The Daily Vlog (part of FutureGate)

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/01/25/kaye.signs/index.html

This is unbelievable WASTE and STUPIDITY. That $1M could = 10 CRAIDO mobile labstations around the country.

See more surprising ways your tax-dollars are being spent on the week-long series “The Stimulus Project” on AC360, 10 p.m. ET

A state senator from Ohio says his state is spending $1 million on road signs to advertise the use of stimulus money for road projects. In other words, the state is using your money to tell you it’s spending your money.

State Sen. Tim Grendell, R-Ohio, calls it a waste of taxpayer dollars. The road signs he’s concerned about display words such as “Project Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” Some road projects have two signs, and some don’t have any at all, but the signs aren’t cheap.

The bigger signs can cost as much as $3,000 each, according to Grendell, who says this is just a big “thank you” to the Obama Administration.

He told CNN, “Send a fruit basket if you want to say ‘thank you.’ Don’t waste a million dollars saying ‘thank’ you to Washington for giving us back our tax money.”

Grendell says the message here is that stimulus dollars are “being spent stupidly.”

Ohio’s Department of Transportation says that criticism misses the point — that this is all about transparency.

Scott Varner, a spokesperson for the department said, “the president made a commitment to have these symbols of stimulus projects; we think it’s important. What better way to let the taxpayer know where stimulus money is being spent?”

While Varner says the $1 million price tag on signs is “on the high side,” he was unable to provide the department’s own tally for money spent on the signs.

He said, “it is not typical for any state DOT to have the exact cost on every single construction sign. It is a challenge to have that exact figure.”

Ohio was given nearly $1 billion of stimulus money for roadwork. The money used for the signs is only about one-tenth of 1 percent of that money.

But critics argue that stimulus money — all of it — was designed to finance projects, not advertise them.

Although the Obama administration promised the stimulus package would create jobs, there is no evidence that putting up these road signs created any jobs.

Ted Andrzejewski, the mayor of Eastlake, Ohio, and a Democrat, is also angry about the signs.

He says for a bit more than what the road signs cost, he could’ve fixed a road in his community and created more than two dozen jobs. The mayor says all of his stimulus requests were turned down.

“The problem is sometimes our politicians don’t understand what a million dollars is,” Andrzejewski said.

Grendell first noticed the signs last fall. He had to pass one every day on the way to get his morning coffee.

It made him so angry he’d return home mumbling under his breath. He says even after the road project was finished, the sign remained up for some time. He’s so furious about this he introduced a bill to stop the signs and wrote a letter to Ohio’s Democratic governor, Ted Strickland. He never heard back.

The governor’s spokesman told CNN, “It’s common practice on public works projects to demonstrate how tax dollars are spent.”

And it turns out, Ohio isn’t the only state turning taxpayer dollars into road signs.

CNN found most states are spending stimulus money on signs and that could cost taxpayers nationwide about $3.8 million. At least 16 states, however, are skipping the signs and putting the money toward road projects instead.

Vermont is letting residents track where the stimulus money is spent on a Web site created by the state, for a lot less money than the signs being used in Ohio. Grendell thinks that’s a great idea.

“At the end of the day as a public official, we’re accountable for 100 cents on the dollar. We shouldn’t waste one penny, not five pennies. We should use it where it will best benefit the taxpayers,” he says.

INTRO

We established CUBIT as a major solution for addressing biothreats that are for both human, animal, and food-level problems, and that is one encompassing technology, architecture, and system of procedures, processes, and products.

We established CRAIDO to focus on emergent, new, and epidemic/pandemic level infectious diseases in mainly the human, food, and wild-animal populations.

We established CHIPS in particular because of the need for enhancing and helping People hospitals, clinics, physicians, and health depts. with information, networking, and connection-making, almost like a matchmaker service in some ways, but also with the personal element of phone, email, and chat, for getting people at-risk or infected, or near to infected or at-risk people, to the right resources, ASAP.

For all of this the best online resource is http://chips.tetradyn.net, with mirrors and extra sites set up as listed below at the bottom of this posting.

The Meat of the Matter

Now, here are some facts, and here is what is sadly “amazing” and here is what we can all do together about it.

(1)

From all indicators, public and private, from all news sources, and from diverse types of groups, we see that a large percentage, perhaps 50% or more, of persons who are seriously at-risk because of other medical conditions, chronic or acute, respiratory or otherwise, age-wise, pregnancy-wise, are NOT seeking medical care or advice, either behavior or during cases of themselves or some person(s) close to them (especially children) being sick with H1N1 or what to them, as non-medical specialists, could be H1N1.

