Hello
John and Doves,
On
February 13, 2020 the following article was
published. Lots of information was presented to
Congress by various health experts.
"Dow tumbles as U.S. Warned of 100,000s of
Coronavirus Cases": Health experts urged Congress to
prepare for widespread coronavirus outbreaks in the U.S.
which could number in the hundreds of thousands....U.S.
health experts urged Congress to take the coronavirus
threat more seriously. According to one testimony,
there are likely seven or eight unknown cases for every
confirmed infection. Asha George, executive director
of the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, warned:
It may be hundreds of thousands of cases (in the U.S.
eventually).
Speaking before the Senate Homeland Security
& Governmental Affairs Committee, a number of experts
agreed the threat to the U.S. is underestimated and
under-reported. The U.S. has now reported 14
confirmed cases of the deadly virus ((15 to-date
2/13)). But health experts believe the real figures
are much higher as the virus can be transmitted even while
undetected for 10-14 days.
Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food
and Drug Administration, said there are "certainly cases
we don't know about," and that we're only "capturing 25
percent of cases at best." He urged the committee to
expand testing and warned them to expect a wider
outbreak. "We're going to see those outbreaks start
to emerge in the next two to four weeks."
Luciana Borio, former director for medical and
biodefense preparedness at the National Security Council,
agreed. He said the real number of cases is "much,
much higher" than reported. "We need to brace
ourselves for difficult weeks or months to come...We're
going to see a lot more cases in the United States in the
near future.
Economists worry that the picture could suddenly
darken as the impact of the coronavirus begins to filter
out of China and into the global economy. That's
especially true if the disease goes viral in the U.S.
Asha George, executive director of the
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, said there are
generally seven or eight unseen cases for every known
case. "It may be hundred of thousands of cases" here
ultimately, she warned.
Julia Gerberding, former director of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned that
America is not yet prepared for the looming
pandemic. "We simply don't have the surge capacity
to handle a widespread outbreak. Now is the time
to be "leaning in".
Another article published on February 6, 2020,
is on health experts telling the House Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee that "Travel bans and quarantines targeting
travelers from China...are 'effectively penalizing' the
country and may chill the sharing of information",
cautioning 'that travel bans were not only generally
ineffective but could also thwart the ability of the US
to work work with global partners, including China, to
counter the outbreak...The "best evidence" drawn from
past global epidemic had shown that lockdowns on
travel generally only delayed an introduction of a
contagion by a matter of weeks, said Jennifer Nuzzo, an
associate professor at Johns Hopkins University's Centre
for Health Security.
These
experts want our government to focus on "bolstering the
preparedness of public health providers in the U.S. and
increasing international collaboration, particularly with
China's health authorities."
WHO
officials have urged countries that have implemented
travel bans, which include Singapore, Japan and the US, to
consider rolling back the restrictions.
..."It
is a battle between human and virus," said Jennifer Huang
Bouey, an epidemiologist and specialist in China policy at
the RAND Corporation."
(end
of articles)
So exactly WHAT are
public health providers suppose to prepare for?
Mass casualties, mass infection rates...like what is
happening in China now? The Chinese health care
system has been overrun! IF this infection started
some time in November in Wuhan, China (the earliest
cases were reported around December 8)...on December 30
a whistleblower, Dr. Li Wenliang, spoke out, by January
23, 11 million people were quarantined. In only
about 2 months after the infection showed up, a huge
city is put in lockdown.
On January 21, the first
case of coronavirus in the U.S. was confirmed by the
CDC. (The man had returned to Seattle from
Wuhan.) This is our Number One. He was
quarantined and treated, so this would slow down the
timeline from him. However, others were coming in
from Wuhan. What will the U.S. look like in two months
from then? What will this look like the end of
March, into April?
On
January 31, 2020, President Trump signed a proclamation
restricting travel from China - mandating quarantines of
14 days for U.S. citizens who traveled to Hubei province
within the past two weeks. And self-quarantine is
mandated for U.S. citizens returning from other regions of
China for 14 days. If travel bans don't work well,
the world will soon see.
Experts
are saying that travel bans only delay the spread by a
matter of weeks.
Many
of us can see this as easily becoming a 'pestilence'
during the Tribulation. The timing of this getting
to a 'Wuhan level' is pretty much putting us and the rest
of the world at the start of the Spring Feast Days -
April.
We
have Purim on March 9, 10, 11 (Feast of Esther, Purim,
Shushan Purim). Then Nissan 1 is March 26th and Nissan 10
is April 4th - Palm Sunday/the day Jesus rode the donkey
in to Jerusalem - possible start of the 'prophetic clock'.
The
Spring Feast Days: Eve of Passover is April 8th,
Passover is April 9th, then Feast of Unleavened Bread,
followed by the Feast of Firstfruits. (Using the
chabad.org calendar).
I
do hope the Rapture is in our near future! Before
this pandemic becomes the 'Spanish Flu on Steroids', as
some are reporting.
Pray
for the peace of Jerusalem!
Maranatha!
Chance