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few months ago we devoted a whole issue to this Bird Flu. Since then I have joined some communities in helping them make plans for their community. I am here to tell you today that when dealing with a pandemic it is all about being prepared and people like me and agencies like the Homeless Voice must spend some time on educating the community. So here it is Part Two , “ The Bird Flu- No Reason to Panic” According to President Bush’s recently published National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza, all local and state governments, as well as private industry and individual citizens have important roles to play in responding to a possible pandemic influenza. There should be predetermined plans of action at all levels of government, including each individual family. Some experts agree that an influenza pandemic would be five to ten times worse than the effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The human death toll could be in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions or even worse. Not to forget that there will be a loss of infrastructure. However, if we as citizens prepare ourselves, the infrastructure can withstand a pandemic situation. Some services will be shut down but real emergencies will be handled by local government. This will cause a severe strain on the economy probably worse than we have ever seen in the past. This means that you and your business must keep reserves on hand. The good news is that there is no Bird Flu in the (Continued on page 6)
TOPEKA, Kan. - A body found near the Kansas River was that of a convicted sex offender who became a lobbyist for the homeless, Topeka police said Wednesday. But the Shawnee County coroner has yet to determine a cause of death for David Patrick Owen, 38. Owen's father, from Cimarron, reported him missing, having last spoken with his son on June 16. A local anti-violence group will have a memorial service for Owen at 8:45 p.m. Saturday, said its leader, Sonny Scroggins. The event will be just east of the old Santa Fe railroad bridge where Owen's body was found Sunday. Police had received reports that Owen had confrontations with homeless people as they camped along the Kansas River. Owen frequently talked to them to urge them to contact their families. Since 2002, Owen has been registered as a legislative lobbyist for his own group, Homeless Come Home. He frequently attended public meetings around Topeka. In 1999, he was sentenced to four days in jail and 36 months probation in Sedgwick County on one count of sexual exploitation of a child, according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. He has been registered as an offender since June 1999. Scroggins acknowledged Owen's past mistakes, but said on behalf of the homeless, "He did a good job." http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/14972588.htm
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ive Orlando teenagers who police think terrorized homeless people "for sport" are accused of kicking and punching one man to death. The five -three are 15 years old and two are 16 -were arrested Friday and could face second-degree murder charges in the death of August Felix, 54. Felix, who died from his injuries May 1, about a month
after being beaten in a commercial area along America Street, had been able to tell police he was attacked by a group of young males. Police identified the five based on interviews with people in the area. The group is suspected in the beatings of as many as a half-dozen other homeless people in the same area. The (Continued on page 9)
Science Surviving the New Killer Bug A nasty, drug-resistant staph infection--the kind usually seen in hospitals--is racing across the U.S.
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ewaun Smith, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago, is lucky to be alive. A scrape on his left knee that he picked up riding his bike last October turned into a runaway infection that spread in a matter of days through the rest of his body, leaving his lungs riddled with holes. Jewaun managed to survive, but what worries doctors most about his near-death experience is that it's not an isolated case. The bacteria that infected his knee has become resistant to the most common antibiotics and is on the march across the U.S. It has spread rapidly through parts of California, Texas, Illinois and Alaska and is beginning to show up in Pennsylvania and New York. "This bug has gone from 0 to 60, not in five seconds but in about five years," says Elizabeth Bancroft, a medical epidemiologist at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. "It spreads by contact, so if it gets into any community that's fairly close-knit, that's all it needs to be passed." This is not bird flu or SARS or even the "flesh-eating (Continued on page 11)
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NATIONAL NEWS Homeless Alcoholics Receive a Permanent Place to Live, and Drink ten at the jail, the sobering center By JESSICA KOWAL and the public Harborview Medical SEATTLE, June 30 — Rodney LitCenter, said Amnon Shoenfeld, ditlebear was a homeless drunk who rector of King County's division of for 15 years ran up the public tab mental health and chemical abuse. with trips to jail, homeless shelters Mr. Hobson's group exand emergency rooms. pected the annual cost for each new The government-financed resident of 1811 Eastlake to be building's residents, who have been $13,000, or a total of $950,000. It labeled "chronic public inebriates," cost $11.2 million to build and is are allowed to drink in their rooms. paid for entirely by the City of SeatHe now has a brand-new, tle and county, state and federal govgovernment-financed apartment