Natural Solutions Foundation
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
How to Predict an Epidemic Timeline
by Andrew Maniotis, Ph.D
[Dr. Maniotis asked us to share this historical information with you. As has been often repeated, those who fail to learn from history will find themselves repeating the same mistakes, to their detriment. It is perhaps a test of the intelligence of the human species that we can let go of traditional falsehoods that are believed to be true by many people for long periods of time. History is replete with examples… the myth that vaccines are ever safe and effective is one of those. Here Dr. Maniotis provides an exhaustive timeline of the development of the myth that influenza vaccines are something other than a threat to the public health. REL]
1918 DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY — NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE — WASHINGTON NAVY YARD WASHINGTON DC in a report
entitled, “The Pandemic of Influenza in 1918-1919” prepared by the US
Department of Health, Education and Welfare Public Health Service National
Office of Vital Statistics indicates that the extraordinary feature of
“the Great Spanish flu” was that it attacked young people in the prime of
life unlike any other epidemics recorded:
“The pandemic of influenza in 1918-19 which swept over nearly every
continent and island of the whole globe has been described as one of the
great human catastrophies. There are excellent descriptions of epidemics
and pandemics as far back as the year 1500, and various records of
epidemics since the 1918-19 holocaust. Many of them were relatively mild
infections, while others were severe, but none of them showed the
extraordinary high mortality in young adults that characterized the
1918-19 pandemic and its aftermath in 1920. The greatest amount of
mortality in epidemics prior to and subsequent to 1918-19 was found in
children under 1 year of age and in persons 65 years and over.”
“Frost, in one of his reports, pointed out that influenza and pneumonia
mortality rose sharply in some cities in the United States in December
1915 and January 1916, which may or may not have been related to the 1918
epidemic. In January 1916, influenza was reported to be epidemic in 22
States, but it was described as a mild type of illness.”
“As early as December 1917, influenza was prevalent in Camp Kearny,
California, and in other Army camps in January 1918, but the disease was
said to be mild. In the spring, localized outbreaks occurred in the
civilian population of the United States, and mortality from pneumonia
rose sharply in certain cities. In March and April, Camp Funston, Kansas,
experienced three waves of influenza. The first two affected all types of
personnel, and the third, which occurred late in April, was predominantly
in recruits who arrived shortly after the second wave. Mild epidemics of
influenza were reported in various localities in Western Europe in April
and May of 1918, and in June and July more extensive outbreaks occurred in
Great Britain and in Europe, China, India, the Philippine Islands, and
Brazil. In these countries, mortality rose moderately. The 1918-19
epidemic was often referred to in the United States as “Spanish
influenza,” but there is no reason to believe that it originated in Spain.
Indeed the occurrence of influenza in the United States in the spring of
1918 may have preceded that which occurred in Spain.”
“During August 1918, epidemics of influenza were reported in Greece,
Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, the West Indies, and late in the month it
appeared almost simultaneously in Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and Boston,
Massachusetts. In September, it appeared in rapid succession in other Army
camps and in the civilian population along the Atlantic seaboard and the
Gulf of Mexico and spread rapidly westward over the country. By October,
the epidemic had involved the entire United States, except isolated places
and some mountain areas. The interval between the peaks of the epidemic in
Boston and San Francisco was about 4 weeks, and the peaks in the number of
deaths usually were reached in about 1 month following the beginning of
the epidemic in a community or area. As a rule, epidemics affected rural
areas later than cities in the same sections. In some areas there was a
recrudescence of the epidemic in January and February 1919, which was most
marked in cities where the autumn epidemic was less severe. Thus the
influenza epidemic of 1918-19 in the United States was characterized by a
relatively mild phase in the spring of 1918, an explosive outbreak with
high mortality in the fall, and a third phase or recrudescence early in
1919.”
“The incidence and mortality of influenza in military personnel in 1918-19
has been described in great detail in Epidemiology and Public Health by
Vaughan, and in Volume 9 of the history of the Medical Department of the
United States Army in the World War. [See also the Surgeon General’s
account in Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy, 1919 —
Miscellaneous Reports. About 90 percent of the men in military service in
World War I were young adults between 20 and 35 years of age.
Consequently, the Armed Forces were seriously affected, as were the same
age groups in the civilian population. In the Army over a million men were
hospitalized for influenza and pneumonia, and of these there were more
than 44,000 deaths. There were approximately 5,000 deaths among Navy
personnel. Hospital admission rates and death rates for American troops
stationed in Europe were lower than for troops in the United States. The
large number of recruits concentrated in close quarters probably accounted
for higher rates in the latter. In the camps having the larger numbers of
trainees, incidence and mortality was highest, and in all camps the rates
were higher in recruits than in seasoned troops. The crowding in camps
probably favored the spread of secondary invading organisms as well as the
etiologic agent of influenza. The peak of the epidemic was reached in
September in Navy personnel and about the middle of October in the Army. A
secondary rise in incidence of these respiratory diseases occurred in the
Army in January and February 1919, but it was limited to troops stationed
in Europe.
When appropriate adjustments are made for differences in the age and sex
distribution of military and civilian populations, it appears that the
death rate was about one-fourth higher in the Army than in the civilian
population of the United States. It is reasonable to assume that this
difference was largely due to greater crowding in the recruit population
of the Army. Collins showed mortality rates from influenza and pneumonia
by age in 1918 as compared with certain other years. The relatively high
mortality in young adults in 1918 and the 2 years immediately following
seems to have been characteristic of that period and was not found in
epidemics prior to or subsequent to this 3-year period.”
