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The Force is Strong With This One
Hi y'all,
I came across a brochure for the 2nd Annual Swine Flu Conference held in Washington, DC and was struck by how the scope of the topics and sessions appeared to be far too exaggerated even if the swine flu is a real epidemic.
From their brochure (http://www.new-fields.com/2ndISFC/brochure.pdf), topics include:
Now, a lot of these topics don't appear to be too alarming but after reading about some of these breakout sessions, it appears they really seem to be really talking about something different altogether which I could only speculate to be a natural disaster of a much larger scope, a sudden critical supply shortage, war, martial law, etc. I'm sure the PTB are also trying to implement a pandemic yet anyway but have planned multiple scenarios using game theory to still have a emergency command and management system in place to cover both their planned and unplanned scenarios.
The breakout sessions are:
There are a couple of interesting things to note from the listed sessions. Despite the last flu season proving H1N1 infection rates to be a few percent at most (which probably includes other types of flues with the swine flue), infection rates of 30-40% or 50% of the population are used for planning purposes. Additionally, despite actual mortality rates of those infected being less than one percent, the first session talks about mass fatality planning.
Even if one were to believe that 50% of the population could be infected in the next flu season, the session topics appear to imply that this will happen all at once with topic such as an overwhelmed telecommunications network, interruptions in food & fuel, crime surges, etc.
Some of the other topics are a little odd and stick out of place such as public works continuing to maintain water and sanitation services, “plan for reduced response capacity due to mechanical failure”, transforming school facilities into shelters, etc. In regards to public work facilities, most drinking water and wastewater facilities are automated and not personnel intensive at all and have other failsafes. I’m not sure why there would be reduced capacity for hospital and emergency medical services due to mechanical failures during an outbreak. Also, I’m not sure why anyone would want to create a shelter during an outbreak - that implies grouping a large amount of people together in close quarters. If there were an outbreak, obviously a quarantine would be needed.
Again, it appears PTB are doing contingency planning to try to maintain control in all sorts of likely and unlikely, planned and unplanned scenarios. However, I can’t help but have this feeling that all this planning is for something other than the swine flu.
I came across a brochure for the 2nd Annual Swine Flu Conference held in Washington, DC and was struck by how the scope of the topics and sessions appeared to be far too exaggerated even if the swine flu is a real epidemic.
From their brochure (http://www.new-fields.com/2ndISFC/brochure.pdf), topics include:
Now, a lot of these topics don't appear to be too alarming but after reading about some of these breakout sessions, it appears they really seem to be really talking about something different altogether which I could only speculate to be a natural disaster of a much larger scope, a sudden critical supply shortage, war, martial law, etc. I'm sure the PTB are also trying to implement a pandemic yet anyway but have planned multiple scenarios using game theory to still have a emergency command and management system in place to cover both their planned and unplanned scenarios.
The breakout sessions are:
There are a couple of interesting things to note from the listed sessions. Despite the last flu season proving H1N1 infection rates to be a few percent at most (which probably includes other types of flues with the swine flue), infection rates of 30-40% or 50% of the population are used for planning purposes. Additionally, despite actual mortality rates of those infected being less than one percent, the first session talks about mass fatality planning.
Even if one were to believe that 50% of the population could be infected in the next flu season, the session topics appear to imply that this will happen all at once with topic such as an overwhelmed telecommunications network, interruptions in food & fuel, crime surges, etc.
Some of the other topics are a little odd and stick out of place such as public works continuing to maintain water and sanitation services, “plan for reduced response capacity due to mechanical failure”, transforming school facilities into shelters, etc. In regards to public work facilities, most drinking water and wastewater facilities are automated and not personnel intensive at all and have other failsafes. I’m not sure why there would be reduced capacity for hospital and emergency medical services due to mechanical failures during an outbreak. Also, I’m not sure why anyone would want to create a shelter during an outbreak - that implies grouping a large amount of people together in close quarters. If there were an outbreak, obviously a quarantine would be needed.
Again, it appears PTB are doing contingency planning to try to maintain control in all sorts of likely and unlikely, planned and unplanned scenarios. However, I can’t help but have this feeling that all this planning is for something other than the swine flu.