ernments. where he can drink as much as he The actual price tag will wants. It is part of a first-in-theprobably rise because residents have nation experiment to ease the tormore serious health problems than ment of drug and alcohol addiction expected, said Margaret King, a sowhile saving taxpayers' money. cial worker who manages the buildLast year, King County ing. Many have heart ailments, circreated a list of 200 "chronic public rhosis, diabetes, inebriates" in the head injuries from Seattle region who "They woke me up in falling on sidewalks had cost the most to round up and detox and told me they and severe circulation problems. Four care for. Seventyfive were offered were going to move me residents have alpermanent homes in," said Mr. Littlebear, ready died, includone who moved in a new apartment 37, who has had a series ing in with late-stage building known by liver cancer. its address, 1811 of strokes and uses The building's critics Eastlake. a walker. are particularly inEach had censed that residents been a street drunk do not have to stay sober. The Seatfor several years and had failed at least six efforts at sobriety. In a con- tle Times, in 2004, editorialized that government should insist that the troversial acknowledgment of their residents quit drinking in order to addiction, the residents — 70 men live there. and 5 women — can drink in their "Bunks for drunks — it's a rooms. They do not have to promise living monument to failed social to drink less, attend Alcoholics policy," said John Carlson, a conserAnonymous or go to church. vative radio talk show host here. "They woke me up in detox This approach, he said, is "aiding and told me they were going to move and abetting someone's selfme in," said Mr. Littlebear, 37, who destruction." has had a series of strokes and uses a Drink they do. When resiwalker. "When I got here, I said, 'Oh dents are shuttled to supermarkets boy, this don't look like no treatment for groceries, Ms. King said, they center.' " often buy wine or beer, which is sold These are the "unsympathetic homeless" who beg, in this state alongside the milk, eggs and orange juice. drink, urinate and vomit in public — Like Mr. Littlebear, Howand they are probably the most diffiard Hunt, 41, moved in the first day. cult to get off the streets, said Bill Homeless since 1999, Mr. Hunt said Hobson, executive director of the he drank a daily bottle of whiskey Downtown Emergency Service Cenbefore he came to 1811 Eastlake. He ter, the nonprofit group that owns has epilepsy and walks with crutches 1811 Eastlake. because he fractured his hip. In 2003, the public spent He shrugged when asked $50,000, on average, for each of 40 about the policy allowing him to homeless alcoholics found most of-
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drink in his new home. "We're going to drink somewhere," Mr. Hunt said. Influential Bush administration officials have come to support this project, including the on-site drinking. John Meyers, director of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's regional office here, said he blanched when he learned that his agency had pledged $2 million for it. He now calls 1811 Eastlake "a glorious experiment." "It's a lot cheaper having them spend the night at 1811 than at the E.R. or at the drunk tank," Mr. Meyers said. Philip F. Mangano, executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, said there should be a similar building in every city in the country. These apartments fit into the "housing first" philosophy, newly adopted by many cities, intended to give permanent housing and intensive services to long-term homeless people. Local officials have already approved other buildings for the mentally ill and people with chronic medical conditions, said Adrienne Quinn, director of Seattle's Housing Office. Though it would be unthinkable for a market-rate apartment building in this booming city, 1811 Eastlake's front door is across the street from busy Interstate 5, on the edge of downtown. The Starbucks around the corner donates pastries, but Robb Anderson, 43, an owner of the trophy shop next door to the apartments, complained bitterly about paramedics' 120 visits in just six months. The building's atmosphere during a recent daytime visit was more convalescent home than rowdy dorm. A few men in the television
room stared silently at a World Cup match, while others wearing backpacks trudged through the front door and into the communal kitchen for apple fritters and coffee. A third of the residents, including Mr. Littlebear, are American Indian; an estimated 20 percent are military veterans. The average age is 45. Most receive state or federal disability payments, and all residents pay 30 percent of their income as rent under HUD's guideline for low-income housing. By choice or if they need frequent medical attention, 26 residents live on the first floor in officesized cubicles with a bed, desk, dresser and small refrigerator. These communal living areas have a strong scent of body odor. Upstairs, 49 people have private studio apartments with a single bed, bath and kitchen. For many, this normal existence is a huge adjustment. One man continues to sleep on the floor next to his bed, and another refused sheets in favor of his sleeping bag, Ms. King said. Their quality of life, drinking and use of public services are being studied by researchers at the University of Washington. Ms. King said the alcohol intake of the residents was shockingly high at first, but many residents say they now drink less, at least by their standards. "I cut down," Mr. Littlebear said. "I've got to save my liver." Kevin P. Casey for The New York Times Howard Hunt, 41, homeless since 1999, moved into 1811 Eastlake in Seattle on the day it opened, in 2005.