It has been estimated that there were about 20,000,000 cases of influenza
and pneumonia in the United States in 1918-19, with approximately 850,000
deaths. In 1918 alone, 464,959 deaths from influenza and pneumonia were
registered in the registration States and the District of Columbia as
compared with 115,526 in 1917. This includes deaths in the Army, Navy, and
Marine Corps which occurred in registration States. Eighty percent of the
deaths in 1918 occurred in the last 4 months of the year.
The numbers of deaths from influenza and pneumonia by age in registration
States in 1917, 1918, and 1919 are shown in the table. A number of States
in which Army camps were located are not included in this table, so a
considerable number of deaths of civilians and of military personnel for
1918-19 are missing which accounts for the difference in an estimated
total of 850,000 for the United States and the figure of 650,399 for the
registration States. In 1918 the death rate for males was 669.0 per
100,000 population; for females, 507.5. At ages 25 to 34, the rate was
1,216.6 for males and 781.4 for females. These excessively high mortality
rates profoundly influenced the estimated average length of life
calculated for the year 1918. It was reduced 24 percent from 1917 to 1918
for males and 22 percent for females. However, these estimated average
lengths of life in years returned to their previous trends in 1920.
Influenza and Pneumonia Mortality by Age: Death-Registration States,
1917-19 (For 1917, area includes 27 States and the District of Columbia;
for 1918, 30 States and the district of Columbia; and for 1919, 33 States
and the District of Columbia):
Year 1917 1918 1919
Age Number of deaths
All ages 115,526 464,959 185,440
Under 1 year 22,207 38,428 27,736
1-4 years 12,859 49,699 21,133
5-14 years 3,319 28,054 10.598
15-24 years 4,861 78,158 20,381
25-34 years 6,915 126,792 32,159
35-44 years 9,387 60,902 20,690
45-54 years 10,652 28,596 14,043
55-64 years 12,571 19,632 12,530
65-74 years 14,771 17,643 13,065
75-84 years 13,224 11,829 9,548
85 years and over 4,600 3,680 3,173
Not stated 160 1,546 384
Rate per 100,000 population
All ages 164.5 588.5 223.0
Under 1 year 1,474.5 2,273.3 1,594.2
1-4 years 211.5 718.0 293.9
5-14 years 24.0 176.2 63.3
15-24 years 38.9 580.5 141.4
25-34 years 59.3 992.6 235.9
35-44 years 98.1 554.8 181.0
45-54 years 148.8 347.8 163.9
55-64 years 281.4 381.9 233.2
65-74 years 614.6 646.3 459.6
75-84 years 1,503.0 1,179.0 913.9
85 years and over 3,187.4 2,230.6 1,842.2
“Etiology – Pfeiffer isolated an organism in 1892 variously referred to as Pfeiffer
bacillus or influenza bacillus which was accepted by many as the causative
agent of influenza. However, in 1918, various observers failed to find
this organism in many cases, antemortem or postmortem. A report on sputum
cultures taken from 47 individuals in Baltimore during the epidemic showed
that streptococci were present in 24 sputums, staphylococcus in 1,
pneumococcus in 15, and the influenza bacillus in 8. In cultures taken in
various Army camps prior to and during the epidemic of influenza in the
fall of 1918, varying proportions of persons were found to carry
streptococci, pneumococci, and the Pfeiffer bacilli. Such variations were
also found in cultures from the bronchi or lungs at autopsy, and
differences were found from camp to camp. The proportion of persons
carrying streptococci or some other secondary invader did not remain
constant, being replaced from time to time by another bacterium.”
“It was the impression of many in 1918 that an unrecognized virus was the
primary cause of influenza and that the streptococci, pneumococci, and
influenza bacilli were secondary invaders which might be termed “bacterial
hitch-hikers.” Attempts by two groups of investigators to transmit the
infection by nasal instillation of filtered and unfiltered secretions from
influenza cases in human volunteers were not successful. Nor could they
produce influenza in the volunteers by nasal instillations with Pfeiffer
bacilli.”
“Prevention and Control – It often happens that when a severe outbreak of a
disease occurs many measures are applied, some of which appear to be extreme
and dictated by panic. In 1918, which was no exception, isolation of cases and
quarantine of contacts were applied vigorously in some areas, but there is little
evidence to indicate that these measures were successful in preventing
introduction or spread of the disease. Closure of schools and prohibition
of public gatherings likewise were of doubtful value. The use of face
masks to protect the wearer against infection had its advocates. The use
of germicidal gases to destroy the organism was suggested. The use of a
vaccine containing the influenza bacillus was advocated, but as one would
expect, no value could be demonstrated. If a vaccine containing the
viruses now known to cause the disease had been made available early in
the epidemic, it is doubtful whether it would have been effective, since
the epidemic in the fall of 1918 spread with great rapidity.”
“In 1922, Victor Gaughan stated in retrospect that the most reasonable
administrative action that could have been taken was to direct efforts
toward relief measures, namely, medical and nursing care and
hospitalization.”
Much of the descriptive material and charts on the 1918-19 epidemic used
in this comprehensive Department of Navy report were obtained from
published reports or books by W.H. Frost, Edgar Sydenstricker, Victor
Vaughan, and Eugene Opie. The publications of Selwyn Collins were a
valuable source of information on characteristics of epidemics of
influenza in the United States prior to and subsequent to 1918.
1918 Pathologists became intimately familiar with the condition of lungs
of victims of bacterial pneumonia at autopsy. But the viral pneumonias
caused by the influenza pandemic were so violent that many investigators
said the only lungs they had seen that resembled them were from victims of
poison gas.
