Posted on 04/26/2003 9:51:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Those photos of Asians wearing masks have been effective, haven't they? By now you probably wring your hands every time someone near you sneezes.
Maybe you've canceled a plane trip or decided to stay away from large groups of people…just to be safe.
Good thinking. Just stay in, watch the war on TV (Operation Iraqi Freedom Ta Da!) and nurse that fear and anxiety you've been feeling. Unless of course, like me, your THERE'S MORE TO THIS THAN WE'RE BEING TOLD radar went off the very first time you heard about this "mysterious" disease called S.A.R.S. - short for severe acute respiratory syndrome. Relax, the mega public health "experts" are working feverishly to try and figure out just what this coughing, sneezing, shortness of breath "disease" is.
In the meantime you can be comforted by the Executive Order President Bush signed Friday afternoon saying "health authorities" can hold you against your will if they even think you have this "virus". The E.O. Specifically made provisions for "apprehension, detention or conditional release" (.i.e. "be a good little citizen and take your vaccine/ medicine and we'll let you go")... "of individuals who refuse hospitalization and isolation".
Oh, you missed the announcement of that executive order? That's understandable. See, it's standard operating procedure for any risky political move ; you sign it, pass it, cram it down our collective throats right before a holiday or on a Friday, after everyone's gone home for the weekend to worry about stuff like whether to order in or go out for pizza.
And exactly how much media attention did this executive order to QUARANTINE Americans receive? A tiny blurb at the bottom of a page is where I found it. S.A.R.S is really at this point just a collection of vague symptoms that anybody can have a number of times a year. This "disease" is the first to be added to the quarantine list in over 20 years The last large-scale quarantine in this country was in 1918 during the Spanish flu pandemic.
Some preliminary research into the symptoms and likely cause of this pneumonia-like virus (of which there are over 50 strains, by the by) shows a number of reasons why this has all the earmarks of an effort to control the masses and none of the markers for a bona fide pandemic.
Back to quarantine.
I shudder to think how many Americans see Bush's executive order saying you can be held against your will as a good thing (that is if they even heard about the order to begin with!) Here we go again trading freedom for security and deserving neither. Ben Franklin would be mightily ashamed of us for how easily we're allowing ourselves to be enslaved. One executive order or Patriot Act or Homeland Security Bill at a time.
S.A.R.S. supposedly started when a physician in China sneezed in a crowded elevator. When I read that wire service story I laughed out loud. Amazing how they figured that one out. Now they're saying these respiratory symptoms could be linked to an airborne strain of the sexually transmitted disease Chlamydia (which is a very common STD, worldwide), and that those who pass along the virus would be considered "super -spreaders". What next? The cause is athlete's foot and halitosis? Let's arm ourselves with the facts in advance of the daily onslaught of government-generated media hysteria:
1) S.A.R.S. has not been proven to be one single disease.
2) You could go anywhere in the world and find people with the very "symptoms" they're calling S.A.R.S. and it wouldn't mean a thing.
3) The populations with the worst health care have had "deaths" from this vague "disease". Could it be because sick people in places with lousy medical care and sanitation usually die anyway from things that don't effect people with better health care?
4) "There's no known cure or vaccine" for this virus. And we don't have a cure for the common cold, either. Does that mean we should have lived in fear our whole lives of coming down with a cold?
Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a Harvard graduate in public health has written some bone-chillingly prophetic books in recent years on emerging global diseases. (Emerging Viruses: AIDS&Ebola- Nature, Accident Or Intentional? and Death In The Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare/Tetrahedron Press).
Horowitz says The S.A.R.S. scare has all the earmarks of a "novel social experiment in population manipulation" designed to " facilitate evolving economic and political agendas" and is nothing more than "a grotesque scam…suspicious in it's timing" and meant to prompt hysteria.
Investigative reporter Jon Rappoport thinks along the same lines. He says it's classic "Psy Ops" with not a little population reduction thrown in. So why all the fuss over a strain of pneumonia?
You tell me.
You could be right. Maybe it was the Jews who did it, and it was Bush who knew about it two hours in advance, which is why he was reading stories to children when it happened!
I get so confused!
Boo!
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264(b)), it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the "Secretary"), in consultation with the Surgeon General, and for the purpose of specifying certain communicable diseases for regulations providing for the apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases, the following communicable diseases are hereby specified pursuant to section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act:
(a) Cholera; Diphtheria; infectious Tuberculosis; Plague; Smallpox; Yellow Fever; and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, Crimean-Congo, South American, and others not yet isolated or named).
(b) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which is a disease associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, is transmitted from person to person predominantly by the aerosolized or droplet route, and, if spread in the population, would have severe public health consequences.
Sec. 2. The Secretary, in the Secretary's discretion, shall determine whether a particular condition constitutes a communicable disease of the type specified in section 1 of this order.
Sec. 3. The functions of the President under sections 362 and 364(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 265 and 267(a)) are assigned to the Secretary.
Sec. 4. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit enforceable at law or equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person.
Sec. 5. Executive Order 12452 of December 22, 1983, is hereby revoked.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 4, 2003.
Sigh. Not this idiocy again. Jon Rappoport, the favourite of luminaries like Birdman Bryant? "News with views", the kooky site that is a runner-up on LibertyForum after Stormfront, IHR and "information clearing house"?
Please take your insanity elsewhere. Like, Toronto.
Also, this EO is not listed with the EOs at www.whitehouse.gov ---link ---www.whitehouse.gov/news/orders/
This EO is not listed at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/orders/
My panties are bunched, my nipples are twisted...help me- is this a Black Helicopter thing, or more of a HAARP thing?
Enquiring Minds Want to Know...
Good info.
China just expanded the quarantine and now have over 4,000 people locked away ... some have been moved by troops into military 'housing' ... and Beijing has locked its gates. No one allowed in or out. In fact, Beijing is very close to being under martial law.
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