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HOMELESSVOICE Here are the steps and topics to work with. Remember fine tune them in your own home. • Create a Department of Pandemic Control • Massive Public Education Program • Meet with Hospital officials and have them join the Department of Pandemic Control “DPC”
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United States at this time and the Bird Flu has not been able to mutate to where it would become a pandemic. This means it is unable to infect lots of people all over the world. Every expert does agree that one day there will be a pandemic; we just don’t know if it is going to be now or later. There is more good news and that is, if you have a family and individual plan and you make preparations now, then there will be no need to panic if a pandemic
comes our way. The first thing you must remember is that there will be large amounts of absenteeism at jobsites; this is why you must prepare now and not tomorrow. Try to remember it takes a manufacturer and it workers, a driver, gas, someone to stock a shelf, and someone to ring up the fever reducer you may want to buy at your local store. Then add the fact that thousands of people will want the same product and then throw in fact that there are many people who may have
died or stayed • Increase CERT TEAMS and give extensive training to deal with Pandemics at home because they • Massive preparations for supplies for individuals and families were sick or ...More on page 8 they had to prepare your family, your time waiting to get your take care of a sick family business and help spread the member and because they child a Cabbage Patch doll. word so others can do the We all have seen food lines cannot go to work you have same thing and prepare. during the Great Depression. just created a shortage of a What do I mean about These lines will exist but product that is needed for spreading the word? I want most likely be worse at hosthe common flu. This is goyou to think of yourself as pitals where people are waiting to be the same thing for the owner of Amway and ing to be seen by the emerfood and other medicines then figure out who you are gency room doctor or at the you may need normally for going to network with and local grocery store where your own daily medical educate others. We all get you try to get food for your problems. I know some of hundreds of funny emails family. you may be asking what via the Internet. Can you There is still more good about the doctors, nurses, now take some time and and other medical services news. Having a plan and forward this letter to every having a stockpile of emerthat can save you. Well one on your contact list so gency supplies that can be these people get sick and die the rest of the world can used for any disaster as well as well and they, too, have PEP up to speed and start to as a pandemic will limit the family members who will be educate everyone there is in chaos, the infection rate, the sick who they want to tend the world? death rate and most of all to. So now you have your Before I tell you how to give you peace of mind if a local hospital running short prepare I want to instill in pandemic does hit. A perstaffed and many, many, your hearts that you cannot son can think better in less sick people that they are expect the Federal Governchaos and that is why you tending to indoors and lines (Continued on page 7) must act today and start to worse than at Christmas
Dear Friends: As you can see we are almost there. Please reach out to your friends this month and every month and try to network and let us all reach a goal of getting our friends to burn this mortgage. Please make sure when you send in you checks that you use the P.O. Box address (below) so it does go into the building fund. I am so tired, very tired and it becomes harder and harder each day. As I try to expand out to other projects there is only one of me. Please remember you can also go to www.homelessvoice.org and make a Pay Pal donation. In fact you can also download our current issue for free or make a $1.00 donation to get the download. You have the option of getting it for free or making a dollar donation, this way if you have a friend who does not want to help the homeless maybe giving him or her an issue for free will change their minds. I am sure you know that many of our friends and families stereotype the homeless as lazy bums. Remind them that the homeless created this paper, the homeless bring this paper to thousands monthly by working hard and hot days. In fact the homeless run the busiest shelter in the community. They are not lazy bums at all..... If you can't help us, pray for us and no matter what I know if you are praying we will burn these mortgage papers. Please remember if we had 541 churches to each raise a $1000.00 that would be the fastest way to get this place paid off. Go to your church leaders and ask them to help us by doing one special collection at the end of service. After all, this is one of the places where the churches send their homeless to. We need their help more than ever now. We all are so very much tired, just not me and we need you even more than before.
