Apocalypse pandemic waiting in the wings:
The deadliest superbug yet — Candida auris — is invading hospitals and nursing homes, killing a staggering 60 percent of patients it infects…
The germ — a fungus — lingers on bedrails and on the uniforms and hands of doctors and nurses, ready to attack the next patient…
Candida auris is already in 15 hospitals in New York, including prestigious medical centers…
Health care infections — from Candida auris and many other germs — kill at least 75,000 hospital patients a year and five times that number in nursing homes. That’s nearly half a million deaths a year…
New York City is ground zero, with three-quarters of the cases…
In 1999, researchers revealed the existence of a killer germ CRE (short for carbapenem-resistant bacteria) at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. But state health officials and the CDC failed to act. By 2008, the germ had reached 22 states, often carried by patients from New York.
In 2011, a woman with CRE transferred from a New York hospital to the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, which set off an outbreak that killed 11 patients there, including a 16-year-old boy…
Meanwhile health officials in the U.S. cater to the hospital and nursing home industries and excuse shoddy infection control. Despite protests from members of Congress, the CDC sticks with outdated guidelines for how to clean patients’ rooms, ignoring the potential of automatic room disinfection to save lives.
Similarly, Medicare officials turn a blind eye to hospitals filing false infection rate reports, a new Inspector General report says.
Until public health officials start fighting for patients, the superbugs will keep winning.
The corruption of r-selection and the associated degradation of amygdala are helping these bugs spread and gain strength even now.
You have to assume that some form of outbreak is in the cards. Even now, with all the wealth and resources to try and suppress them, we are seeing these things emerge and establish themselves. Once resources are pulled, stress is everywhere, malnutrition is the norm, public health funding is gone because government can’t fund anything beyond minimal civil order and law enforcement, and people skimp on personal health spending because nobody has enough money to survive, there will be no end to the pathogens breaking out, and every one will have everything it needs to literally go global.
The main goal in the pandemic is avoidance and maintaining the strength of your immunity. Limit going out, limit exposure when you go out, maintain sanitary procedures, and keep your immunity up with good nutrition however you can. Food stockpiles and gardens that will limit supply trips, medicine stockpiles, bleach and alcohol, rodent/pest control, and if things are bad enough full containment gear for trips out would be the best bets to limit the ability of pathogens to gain entrance to your family, and make it through such a period.
There is a good chance that if a pandemic is bad enough, that even in the Apocalypse what few resources are available, as well as independent researchers with the ability and wealth to operate, will pile on the problem in search of a solution. This r-selected world and the free resource availability has left the world awash in used scientific equipment at bargain basement prices, along with a plethora of easily searchable data, as well as perceptions that nothing like a pandemic needs to be tolerated.
As a result, those who live longest will have the best chance of making it to a post-pandemic world. So you may not have to weld the door shut on your HEPA-filtered underground vault for the rest of your life. You may simply need to buy time until somebody finds a fix for the problem. The more time you can buy, the better your chances.
On the bright side, a pandemic will pretty much wipe out 90% of the leftists in the nation. Between their lack of disgust, their compulsive need to prove threats do not exist by ignoring them, their need to live in densely packed cities, their refusal to stockpile supplies due to their r-selected psychologies, and their tendency to do things which will expose them to disease, we are about three months from a full on Renaissance and return to sanity the moment the pandemic begins.
Embrace the Apocalypse.
Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because you’ll need your strength when the pandemic hits
Why K’s should own this . . . http://www.naturalnews.com/2016-12-20-study-manuka-honey-kills-more-bacteria-than-all-antibiotics-available.html
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Bacteria are weird. Many strains will colonize the healthy way before any sickness, most people (~50%) are colonized with MRSA. Once health degrades from a lack of food and stress rises, the bacteria will break out and overwhelm an immune system from one scratch, slowly eating the host. The key would be to have enough food/vitamins stockpiled to reduce this chance. Bacteria can lie dormant for so long that going into isolation would not necessarily save you, being proactive with your health is required. Zuckerberg-Soros types could easily engineer super strains as well. It would explain why they’re so “out of touch”, so to speak, hiding in their mansions, yachts and private islands. Expect them to go into hiding well before the “event”, haven’t seen them for awhile as is. Roving packs of Somalis, Mexicans or vibrant H1B “workers” could also move into town, send their kids to the same school as yours, shop at the same grocery store- or visit the closest hospital, because legal immigrants yada yada strength yada yada taxes yada yada GDP.
Superbugs are overtaking us? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmEiSSiiwKE 😉
And they want me to get a yearly colonoscopy. Not a chance. As stated, the key is to take good care of your health through diet, etc. Going to a hospital or doctor’s office and having an invasive procedure is throwing some really bad dice.
It takes a couple of weeks, up to three, to starve. Tell us more about this Renaissance, or how long we need to prep for. Practical info for fellow Ks, since the r will never abide it.
Tough to say, but I would try to have the ability to live off the grid for months at least, and maybe over a year or two. If things crash, that is probably what it will take to see the non-self sufficient die off, and then mop up the predators – who probably killed the non-self-sufficient.
After that, the people who have survived will tend to have had a system, and thus have lower amygdala. The people to watch will be the desperate ones who know death is coming for them, because they will do anything. That desperation needs to burn itself out and see those who have it either figure out their system, or die.
Once the desperate actors are gone, those who remain will be secure enough to have relationships with, and rebuild a civilization with.