This is something that must change, folks! Yes, the doctors, clinics, hospitals, health depts. are overworked, but you must be attending to your conditions and pre-conditions.
You MUST plan ahead, be pro-active, be preventive.

We have given you what some say is among the best simple, clear documents about this, at http://tetradyn.com/practical-guide-h1n1-prevention-care.pdf (or http://tetradyn.com/practical-guide-h1n1-prevention-care.doc) and it is in multiple places on different mirror-like sites and by direct request.

You MUST do things to take care of yourself and your loved ones. There IS professional medical and social-service care available, there will be, and it is your right, and no one will refuse you.

(2)

There is an incredible amount of hype, charlatanry, cheating, misinformation, and Rumor going around and seemingly, getting bigger and stronger each day.

Please take it from us, from people who are NOT part of any high-ranking government echelon, and who know everything about misinformation, disinformation, and similar things that can be done and that, especially in some other countries and their pasts, many such countries, were actually done. This is not going on like some people are saying with their conspiracy theories and scare-talk. There is no solid evidence for such.

YOU DO NOT HAVE SOME BIG CONSPIRACY OR MISINFORMATION PROJECT GOING ON IN THE USA OR IN OTHER COUNTRIES NOW ABOUT H1N1 and related pandemic and public health problems. There is not huge plot or conspiracy, period, zippo.

But some very vocal people are spreading these conspiracy and lie stories around, especially through the internet, and it is having a bad effect, in some cases costing lives or at least undue serious illness, risk of death, and suffering, to a growing number of families and children.

(3)

I am telling you, and everyone at TETRADYN and with in the CUBIT Working Group consortium which is made up mainly of doctors, scientists, nurses, legal professionals, teachers, parents, and (by the way) with a lot of people who can be classed as politically conservative, and working-class, and down-to-earth, and also with open Christian and other spiritual values and morals —- we are all simply saying that:
(A) There is a definite pandemic, it is going on, and it will be bigger as the weeks and months go on

(B) There is definitely no need for Panic - not now, not ever. Panic never improved anything for anyone, ever.

(C) There is definitely need for pro-active, preventive, avoidance action that you can do in many forms, and these include without spending a dime, without going to a doctor’s office or clinic, too.

(D) There is a vaccine that is short-in-supply but worth considering for many specific groups on the population. This vaccine is not showing any signs, beyond that which must be expected and accepted - Rare Instances of side-effects and bad reactions, Rare, and simply unavoidable - and this vaccine is an effective thing for most young children, pregnant women, and persons at-high-risk because of various pre-conditions, especially respiratory or with weakened (for whatever reasons) immune systems.

(E) I am not planning to get the vaccine but not because I fear it at all. I know my body, my immune system, my care system, and that vaccine is more important to be available to a child, a pregnant woman, or someone with HIV, emphysema, diabetes, COPD, or several other exacerbating conditions.

(F) There are some people and small groups that are simply “rapid” in their rants and fomenting of misinformation about conspiracy theories and the harm of the vaccine. These people must be countered strongly by You, in the web and net, in the formal media and press. They are harming people with their misinformation. We have even received some very nasty and even threatening emails from a few of them.

(G) Yes, admittedly, without any question, we do have a huge problem with our government and with the mega-ultra bureaucracy and lobbyist-driven special interest groups and cheating that has gone on. This is not new and it is not only in the healthcare arena. This does not and should not reflect on the many very qualified, dedicated, sensible, loval doctors and other professionals in organizations like CDC, NIH, DHHS, WHO, even DHS, and many state and local health, safety and emergency response depts.

If anyone is to blame within the “government” it is those who are refusing to give grants and even small funds and contracts to organizations and groups, both for-profit and non-profit, both private and public, like ours, like TETRADYN, for simple and economical solutions, that span from the diagnostic and testing to the informatic and non-pharmaceutical. Yes, there is corruption and it seems all come from greed, avarice, and the “herd instinct” nor not wanting to do anything that is not all set, all “covered” politically.

(4)

More is being done that is wasteful by companies like Lockheed-Martin, SAIC, SRA, Northrop-Grumman, Booz-Allen Hamilton, than by the pharma companies which are, after all, Producing Vaccines and Medicines!!! More $$$$ has been wasted on needless, useless, dysfunctional “IT” systems that could have been spent in the past on medicines, vaccines, and public information, not only with the mobile CRAIDO lab/information trailers but with giving simple door-to-door information by flyers carried by currently unemployed Americans!