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HOMELESSVOICE Bring Your Friends to our Friends Column Last month we started to really enhance our Burn that Mortgage Campaign. We did not do as good as we expected but in reality we did do good because anytime someone sends you a donation you are grateful even though you don’t make your goals. We are thankful for the people who helped us and for the people who could not help us out because I know their prayers are with us. We are getting there and we will indeed pay off this mortgage. So I ask you one more time to reach in and try to get others to help us meet our goal. In fact let’s all make a new goal. Look how much the friend’s column has grown over the years. Wouldn’t it be nice if we had to devote two whole pages to the friend’s column? Today I give you the challenge to bring five of your friends to our friend’s column so we can still keep on helping the ones who need help the most. Please remember it is going to be raining a lot during the next few months and we also need help with our rain budget. This money is saved for rainy days so when the vendors are not out there raising money for the homeless we can pull from the rain conserved funds.
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ment to come and bail out your community. Keep in mind there will be sickness everywhere and the Cavalry will have sick people as well. The Federal Government will work on some major issues but they have said this following statement in a serious tone. “Any community that thinks that they can rely on the Federal Government at the time of a pandemic will be set for pure tragedy.” Do I need to say anymore? This is the time you think about hurricane Katrina and how unprepared they were. We need to face the fact that there will be so many people sick that the Federal Government cannot handle all the needs of the country. Yes, they will be working as hard as they can on getting a vaccine out to the public…if there is one at the time. They also will provide the National Guard to help protect us and the hospitals but then again those soldiers get sick as well. So I am here to tell you today that, no matter how you look at it, you must think that Charity starts at home and you must make a plan and you must get involved at the workplace on spreading the word. If you work, pay attention. If you are a church member, pay attention. If you are a social service agency, pay attention. And if you’re that guy who was just a boat owner doing rescue missions at the time of Katrina, pay attention because we need every person who can help at the time of a pandemic. I say at the time of a pandemic but I also mean pre-pandemic so we are prepared. We just cannot wait until the last minute! We need every part of society to get involved. For instance: if you were a volunteer fireman years ago , you may want to help your city if they are accepting people in that area. You may even have to go one step further in a pandemic and ask your local community members… who on the block can help put Mrs. Jones house out if it should catch on fire. Sure, I am sure that most departments should be able to rotate staff and have no days off in order to provide coverage, but who really knows how many will be sick and how many will die or how long it will actually take for emergency services to really respond with so many people out sick. Does this mean if you don’t have a fire extinguisher at your house now you should buy one or two? The answer is yes. You should have one anyway so put it on your list. Up north there are many volunteer fire departments and some of them are very short on staff according to national figures so who will respond to those emergencies in those communities? You have to think when you are preparing your community about all your local services and how they will be affected at the time of a pandemic and then start preparing now to offset those shortages. We must make it mandatory that the public be told what to do and how to do it. We need plans that can be used for your local city, local school, local church and help with your individual family plans. We owe it to our future generations to come up with a plan now so we have less loss of life. We can do it if we work together. We can do it without panicking. Some things that you will need now pre-pandemic. UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS Can be used at the home, school, or workplace. - Wash Your Hands Campaign - Cover Your Cough Campaign - How To Care For The Sick Without Getting Sick Campaign - Social Distancing At Home, a Family Isolation and Quarantine Plan and know the incubation period that we can expect.
