FLU PANDEMIC PLANNING

FLU PANDEMIC PLANNING   

What's more important in New York State? Giving illegal aliens state drivers licenses or taking control of the State Senate ....or ...emergency/disaster  preparedness?

PRESS RELEASE
Northern Berkshire Community Coalition to Hold Forum on Preparing for a Flu Pandemic

Contact: Al Bashevkin or Ed Sedarbaum, 663-7588


The Northern Berkshire Community Coalition urges the public to attend an important community discussion on “Emergency Preparedness: Preparing for a Flu Pandemic.” The forum will be held on Friday, October 12th from 10 a.m. to noon at the First Baptist Church in North Adams, and will include representatives from the Berkshire County Boards of Health Association as well as representatives of the Community Pandemic Planning Team facilitated by Northern Berkshire Healthcare.

Two years ago in September the world watched the devastation of the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina. All of America decried the fact that people — especially people without private resources -- were stranded amidst a communications and public health network that was broken.  

Scientists know that every 50 or 60 years, an extremely difficult strain of the flu virus that affects humans takes hold. The Spanish flu pandemic in 1918-19 killed over 500,000 people in the U.S. During the 1957 Asian flu, 70,000 Americans lost their lives. The “bird flu,” as the present flu strain is commonly called, has affected people far from us. If this strain finds an easy means of transmission amongst people, it may be able to travel worldwide, and we may face another pandemic. It’s estimated that up to 40% of our workforce may be either sick or caring for someone and not at work.

The October 12th forum will bring the community together to talk about preparedness for the potential of a flu pandemic. By planning for the worst-case scenario of a pandemic, we will also be better prepared for other emergencies. In case of a flu pandemic or other public health crisis, what can we do to prevent and slow its transmission?  What are the community resources we have to care for afflicted people in our community? How do we get official word out about what to do?

Local agencies are working together to prepare for this potential, and we need to ensure that the broader community is engaged. The October 12th Coalition forum is a part of that process. Join us!
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Apply to Governor's office.

                                                                    J P Sullivan

DRIVER GATE FLAUNTS RULE OF LAW

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

MORE ON DRIVER GATE

Enforce and strengthen NYS DMV Law governing issuance of driver licenses.

Amend to read...shall require photo ID (the kind that is eye scan -same as fingerprint)

S 502. Requirements for licensing. 1. Application for license.Application for a driver`s license shall be made to the commissioner.The fee prescribed by law may be submitted with such application. The applicant shall furnish such proof of identity, age, and fitness as maybe required by the commissioner. The commissioner may also provide thatthe application procedure shall include the taking of a photo image orimages of the applicant in accordance with rules and regulationsprescribed by the commissioner. In addition, the commissioner also shall require that the applicant provide his or her social security number

The rule of law must not be compromised to further political agendas.

J P Sullivan

NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH REMINDER

Read: http://bpcnanews.blogspot.com/2007/10/neighborhood-watch-reminder-all.html

ALBANY WARD 7 SPOT ZONING COVER UP

ALBANY WARD 7 SPOT ZONING COVER UP

Read http://bpcnanews.blogspot.com/2007/09/albany-ward-7-spot-zoning-coverupthe.html

Homeland Security or Not?

Friday, September 28, 2007

Recent Happenings Homeland Security

Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings and the local Red Cross Chapter announced they are partnering to promote emergency/disaster preparedness education. This is a late, but good first step, but falls far short of what is needed.

See what Huntsville, Alabama has done: http://news.aol.com/story/ar/_a/alabama-city-reopening-fallout-shelters/20070927171609990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

There are some who proclaim Albany is not a target for terrorists. Think Again!

Albany is a symbolic target- the seat of state government, the Capitol of the Empire State.

Albany is a major Northeast transportation cross roads with rail lines, interstate highways and bridges as well as a major incoming container cargo port.

Albany is a soft target that is not prepared.


GOVERNOR SPITZER has promulgated an administrative directive providing for the State DMV to issue drivers licences to illegal immigrants.

By so doing, Governor Spitzer is flaunting the rule of law as well as aiding and abetting terrorists
(foreign and their domestic allies), thereby placing all New Yorkers and the nation in harms way.

The Governor can not supercede state law by administrative action.

Governor Spitzer must immediately rescind his unlawful and dangerous directive.