I. Honorof, E. McBean (Vaccination The Silent Killer p28)
Source: Dr. Rebecca Carley
Very few people realize that the worst epidemic ever to hit America, the
Spanish Influenza of 1918 was the after effect of the massive nation-wide
vaccine campaign. The doctors told the people that the disease was caused
by germs. Viruses were not known at that time or they would have been
blamed. Germs, bacteria and viruses, along with bacilli and a few other
invisible organisms are the scapegoats, which the doctors like to blame
for the things they do not understand. If the doctor makes a wrong
diagnosis and treatment, and kills the patient, he can always blame it on
the germs, and say the patient didn?t get an early diagnosis and come to
him in time.
If we check back in history to that 1918 flu period, we will see that it
suddenly struck just after the end of World War I when our soldiers were
returning home from overseas. That was the first war in which all the
known vaccines were forced on all the servicemen. This mish-mash of poison
drugs and putrid protein of which the vaccines were composed, caused such
widespread disease and death among the soldiers that it was the common
talk of the day, that more of our men were being killed by medical shots
than by enemy shots from guns. Thousands were invalided home or to
military hospitals, as hopeless wrecks, before they ever saw a day of
battle. The death and disease rate among the vaccinated soldiers was four
times higher than among the unvaccinated civilians. But this did not stop
the vaccine promoters. Vaccine has always been big business, and so it was
continued doggedly.
It was a shorter war than the vaccine-makers had planned on, only about a
year for us, so the vaccine promoters had a lot of unused, spoiling
vaccines left over which they wanted to sell at a good profit. So they did
what they usually do, they called a meeting behind closed doors, and
plotted the whole sordid program, a nationwide (worldwide) vaccination
drive using all their vaccines, and telling the people that the soldiers
were coming home with many dread diseases contracted in foreign countries
and that it was the patriotic duty of every man, woman and child to get
“protected” by rushing down to the vaccination centers and having all the
shots.
Most people believe their doctors and government officials, and do what
they say. The result was, that almost the entire population submitted to
the shots without question, and it was only a matter of hours until people
began dropping dead in agony, while many others collapsed with a disease
of such virulence that no one had ever seen anything like it before. They
had all the characteristics of the diseases they had been vaccinated
against, the high fever, chills, pain, cramps, diarrhea, etc. of typhoid,
and the pneumonia like lung and throat congestion of diphtheria and the
vomiting, headache, weakness and misery of hepatitis from the jungle fever
shots, and the outbreak of sores on the skin from the smallpox shots,
along with paralysis from all the shots, etc.
The doctors were baffled, and claimed they didn?t know what caused the
strange and deadly disease, and they certainly had no cure. They should
have known the underlying cause was the vaccinations, because the same
thing happened to the soldiers after they had their shots at camp. The
typhoid fever shots caused a worse form of the disease, which they called
para-typhoid. Then they tried to suppress the symptoms of that one with a
stronger vaccine, which caused a still more serious disease, which killed
and disabled a great many men. The combination of all the poison vaccines
fermenting together in the body, caused such violent reactions that they
could not cope with the situation. Disaster ran rampant in the camps. Some
of the military hospitals were filled with nothing but paralyzed soldiers,
and they were called war casualties, even before they left American soil.
I talked to some of the survivors of that vaccine onslaught when they
returned home after the war, and they told of the horrors, not of the war
itself, and battles, but of the sickness at camp.
The doctors didn?t want this massive vaccine disease to reflect on them,
so they, agreed among themselves to call it Spanish Influenza. Spain was a
far away place and some of the soldiers had been there, so the idea of
calling it Spanish Influenza seemed to be a good way to lay the blame on
someone else. The Spanish resented having us name the world scourge on
them. They knew the flu didn?t originate in their country.
20,000,000 died of that flu epidemic, worldwide, and it seemed to be
almost universal or as far away as the vaccinations reached. Greece and a
few other countries, which did not accept the vaccines, were the only ones
that were not hit by the flu. Doesn?t that prove something?
At home (in the U.S.) the situation was the same; the only ones who
escaped the influenza were those who had refused the vaccinations. My
family and 1 were among the few who persisted in refusing the high
pressure sales propaganda, and none of us had the flu not even a sniffle,
in spite of the fact that it was all around us, and in the bitter cold of
winter.
Everyone seemed to have it. The whole town was down sick and dying. The
hospitals were closed because the doctors and nurses were down with the
flu. Everything was closed, schools, businesses, post office everything.
No one was on the streets. It was like a ghost town. There were no doctors
to care for the sick, so my parents went from house to house doing what
they could to help the stricken in any way they could. They spent all day
and part of the night for weeks, in the sick rooms, and came home only to
eat and sleep. If germs or viruses, bacteria, or any other little
organisms were the cause of that disease, they had plenty of opportunity
to latch onto my parents and “lay them low” with the disease that had
prostrated the world. But germs were not the cause of that or any other
disease, so they didn?t “catch” it. I have talked to a few other people
since that time, who said they escaped the 1918 flu, so I asked if they
had the shots, and in every case, they said they had never believed in
shots and had never had any of them. Common sense tells us that all those
toxic vaccines all mixed up together in people, could not help but cause
extreme body-poisoning and poisoning of some kind or another is usually
the cause of disease.
Whenever a person coughs or sneezes, most people cringe, thinking that the
germs are being spread around in the air and will attack people. There is
no need to fear those germs any more, because that is not the way colds
are developed. Germs can?t live apart from the cells (host) and can?t do
harm anyway, even if they wanted to. They have no teeth to bite anyone, no
poison pouches like snakes, mosquitoes or bees, and do not multiply,
except in decomposed substances, so they are helpless to harm. As stated
before, their purpose is useful, not destructive.
