barnyard flu

BARNYARD FLU
I want to thank everyone for a great month. My e-book sales were $60 and my Amazon commissions were $35 ( most months they are around $25 ). I was able to order four used books and still have ten bucks left over. I was notified that the back order for "Patriots" is June for me. I guess I ordered too late in the day. Okay, today we'll talk about the newest flu panic. I'm sure this is on everyone's mind. I won't say anything new or exciting however. Of course my trolls will fall all over themselves to tell you I do that everyday anyway. I can't add a whole lot that hasn't been covered by www.survivalblog.com or www.cryptogon.com .
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Chatting away at work about the newest and greatest threat, I kept saying bird flu instead of swine flu, so I covered by tracks nicely by issuing a new and exciting title to label the old bird flu with the pig flu and any future flu as barnyard flu. Without doing any research at all I think I can say we've probably gotten more outbreaks from this new one than the old one already ( at least in the US ). The old chicken flu was kind of a joke, never really amounting to much of anything. The biggest news about it was that Rumsfeld made a killing on the Pharma stock he held when the feds stockpiled vaccines. It seems like the boys behind this new one got it right finally and manufactured a disease that works properly. I guess the economic contraction wasn't doing a proper job of getting enough mouths away from the feed trough. Let's just kill off a few hundred million or more with a new super flu. Am I being too paranoid? Maybe. But I can tell you I won't be taking any shot for this. They're either going to try to kill me off with the disease or with the cure. It could all be an excuse for declaring martial law. I have no idea of the coming details, but this does not smell right, not in the slightest.
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For those asking what they can do if totally unprepared, go to Rawles site and follow the links and do a little research. I had covered this a long time ago, with my basic recommendation to start taking mega doses of vitamin C. You don't wait for a cold and take a few vitamin pills then, you build up your immunity beforehand. Looking back, I'm amused that as a child mom gave me glasses of orange juice and vitamin C while I was sick in bed. I don't think they did a damn thing. Part of prepping is building your immune system. I never worried overly much about chicken flu because I had been building up my immunity. Not for a pandemic but just for day to day survival surrounded by sickos. Whenever a bad contagion goes around that puts people in bed for three or five days, I pick up on it but merely feel poorly for a bit. Buying hand sanitizer and face masks is all well and good but a better strategy is to let your body fight off the infection naturally ( because if you are sickly, those items won't protect you a whole lot in the early stages of the spread of the disease when you are unaware ).
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This should highlight another good reason why it is stupid to be in debt and waiting to bug out. If you are in debt like the average American, owing on the house and the car and the credit cards and the kids education and the wives boob job, you have little choice but to go into work every single day. No matter how bad you feel, you have no choice. 99% of potential victims will be doing this, ensuring the disease, if it gets serious, will spread very quickly. If you had been listening to me and gotten out of debt you will have a bit more flexibility in this matter. I don't know if this will get bad, I can't say if now is a great time to take vacation, but the option would be nice. As far as bugging out, if this does get bad you can be sure the government will clamp down on any kind of travel very quickly. I told you last year one of the reasons I wanted to move up here to Elko was in case travel restrictions were put in place. I could have waited, and then had to worry about something like this barnyard flu. Instead, I can point my finger at you and snicker. If this thing gets serious, I'm a prophet. If it doesn't then I'm just a rude cocky bastard.
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I don't know what is going to happen. I'm merely saying that because I took precautions awhile ago I don't have to worry much about it. It's still a concern, just not a mind numbing terror. If you do want to think about profiting from the potential coming panic, buy up as many dust masks as you can ( the five in a package for a dollar and change ). They aren't effective if I read about it correctly but when the more effective masks are sold out and people have no choice but to buy "better than nothing" masks you can get a good profit ( kind of like folks are getting twice bullion price on E-Bay for silver because of the coin shortage ). For your personal use I would stock up now on vitamin C tabs. A slight increase in demand will wipe out the supply and remember that China has a global monopoly on the production. I don't know about bacon. Are the animals now not a concern? Is this strictly just person to person? Or will there be preventive killing of livestock? Something to check out.
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I'm not trying to be unhelpful here. But preparation for pandemics is something you need a bit of a head start on. Otherwise, you hunker down and don't go out. I'm not saying pumping your body full of vitamins or being able to quit working for a few weeks is the perfect answer, it just puts you ahead of the herd in options. Again, nothing could happen. Or, this could be man made and we are screwed. But being extra super paranoid might pay off either way.
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