J P Sullivan

READY OR NOT?

August 17, 2007

Personal Contingency Plans: More than an Ounce of Prevention

U.S. counterterrorism sources remain concerned that an attack against the U.S. homeland will occur within the next two to three weeks. This is not surprising, considering that the drums have been beating loudly in Washington this summer about a potential attack-first from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and then in the form of a National Intelligence Estimate. More recently, several other reports have appeared concerning an impending attack, including an alert over the weekend in New York triggered by an alleged dirty bomb plot.

source: Stratfor  Intel Briefing.  To read more go to:  http://www.billoreilly.com/blog?action=viewBlog&blogID=131449377057170635

IS ANYBODY READY FOR THE WORST?

ARE YOU READY FOR THE WORST?  It is winter, a heavy snow has fallen, the temperatures have plunged to below zero.

There is no heat, no power, no natural gas, no fuel, no water , no sewage disposal, no garbage pick up, because the power lines, natural gas lines, water system and sewer plant have been blown up.

A dirty bomb, hidden in a container at the Port of Albany goes off. The fuel oil terminal and gas tanks are destroyed.

You can't get out of town because the roads are not plowed. The city begins to burn, because arson fires are set. There is no water to fight fires. The firehouses have been attacked and destroyed.

Most city police and firefighters who live outside the city can't report for duty. Besides, their first obligation is the survival of their own families, in such a situation.

The food stores are empty. Civil disorder breaks out with criminals, gangs and mobs running through neighborhoods pillaging and plundering. Most homeowner can't defend themselves or protect their loved ones and property because the Common Council implemented the recommendations of the City Gun Task Force. which opted to disarm law abiding citizens of their Second Amendment right to bear arms and protect themselves.

People, who have not prepared to survive, flee their homes. They run to their neighborhood churches, synagogues, schools seeking shelter, warmth, light, water and food, but these neighborhood institutions and facilities can offer nothing because they have failed to prepare.

No need to go on, you get the picture. Utter chaos, civil disorder, devestation, destruction, hardship and death. You can anticipate and propose many other scenarios. Just use your imagination.

You can be sure that the foreign terrorists and their allies; anti-social,native born malcontents, illegal aliens, gangbangers, criminals, etc., are planning to strike, simultaneously, in ways that we are not anticipating. They are getting ready, but we are not!

Time is short, plan for your own survival and that of your family and loved ones. Encourage your neighborhood churches, synagogues, schools, pharmacies, health care providers, senior housing, etc. to do the same...without delay.

How and where to begin? Scroll through archives in this blog and our Neighborhood Association blog: http://bpcnanews.blogspot.com/   Go to the websites and sources contained therein.

Immediately contact James Greene, Disaster Preparation Coordinator for the American Red Cross: Greene@redcrossneny.org      tel 458 8111 ext 3011, for information, literature.

Have Jim come to your church, synagogue, school to put on a program and share information/literature on what to do to prepare.

Delay not a day longer. Pass this information onto family and friends.

We are nearing the anniversary of the first 9-11 attack. We know our foe acts on symbolism. Our troops have the foe on the run in Iraq and Afghanistan. Osama, and crew, will not be safe much longer in their NW Pakistan mountain frontier hideouts. The end is near and they know it. They are getting desperate.

Who will strike first?  We have the advantage, unless we suffer devestating, simultaneous strikes on the homeland, which will leave our troops, overseas at the mercy of the foe. because our homeland will be in chaos and ruin.

As General Tommy Franks (US Army ret) often says, his worst nightmare is that the U S will be plunged into martial law after such an attack on the homeland.

It goes without saying, the 2008 election, troopergate and all the rest of politics as usual, won't matter. Hillary or Obama, or Nancy Pelosi,or Harry Reid, or Chuckie, Eliot, Senator Joe, or Jerry won't be able to save you. Government at all levels is not prepared either.

Bottom line is that you and your loved ones have to save yourselves. No one else is prepared to.

So, as the rugged Navy Bosun's used to say: "Turn to! Let's see A........, and elbows!"

This is the last you will hear me urge you to get ready. I will be busy following my own advice.

Charles Darwin once postulated the theory "survival of the fittest".

That is precisely what will rule in the scenario outlined above.

No calls please, You are own your own!

 

                                                                      J P Sullivan