We have seen millions - $$$$$$ millions of dollars, spent on totally useless and inane reports, studies, assessments, recommendations, that are nothing more than repetitions of things written in the last several years, or in the 1990’s, or even as far back as the 1970’s!

(5)

I sometimes complain about actual plagiarism of my writings by people in some of the above-listed companies, and some “committees and “subcommittees” within various government bureaucracies, but “Gee, Whiz!” - they are plagiarizing from others left and right, including themselves, and just reusing words and phrases and paragraphs for no apparent reason other than to have “reports” and “recommendations” that are “politically correct,” “safe from some future legal prosecution for saying the “wrong” thing (the coyer-your-ass and herd instinct syndromes at work), and because it is easier and cheaper than hiring real experts (like us) to do something new and appropriate.

I do say “Shame on You” to those who have done so and continue to do so, including some of the people responsible for producing the “National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee” report. That document says basically nothing new and for the most part goes on and on, ad nauseum, listing the credentials of a lot of “prominent” individuals, lists the various special committees, chapters, and sub-groups they have formed to “study” the matter, and then, in their scant few pages of a “recommendation”, they basically say in plain-english that what this country should have had, and should have and must have, is exactly what WE have produced - CUBIT, CRAIDO, VSRB, MADIT, CHIPS. (also see http://cubit.tetradyn.com)

I do say “Thanks, Great, Well-done, and Let’s Work More together” to those who are involved in the “Race to Resilience” project, and at many state and local health departments - especially NJ, NY, OK, CA, CO, TX, AL, TN, NC, SC, GA, just to name a few - who have been trying to do what we are doing, and who are in communication with us.

I do say, “Come on, quit being so cold and stand-offish about working together with us, and accept our free and almost-free offers,” to Ms. Marilyn Tavenner (Sec’y of Health and Social Services in Virginia), to Gov. Tim Kaine (Virginia), to Anthony Conyers (Comm. for the Dept. of Social Services, Virginia), because here is one state (your state, Virginia!) with a heck of a lot of H1N1 and pandemic and social-service problems, here we have some of our people right here or nearby, and here with Virginia is the one state government that has thus far refused to even talk with us and similar groups offering help. I think these individuals and their administrative staff have a responsibility - and could be held responsible - if Virginians end up really suffering needlessly from H1N1 as well as other public health and also food-related bio-problems.

(6)

We need more collaboration. We need less “political correctness” fretting and worrying. We need more acceptance of volunteer and/or low-cost, economical solutions and offers from companies and organizations, by the local, county, state and federal agencies.

But most of all we need You, the People, to be doing things pro-actively, sensibly, simply, to protect you and your families, and to Get Professional Medical Attention and Care when you are at the Beginning of the signs and symptoms of needing it, for anyone in yor family or special care!

The vaccine cannot protect everyone. It is not a “poison” but there is simply not enough of it, period. The medicines are in limited supply. But YOU have brains and means to be doing things, which we have tried our best to summarize in simple language, at the websites listed below, and these things are either free or low-cost, and they offer zero risk if you read and follow our simple advice.

CONCLUSIONS and WEBSITES


1. Use your Brains! You are smarter than you think!

2. Use your Resources around you - people, our stuff, others’, your own fingers and eyes and ears.

3. Watch your kids and other at-risk people especially, carefully - they are the only ones you have, and they - your loved ones - are the reason for your existence, whatever else your ego tells you.

4. Help people like us in whatever ways you can that you feel are appropriate and good - financial, media/press/PR, legal, volunteering, working on the CRAIDO unit assemblies, writing, driving, whatever you can.

5. Do not listen to the hate-mongers and fear-mongers.

6. Never, ever Panic. Do your best to lower your stress. (Look at me! Without meds or special additives, I brought my blood pressure and pulse down so that I can get off from a hard bicycle ride (everyone knows I know only one speed - Fast), walk a few minutes and take a pressure/pulse reading and come off, in my 50’s, with 122/84 and 116.

We are all different, but the Mind and Spirit is the Key, and Mind and Spirit are all about Community, and Love, especially the Agape, Philia, and Storge aspects (we don’t need the Eros part, here).