The 1918 flu was the most devastating disease we ever had, and it brought
forth all the medical bag of tricks to quell it, but those added drugs,
all of which are poisons, only intensified the over-poisoned condition of
the people, so the treatments actually killed more than the flu did. This
is from Vaccination The Silent Killer: Honorof, Ida and McBean, E.:
Vaccination the silent killer (U.S.A.) Honor Publications, P.O. Box 346,
Cutten, CA 95534, U.S.A.http://www.whale.to/vaccines/books.html
Andrew Maniotis, Ph.D
Visiting Associate Professor of Bioengineering
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607
Email: amanioti@uic.edu
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Health and Freedom Supporters send 636,516 emails to Congress to stop fake “Food Safety” bill (H.R. 2749). Ron Paul’s office says vote is near.
For Immediate Release:
(Free-Press-Release.com) July 28, 2009 —
Over a Half Million eMails say “NO!” to Fake Food Safety Bill – HR 2749
“Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009” a Threat to Food AND Freedom!
Congress is set to deliver a huge blow to local food production and safety by giving Big Agra interests exactly what they want: the industrialization of all food production in the US — forcing family farms, natural, successful home gardeners and other local food sources to meet Agra-Biz industrial standards or go out of business. H.R. 2749 — the (sic) “Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009” has been “fast tracked” and is heading to a vote this week under a Suspension of Rules that will allow no amendments and a total of 40 minutes debate. The latest report we’ve had indicates the bill was removed from the voting agenda today: rumors suggest that continued strong public opposition may force the bill back to committee for further amendment.
The Natural Solutions Foundation, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, concerned by Codex Alimentarius’ US-led industrialization and global degradation of the food supply, noted with alarm the introduction of bills to do the same thing here in the US. While the public was distracted by the economic collapse and the non-lethal Swine Flu “Pandemic Emergency” and the threat of mandatory vaccination with the weaponized Swine Flu vaccine, Congress was planning its own surprise: the forced-industrialization-of-farming bills, such as HR 875 & 759, were replaced by a new “fast-tracked” (sic) “Food Safety” bill – HR 2749 – that threatens food, health and freedom. Since it gives the FDA power to declare marshal law in the face of food contamination in the US, it is, in reality, a “martial law food control bill” — see: http://farmwars.info/?p=1145
Small farms, organic production, biodynamic operations and home farmers who share their food will be required to comply with standards which they cannot afford, like seed sorting plants running to more than a million dollars for each species of seed when no threat has ever been posed by simple hand sorting devices. All food preparation and storage facilities, including home kitchens, could be entered without a warrant for inspection of records – which no home keeps. Ultimately, the only acceptable food would be prepared, industrialized and industry-controlled food. Codex standards and guidelines would govern all agricultural production, driving non-chemical operations out of business.
Today, recognizing the importance of push back and citizen involvement in the legislative process, Rep. Ron Paul, responding to the 600,000+ emails supporters of health freedom have sent to Congress demanding protection for organic farming and food freedom, urged, through his Legislative Aide, that the Natural Solutions Foundation “Keep it up!”
Natural Solutions Foundation’s White Paper on Food Safety is here:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2287
It includes information in support of the Action Item to tell Congress to protect both our food and our freedom at:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
Assaults on Health Freedom have not been limited to proposed food fascism. The right to refuse vaccines is threatened under both federal and state statutes. Outraged over the impossible choice presented to the to either accept Swine Flu vaccines (without the possibility of exemptions) or face incarceration, Americans have sent over 1 million emails to decision makers demanding the right to Self Shield in the face of Pandemic Swine Flu vaccination.
The Natural Solutions Foundation’s White Paper on Self Shielding is available at:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2752
The Action Item to demand the right to refuse vaccines/incarceration and Self Shield is available:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275.
For more information on these and other Health Freedom issues, see the July 7, 2009 eBlast from Natural Solutions Foundation:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3048
For information about the annual Codex Alimentarius (“world food code”) meeting click here:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3041
We thank Dr. Ron Paul (TX-R) for confirming that Push Back works!
For example, we’ve been urging Congress to defeat all fake “Food Safety” bills since they do not address the major health and environmental threats posed by huge factory farms and feed lots which threaten local production. When the Foundation created our an Action Item more than a half a million emails told federal legislators to protect family farms and ranches, organic, natural and home food production, food co-ops, community gardens, etc.
See: No HARMonization White Paper:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2394
Our original proposed amendment:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2246 *
And, apparently, they heard at least part of the message. Those who support HR 2749 are touting the (slight) “farmer protection” added to the bill to initially get it out of committee:
“Are Small Farms Protected?
“The legislation is doing a bunch of things for food safety, most notably giving the FDA mandatory recall authority. This has been a major sticking point for previous iterations of this legislation in the House, because House reps more than senators represent small fiefdoms inside large rural states. These districts wide recalls will disproportionately harm smaller businesses and processors versus their larger partners. In a sense, FDA recalls and fees would represent a regressive tax.
“This is an extremely valid concern given the FDA’s proclivity for influence from industry. However, this bill was able to climb out of committee in the House because it properly addressed small growers and farmers markets. Specifically, Section 107 of the bill which stipulates ‘Traceability Requirements’ on most farms makes an exemption for farmer’s markets (more or less):
‘(4) EXEMPTIONS-
‘(A) DIRECT SALES BY FARMS- Food is exempt from the requirements of this subsection if such food is-
‘(i) produced on a farm; and
‘(ii) sold by the owner, operator, or agent in charge of such farm directly to a consumer or restaurant.
