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Director of the Center for Disease Control, Dr. Julie Gerberding, speaks Thursday during a flu pandemic preparedness conference at Logistics Health's Riverside Center South.

CDC Chief States Flu Pandemic Is Coming
By Terry Rindfleisch
Lacrossetribune.com
5th September 2008

Firstly Comments....

Yes, they know it is coming because they whipped up the virus from graves to unleash at their will. They have been planning it for a long time.

M.

This must be why they ordered those 500,000 plastic coffins now stored outside the CDC in Atlanta. Hummmm!

Tom

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About a month ago a seminar was put on by Dr. Susan Puls, who is a cardiologist. She said she was not an expert on pandemics as this was not her speciality, but in the two years she's been in her position, is fast becoming one.

In her capacity, she works with the governor's pandemic committee and the federal pandemic planning agency.

She also said a pandemic is coming - not 'maybe' but is DEFINITELY coming.

She says the pandemic is expected within the next two years but she personally believes it will be 'sooner rather than later.' The various groups (CDC, WHO, etc..) do not know what the pandemic will be but 'first among their list of suspects is the avian bird flu. It's only one mutation away from being easily transmitted from birds to humans and from human to human.'

She said the World Health Organisation expects 40% of the world population to become sick. Of those who become sick, they expect 50% will die. If you do the math - there are over 6 billion people on the earth today - that puts the death rate at over 1.4 billion people - and she says these deaths will happen over only a 3 to 4 month period of time.

Dr. Puls related that when the pandemic hits the US , mandatory quarantine's of all infected and NON-INFECTED peoples will occur within the first 48 hours. Only emergency personnel (Dr's, nurses, firemen, police, national guardsmen, etc..) will be allowed to leave their homes - not even to go to the store, etc.. This quarantine will last during the duration of the 'pandemic cycle' which will last approximately three months.

Her main point was that everyone will need a MINIMUM of 3 months supply of food at home as the governments of the world will be overwhelmed within the first week and cannot be counted on to provide food, medical help, etc..

She only briefly spoke on the 'social disruption' that will occur and did not go into any detail about what plans may, or may not exist, to deal with this. However - think about this - if your neighbors (both those you know and strangers) run out of food and are starving how might they react? Then think of all the individuals who already live outside of the law and are only 'controlled' by our current legal system. How might they react when law enforcement becomes ineffectual due to illness among the ranks and those who abandon their jobs to stay home and protect their own families. Ditto for the national guard and our own military.

This isn't to scare anyone - just to provide a 'heads up' as 'to be forewarned is to be forearmed.'

Anonymous

7th November 2008

Yes, and while under the protective guise of a military curfew brought on by a pandemic or an economic meltdown or social unrest or ufo/alien invasion or a mix of any of these and or others not mentioned, "The Establishment Of Fallen Mans True Freemasonry" can conveniently go about picking off all their undesirables, those who represent their greatest threat and there are millions now standing in their way like the Cristian family.

Arthur Cristian - Love For Life

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CDC Chief States Flu Pandemic Is Coming
By Terry Rindfleisch
Lacrossetribune.com
5th September 2008

Ready or not, a flu pandemic is coming, says Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Gerberding talked about preparing for the pandemic threat at a national conference Thursday at Logistics Health in La Crosse. No one knows when the pandemic is coming or what strain of flu virus will cause it, but it is overdue, she said.

She said she has only two meetings a week at the CDC and one focuses on flu pandemic preparations. “We take it very seriously,” Gerberding said, adding that the national strategy is to “save lives and sustain a civil society” during a pandemic.

She said politicians are not talking about a flu pandemic or the bird flu virus, which may or may not be the virus that causes the next pandemic.

“No one is talking about it, and it’s not on their radar screen,” Gerberding said.

She said CDC officials are closely monitoring the bird flu virus, which has a death rate of 63 percent among the 385 cases reported worldwide since 2003.

“It is a moving target, and we have to stay on top of it,” Gerberding said.

She said CDC scientists have created a potential vaccine in case the virus develops into a pandemic strain and are conducting more research to develop a vaccine. They have recreated the virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic to better understand it.

Gerberding said organizations and corporations need to come up with preparedness plans and confront the impact of a flu pandemic. Some people believe a pandemic won’t happen, while others feel too overwhelmed to do anything, she said.

“Complacency is the enemy of health protection,” she said.

Gerberding said CDC officials are working to decrease the time to detect a virus and strain by improving diagnostic tests and to protect people with stockpiled antiviral medication and speedy containment of the virus.

The CDC is building 18 global disease detection and response centers around the world, Gerberding said.

Despite all the planning so far, epidemiologist Michael Osterholm, who helped lead the CDC before Gerberding was appointed director, said everyone needs to be more prepared due to our global economy.

Osterholm, director of the infectious disease center at the University of Minnesota, said the death rate from the next pandemic could exceed 300 million.

Critical products and services including food, water and basic drugs won’t get to people due to transportation and energy problems in a pandemic, he said. Global supply chains may be severely challenged, he said.

“No one has addressed the food system yet,” Osterholm said.

Logistics Health, the Coulee Region Public Health Consortium and the La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium sponsored the conference. More than 150 business and organization personnel attended in person, and another 1,200 people watched the Webcast. A majority of the Fortune 500 corporations were represented.

Tommy Thompson, the former Wisconsin governor who is now president of Logistics Health, hired Gerberding and Osterholm when he was secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services.

“Planning is important for survival,” Thompson said.

