Why We Should Prep

Make no mistake about it, you must prep for the Bird Flu and this is why.  I have been around here for over 6 months now and thought I had a pretty good understanding about what is going on in the world concerning bird flu which for me was enough reason to prep.  Today I read the revised WHO definition of bird flu symptoms and their criteria for testing.  I didn't realize how subjective and dependant upon an initial decision to diagnose and test in the first place which I feel has caused for many infections to go unnoticed and untested.  This Bird Flu is more wide spread than has been disclosed so far as evidenced by 3 recent WHO confirmations of infections from many months ago.  Due to WHO redefing their definitions, this will only get worse.  One good thing though is this will bring into the fold more viral samples for analysis and classification.  For any of us here that are still unsure about bird flu and anyone who hasn’t started to prep I invite you to consider these points.

*People can be asymptomatic and may unsuspectingly carry the virus for up to 2 days, plenty of time to infect a lot of people without knowing it.

*When someone is sick it will then be up to the subjective diagnosis of understaffed overworked doctors or nurses* almost all of whom have never seen avian flu before and most likely will treat the patient for seasonal flu or other more familiar illnesses.   Off they go home to recover and possibly infect more people including their familiy *Please I did not mean to undermine or offend our precious medical force it is simply a reality we must expect.

*In the event it is suspected that the patient has bird flu, someone will have to decide to test.  Testing we have seen takes up to 2 weeks to get a positive confirmation from WHO. Again, plenty more time to possibly infect more people but at this point a quarantine would be enforced.  But still that patient has already crossed paths with many people for the past few days prior to getting sick. 

*Now repeat the above 3 points over and over for every person the first patient crossed paths with for the next 6 - 18 months!

IMHO, WHO cannot be relied upon to stop this virus and the best we should expect is for them to respond to an outbreak which most likely will already be out of control.  We here on this forum will stand the best chance of seeing a pandemic outbreak in whatever form they manifest before anyone else.  But again it will already be too late, the genie will be out of the bottle and the best we can do is just get out of the way before it gets to your town.  At that time you will need at least 3 months preps and to put into practice everything you have learned here.