The Ebola Scare- Why America Is Safe

W R Collier Jr July 31, 2014

Is the Ebola Scare justified or not?

US NEWS- William Raymond Collier Jr- In March of 2014, Guinea announced the outbreak of the Ebola virus in their country. Since then ,732 people in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have died, including Guinea’s leading Ebola doctor, who contracted the disease while treating patients.

Much has been said of the Ebola virus and there are fears that the virus could spread to the United States or Europe. The United Kingdom’s Cobra Committee, a committee which has special emergency response functions, has even met to discuss the threat.

There are fears that the virus could spread abroad from West Africa as people travel by air. In fact, Nigeria and many other nations have banned flights from Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. All three countries are launching massive public outreach efforts to raise awareness and isolate the outbreak. But the main problem for these countries stems from a substandard health care system and issues with early detection. If detected early, Ebola can, in fact be treated, but it requires a fairly sophisticated medical regimen that these nations cannot provide. Moreover, with proper sanitary precautions, the potential for an outbreak is also very limited.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, this is the treatment for Ebola- Standard treatment for Ebola HF is still limited to supportive therapy. This consists of:balancing the patient’s fluids and electrolytesmaintaining their oxygen status and blood pressuretreating them for any complicating infections.

Timely treatment of Ebola HF is important, but challenging, since the disease is difficult to diagnose clinically in the early stages of infection. Because early symptoms such as headache and fever are nonspecific to ebola viruses, cases of Ebola HF may be initially misdiagnosed.

However, if a person has the early symptoms of Ebola HF and there is reason to believe that Ebola HF should be considered, the patient should be isolated and public health professionals notified. Supportive therapy can continue with proper protective clothing until samples from the patient are tested to confirm infection.

This treatment regimen, as provided by the CDC, requires a sophisticated medical response and capability that is lacking in the affected countries.

Were an Ebola infected individual to arrive in the US or Europe, especially with existing screening measures, the likelihood of them contaminating someone else would be reduced simply because of existing sanitary measures. Once health officials determined they had Ebola, a fairly sophisticated system for finding and screening anyone they came into contact with is in place.

The virus spreads by more intimate contact. In other words, by bodily fluids or by eating or drinking anything the infected person has allowed to come into contact with bodily fluids, or by sharing utensils. In the West, our culture and our sanitary regimen mitigate against much of this.

To be clear- the virus is only transmitted via contact with such bodily fluis blood, urine, faeces, saliva, or puss (from open sores) – and thenfrom someone showing symptoms of Ebola.

If someone is infected and it is caught early on, treatment is known to work and, like any virus, Ebola is eventually killed by the body’s immune system. There is no “cure” other than to treat the patient as prescribed and allow their immune system to do its job, which eventually it will. So when you read that “there is no cure”, that is true, just as there is no cure for the common cold!

This does not mean that it is impossible for some people to initially catch Ebola from a foreign passenger and, if their infection is not detected, for some to even die. Exercising an abundance of caution when traveling to affected locations or when interacting with people who have come from those locations is prudent and necessary.

But once anyone has been discovered to be infected, in the US or Europe the regimens in place to quickly isolate them and find everyone they have been in contact with and the degree of intimate contact needed to become infected will severely limit any outbreak in the West.

The real issue and concern should be, after of course proper precautions have been taken at home, those people in the affected countries who do not have all these advantages and who are even now living in fear for their lives from this deadly outbreak.

An excellent article with interviews of health officials and statements from WHO and the CDC should also help allay fears. VOX Article On Ebola

Unrest Could Strike In Connecticut

W R Collier Jr March 2, 2014

OPINION ANALYSIS BY WILLIAM R COLLIER JR

Residents of the US state of Connecticut are outraged about a new plan set forth by authorities (as evidenced by letters sent to gun owners) to begin a door to door gun confiscation program after the state’s legislature allegedly, according to some citizen groups, “nullfied the second amendment” which many see as an inviolate standard or right to own firearms for self-defense, including defense against their government.
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Immigration and Obamacare Concessions Linked To Shut-Down?

W R Collier Jr October 8, 2013

Breaking National News- sources in close to members of the House have contacted me about “rumors” of a “grand bargain”. These rumors may be real or they may be planted by the opposition, but one insider told me that “I have heard members (House members) talk about this very thing…”

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Capitol Hill Shooting

W R Collier Jr October 3, 2013

QUESTIONS NEED ANSWERED- Why???

We have received information, still not confirmed, that Miriam Carey, 34 year old female from Connecticut, a dental hygienist, was shot, according to our sources, while exiting her car after a dramatic chase that virtually shut down Capitol Hill.

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The New Obama Economy

W R Collier Jr August 2, 2013

Obamanomics

Bill Collier

The new (Obama) economy is a combination of a shrinking workforce, a higher than ever proportion of part-time to full-time jobs, and lower wages with real wealth shrinking for most Americans for the first time in American history. It is not just that wealth is being transferred from targeted groups not supportive of the Administration to their supporters, although this is happening, but it is also a matter of real shrinking wealth as lower wages, fewer full time jobs, rising health care costs, and the rising cost of regulations are eating into people’s pockets, and their savings.

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Progressivism Explained

W R Collier Jr January 10, 2013

Bill Collier- Under Progressivism the model of governance is based on a leadership philosophy that says “authority flows from the center and responsibility flows to the center.”

Decisions are made at the central point and lower level authorities carry them out until the regulations and rules are given to the individual. This may involve a majority vote by the populace, but even then the choices given to the population are limited by the leaders at the core through clever messaging, political correctness, and efforts to demonize anyone who doesn’t buy the party line.

Responsibility, on the other hand, goes from individuals who answer to the first outermost circle of petty officials and from them towards the next inner circle so that, ultimately, everyone is responsible to the central authority for their choices and actions.

Why do the Progressive spend so much, tax so much, print so much paper currency, make so many laws, create so many swarms of officials and agencies, and have so many complicated regulations, while saying they are “for the People”? The answer is simple- their leadership philosophy leaves them with no alternative but to originate authority over everyone from the center and to make everyone responsible towards the center.

They do not consider that they are making private people, private businesses, free associations of private people, and local communities all responsible to the government while removing government from any real accountability to the People who the Progressive say they champion.

It’s all bread and circuses and empty promises- they take your wealth, your independence, your liberty, and then your very dignity leaving you with grinding poverty and no answers other than to blame an innocent scapegoat.

A New Common Sense- Start Local For Freedom

W R Collier Jr January 9, 2013

In 1776 Thomas Paine penned his booklet, “Common Sense”, which denied the validity of the “Divine right of kings”, urged Americans to pursue independence, proposed that American and British interests were divergent, and made the case for the Colonies’ inherent ability to be independent.

Such a case must be made again, but this time we must deny the validity of progressive federalist doctrines, we must urge Americans to pursue true freedom (based on godliness, self-reliance, and true self-governance), we must show that the inherent interests of the Federal Power and the People in their communities are divergent, we must make the case for the inherent ability of people and communities to fend for themselves, and we must do so within a strong spiritual and ideational framework rooted in eternally valid but presently practicable truths and principles.
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The Freedomist Pledge

W R Collier Jr January 8, 2013

I pledge myself, according to the framework of freedom, to work daily to proclaim freedom to others, to stand up whenever anyone’s freedom is called into question, and to do my level best as a free citizen to assert and defend the rights, persons, and property of my fellow citizens against all sources of danger, whatever their origin, by all reasonable and legitimate means, SO HELP ME GOD!