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More Comments

q-guy wrote on Sep 7, 2008 9:20 PM:

" Actually, according to the presentation this new virus would be more lethal to healthy adults than it would be to the very young, or old. It has something to do with the way the virus spreads in the lungs, and it spreads faster and more aggressively in healthy people. It sort of sounds counter-intuitive, but that's what she said. I'm sure "myturn" can find a conspiracy against the good taxpayers of LaCrosse in that little tidbit, too. And, yes, I am an apologist for a strong, local business community. We all depend on it. You would apparently prefer that the company who bid against LHI had won, and that all those people would be out of work. I'm sure that would have made you feel bitter, I mean better. "

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outoftowner wrote on Sep 5, 2008 3:24 PM:

" to balanced budget:
an epidemic of the proportions that they're talking about would affect young, old and in between alike. The reason that a "new" virus would be so devastating (as they have been in past epidemics) as I understand it, is because no one will have the immunity "memory" for it and so it's strictly a matter of each individual, some of whom may be able to fight it off, most of whom will not. Of course the very young and the very old will be most at risk as they always are. The article mentions 300 million deaths globally...life would never be the same. "

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mby wrote on Sep 5, 2008 1:52 PM:

" Possom133:
Your right, let's replace the word bird flu with the word terrorism and we have a story that was on the front page 2 weeks ago.

"We don't know where, we don't know when, but something is bound to happen terrorist related. But don't stop your daily life or be scared, but always be on the look out."

Good Grief, If my time is up, so be it. we are human and death is part of life. "

balanced budget wrote on Sep 5, 2008 1:19 PM:

" Lets all stay on topic. Yes Weber is a (insert adjecive and noun) but this is about public health not him. My question is: How many elderly people will die if/ when this happens? "

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Myturn wrote on Sep 5, 2008 12:40 PM:

" You know the scrutiny that was started over three years ago by Park/Rec, handed to a Committee from within, anonymously picked up by the Mayor, given to WIPFLI Lacrosse, and then to WIPFLI Eau Claire, and now they are waiting for a "recommendation" from a 'Bean Counter'? What a view from the 'bench'! Sit down next to me. "

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Myturn wrote on Sep 5, 2008 12:40 PM:

" Funny you should mention Banquets g-guy. My sources tell me that WIPFLI is done with the Pettibone Campground Audit. You know, the audit that was ordered for the operation with the fixed contractual rent. You know the fixed rent that is more than fives times the rent of the Logger's. You know only other Riverfront Banquet operation that is also on the Riverfront. Competing with waterfront ambiance, not to be confused with the new addition we taxpayers paid for at the Civic Center to hold more Banquets that is stark in comparison to waterfront? "

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Myturn wrote on Sep 5, 2008 12:24 PM:

" "prosperous local businesses"? That received what was it, $80 million more than the next bidder? That proselytized the services of two former high ranking government officials to do so? And we are to believe that we are not contributing for this 'outsourcing' with history like this in the form of City taxpayer funds and Federal tax dollars as well? I would love to see before and after personal financial statements on these key people and more from inception to present. Naaawwww, nobody is making big money here. Hey taxpayers! How is that 'economic stimulus' coming at your house? How much you stash away in your cookie jar this year for that rainy day? Come on up Don and Tommy and we can compare with my neighbors. We are the one's without the Councilman until April 2009.. "

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Myturn wrote on Sep 5, 2008 12:15 PM:

" g-guy- You are undoubtedly an insider/apologist, employee, and ignorant. I have one question for you. There are a only a couple thousand feet of directly adjacent downtown river frontage. Besides that there would have been many interested parites to build on that taxpayer prepared site. Where is the 'economic stimulus' from moving pre-existing tenants (as close as WIZM, and Cleary's) and commerce from older area buildings to 27 year creatively taxpayer financed new shiny/waterfront buidlings? PS-What about the rumor that there are 'stubbed off' mechanicals condusive to sectioning for apartments or condos? Anything to add to that? Rumor or real? "

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q-guy wrote on Sep 5, 2008 11:33 AM:

" Good grief, you people are pathetic. I guess when you're sitting on the sidelines it's really easy to criticize those who are in the game. I hope she does retire and consult to LHI, and I hope they get more and more contracts, and I hope they hire more and more people, and build more and more buildings, and put on more and more banquets, and help to make this community more and more prosperous. That won't sit well with the bench warmers, but the rest of us are proud to the success of others, including prosperous local businesses. Imagine that. "

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Myturn wrote on Sep 5, 2008 10:53 AM:

" Well then I have the answer. Dr. Julie Gerberding should retire. Then go to work for or consult for, LHI. Then they could wrangle another very, very lucrative contract. Planning is important for survival, Thompson said. Oh Yeah! Wait for the pandemic? Many of us are dying on the taxpayer vine presently. "

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outoftowner wrote on Sep 5, 2008 9:19 AM:

" It doesn't matter if you like what Drs. Gerberding and Osterholm have to say, the fact of the matter is (however crudely it may sound) humans are a herd like any other species and herds periodically are kulled. The medical community will only be able to do so much to avert it or lessen the effects of it. We can only hope (and I think anyone with any common sense knows that we will see it happen in our lifetime) that people can find a way to be strong and be good to one another when it does. "

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possom133 wrote on Sep 5, 2008 7:46 AM:

" It,s coming we don't know when and have no data but lets scare people now,mabey John and sarah have a plan to beat the flu too. "

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Just Some Dude wrote on Sep 5, 2008 5:49 AM:

" What is going to kill us first? Bird flu or global warming...........OH No! "

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kayoz wrote on Sep 5, 2008 12:17 AM:

" not to sound parinoid........

the best defense against something like this is to try and live a healthy life style. limit intake of harmful substances. at the same time increase the amount helpful agents and "healthy foods".

"the best offense is a good defense"

nice story "

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