“Traceability is a huge issue and this bill seeks to establish a new electronic system for tracking that will be vetted over the course of a couple years. The exemption for small farmers is good but poorly defined. We hope this vague language about exemptions gets tightened up as the bill moves forward. It would be a pity to see this single exemption allow major agribusiness farmers off the hook.”
http://nutritionwonderland.com/2009/06/food-safety-enhancement-act-hr-2749/
This weak provision is not the protection we want for local food production.
But it is a start. We are concerned that the word “farm” could be construed too narrowly. What about religious communities, nonprofits, co-ops, community and family gardens that produce surpluses… Real protection is needed for local, natural production.
This is not a bill that we expect conscientious congresspeople to support, and we certainly don’t support what has been called a “martial law food control bill.”
Health Freedom advocates need to redouble our efforts to get Congress to listen!
Here is the action item –
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
Natural Solutions Foundation President, Maj. Gen. Bert Stubblebine (USA Ret.) stated,
“We do not need a fake food safety bill that forces the industrialization of family and natural food production while not addressing the very real safety problems caused by industrialized food production. The Foundation, as always, proposes Natural Solutions to this dilemma and urges supporters to visit our new Food Freedom eJournal at http://www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org.”
Remember to follow us on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/healthfreedomus and http://www.twitter.com/drlaibow – whenever we post a new item, the link appears on twitter!
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* The language was modified later, and this later language was sent to Congress many thousands of times:
“The citizens ascribing to this Petition therefore hereby request that the
Food Safety Modernization Act be defeated, or that it, or any substitute for
it, such as H.R. 759, be amended to exclude organic and natural agriculture,
family farms and ranches, and natural or organic food products, including
dietary supplements, through a rule of interpretation, as follows:
“Rule of Interpretation
“No provision of this act shall be deemed to apply (a) to any home,
home-business, homestead, small farm organic or natural agricultural activity,
(b) to any family farm or ranch, or (c) to any natural or organic food
product, including dietary supplements regulated under the Dietary Supplement
Health and Education Act of 1994.”
“We also note the language of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 USC sec 203 (s)
(2) which provides, “(2) Any establishment that has as its only regular
employees the owner thereof or the parent, spouse, child, or other member of
the immediate family of such owner shall not be considered to be an enterprise
engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce or a part of
such an enterprise…”
“Language such as this would be helpful to allay our concerns.”
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Over a million emails sent through Health Freedom USA.org web site: Decision makers protect the right of people to self-shield in the event of a declared pandemic emergency instead of vaccination.
For Immediate Release:
(Free-Press-Release.com) July 28, 2009 —
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
Media Release
Over One Million eMails Demanding Right to Self-Shield,
Protection from Untested “Swine Flu Vaccine”
Washington DC – July 27, 2009: Natural Solutions Foundation President Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.) announced today that over one million email messages have been generated through Natural Solutions Foundation’s website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, putting decision makers, including President Obama, Health Secretary Sibelius, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Neapolitano, members of Congress, Governors and state legislators on notice that Americans demand the right self-shield in the event of a declared pandemic emergency. Current State and Federal legislation could mandate Pandemic vaccines for Swine Flu or incarceration for those refusing it. Self Shielding is a third path for those who do not accept being vaccinated or incarcerated/quarantined
Gen. Stubblebine, focusing on the notice in the Federal Register on June 26, 2009, stated, “Health and Human Services Secretary Sibelius admits that the untested swine flu vaccine ‘may be effective’ and then, again, maybe not. Certainly, the threat to public health of a dangerous, unproven, untested and uninsurable pandemic vaccine should trigger the Precautionary Principle under which a vaccine may not be used until it has been shown to be safe. No such concoction should ever be approved for public use no matter how profitable. But, that is exactly what the Secretary intends. And she says that vaccinating our children and pregnant women first we ‘will just have to wait and see’ what the level of harmful side effects turn out to be! The Secretary said we will have to hope that there ‘are not too many adverse events’ but does not say how many would be too many. We say that even one is too many for an uninsurable, unnecessary and untested vaccine. Let us remember the fiasco of the last ‘swine flu’ vaccination in 1976 which killed far more people than did the non-event that flu turned out to be.”
Through its innovative Self Shielding Initiative, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275, the Foundation and its hundreds of thousands of supporters are calling upon Congress and the state legislatures to recognize and protect the right of people to self-shield in their own homes in the event of an actual pandemic, rather than being subjected to either a “voluntary” or “mandatory” vaccination or incarceration/quarantine, as provided for in multiple state and federal laws and Executive Orders. Those who wish to maintain the right to refuse vaccination without risking incarceration can go to the Foundation web sit, http://www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, and read the Foundation’s White Paper, “Stay Home – Stay Alive”, http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2752, to send a message through demanding that right through its free automated submission system which will send messages to state and federal legislators and all relevant Federal Officials plus the Governor of the sender’s state.
A draft bill, prepared by the Foundation’s legal staff, the Protecting Americans’ Self-Shielding Act, forbids the use of Federal funds, agents or resources to involuntarily remove self-shielding people from their own homes. Members of Congress who support health freedom are considering introducing this bill if enough support for it reaches the desk of other members of Congress, making widespread action urgent for those who do not accept either vaccination or incarceration.
Rima E. Laibow, MD, Foundation Medical Director indicated, “Under Red Cross and standard medical guidelines, self-shielding during a pandemic is a preferred and time-honored way to prevent the spread of disease.” She also advises people to follow the advice offered by FEMA to its people to prepare a 30 day supply of food, water, medicines, vitamins and other essentials. If self shielding, these supplies will be indespensible. Instructions on Self Shielding may be found at http://www.HealthFreedomUSA.org under “Health Freedom Blog” and “Self Shielding” buttons.
