Don't Panic, Wash Hands

In every life we have some trouble

When you worry you make it double

Don't worry, be happy

-Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy

More dangerous than any nuclear bomb, more debilitating than any sabotage of the nation's electric grid: biological warfare.

To the uninitiated, everything is obscure: dumbed down public school systems, the satanic acquisition of our values system, the need to "just be happy," if it feels good, do it. Our broken culture is ripe for a public health disaster. This army medical officer, was assigned to staff the army hospital at Fort MacClellan, Alabama. One of my first orders, after a few days there, to inspect the hospital. Now I was a brash, ambitious first lieutenant and I thought when the commander told me to inspect the hospital, that was what he meant.

So, with tissues in my pockets, I inspected the hospital from stem to stern. Really, if a hospital is not clean, what can you expect from other places? As a poet said, "If gold rusts, what do you expect iron to do?" In the wards, I found brooms in the closets. I said to the ranking Sergeant, "what are these brooms doing here?" He said, "We sweep the floors." I said, "You do not sweep floors in a hospital, you mop them. You do not do anything in a hospital which disturbs the microbiology harboring there."

In the mess hall, I found there was no soap in the washrooms. I said to the mess officer, "It is essential that cooks keep their hands clean, especially after using the toilet." Checking the coffee urns was like checking the urinals in many bathrooms. Everything was a matter of neglect. I will not go into detail into everything, but my report went all the way to the Pentagon AND the Army almost closed down that hospital. I can assure you I did not win any popularity contests there. The mess officer never spoke to me again the entire time I was there.

I persuaded one of the housekeepers, in a local hospital, responsible for cleaning the rooms to stick a piece of tissue on the handle of commodes in various rooms and areas in the hospital, because, she had told me that the handles of the commodes, unlike the seats and tops, were never cleaned. Just think of it, every person, regardless of disease using toilet paper and then putting their hands on that handle. One after another. Then and there, I decided and talked about such on the radio, "If one wants to go into the most dangerous place on Earth, go to an American hospital. If you do not die while you are there, perhaps you can escape and come home."

It was learned long ago that the owner of a restaurant should stay close to his cash register. Have you ever watched the owner of a cash register making change, fiat bills holding on themselves every disease known to man (money is the dirtiest thing in the world), and then immediately reaching over and touching someones plate or glass or some other form of service. The dirtiest item in a restaurant, the one item that has caused more disease than all microbes found in food served, the salt and pepper shakers. Most are never washed, handled by everyone. In a time of fast food, when every minute and penny determines the bottom line, customers are expected to care for themselves. When you find a "sticky" table, you can well imagine how many microbes you are eating.

With all our knowledge of bacteriology, epidemiology, and other public health statistics, we seem to go backwards instead of forwards. More people sick now from more strange diseases than ever before. When the military decided they could no longer utilize a mostly blind medical officer, I was retired. Still young, ambitious, having spent most of my life preparing for my profession, one doctor asked me to come in and work with him, just doing the things I was able to do. I spent a few hours in his office observing. This "old schooled" practitioner, who attempted to treat everything, would have his hands in one patient's mouth and go directly to another patient's eyes. I never saw him wash his hands. The most dangerous body parts God created, those things at the end of your arms, your hands. They are so magnificent when coordinated with your eyesight, can accomplish intricate surgery, create wonderful music on an instrument, when used for caressing can give comfort to the sick and dying, BUT, indiscriminately handling doorknobs, stair rails, and anything else one needs to touch, can distribute more microbes than any warfare biological laboratory. There will be an Ebola vaccine because we know how vaccines have "wiped out" pneumonia, influenza and many other contagious diseases. There are more deaths from flu now than ever and Ebola, like flu, will mutate and strew itself all around the nation.

No, there is no need to panic, panic will not do anyone any good. Yes, it is good to wash your hands very often but there is nothing to replace common sense, and there is so little common sense. Get over this idea of political correctness-discrimination-racism, when an epidemic of any type breaks out anywhere, survival depends on control. I was raised on an eastern North Carolina tobacco farm, and so was my father and his father. We did not have any of the conveniences of the world. Mostly self-sufficient. My father said that in all his years on that farm, other than a school bus or a mailman, he had never seen a government agency vehicle of any type on that road where all three generations had lived, such as law enforcement, public health, help of any type in a time of disaster such as a tornado. Young people have matured thinking that calling "911" will solve all of their problems. Hard times bring out the best in the human psyche. The Christian church under persecution in Communist China, has grown faster than the Christian Church with all the Democracy of Taiwan.

Fool's Gold

Jeremiah 32: 17-18

17 Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

18 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of hosts, is his name.

The Earth does not wobble at the death of one man. The earth does not go off its axis at the death of one million men. Although men, their personalities are the best God has to offer. Like Fool's Gold, fakery, God must be greatly embarrassed by many of us (The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2. This mineral's metallic luster and pale brass-yellow hue give it a superficial resemblance to gold, hence the well-known nickname of fool's gold. A real pretender but has no real value.)