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Below are some things you can do that can help your local community. Most importantly start in your own community. Go to your church and ask them to devote one service to public education. Ask them what they will be doing at the time of a pandemic and start to organize your local community. If you belong to a civic group, homeowners or condo association, PTA or even the local Optimist Club, have special meetings. Here is the trick. We all have networks of other chapters such as Mothers Against Drunk Drivers. The national chapter can notify all local chapters and then they can help educate their own members. Do not be afraid to call a local chapter and put in a request for them to notify their national chapter. Take the lead and ask your church to notify all the other churches of their denomination, then go one step further and have all religious leaders of all faiths get together and have them notify their perspective churches. For instance, the Pope needs to ask all Catholic churches to come on board and do one service of Pandemic Plan(Continued on page 8)
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ning. In fact I am quite sure the Pope can pick up the phone and call all top leaders of all faiths and get them to educate their parishioners. Ask your boss what plans your company has for a possible bird flu and if they think you are nuts, have them go to the government’s web site to verify what they should be doing. Ask your employer if they can be involved in helping the community. Be a leader. Be your own leader and help spread the word. You do not need a boss’s or someone’s permission to help educate your loved ones or people you do not even know. Again I say to you, the government cannot handle a pandemic and your local hospitals can't either and the only way to make it better is for pubic education to take hold. We have all heard the words “Take the ball and run with it!” Today I hand you the ball now run with it. Here are some things we can do in our community and some things we can also do at home or with our own families if we fine tune it to a particular situation. For instance, take the second topic on the list below, “Massive Public Education”. The next time you have a “family gettogether”, spend some time educating each other on what to do and who can help who and set up a family call list so you can keep tabs on the ones who may live alone. You should stay in contact with each other two times a day because some people may die very fast once they get sick. Once the incubation period ends, things can simmer down a little if there is no chance of infection. This means the person stayed at home to avoid getting sick (social distancing) and has been free and clear for a certain number of days. There is no true amount of time that I have found that will tell me how many days it will take for infection to set in, once exposed. Please remember a person may be very sick without showing one sign they have contracted the Bird Flu. Just because your friend down the street may seem to be healthy does not mean they are free and clear, they may have been infected but just don’t know it yet and they can pass it on to others before they start to get sick. You will have to listen to what the public health officials say about the incubation period at the time of a pandemic. Here is the most important thing you can remember. If you are going to stay at home and lock yourself in to avoid getting sick, then the first few days or what ever the incubation time period is going to be , make sure that family members stay away from each other. If you must have contact with each other use gloves, masks and plenty of hand washing during the so called incubation period. This will
We must make it mandatory that the public be told what to do and how to do it. We need plans that can be used for your local city, local school, local church and help with your individual family plans.
limit the chance of catching something from a person you think is healthy. This is why it is so important to stay at home and to have every item you need in your disaster kit so you do not have to run to the grocery store and buy food. If you are one that has to go to work because you are important to the infrastructure or you are out helping others who may need help, use gloves, masks and good old fashioned hand washing while out in the field. If you have to go to the store use the same procedure. I made my brother’s plan at home. He works in a hospital up north and he will be required to work inside taking care of patients. I told him he did not need to bring any germs home to his kids. His plans are simple. When he comes home at night he will be staying inside the garage and if he has to use the bathroom he will disinfect it before leaving to make extra sure that his children and wife do not accidentally getting the Bird Flu. You have to think about your children and how they are gong to feel and the young ones may not understand what is going on and why they can’t see dad or mom. So it is important that they be able to see at a distance their parent or use precautions when giving love to their children at home. For my brother he will have a phone where he can call inside the house to his kids giving his family strength. Another reason to leave home may be to take your sick family member to the hospital where they can receive Tamiflu, if there is any because the government is short on this medicine. The government’s plan is to have only 25 percent of Tamiflu available for the entire United States. They feel that it will be the proper amount but anytime you have a limited supply , some areas of the country may be very short in a pinch and a pinch is very important when dealing with the bird flu. Hopefully your local hospital will have the proper amount of this medicine. This again is why you need to have a stocked disaster kit. This way if you do have to go to the emergency room so your loved one can get the one medicine that will help against the Bird Flu you can do so and do it as safely as you can. You take them there with a mask on them