Ralph Fucetola JD, Foundation Counsel said, “The common law and UN Declaration of Universal Rights enshrine the protection of people in their homes. Article 12 of the Declaration provides, “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home…” The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution recognizes “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses…”
The Natural Solutions Foundation, established in 2004, the Voice of Global Health Freedom, is coordinating a global “push back” effort to protect the public from the dangers of not just untested and uninsurable vaccines, but also undeclared GMOs (genetically modified organisms), toxins, antibiotic and other chemical residues and the clear and present threat of industry friendly, but health hostile, international food regulations that permit these dangers, through Codex Alimentarius (the so-called “world food code”). Approximately a quarter of a million health freedom advocates world wide are members of the Health Freedom Action eAlert list, spreading the Foundation’s message of natural solutions to millions around the globe.
Despite its recent admissions that laboratory tests do not accurately identify Swine Flu (AH1N1), most cases identified as “Swine Flu” have not been labeled by lab tests, – most people infected (or suspected of infection) with Swine Flu recover without any medical intervention or the need for any treatment other than fluids and bed rest – that the virus is so low in disease-causing potential that vaccine manufacture is very slow, leading to WHO declaring it will re-engineer the virus, fueling belief that WHO engineered the novel Swine Flu virus, – new cases will no longer be counted, – all respiratory cases are being counted as Swine Flu, thus inflating case number to absurdly high levels, – drug resistant strains of the Swine Flu are emerging, WHO and CDC continue to insist that a grave public health danger exists.
These organizations are forging ahead with guidance and plans for mass vaccination, in some countries, through mandatory programs. FDA states that it intends to approve the Swine Flu vaccine before safety testing can be completed and the UK says that it will accomplish this feat in a mere 5 days after the vaccine is received although WHO cautions against such hasty approval.
Americans, in record numbers, reject the notion that an untested, uninsurable, unsafe vaccine should be injected into their bodies and those of their children in a rush to “prevent” an inconsequential disease. They understand that if the Swine Flu did mutate as threatened by WHO and CDC into a deadlier form, the Swine Flu vaccine in production now would be powerless to prevent it since once a virus undergoes significant mutation, any vaccine prepared for the previous version is totally ineffective against the new version.
They would rather stay home and stay alive. And the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Self Shielding initiative is helping them to do just that!
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Back to the Future: Swine Flu Tragedy 1976 Redux
One allegedly healthy person has allegedly died from the alleged “Swine Flu” in the UK.
The first doses of the “Swine Flu” Vaccine are due in the UK in the next few weeks.
Approval could come within an astonishing five days. You read that right: five days. But not to worry, of course. Safety is assured because “Mock Up” trials have been done.
This whole thing, starting with one patient dead from “Swine Flu” (Maybe!, Certainly dead, but dead from Swine Flu? Maybe.) and that triggering a mass vaccination program is precisely what happened in the US in 1976. The program was halted after people started dropping like paralyzed flies from something called “Guillian-Barre Syndrome” immediately after vaccination. They became paralyzed, lost the ability to breath on their own, and many died. In fact, Guillian-Barre Syndrome is a newly concocted name for a much more familiar condition: Polio. In this case, very clearly vaccine induced.
Lest anyone take comfort from the notion that Guillian-Barre Syndrome was caused by a unique vaccine, poorly produced in 1976, consider the following:
In a press release dated October 9, 2006, “Guillain-Barre Syndrome After Vaccination in United States” a study using the US Government’s own Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Data (VAERS) showed that Gullian-Barre Syndrome (aka Polio) is alive and well in the vaccinated population:
“Of the 54 cases studied, Guillain-Barre syndrome was observed in 57% of the patients who had received an influenza vaccine, followed by 22% of the patients who had received a hepatitis vaccine either as a single vaccine or in combination with other vaccines. In the same study group, 11% of the patients with GBS had received the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine in combination with other vaccines, with the remaining study cases having received haemophilis B conjugate vaccine, tetanus and diphtheria toxoid, or typhoid vaccine. Up to 20 % of the patients developed GBS after receiving more than one type of vaccine.” – Source: American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM)
Newswise (press release) http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/524115/
But be comforted, UK citizens:
“Regulators at the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) said the fast-tracked procedure has involved clinical trials of a “mock-up” vaccine similar to the one that will be used for the biggest mass vaccination programme in generations. It will be introduced into the general population while regulators continue to carry out simultaneous clinical trials.
“The first patients in the queue for the jab – being supplied to the UK by GSK and Baxter Healthcare – may understandably be a little nervous at any possible side effects. A mass vaccination campaign against swine flu in America was halted in the 1970s after some people suffered Guillain-Barré syndrome, a disorder of the nervous system.
“However, regulators said fast-tracking would not be at the expense of patient safety. “The vaccines are authorized with a detailed risk management plan,” the EMEA said. “There is quite a body of evidence regarding safety on the trials of the mock-up, and the actual vaccine could be assessed in five days.”
Five days seems like quite enough time to assess the safety of a vaccine given to all of our children, elders and chronically ill folks, doesn’t it? Oh, it dosen’t… what? Don’t you trust your government?
If you live in the US, you may be saying to yourself, “Well, that is what regulators are doing over there in the poorly run and poorly regulated UK (and France, and Austria and Sweden), but here in the US we have the best medicine, the best food, the best health care system and the best regulators in the US. That’s just what the drug companies and the FDA always tell us.” Sorry, my friend. You need your meds adjusted.