For many years, this writer owned a very fine condo apartment on Manhattan's East Side. I was never a New Yorker, never felt like a New Yorker, always lived and maintained my homes in the south, but since I could afford this extravagance, and since it was an excellent launching pad for my world travels, at an energetic-enigmatic time in my life when I was truly concerned with personal-egotistical advancement, this pied-a-terre served me well. I lived on Beakman Place by the United Nations... on the corner, just across the street from the South Korean embassy, just across the street from famed composer Irving Berlin. I enjoyed "hobknobbing" with the elitists in this area of the city, although I was not one of them (I, too, can act-pretend, I felt I was stranded on an island of sanity in a sea of heathenism, these diplomats had a right to their lifestyles. I was flirting with Fool's Gold).

Among my several philanthropic causes, the New York-based Volunteer Services for Children (an organization that provides shelters for homeless children). I was attending a meeting of the national group at the Hilton hotel on Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Ave.), though completely blind, I had no difficulty getting to the building, up the escalator, into the correct assemblage. But, during the meeting, going to the Men's room, I became disoriented and wound up in another meeting. Of course, I dress well, can fit into any group. The meeting into which I ventured was a group of communist union workers. They were having coffee and donuts and one man invited me to join them, actually brought me a cup of coffee and a donut. Several talked with me and since I had on my veteran's DAV cap, with my rank, insignia and medical caduceus, attracted much attention. I guess they thought I was one of them. Later, men on either side, invited me to join another scheduled meeting in another part of town. One said, "Gus will be there." Of course, he was talking about Gus Hall, chairman of the American Communist Party. Always seeking a new adventure, I got right in the taxi cab with them. The meeting was held on the West Side of Manhattan in a large warehouse-type building. Unaware why they had invited me, probably thinking I was a very disgruntled American. During the meeting, they discussed burning down my country, that with the winds just right in the city it was a matter of cigarette lighters lighting curtains or bedspreads from an open window. They pointed out that snipers would shoot out the tires of all firetrucks. "That in a matter of minutes, most cities would have fires, particularly in old, historic wooden buildings, that would burn an entire city to the ground." This is what the communist had in store for us... even fifty years ago. Can we even imagine what enemies have in store for my country with today's radical groups, armed biologicals, nuclear suitcase bombs? It should be evident to anyone with an IQ above their shoe size that the enemy is invading... across the borders, through every airport terminal. IF, with missiles on top of the White House, sharpshooters and guards around the White House, one man can climb the fence, run across those large plush grounds, get inside our nations home of the president through an unlocked front door, traverse most of the mansion, perhaps the NSA, IRS, CIA, FBI insteal of lowly Americans should spend more time on that type of security. In a time of drugged bureaucrats and political low-lifes (very low men and women in very high places), can there be hope for the survival of hard-working, tax-paying, God-fearing citizens. In recent warfare, since WW1, 90% of all casualties were civilians. The bureaucrats have underground tunnels, most of our men in uniform have weapons but for the rest of us, good luck.

God does not blame anyone for jumping out of a burning building but we all have a hunger for life. We need to get this matter of guilt and shame corrected in our thinking. Babies murdered in the abortion process, kicking and squirming before birth, are anxious for life. Perhaps the female, married or unmarried, who is the only one blessed by God to give birth is ashamed to be an unwed mother, but most victims of abortion would tell you that this is nothing compared to the guilt involved in taking that life. Do we actually think that a holy God of justice will allow a nation so blessed, as has been America, to kill 53 million babies just since the infamous supreme court decision of 1973. To allow a greedy military industrial complex to manufacture weapons that have destroyed so many lives in so many countries, that has provided the God-given chemicals and knowledge to conjure the illegal designer drugs which have left so many lives in shambles. Technology which has brought the worst man can offer into every home (pornography, desensitization to violence) and then think that we will escape, even the Christian's have a responsibility for not allowing the Christian message to be polluted by the Madison Ave. culture and designs of the world.

Technology has made life much better for all of us, but human nature has not changed. We are so busy chasing after fool's gold, the fakery of this world. Perhaps the two matters that bother me most, in regards to dealing with my fellow man. I cannot stand the public spanking of a small child. Give any child, particularly your child, the personal privacy even from a very early age of private discipline. The other traumatic matter at the other end of life, most of the time, the public display of a dead body (remember I did not say a person, I said a body). If a Christian, the person in a far better place, would not return. For the unsaved, death is truly death, emotional scar tissue. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. This is real gold.