and on you and use gloves. When you get back home to be with your other family members it is once again time to distance yourself from your other remaining family members at home so you do not bring back a germ from the hospital. A lot of people do not realize it but if you put a mask on the sick person and the care taker it limits the chance of spreading germs. So if the hospitals are filled and you need to take care of your sick family member then put a mask on them as well. Also when it comes to Tamiflu please understand that it only helps a person once they get the flu and experts are unsure how much it will actually help at the actual time of a pandemic. This means that Tamiflu is not the magic bullet. Also during a pandemic pay attention to the time limits that the public health officials say that a person should take their course of Tamiflu for it to work the best. Some experts have stated that it should be taken within 12 hours of showing the first sign or symptom. Also do not be afraid to ask the Emergency Room doctor for extra Tamiflu. There is a lot of talk out there that if one family member gets sick and you start the others in the family on Tamiflu to use as a prophylactic (a preventative method) it may lesson the odds of the others getting sick or lesson the impact of the actual Bird Flu if they got exposed. Again this is why it is important for you to listen to the health experts because during a pandemic the germ may mutate and the protocol
may be changed a little for the best performance of any vaccine or other meds that help slow or lesson the chance of dying. Another good piece of advice…if you have to go out and buy supplies or get free supplies from a disaster agency make sure that any time you bring the product back home it will be germ free. It will need to be sprayed with Lysol or wiped down with bleach. I am talking about the outside packaging. Just because the worker who gave you the items is wearing gloves does not mean it is free of germs. Those gloves are used to protect him; he will be using the same pair of gloves while working therefore his gloves will carry the same germs as dirty hands. A person wearing gloves should change gloves frequently or if there is a shortage and those gloves can take a simple spray of Lysol then you may be able to spray them to help stop the spread of germs. Some gloves can’t handle a washing so use common sense and read the directions on the boxes. Also remember this procedure can be used on the mail you receive at home and the work place. You may want to have your normal bills come to you on the internet. Many companies have this in their Bird Flu plan. Here are the steps and topics to work with. Remember fine tune them in your own home. • Create a Department of Pandemic Control • Massive Public Education Program • Meet with Hospital officials and have them join the Department of Pandemic Control “DPC” • Increase CERT TEAMS and give extensive training to deal with Pandemics • Massive preparations for supplies for individuals and families • Massive preparations for supplies for the city to stockpile • Expand Medical Reserves by certifying any volunteer who would like to become a First Responder. • Lobby Schools to offer a class on Universal Precautions and how to care for their sick family members. The upper levels of education will then in turn educate their parents • Lobby churches to educate their members • Develop locations for make shift hospitals based on Pandemic needs, i.e. cruise ships for the sick. Make a list of hotels, former Department of Defense ships or any other location to be able to be made in to a make shift hospital. • Establish Triage centers that can keep minor medical problems out of the hospitals and keep people who are not in Pandemic crisis or severe illness out of the Emergency Rooms…Including birthing centers for non risk births. • Establish Vaccine Centers • Establish an identification card or emergency bracelet for those who have been exposed and immune to the virus. These people can now be trained to work in the front lines of helping others or taking the positions of vital services. This would be especially valuable to employers important to our infrastructure so that they could have a fast track training program thus keep business running as usual. These same people can be moved to another area of the country to assist another local community and each city can help each other with the federal government involved in the transportation. For example, a Publix janitor should know how to use a register. There needs to be lots and lots of cross training. Move public safety workers from different locations, allowing an officer from one area to come and work in another location. Work from home programs for people who can work from home to avoid infec(Continued on page 9)
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tion • Establish service centers for basic needs such as mask and food distribution • Establish secure and sanitary locations for the dead in order to protect animals and people from contamination. • Establish Crisis Counseling services to deal with the large death toll to prevent suicides • Decide what services shall continue and what ones will cease at the time of a pandemic • Establish a list of non pandemic supplies that will be short due to the large amount of absenteeism in the work place and create a stock pile of those supplies, example fuel. • Quarantine and isolation teams • Grants Management Teams to assist the city gaining funds for preparation • Volunteer Ambulance Service for transporting the very sick • Establish a list of all doctors in the community • Volunteer Civilian Police Assistance by community members who are prescreened and approved by the police department to handle minor police problems to allow police to do more security and keeping the peace. Institute the police reserve system and fast track training them on basic law enforcement needs. Encourage real law enforcement instead of private sector security. These same law enforcement officers can be used for any homeland security issue • Ask our local residents to adopt people with special needs such as the elderly so they can be checked on daily in case they are sick and not able to call for help • Create CERT teams in elderly condos and to require that every housing unit that houses over 100 people to establish their own CERT Team by city ordinances. Younger seniors will provide aid to older seniors. This too will be very helpful at the time of hurricanes • Emergency communications that will transmit over AM radio, email alerts, and auto dialers similar to the SEX OFFENDER system