Here are the facts about Baxter Pharmaceuticals. This is the company that has been formally charged with Crimes Against Humanity for its contamination of the Seasonal Flu Vaccine. [The vaccine itself is a bio weapon in my opinion, but let that go for the moment.] That vaccine was “accidentally” contaminated with a genetically engineered, highly pathogenic (disease-causing) viral material provided to it by WHO (that is, 72 kilos or 158.4 lbs, Avian Flu). And Baxter just happened to have had contracts to sell a great deal of Avian Flu vaccine to those countries in the event that the Avian Flu epidemic occurred! This same drug company is about to deliver the first commercial lots of its “Swine Flu” vaccine, produced in “record” time, cultured on green monkey kidney cells (the same cell line that we now know contained leukemia viruses and contaminated the Polio vaccine for so long?) to the US later this month. In fact, Baxter was given the lead in developing the vaccine for this non-disease. How convenient for them that they filed the patent for this vaccine and the process that they are using to make it in 2007! Perhaps they have psychics working for them who advise in patent and corporate decisions – or perhaps their information source was a bit more conventional and a lot more sinister. A new form of self-fulfilling prophecy, hey?
We also know that HHS Secretary Karen Sibelius (“Let the children die first” Karen, as we’ve come to call her) has the same priorities for who gets what our research tells us will be a deadly “Swine Flu” vaccine – children, the elderly, the chronically ill. She added, not particularly comfortingly, that we would wait and see if there were too many adverse events following the mass vaccinations for a disease that lacks the forensic substantiation — the same lack as the 1976 Swine Flu “epidemic” — that it has actually killed anyone. Let me remind you that even if the laboratory identification is correct (and I hold the CDC’s “findings” to be extraordinarily suspect), dying WITH a virus is not the same thing at all as dying FROM a virus… or dying after the vaccine jab.
So the “healthy man without any underlying disease” who just died in the UK and is the excuse for mass vaccination! (WHAT????) This is as absurd as the mass vaccination ordered by then-President Gerald Ford after one supposedly healthy soldier died at Fort Dix. Of course, this healthy soldier got up out of a sick bed to go on a forced march during which he collapsed. The sergeant who revived him with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation did not contract the disease. What did the soldier die from? No one knows, but a lot of other people died and suffered life long disability in the rush to vaccinate, halted 10 short weeks later.
60 Minutes ran a report on this disaster 4 years later, claiming that more than 4000 people were afflicted with Guillian-Barre Syndrome. The show aired once and was immediately pulled.
Watch it here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6636
And then recall that you are slated for vaccination against a disease which poses no credible threat whatsoever, precisely as the American population was in 1976.
But this time, there is a new wrinkle: federal and State Legislation which makes it perfectly fine to refuse the vaccination offered in a declared Pandemic Emergency – and perfectly fine for the State or Federal Government to isolate or quarantine you — incarcerate you — indefinitely once you do.
So it is, as I said in my rap on the topic, “No Pig In A Poke!”,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVGrudg6mQ8
Likewise in the Natural Solutions Foundation’s latest Health Freedom Action eAlert…
It’s “Jab or Jail” unless you take action to give yourself a third option: Self Shielding.
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3077
Make sure that every member of your family (do it for the ones who are too young to write, they count, too!) takes this Action Item: salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275
Tell President Obama, Secretary Sebelius, the Governor of your State and every one of your legislators (Federal and state) that you demand, yes, demand, the right to retire to your home and Self-Shield in the event of a Pandemic vaccination. Unless, of course, either the jab or the jail is OK with you.
Not OK with you? I sort of thought it wouldn’t be. Now, get busy and motivate everyone you can reach to do the same. The action item includes a link to the draft Protecting Americans’ Self-Shielding bill, asking your representatives to co-sponsor it.
We have a health freedom friend in Congress who is seriously considering introducing the our legislative language for the Protecting Americans Act, ensuring your right to Self-Shield. You can read it at:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2888
But it requires a Netroots upsurge of emails to give this vital option the political “legs” it needs.
As of this moment, 514,000 emails demanding the right to self-shield have been generated. That’s over half a million. We have limited time because the window of opportunity is closing (it slams shut, I believe, when the first doses of Baxter’s vaccine are delivered in the US later this month. So take a little time to preserve a lot of freedom.
Go to http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275
Take action for your whole family. Then mobilize everyone in your circle of influence. Jab or jail doesn’t work for me, and I am pretty sure it doesn’t work for you, either.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
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Here is the July 12, 2009 article from Times On Line:
[Note that the vaccine will be approved in 5 days and is expected in Britain in the next few weeks – REL]
“Everyone will get Vaccine for Swine Flu
The NHS is preparing to vaccinate the entire population against swine flu after the disease claimed the life of its first healthy British patient.
A new vaccine is expected to arrive in Britain in the next few weeks and could be fast-tracked through regulatory approval in five days.
As many as 20m people could be inoculated this year. Ministers have secured up to 90m doses, and the rest of the population is likely to be offered vaccinations next year.
A man from Essex was confirmed on Friday as the first person without underlying health problems to have died from the virus. The health department said most people with the virus had only mild symptoms.
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Peter Holden, the British Medical Association’s lead negotiator on swine flu, said GPs’ surgeries were ready for one of the biggest vaccination campaigns in almost 50 years.
“If this virus does [mutate], it can get a lot more nasty, and the idea is to give people immunity. But the sheer logistics of dealing with 60m people can’t be underestimated,” he said.
The health department said a vaccination programme would be drawn up based on expert advice.
The path of a popular medicine from the laboratory to the chemist or doctor’s surgery can involve years of clinical trials on a select group of patients.
When the new vaccine for swine flu arrives in Britain, regulators said this weekend, it could be approved for use in just five days.