Thinkism

Proverbs 23:7King James Version (KJV)

7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

There are many -isms that should be -wasms. Socialism, Communism, Nazism, Fascism, even Nihilism. Genus Homo (Human Being) is the only member of the animal kingdom who has the ability to think-reason-make predetermined decisions. In my lifetime (84) I have personally seen human beings dumbed down by a secular-state news media who are determined to do all of the thinking for you. We call such, "Stinking Thinking." Satan is in control of such thinking, it should be very obvious to anyone with an IQ above their shoe size. Madison Ave., the world, flesh devil, would have you believe that government knows best... that government knows best with your values judgment, political correctness, the necessity to be popular. There was a time we called such "controls" brainwashing. We have seen the cheapening of life (abortion, euthanasia), the greatest gift in God's creation. It is beyond the comprehension of this writer, one who has spent his entire life in science and healthcare. That those who should know the "magnificence" of the human body, even a rudimentary knowledge of epidemiology, could not with certainty COMPREHEND THE HORRORS OF A VIRUS.

June 20, 2014: The Centers for Disease Control sign is seen at its main facility in Atlanta, Georgia. (Reuters)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on Tuesday that a patient being treated at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for Ebola, the first case diagnosed in the United States.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas officials said in a statement Monday that an unnamed patient was being tested for Ebola and had been placed in "strict isolation" due to the patient's symptoms and recent travel history.

Presbyterian Hospital says it's taking measures to keep its doctors, staff and patients safe.

CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said that the patient arrived in Texas from Liberia earlier this month and exhibited no symptoms. The patient sought care last Friday and has been hospitalized in isolation since the weekend. Frieden said that officials don't believe there is any risk to anyone who was on the flight at that time.

State health officials say no other cases are suspected in Texas.

The hospital had announced a day earlier that the patient's symptoms and recent travel indicated a case of Ebola, the virus that has killed more than 3,000 people across West Africa and infected a handful of Americans who have traveled to that region.

The CDC has said 12 other people in the U.S. have been tested for Ebola since July 27. Those tests came back negative.

Four American aid workers who have become infected while volunteering in West Africa have been treated in special isolation facilities in hospitals in Atlanta and Nebraska, and a U.S. doctor exposed to the virus in Sierra Leone is under observation in a similar facility at the National Institutes of Health.

The U.S. has only four such isolation units but the CDC has insisted that any hospital can safely care for someone with Ebola.

According to the CDC, Ebola symptoms can include fever, muscle pain, vomiting and bleeding, and can appear as long as 21 days after exposure to the virus.

Jason McDonald, spokesman for the CDC, said health officials use two primary guidelines when deciding whether to test a person for the virus.

"The first and foremost determinant is have they traveled to the region (of West Africa)," he said. The second is whether there's been proximity to family, friends or others who've been exposed, he said.

U.S. health officials have been preparing since summer in case an individual traveler arrived here unknowingly infected, telling hospitals what infection-control steps to take to prevent the virus from spreading in health facilities. People boarding planes in the outbreak zone are checked for fever, but symptoms can begin up to 21 days after exposure. Ebola isn't contagious until symptoms begin, and it takes close contact with bodily fluids to spread.

God wanted me to sense the world. Though sightless, I could smell, hear and understand matters that were described to me. I remember going to the hospital on Easter Island, not one patient in the hospital, so careful were these people in keeping an island of healthiness-righteousness in a sea of paganism and disease (an island five hundred miles off the coast of South America in the Pacific Ocean). In my eight around the world trips, I found that in many countries, anyone even suspected of a disease was isolated... prohibited from entering their country. I saw a large group isolated in Israel. With all this so-called scientific competence of America, we would dare allow disease to enter, via airports overnight. In most of the world, there are few hospitals, fewer nursing homes etc. The people have an acquired immunity to most diseases they come into contact. Plus, they do not live such sanitized-sterilized lives.

I was in almost every African country, will never recover from their sick-care system. What was called a hospital, a building with mats on the floor... families outside cooking on open fires (I will never forget all that smoke). Themselves cooking for and taking care of their loved one in the so-called hospital. It's just the grace of God that most people do not succumb to any disease in these places. But, is it any better here? We allow just about anyone to enter at our airports... the mad rush to just get through and grab a cab. Anyone, when ill, difficulty in getting diagnosed, visitors in and out of the hospitals bringing in on their shoes, clothing, every type of germ. Anyone ill enough to be in the hospital, should not have visitors. This writer was astounded at a local hospital, actual carpeting in corridors, draperies on windows, stuffed chairs in rooms. It would seem that the "scientist" managing these facilities were attempting to harbor every germ possible. But of course, big pharma, big medicine, big sick-care staffing, big houses on "pill hills", do not get rich from healthy or dead people, only sick people. The objective is to keep as many people sick as possible, keep everyone taking as many medications as possible. This is the reason America spends more on sick-care than any other nation, why there is never a cure for anything... ONLY TREATMENT. As it spreads, and it surely will spread, people and projects will get rich from Ebola.