From an email list: Authorities Prepare To Seize Kids During Swine Flu Pandemic, at Infowars.com
Authorities are preparing to seize children from schools, set up quarantines and morgues, conduct mass vaccinations, and deal with riots and unrest, according to an international swine flu summit recently held in Washington DC which was attended by distinguished scientists, industry leaders and top health officials from all over the globe.
"Authorities" doing this sort of thing is pretty much standard operating procedure about a situation that could affect large numbers of people in a bad way.
When I lived in Europe (U.S. military) during the Cold War, the threat of an invasion was as real as anyone knew it could be without actually seeing tanks pushing down the East German fences (The Wall was in Berlin).
From 1971, when I first lived in Germany, until 1999, when we moved to the United States to care for my mom, while we lived in Europe we were required to have as much food, water and clothing/hygienic supplies as each one of us could carry, as well as our "NEO cards" to turn in along the way until we reached safety. This was our NEO Kit.
Noncombatant Evacuation Operations (NEO)
(USAREUR is the Army in Europe, USAFE is the Air Force, and USNAVEUR is the Navy. POV is a car -- "privately owned vehicle" as compared with GOV, a gov't owned vehicle)
Section IV NEO FORMS AND CHECKLISTS
15. NEO Kit
16. POV Registration Certificate
17. Individual Family Report
18. Noncombatant Evacuation Processing Record
At one point, my family lived 12 miles from the East German border in the 'traditional' invasion route through the Fulda Gap.
One morning 'we' had a scare of 'tank noises on the border' that turned
out to be just the noise of tanks being moved. Only watchers on the
Border heard the noises, so it wasn't as if the tanks woke us up such
as American tanks might do while rolling through our village during REFORGER. Still, my husband's office was on alert until 'authorities' figured out who was making the noises.
If 'anything happened' other than noises, we family members were told we would be given strip maps to debarkation points/airports (although the reality in case of a full-bore invasion was 'about a 7-second life expectancy' for those of us on the Border) Ca. 1957 when I was a child, we even had one practice "evacuation" at a SAC base, Ellsworth, in South Dakota where we lived (relatively) near Mt. Rushmore. On evacuation day, the sirens went off and all the families got their picnic lunches in the car and drove off into the Black Hills. According to my mom, it was a bit of a mess (I remember the traffic jam), and no commander at Ellsworth evacuated an entire housing area again, not even during the Cuban missile crisis a few years later. How fast could you drive away from a direct nuclear attack?
It is the responsibility of our government to make plan for disasters -- that's one of the things we pay them for. I'd rather have a plan in place (this is one area in which I'd want competent planners on the job -- the aftermath of Katrina was another 'bit of a mess'), rather than for the government to just leave everything up to anarchy with people shooting it out in neighborhoods. Self-sufficiency is admirable, but our society is not now centered on the gentleman farmer in a landed aristocracy, and back yard tomatoes only get you so far. (sites such as 72 Hours provide a plan)
Disaster planning is nothing to sneeze at, and if worse came to worst (god willing and the creek don't rise, this flu season will be just another 'scenario' such as Y2K), having someone who knows something about "quarantines and morgues" (in the Army, part of that is the job of the graves registration unit) would be something anyone with a 'need' would probably be grateful for.
As for the 'forced inoculations' I don't have a problem with vaccination, although as a small child in school I often objected loudly and with energy. When I was in 3rd grade, ca. 1958, a teacher was diagnosed with active TB and the entire school, teachers and kids, were given the pre-TINE TB test in the school gym.
The only method of vaccination I was heartily in favor of (as a child) was the method for administering the (then) brand new Sabin polio vaccine. After school one day, entire families trooped up to the school's new cafeteria to get their doses ... on a sugar cube. What looked to me like cookie sheets of sugar cubes with a pink(?) drop on the top were laid out on the cafeteria tables. It was probably that same year that my class visited a girl in an iron lung. She'd been stricken with polio and could no longer breathe on her own. The visit was probably a purposeful move to convince us of the need for vaccination, and also probably an effective one. Who hears about wards full of polio victims in iron lung wards any more?
Otherwise, US Air Force kids at the school I went to got their shots at school --
the nurses trundled a cart through the hallway and those of us who
needed shots, lined up in the hallway, shot records in hand.
Public inoculations are nothing new.
I understand that many people have heartfelt reasons for questioning the level of present inoculations, the manufacturing processes, or the trade-off of individual side effects against 'herd immunity,' and I'm not quibbling about discussions to answer those questions. But what, I wonder, is the point of scaring readers because our various levels of government are planning ahead and actually doing a job that we pay them to do? What's the point?
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