration to request emergency coronavirus funds since the beginning of February. While HHS Secretary Alex Azar notified Congress on Feb. 2 that he was prepared to shift up to $136 million in already approved funds to fight the virus, administration officials took pains to emphasize that the funds might not need to be transferred. White House officials have been hesitant to press Congress for additional funding, with some hoping that the virus would burn itself out by the summer. But officials have confronted the growing possibility that a coronavirus outbreak could hit the United States, squeezing public health resources — and threatening the U.S. economy and President Donald Trump's re-election prospects. The Obama administration in 2014 requested $6 billion in emergency funding to fight the Ebola outbreak that ultimately sickened about a dozen U.S. citizens and killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa. Congress approved a $5.4 billion package.
Yes, time will indeed tell. In the meantime, let's hope that our prayers and fasting bring about a favorable outcome to this situation. One thing that I worry about is that Governments are entering a new arms race, but this time not with nuclear weapons but rather biological weapons. And just as mistakes and accidents were commonplace during the nuclear arms race during the Cold War, so too will it be this time around. Unfortunately, biological weapons are far more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
Thank you Arby for the plan of action, it is wonderful. The Ramen noodle idea is great. My husband and I recently had a very bad cold, it has lasted a month, and at its worst my husband was hospitalized with dehydration, and lack of magnesium, so I would add a few things like: -Gatorade Zero , it provides help with dehydration and loss of electrolytes, you can buy the bottles or in powder; -Depends (the local pharmacy are as good as the name brand) are useful for the elderly or anyone who is very sick and is unable to walk to the bathroom. -Buy and freeze bread if you have room and sliced cheese, you can make cheese sandwiches and they go well with soup. -Lots of Vitamins, especially Vitamin C and Magnesium -Extra garbage bags the heavy duty ones like Glad. -Water, you'll need loads of this. Just a few things worth considering.
I will pray that you will be safe, Kat. Yes, raw honey is wonderful. If you eat some nuts or nut butter with it, you have a perfect food. I read that in a message from Our Lady.
Grateful for the supply ideas from Arby, Booklady, and Kat. I am heading to Walmart today with my list. I’m afraid this is going to be an expensive shopping trip. I keep praying we will hear some good news, but it’s only getting worse. When Kat posted about the boats heading to Mobile, I thought about photos I’ve seen of a floating hospital in Boston that was pressed into service to isolate TB patients back in the day. Should the outbreak become severe, hospitals would be quickly overcome. Perhaps floating hospitals wouldn’t be a bad idea.
I would imagine as events move onwards that people will become much, much more fearful and fear turns so quickly to anger and violence. But we can choose to love and not to fear. To trust and even to help poor people. It's our choice. I'd say this is International Tourism out the window for the next few years.
Yes, that came from the messages to Luz de Maria. Also ingesting a raw garlic clove each morning. Our Lady also said in the messages that when food is scarce a few nuts (almonds) and honey would suffice for the body's needs. There is also a whole instruction on Blessed Grapes that would keep and that one grape also would suffice (these will be times of supernatural aids given....times of the refuges). This blessing of grapes can be transferred to others and their grapes from one blessed grape from original batch....and onward to others from those!! FOR THE IMMUNE SYSTEM: Water (bless it first) Blackberry Oil of Oregano Garlic Ginger Vit. C FOR VIRUSES: Good Samaritan Oil.....(Thieves oil; Robbers Relief Oil....same thing) DISEASES THAT EFFECT THE AIRWAYS: Purple Coneflower Hawthorn Mullein Scot's Pine DISEASE THAT COMES TO HUMANITY: (not as yet identified) MUGWORT MY PEOPLE, I LOOK BEYOND, AND THE DISEASE THAT COMES TO HUMANITY WILL FIND CURE WITH THE MUGWORT PLANT ON THE SKIN. EBOLA/MALARIA/FEVER: ARTEMISIA ANNUA "The plague is renewed by those who serve the antichrist and look at how the economy succumbs. Given this, I invite you, Children, to obtain the health of the body through what nature provides you for the good of the body and before the current disease: the use of the ARTEMISIA ANNUA." Others: http://www.deunanube.com/blessed-virgin-marys-medicinal-plants/
Italy cancels Venice carnival in bid to halt spread of virus CODOGNO, Italy (AP) — Scrambling to contain rapidly soaring number of new coronavirus infections in northern Italy, authorities on Sunday stepped up measures to ban public gatherings, including stopping Venice’s famed carnival events, which has drawn tens of thousands of revelers to a region that is now in the heart of the outbreak. “The ordinance is immediately operative and will go into effect at midnight,″ announced Veneto regional Gov. Luca Zaia, whose area includes Venice. Carnival, which draws tens of thousands of visitors to the lagoon city, would have run through Tuesday. Museums, schools, universities and other public venues will be shut as well in Venice and the rest of Veneto. The shutdown is expected to last at least through March 1. Authorities said three people in Venice have tested positive, all of them in their late 80s and who are hospitalized in critical condition. Nearly all of Italy’s 133 cases are clustered in the north, including in the Veneto region. The biggest jump in cases of confirmed COVID-19 was reported by authorities in Lombardy, a populous region which includes the country’s financial capital, Milan. That region had at least 89 cases, nearly all of them in small towns in the countryside. People were urged to stay indoors in Lombardy and Veneto. But while a lock-down of many small towns had been announced on Saturday, police at the entrance to Codogno, one of the hardest-hit towns, weren’t stopping cars entering or leaving . Italians’ cherished Sunday routines – from soccer to church-going – were being touched by the spread of the contagion, almost entirely based in the north. Sports events in the affected northern areas, including local kids’ sports team practices to three Serie A (top major league) soccer matches, were canceled. Italy’s first cases — that of a married Chinese couple who were on vacation in Rome — surfaced in early February. To date, two deaths — of elderly persons in the north — have been reported among the 133 cases. Bishops in several dioceses in northern Italy issued directives that holy water fonts be kept empty, that communion wafers be placed in the hands of the faithful and not directly into their mouths by priests celebrating Mass and that congregants refrain from shaking hands or exchanging kisses during the symbolic Sign of the Peace ritual. In a coincidence, the Vatican official in charge of the office dealing with propagating the faith hails from Codogno. