And naturally the USA is handling Ebola better than Nigeria?????? I heard the nurse this morning complaining about isolation with no symptoms in NJ and filing a suit against the government. Well, precaution is better than spread of the disease. They willingly do it in Nigeria to save lives. I know, 21 days would put me in danger for payments, but I guess we should have a 6-month emergency fund which nobody does because we are spending more than we are getting each month. Start now! From: Laissez Faire Today [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 1:03 PM To: Patty Engle Subject: Operation Dark Winter: The Bioterrorist Taste Test What U.S. industry has grown its installed base by more than 418% since 2010? Image removed by sender. Laissez Faire Today October 27, 2014 Website | Unsubscribe Operation Dark Winter: The Bioterrorist Taste Test Fools or scoundrels or both: Solar power is a scam and Ebola is nothing to worry about (not)… Operation Dark Winter: The government has an idea of what would happen during a bioterrorist attack (its not pretty)... Could ISIS really spread Ebola? Some pundits are confident its impossible. We… were not so sure… The NYPD throws Ebola gloves in public can… readers respond to LFT podcast… and more! 5 Tiny Companies to Change the World *This presentation goes offline at midnight, October 28* Five small companies with enormous potential are on the verge of changing the way we live... and you could be one of the first to find out how to turn their success into ultra-wealth. Click here now for details. Image removed by sender. altYou guys are the worst sort of fearmongers out there, one angry reader wrote last week. Solar power is a scam and has been proven to be so time after time. Those who are promoting it are either fools or scoundrels or both. Ebola, our heated reader pivots, can only be transmitted from one person to another by way of direct contact with bodily fluids of an infected person. There is no evidence of any other vector of transmittal. This guy OSTERHEIM or whatever is is his name is only flogging fear to sell books. He has a long alarmist reputation among those in the knowledgable Ebola community who understand and do not underestimate this dreaded disease. How was Nigeria able to contain it? Please cancel my subscription and refund me any balance due immediately. LFT: Sorry to see you go. Weve notified customer service. We couldnt disagree with you more, though, on either points. Solar power is not a scam. We assume your argument has something to do with the sun not always being up… it being too expensive… costly maintenance…etc… Weve heard it. Sure, its still more expensive than other modern forms of energy, such as natural gas. But that wont always be the case. Solar energy, if and when were able to harness it efficiently enough, we believe, will revolutionize the way we collect, store and use energy across the world. As our tech maven Stephen Petranek mentioned last week, one company hasnt just discovered a way to store energy from solar panels, but is also giving us the potential to use solar as a clean fuel. How? Through the use of hydrogen generation. With it, Stephen explains, you can take electrical energy provided by the sun and convert it into hydrogen. Hydrogen is not only the lightest element; its also very valuable as a fuel. Its a very energetic fuel on a mass basis, which is why we used it to send the Space Shuttle into orbit. [You can learn more about this companys technology (and how to invest) at his webpage. Click here to learn more. Act quick, though. This page will go dark tomorrow at midnight.] Image removed by sender. altAnd as far as Osterholm goes, you may know, he was the keynote speaker at the symposium we visited. Mind you, at one of the worlds highest regarded hospitals, Johns Hopkins. A hospital ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the best overall hospital in America for 21 years straight. He was warmly accepted as a credible voice among all those involved -- many of whom youd probably consider in the know. With little doubt, hes in the knowledgeable community. For his full profile, click here. And on the transmission of Ebola, maybe youre taking cues from NYCs Mayor Bill de Blasio. The following is what he said during a press conference on Friday. He was responding to a question about whether or not theyll track down all those who came into indirect contact with Dr. Spencer, the doctor who came down with Ebola in the city last week. We quote: Unless we find anyone else we can confirm direct, intimate personal contact with bodily fluids, we would not take an additional step towards those individuals because theres literally no way the disease can be transmitted. No way. Literally. Strong words. We wonder where hes getting his information. Its not the CDCs website. Even the CDC admits that saliva and mucus could transmit Ebola through coughing or sneezing. Yes, Mayor. That means indirect contact. Literally. In the CDCs words… Image removed by sender. Click here to see it for yourself. The executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Jane Orient, recently said this in an interview with CBS Dallas: What were suggesting is that it is very dangerous to assume that one cannot ever acquire Ebola from an aerosol or from breathing. If Ebola can spread through aerosol, what about coughing or sneezing in a crowded subway station? Or even in your hand and holding onto a rail? What about touching an Uber door handle? Or sticking your fingers in a bowling ball? Dr. Spencer did all of these things. But no worries. Ebola will acquiesce to the opinions of U.S. health officials. You know… like how the Law of Attraction works. Image removed by sender. altYour last question on how Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, contained the Ebola virus: Very