So here are the available links that have much of the same stuff, cross-linked, and set up to handle, hopefully, any hacker-attacks:

http://chips.tetradyn.net

http://tetradyn.com simply by itself

http://tetradyn.com/h1n1-plus-healthcare
http://h1n1.nomadeyes.com
http://h1n1.instinnovstudy.org
http://h1n1.tetradyn.com
http://sites.google.com/site/cubitcraidoh1n1/
http://library.tetradyn.net

The Cause on Facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/379796/34770520?m=cc366e79
Martin’s active Facebook page with many general and technical Notes: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=739331340&ref=profile#/profile.php?id=739331340&ref=profile

Plus you have emails and phone numbers at
http://tetradyn.com/contact.php

Dr. Martin J. Dudziak 202-415-7295 or 757-847-5511
martinjd@tetradyn.com, mjdudziak@yahoo.com, martin.dudziak@gmail.com

and for those who want to help with even small, modest financial support, contact us - either to be directed to an established, Recognized, Bona Fide 501c(3) charitable organization that may use our ecOasis-type PodLabs, or about investments in ways that can help get this work “On the Road”:

You can talk with us about money and finance in any of these terms:
(a) Contributions that will get tax credits as charitable contributions to the Institute for Innovative Study (IIS) once its 501c(3) status is finalized, so thus, usable probably in 2010 adjusted returns for deductions
(b) Loans, both secured and unsecured
(c) Investments into TETRADYN, the company
(d) Simply donations because we are doing all of this, thus far, without one dime of income or government support - this is if you want to, and with full disclosure and openness about everything we are doing and can do.

Thank You Each and All for Reading and Thinking and Doing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8334723.stm
This is a very good - clear, simple, direct - article on the topic.

Notice the upsurge in the past few weeks and esp. the last week.

Notice also the large proportion of the deaths that are in the USA.

More than 5,700 swine flu deaths were reported by 25 October, compared to nearly 5,000 the week before. The biggest rise was in the Americas where 4,175 deaths have been reported, up 636 from the week before.

Now arguments can be offered, and they will, that the reporting in the USA is more thorough, accurate, etc.

Also, many places have simply stopped counting or in some cases not even done so in the first place.

All the same, the numbers indicate a big difference for the USA.

From WHO:
“In the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere, influenza transmission continues to intensify, marking an unusually early start to winter influenza season in some countries,” said the WHO’s latest update.

We would like to hear from people around the world, especially in different regions. Now one should expect much more activity in the northern Hemisphere than in the Southern, at this time of year, but all the same, it is worldwide because so many people move around so frequently to so many different countries.

But it would be great to get info on the numbers as seen by the people, not just the official agencies, and to get info on how individuals, families, and communities are coping and adjusting. I believe we will see significant differences. For some reason, many Americans seem to be in a “denial” mentality about this pandemic. I am quite surprised by this. There are a lot of people talking still about “government conspiracies” and the virus being contrived as a bioweapon by government “mad scientists.” Why do you think this mentality has such a strong grip and viral spread of its own in the USA?
Again, there could be many reasons. More press, more internet, more Hollywood, but I think it goes deeper than that. But enough for now, since for this guy (me) it is 0200 and it’s off to slumberland for me.

Martin

CHIPS is the interactive, personal, social part of CRAIDO and the overall CUBIT approach and methodology for dealing with infectious diseases in the human and animal (verterinary, wild, livestock) populations. The focus now is squarely on H1N1 and related influenza viruses and related respiratory-gastrointestinal heavy-hitter diseases.

CHIPS = Civilian H1N1 Infectious-disease Public Service

http://chips.tetradyn.net

If ever you cannot get to it (overloaded site, denial-of-service attacks, etc.), make use also of these sites

http://tetradyn.com/h1n1-plus-healthcare

http://h1n1.nomadeyes.com

http://h1n1.instinnovstudy.org

http://h1n1.tetradyn.com

or just contact us through this Blog site, or use the phone:

202-415-7295 or 757-847-5511

This is not completed, but it is completed enough for partial release and reading:. It has something For Everyone.