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, whose siblings live in the town, declined to dramatize the measures. “It’s obvious that we need to use all necessary prudence” to avoid spreading the virus among the faithful, he said. Elsewhere in Europe, French Health Minister Olivier Veran said that authorities were getting ready for a possible outbreak in France of the new virus. In an interview published Sunday in French newspaper Le Parisien, he said he was monitoring very closely the “very serious” situation, including in neighboring Italy. France reported earlier this month the first death outside Asia of a person infected with the virus, an 80-year-old Chinese tourist. https://apnews.com/bda63e372d4d0e5f393744e2cff6fdf1
Federal judge blocks coronavirus quarantine in California city COSTA MESA, Calif. — A court temporarily blocked the U.S. government from sending up to 50 people infected with a new virus from China to a Southern California city for quarantine after local officials argued that the plan lacked details about how the community would be protected from the outbreak. A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order late Friday to halt the transportation of anyone who has tested positive for the new coronavirus to Costa Mesa, a city of 110,000 in the heart of Orange County. U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Stanton scheduled a hearing on the issue Monday. City officials quickly sought court intervention after learning from the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services that U.S. officials planned to start moving patients to a state-owned facility in Costa Mesa as early as Sunday. They said in court documents that local officials were not included in the planning effort and wanted to know why the Fairview Developmental Center was considered a suitable quarantine site and what kind of safeguards were in place to prevent the possible transmission of the virus that has spread worldwide. “The city has not been part of any of the process that led to the consideration of the site, and it would be unfair to not include us in this kind of significant decision that has great impact on our community,” Mayor Katrina Foley told the Orange County Register. The California Health and Human Services Agency said in a statement Saturday that it was working with federal authorities to find a place for people who were evacuated from a quarantined cruise ship in Japan and taken to Travis Air Force Base in Northern California. Anyone who tested positive for the virus cannot stay at the base and must be sent either to the hospital or if they’re not sick enough, isolated until the infection has cleared. The Fairview center in Costa Mesa is being considered as a place to send them. “If Fairview were chosen, the federal government would be responsible for providing health care - easing the burden on our hospitals during flu season - and for providing robust security to ensure the public safety and public health of the surrounding community,” the state’s statement said. Costa Mesa said he feared the virus could travel through the facility’s air vents. “The coronavirus patients should be treated humanely and with the best medical care available. But the first priority must be to contain the virus and make sure it doesn’t jump into the local population,” Republican state Sen. John Moorlach said. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/23/costa-mesa-california-coronavirus-quarantine-block/
Latest from Italy: 79 confirmed cases and the Venice carnival will finish tonight instead of on Tuesday.
I think maybe at least 130? Which means it doubled in 24 hours, just as it doubled in Korea. The Chinese were such liars with their figures. That;s the , 'Only Asians get it', notion flying out the window. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...sures-effort-halt-coronavirus-outbreak-spread
More than doubled. There were 17 confirmed cases reported on Friday, increasing to 27 Saturday morning and 59 Saturday night. Now it's 79 confirmed cases Sunday morning and likely 130 or more by Sunday night. I think the number of confirmed cases is growing because they are testing all the people in the villages on lockdown. Did you see the people queuing outside Lidl? That's what will happen if there are any cases here. Our area had a boil water notice a while ago because something went wrong with the sewage treatment plant. The supermarkets sold out of bottled water almost overnight.
Yes it think the window for grabbing stuff from the stores is fast closing. I think I will launch my very own expedition for pasta and rice tomorrow. Oh yes apparently loads and loads of toilet paper is a great idea. Bizarre. But at least if I get stuff I may help others. I will try and get some baby stuff to help others. I feel kinda selfish rushing to get in stuff just for myself. But maybe if I do so I can help others. I saw four Chinese folks walking down the road yesterday, they had scarves round their faces; I peered a little closer and there were masks beneath. Imagine in Ireland.. I hear the Chinese take aways and eateries are empty. So people have been paying attention after all. This is a really great link for staying in touch with things. The media is pretty well useless. https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/publichealth/84698
That place, Fairview, were they were going to place them was a crazy choice. What were they thinking?