carefully. They quarantined everyone who came into direct and indirect contact with patient zero. The CDC estimated that 26,000 households of Nigerians living near those who were in contact with Ebola victims were reached through house-to-house visits. Plus, Nigerians didnt feign confidence. They laid out their vulnerabilities and were honest with the public. From the outset, Nigerian government officials admitted their physicians and front-line first responders had no experience in dealing with Ebola. So they started from scratch. And they didnt make any sweeping assumptions about the deadly disease. And then they took quick, strong and decisive action. All the while educating the public on all the dangers. The Nigerian government was wholeheartedly into the process of trying to solve the problem, Dr. Aileen Marty, one of the doctors on the ground in Nigeria helping to combat the spread, told CBC news. They also didnt let nurses who treated patient zero fly around the country. Were certain they would make sure doctors who fly back from Liberia have limited contact in cities of millions. They probably dont assume that riding in public transit is 100% safe when infected (its not, and we believe to declare so, as Blasio did on Friday, is irresponsible). Neither would we, by the way, consider Osterholms book on bioterrorism, Living Terrors, as alarmist. Especially not at a time when the richest terror group thats ever existed is threatening to spread Ebola through the U.S. I have spent most of my career, Osterholm writes in the introduction, reassuring the public, policy makers, and colleagues that bacterial meningitis is not easy to transmit, HIV wont mysteriously spread through the air, and that immunizations are generally quite safe and very effective. While thats still true, many of our recent battles with infectious agents have become more complex and challenging. Nothing has prepared us, however, for the potential hell of a biological terrorist attack. For this reason, I felt compelled to write this book. Image removed by sender. altWhat would happen in the event of a bioterrorist attack? The government already has an idea… Only a few months before Sept. 11, 2001, a group of leading Democratic national security experts gathered at Andrews Air Force Base to carry out a national security exercise, Marc Thiessen, former speechwriter for the Bush administration wrote in the Washington Post last week. This national security exercise was donned Operation Dark Winter. Hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dark Winter simulated a biological attack on the United States in which terrorists release smallpox virus in three shopping malls in Oklahoma City, Philadelphia and Atlanta. According to the exercise, it only took a few days for 1,000 people to get infected and 300 to die. After 13 days, The Post article reads, 16,000 smallpox cases have been reported in 25 states and 1,000 people have died. Vaccine supplies have been depleted. Canada and Mexico have closed their borders to the United States. It has become logistically impossible to identify and isolate smallpox victims and their contacts to prevent the disease from spreading. And the social consequences of this infection, the drill found, were disastrous. Most hospitals reported inadequate supplies and not enough isolation areas. Anxious crowds surrounded vaccination clinics. Police and the National Guard were called in. Governors closed schools and canceled all public gatherings. The reluctance of drivers to make deliveries to the infected areas caused food shortages and store shelve panics. The attorney general prepared to push through the Executive Order for martial law. Once signed, the affected areas instantly saw, as the EO stated, the prohibition of free assembly, a national travel ban, quarantine of certain area, suspension of the writ of habeas corpus [i.e. arrest without due process]... As a result, says Thiessen, Trading on the stock exchange is suspended. International commerce grinds to a halt. No country in the world will allow flights originating in or transiting through the United States to land. States have closed their borders with other states. There are riots and looting throughout the country. Image removed by sender. altIt was an eerily elaborate drill. They even made several faux news reports for it, like this one… Image removed by sender. It means it could be a very dark winter for America… Image removed by sender. altSo what about Ebola? Thiessen asked. Unlike smallpox, which is hard to come by, the Ebola infection is raging right now in parts of Africa where Islamist extremists could have easy access. As physician Scott Gottlieb of the American Enterprise Institute points out, with Ebola, Mother Nature has created the perfect bioweapon in many respects, as long as the attacker has suicidal aspirations. Ebola has up to a 21-day incubation period -- more than enough time for terrorists to infect themselves and then come here with the virus. In a nightmare scenario, suicide bombers infected with Ebola could blow themselves up in a crowded place -- say, shopping malls in Oklahoma City, Philadelphia and Atlanta -- spreading infected tissue and bodily fluids. Or, the virus could also be released more subtly. Terrorists could collect samples of infected body fluids, and then place them on doorknobs, handrails or airplane tray tables, allowing Ebola to spread quietly before officials even realize that a biological attack has taken place. Think it cant happen? If an Ebola-infected Liberian, Thomas Eric Duncan, was able to fly to Dallas, what is to stop an Ebola-infected terrorist from doing the same? And if our health-care system was unable to handle a single Ebola patient, imagine what would happen if 50, 100 or more Ebola patients started showing up at U.S. hospitals. Some