• Generate a list of retired doctors, nurses, police officers, fireman and any other occupation that may be able to rehire its former employees or ask them to volunteer. Also encourage employers to keep a list of retirees who may be able to fill important positions in the private sector because of heavy absenteeism • Solve the Ventilator shortage problem and pre train citizens on how to manually ventilate their loved ones and having many volunteers performing the task of manually ventilating patients • Lobby the state for fast track medical training if necessary or to use other people in the health field industry such as nursing students, physical therapists or dental hygienists • Train disinfecting crews to back up Hazmed teams to prevent the spread of the virus
I leave you with these final sentences. From the above statements you may think the sky is falling. However, everyone is working very hard to allow you to catch it and hold it for a while until it goes back up. The Bird Flu is not here in the United States but it may come to us at any time and if it does we need to be prepared. Also remember if the Bird Flu does come to the United States it does not mean that we are at a “Pandemic Crisis Mode” It still has to mutate and change form allowing it to go from human to human. The good news is that it may never mutate and be able to infect millions. The bad news is that it may not be this type but it may be a different type of flu in the future and it may even be worse and mutate faster. So again, being prepared is the key. You have a job to do and that it to make your own plan and to help educate others by spreading the word. If we use good hygiene habits we can even slow it up little, allowing researchers a little more time to find a vaccine. There is no need to panic and if you just do what all the experts tell you to do then there is a less chance you will even catch the flu. Remember a pandemic causes lots and lots of
problems especially in getting the supplies you need to live like food and other important things. So please take what we say and make a plan and start stocking your Disaster Kit today. If you promise me that you will send this to everyone you know and take the action needed today not at the time of a pandemic, I promise you from the bottom of my heart you will be able to handle a pandemic. You may be a scared but you will be able to fight back with the supplies and education you received. It will be a trying time for all of us but this will limit the panic and limit the chances for you to even be exposed. You can and will make a difference for your family and your community limiting the amount of death we see if a pandemic does come our way. We may be able to prevent as much death as possible and give hope to others who may need our strength. I love you and I love you so much and that is why I wrote this article to help you, so please love others and help them by educating them to prepare. Besides all of this, it is time to ask God to keep all pandemics away from all nations. Written By Sean Anthony Cononie SeanCononie@PandemicBirdFlu.ws Cosac Homeland Security Council Cosac’s Preventing Epidemics and Pandemics, Inc
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only motivation appears to be entertainment, Orlando police homicide supervisor Sgt. Richard Ring said. "To see kids go out there and look at them like they're a whipping post is kind of disturbing," he said. The suspects are not thought to be affiliated with a gang, nor is any one of them considered to be a leader in the group, Ring said. Three were ninth-graders at Jones High School, one was in 10th grade at Boone High and the fifth was an eighth-grader at Howard Middle School. The Orlando Sentinel is not identifying the suspects because of their age. Three of the teenagers were arrested at their Orlando homes. The other two were arrested in West Virginia, where they are being held. Ring said he didn't know why they were out of state. The five may be prosecuted as adults, unless there are "extenuating circumstances," said Randy Means, spokesman for the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office. "Typically in this kind of situation," Means said, "they are tried as an adult." One of the 15-year-olds is suspected of being involved with a group of young men who stole a cell phone in April at a pool company on Franklin Street. Police don't know much about Felix. No one has come forward as family, so Orange County took care of his burial in Chapel Cemetery.
The homeless are easy targets because they have nowhere to go, are often alone and often seclude themselves, Ring said. "It's shocking to think that anyone would have so little regard for a human being to go up and beat them for sport," he said. Crimes against the homeless are on the rise nationally, said Michael Stoops, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington, D.C. From 1999 to 2005, there were 472 attacks that resulted in 169 deaths. Nearly two-thirds of the attackers were between 11 and 19 years old. Last year, teenagers beat a man to death at a campsite in Holly Hill. In May, two groups of teens attacked homeless men in downtown DeLand. Stoops said there may be a perception among those who commit crimes against the homeless that "you can pick on homeless people and not worry about getting caught." Family of the teenagers arrested Friday