http://tetradyn.com/practical-guide-h1n1-prevention-care.pdf

I had almost finished a detailed comment to you, Andie, and some FB-mixup zapped it. Here’s a shorter one.
Many diffs between H1N1 vaccine of today and std vaccines for influenza-A, or other vaccines for polio, smallpox, and many other diseases. I will try to write a short, clear article and post in here or on the “Daily Vlog” (http://tetradyn.net/blog).
Briefly - today the H1N vaccine in the USA is not well tested, and may not be effective due to mutations that may (sorry to use “may” so much, but that is just the fact of the medical uncertainties) have already occurred.
Is there a known high-probability danger to taking the H1N1 vaccine? Not definite. Will it help a person? Possibly, likely, but not definite.
Should you be worried because you cannot get it? Definitely NO, and we are trying to bring out CRAIDO and our work and information to help people in this respect. There are preventive, prophylactic, personal measures to avoid and to minimize H1N1 apart from any vaccine! This is what is important to know. We are tryint to help, and yes, there are efforts to shut-us-up, esp. in Virginia - thus we ask for help.
We will write more - please check all our links, and most of all, focus on reducing stress, keeping your family aware, practicing avoidance measures, and that includes avoidance of contact situations. Lysol btw will not help!!!

They are all listed there. They can make a difference, show an example, take a lead, and help us and therefore help All of Us - that means You and your families, too.  And it is not just about Virginia, for God’s sake!

>http://tetradyn.com/h1n1-plus-healthcare/virginia-contacts.php

National Emergency now, formally, OK?

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/24/h1n1.obama/index.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30435064/ns/health-swine_flu

Now go to http://tetradyn.com/h1n1-plus-healthcare and just help the whole team - we need your help - communications, emails, faxes, phone calls, and sure, money, but the money will come I am sure, once there is the media visibility.

This is real, non-pharmaceutical, self-care and grou-care, civilian-care, preventive, and we are talking not only about diagnostics but about resilience and stamina for people to Avoid and Survive.

Look, this is basically Free for People!  And I am telling you right here and now, this is not driven by profit desires.  Modest, yes, because we all have families.  But this is not about getting rich at the expense of others!!!!!

OK, just the highlights here, and I will write more tomorrow. But for God’s sake, people, listen and think, there is No reason for panic over vaccine shortages or the fear-factor about H1N1.  It can be minimized even if you come down with it, and by being reasonable, You will be doing the best possible help for those who are most at-risk and in-need for special care.

So, some recent facts from today’s news -

46 states - widespread H1N1 and increasing.

95% of college campuses are heavily hit by H1N1.

2500 currently or recently hospitalized, at minimum, at present.

90 dead, 11 children dead, recently.

This is all from NBC News so you can verify.

Critical shortages, lineups, public getting frantic, in Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Rockville MD, Portland, Las Vegas, and of course Virginia

Only 11.6M vaccines available for the foreseeable future.

Now, please listen and read carefully.

There is no reason to panic  or to line-up for hours and days.

What people need to do is take preventive measures and this means doing a number of actions simultaneously. Yes, it is effort, it requires attention, but it is better than panicking or spending hours in lines outdoors, risking more infection, and reducing immune strength.

1. MINIMIZE close contact.  Control the direction of your breath intake.

2. Eat well and eat properly.  This includes normal, balanced meals and vitamins.  Focus on balance, and that means type and quantity.

3. AVOID SMOKING and that includes secondary smoke.

4. AVOID anything approaching excess drinking - Never get “Drunk”.

5. MINIMIZE stress, aggravation, worry, anxiety.

6. Avoid rapid changes in heat and cold and exposure to cold-inducing elements (e.g., cold rain).

7. TALK. Especially to your children.  LISTEN.  Nobody comes down with the flu without a gradual set of symptoms. If they are pushed off, not addressed, this can be the matter of life and death.  Take care also with the most important at-home treatment - REST.  Reduction of physical exhaustion. Plenty of sleep, warmth, and clear, clean air.  Cut out not only the smoke but the grease and any irritants from cooking.

8. If you think this sounds simplistic, just consult the medical books and your doctor, and pay attention to history.  Remember - not everyone died from the 1918 Flu.

(to be continued)

Someone I like was very, very rude to me today.

I reflected upon this, which had been sent by a friend some time ago…

Law of the Garbage Truck

> > One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were
> > driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a
> > parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his
> > brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver
> > of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.
> > My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was
> > really friendly. So I asked, ‘Why did you just do that? This guy
> > almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!’ This is when my
> > taxi driver taught me what I now call, ‘The Law of the Garbage Truck.’
> >
> >
> > He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run
> > around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full
> > of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to
> > dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on you. Don’t take it
> > personally.
> >
> > Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don’t take their
> > garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the
> > streets.
> >
> >
> > The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks
> > take over their day. Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with
> > regrets, so…Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones
> > who don’t.

> > Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take
> > it!
> >
> > Have a wonderful, garbage-free day!