Is the Perfect Storm brewing?
I assume you are all as alarmed as I am about the onset of this swine flu virus. BHM has written fairly extensively about the possibility of a pandemic involving a 1918-flu-like virus, and have even published a book about how to prepare yourself against this and other society-wide threats. But I always hoped we would never actually have to face such a threat. This swine flu, unfortunately, may be the real thing.
My daughter, Annie, the managing editor of BHM, told me this morning, “Dad, this is like the Perfect Storm. We have the possibility of a disease pandemic, the country is in a severe recession, and there is widespread political dissatisfaction on the right with the Obama administration. I hope we don’t get a cataclysmic weather event on top of this.”
We are battening down the hatches here, preparing to isolate our family against the outside world, and making plans to produce the next issue of BHM with a staff that can isolate themselves in their own homes. I hope it won’t be necessary, but isolation is the only real protection against a virus from which humans have no immunity. We are also buying Tamiflu and Relenza, which will help fight off flu.
We have plenty of food, fuel, and guns and ammo in our home, and we live way out in the woods. Today we’ll buy as much meat as we can, and jerky and freeze it. If this swine flu develops into a pandemic, the supermarket shelves will empty quickly. I advise anyone reading this to take this pandemic threat seriously.
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A comment on this post from www.realselfreliance.com has a link to an excellent video on swine flu from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control): Click here to read it.
April 27th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Where does one buy Tamiflu and Relenza?
April 27th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Any pharmacy. It’s by prescription so you’ll have to get your doctor to write you one.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
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May 2nd, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Dave,
I think we’ve solved the mystery of the Swine Flu. It’s the reason to implement the NAIS system discussed on pages 31 – 37 of the May/June 2009 issue of The Backwoods Home Magazine!
This is definitely the time to put our bureaucrats on notice! We will not tolerate any further infringments on our liberty!
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:31 pm
You bring up a good point. Government will use these “emergencies,” such as the potential for a swine flu outbreak, to enact more laws that take away our freedoms. I understand Massachusetts pols are considering a law that would allow sudden searches of people’s homes and businesses, confiscation and destruction of private property, and other serious infringements on the rights of citizens in the event a “health emergency” is declared. The problem is that health threats come and go, but oppressive laws that allow government agents to invade our homes because some bureaucrat decides it’s an emergency tend to stay around. We must always be vigilant against government assistance in helping solve society’s potential threats, because usually the government solution does nothing against the problem but always ends up strengthening the power of govenment over our personal lives.