would not comment or could not be reached for comment. But neighbors said they were stunned at the arrest of one of the five -- the 15-year-old who attended Howard Middle. They said he never misbehaved and regularly attended school. Neiljagia Smith, 14, of Orlando said the teenager was "usually upbeat and nice." "I don't think I could have imagined him going to jail for second-degree murder," she said. "He wasn't that type. He wanted to go to college." Lavonda Sorrell, 30, said there are troublemakers in the neighborhood, but the boy is not one of them. "It took a lot to get him angry," she said. "He was the type of child that got along with everybody." Mariana Minaya Sentinel Staff Writer
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bacteria" of tabloid fame. But it is every bit as dangerous, even if it goes by an uncommonly ungainly name: community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Never heard of it? Neither have most doctors. But major new health threats don't usually announce themselves with press releases. A quarter of a century ago, the world learned about the AIDS epidemic because a health bureaucrat noticed an uptick in prescriptions for treatment of a rare pneumonia. In 1912-more than a half-century before the Surgeon General's report--a New York physician chronicled "a decided increase" in lung cancer, which was considered rare at the time, and suggested that cigarettes might be the cause. Which helps explain why infectious-disease specialists in the U.S. are so alarmed by the new killer bug. "We're out here waving our arms, trying to get everyone's attention," says Dr. Robert Daum, director of the University of Chicago's pediatric infectious-disease program, who was one of the first to call attention to the rapid spread of MRSA, back in 1998. "People talk about bird flu, but this is here now." Hospital workers know all about drug-resistant bacteria. Several strains have been making the rounds of the biggest hospitals for the past 15 years or so, often posing a greater risk for patients than the condition
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they were admitted for. But until the late 1990s, epidemiologists assumed that the problem was restricted to large hospitals and nursing homes. The MRSA strains turning up in the community at large are related to but different from the ones found in medical institutions. The hospital variety usually requires intervention with powerful intravenous antibiotics and is pretty hard to catch. By contrast, the new strains of MRSA respond to a broader range of antibiotics but spread much more easily among otherwise healthy folks. The bugs can be picked up on playgrounds, in gyms and in meeting rooms, carried on anything from a shared towel to a poorly laundered necktie. One of the difficulties in tracking MRSA is that doctors rarely check for it. The standard test usually takes a couple of days, and hardly any doctors do it anymore because everyone assumes that most skin infections respond to the usual antibiotics. "HMO's aren't going to be paying for you to do a culture on what they consider to be a [common] skin lesion," Bancroft says. The ubiquity of staph bacteria adds to the problem. The germs are part of the usual microscopic landscape of your outer and inner skin, including the mucus linings of the nose. Most of those bacteria don't cause illness, and in fact their presence is a good thing, since they can crowd out more dangerous pathogens. But every once in a while, the good guys take a beating, and one of the bad guys, like MRSA, takes hold, colonizing the skin. Even when that happens, it doesn't necessarily signal an emergency. The skin, after all, is an effective barrier against many kinds of threats. But anytime you get a break in that barrier--even a tiny cut-there's a chance some bacteria will
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get inside and infect the wound. What makes MRSA germs particularly dangerous is that they excrete a potent toxin that attacks the skin, causing an abscess that's often mistaken for a spider bite. Normally, the body can wall that area off. But if the infection spreads, treatment with antibiotics may be called for. And that's the problem. Doctors have grown used to prescribing antibiotics like oxacillin or cephalexin in that situation. It's not clear if that long-standing habit helped the bugs grow resistant in the first place. But what is abundantly clear is that those standard treatments are no longer effective. There's another factor that makes the community-based MRSA so dangerous, one that has been revealed only recently by genetic analysis. In addition to their normal chromosomal DNA, staph and other bacteria like to mix and match genetic information by exchanging short strips of DNA called cassettes. Some of those cassettes carry genetic instructions to do two things at once: confer antibiotic resistance and make the host even more susceptible to infection. "MRSA is where resistance and virulence converge," says Daum. What epidemiologists still can't explain, however, is how that particular bug manages to get around
to so many cities and towns yet has left others relatively unscathed--at least so far. Cases of the new MRSA strain have only just started cropping up in New York City, for example. "We've been waiting for this to happen," says Dr. Betsy Herold of Mt. Sinai. "Now, we're in a unique position to watch it unfold and to find out why it's happening." Meanwhile, there are things you can do to protect yourself (see box). To prevent more bugs from developing resistance, it's important to remember that not all skin infections need antibiotic treatment, even MRSA. "A garden-variety infection is still a garden-variety infection," says Dr. Philip Graham at New York -Presbyterian's Children's Hospital in New York City. "If your cuts and scrapes are acting like they always do, don't worry." If, however, you or a loved one is running a high fever, has a lot of redness or shows signs that an abscess is forming, you need to get to a doctor right away. "It never hurts for a patient to say something like, Could this be an MRSA infection?" says Dr. Jack Edwards, chief of infectious disease at HarborUCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. It could make all the difference in the world. By CHRISTINE GORMAN
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