disagree that ISIS could pull it off. Were not so sure. More on that right after this short break… EXPOSED: Gaping hole found in the tax code... You might be shocked to learn that theres a gaping hole hidden deep in the tax code. And it turns out that just by tucking into that legal blind spot... you can hide a potentially huge amount of income, tax-free. The IRS simply cant touch it. CLICK HERE to see how it works -- its shockingly simple. Image removed by sender. altSome disagree that ISIS could pull it off… Because its so easy to get a U.S. visa if youre a terrorist in the Middle East, they say. Well, apart from the fact that ISIS supporters are flocking to Syria in support of ISIS from several Western countries (meaning, theyre not all coming from the Middle East. See: Canada)… We assume the naysayers werent tuning in to ISIS tweets back in August. See below… The one on the left is in front of Chicagos Old Republic Building. The other, the White House. Time stamps, according to NY Daily News, on both photos said June 20. Image removed by sender. Image removed by sender. altAlready we have seen schools closed in Dallas and Cleveland and a ship denied entry in Mexico and Belize, Thiessen goes on. It would not require a attack on the level of Dark Winter to cause mass disruptions to our way of life and our economy. Moreover, in the Dark Winter exercise, the United States had a stockpile of 12.5 million doses of smallpox vaccine available. Today, there is no stockpile of Ebola vaccine. Indeed, there is no proven Ebola vaccine at all. There are promising experimental treatments, and the government is racing to ramp up production. But even if these prove effective, it would be impossible to quickly produce enough to deal with a Dark Winter scenario. Then there is the impact of all the false assurances from President Obama that Ebola was unlikely to reach our shores and that if it did that our doctors, our nurses and our medical staff are trained, are ready, and are able to deal with a possible case safely. The American peoples trust in our government has been severely undermined -- and with it the ability of public health officials to manage a mass outbreak. The nation is woefully unprepared for an Ebola outbreak, much less an Ebola attack. If terrorists were to turn Ebola into a crude terror weapon, we could be in for a Dark Winter indeed. Image removed by sender. altAlso, mind you, Ebola is in NYC… According to some reports, Spencer has entered Phase Two of the disease. Not good. Worse is the… once again… lackluster response by health officials. Remember, Nigeria overreacted to the diagnosis of their first patient. Thats what saved them. The U.S., on the other hand, is treading a dangerous path of overconfidence. The reports that theyre saying about the apartment being sealed off? Its not, Ricardo Lawrence, Spencers next-door neighbor told People magazine. Theres not even a hazard a hazard tape across the door or anything. Im a little bit of a germaphobe, so last night I went and wiped the elevator buttons down with some Clorox wipes and did what I could to minimize what little bit of exposure we may have. He even mopped the hallways floors. Im not being overly paranoid, but Im doing what I can to minimize any kind of contamination. Image removed by sender. altMeanwhile, the NYPD on the scene reflect this complete disregard… Below you see the officers walking down the street after taking the caution tape down. One officer is checking out his hands and… we can only imagine… wondering if he touched something he shouldnt have. Image removed by sender. The shot below shows them throwing away their masks, the tape and their gloves in a public trashcan. Agh. Image removed by sender. And the third picture is the garnish. One police officer touches his mouth immediately after removing the gloves. Image removed by sender. So… in a city of well over eight million, we think more can be done to eliminate risk of further infection. But health officials dont appear that interested. Thats why we wrote up Laissez Faires Ultimate Pandemic Survival Guide. Not to fearmonger. To inform you of the dangers and help protect you from the unintended consequences of the governments less-than-glorious response. If you havent already, click here to claim your copy. Well get to more reader mail in a moment. Right after this short break… A weird stock market “end around” Here’s how to sneak around Wall Street and capture massive profit potential on private companies about to go public. One rare play showed early investors gains of 1000-to-1. Click here for details. Image removed by sender. altFor me the Podcast was done quite well and the two narrators were easy to listen to, Stephen Parkerton wrote. I am glad that I had enough time today to hear but that wont be the case often. I would prefer to see Podcast in less than half this amount of time and for subjects involving more depth and time I would prefer they be broken into shorter sections over a few days. Image removed by sender. altI have just listened to your Podcast concerning solar energy, etc, Bill D. wrote. I am always interested in learning more, as I currently live off the grid, and have been for several years. Image removed by sender. altI usually do not like to listen to podcast or view video, Fo L. wrote. However, if the broadcasting comes with a transcript for people who prefer to read than listen or view, Ill go to the site to read the transcript. LFT: Thanks for writing in. All of your feedback is being considered. Until tomorrow, Chris Campbell Managing editor, Laissez Faire Today Image removed by sender. Image removed by sender. altLaissez Faire Today Laissez Faire Today is your free e-letter that explores current events and topics through the eyes our expert contributors. 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