Regulators at the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) said the fast-tracked procedure has involved clinical trials of a “mock-up” vaccine similar to the one that will be used for the biggest mass vaccination programme in generations. It will be introduced into the general population while regulators continue to carry out simultaneous clinical trials.
The first patients in the queue for the jab – being supplied to the UK by GSK and Baxter Healthcare – may understandably be a little nervous at any possible side effects. A mass vaccination campaign against swine flu in America was halted in the 1970s after some people suffered Guillain-Barré syndrome, a disorder of the nervous system.
However, regulators said fast-tracking would not be at the expense of patient safety. “The vaccines are authorised with a detailed risk management plan,” the EMEA said. “There is quite a body of evidence regarding safety on the trials of the mock-up, and the actual vaccine could be assessed in five days.”
The UK government has ordered enough vaccine to cover the entire population. GPs are being told to prepare for a nationwide vaccination campaign.
Dr Peter Holden, the British Medical Association’s lead negotiator on swine flu, who has been attending Department of Health meetings on the outbreak, said GPs’ surgeries were prepared for one of the biggest vaccination campaigns in almost 50 years.
He said although swine flu was not causing serious illness in patients, health officials were eager to start a mass vaccination campaign, starting first on priority groups. First, the jabs would reduce the chances of a shortage of hospital beds because of people suffering from swine flu. Second, it would reduce the effect on the economy by ensuring workers were protected from the virus.
“The high-risk groups will be done at GPs’ surgeries. People are still making decisions over this, but we want to get cracking before we get a second wave, which is traditionally far more virulent.”
Holden said it was likely the elderly would be given their seasonal flu jab as well as the swine flu vaccination. The new vaccine is likely to require two doses.
Details of the inoculation plans emerged after the death of a patient, reportedly a middle-aged man, at a hospital in the Basildon area of Essex. The victim had no underlying health problems, but officials say there is no evidence the swine flu virus had mutated into a more dangerous strain.
Holden said it would be the biggest campaign in response to an outbreak since mass vaccination against smallpox in 1962. He said surgeries would be aiming to inoculate about 30 people an hour in a “military-style operation”.
The Department of Health said it had still not finalised which groups would be vaccinated first, but children, frontline health workers, people with underlying illnesses and the elderly are likely to take priority.
The European Commission is also identifying population groups which it believes should get priority. It is keen to ensure that countries such as the UK, which had ordered supplies of the vaccine in advance, do not cause inequities in treatment elsewhere in Europe.
It warned health ministers in a note circulated last month that if the vaccines were more readily available in some countries it could cause “vaccine tourism/shopping in other member states”.
About 15 people have died of swine flu in Britain, but most of those infected get only mild symptoms. According to the latest figures from the Health Protection Agency, the UK has had 9,718 confirmed cases of the disease.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6689955.ece
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LATEST NEWS: WHO MAY CALL FOR MANDATORY VACCINES AS SOON AS NEXT MONDAY!
This article is a continuation of our eAlert of July 11, 2009: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3077
URGENT ACTION ITEM: Right to Refuse Pandemic Vaccine Without Going to Jail (or Worse): salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275
Health Freedom’s best friend in the US Congress is considering introducing the legislation presented in this action item IF we create enough demand among his fellow members of the House of Representatives. Right now, choices are either accept the jab or be quarantined under either the State or Federal statutes. Take action, submit one Action Item for each member of your family, then motivate everyone you know. We can have a bill introduced and passed if we “push back” hard enough
Some people have questioned whether State Laws do, in fact, allow for involuntary quarantine upon refusal of an unproven, uninsurable vaccination or other “treatment” in a pandemic or public health emergency. Indeed they do!
Read Minnesota’s 2008 law and see for yourself. Most US states have similar statutes.
By the way, here is a warm thanks to Minnesota Attorney Diane Miller for providing this information so that we could share it with you:
12.39 INDIVIDUAL TESTING OR TREATMENT; NOTICE, REFUSAL, CONSEQUENCE.
Subdivision 1.Refusal of treatment.
Notwithstanding laws, rules, or orders made or promulgated in response to a national security emergency or peacetime emergency, [that is, the State has its own laws to cover the situation – REL] individuals have a fundamental right to refuse medical treatment, testing, physical or mental examination, vaccination, participation in experimental procedures and protocols, collection of specimens, and preventive treatment programs. [BUT… – REL] An individual who has been directed by the commissioner of health to submit to medical procedures and protocols because the individual is infected with or reasonably believed by the commissioner of health to be infected with or exposed to a toxic agent that can be transferred to another individual or a communicable disease, and the agent or communicable disease is the basis for which the national security emergency or peacetime emergency was declared, and who refuses to submit to them may be ordered by the commissioner to be placed in isolation or quarantine according to parameters set forth in sections.
Before performing examinations, testing, treatment, or vaccination of an individual nder subdivision 1, a health care provider shall notify the individual of the right to refuse the examination, testing, treatment, or vaccination, and the consequences, including isolation or quarantine, upon refusal.
144.419 Isolation and Quarantine of Persons
(3) “isolation” means separation, during the period of communicability, of a person infected with a communicable disease, in a place and under conditions so as to prevent direct or indirect transmission of an infectious agent to others; and
(4) “quarantine” means restriction, during a period of communicability, of activities or travel of an otherwise healthy person who likely has been exposed to a communicable disease to prevent disease transmission during the period of communicability in the event the person is infected…..
Subd. 4. Right to refuse treatment.
Any person who is isolated or quarantined according to this section and section 144.4195 has a fundamental right to refuse medical treatment, testing, physical or mental examination, vaccination, participation in experimental procedures and protocols, collection of specimens, and preventive treatment programs. A person who has been directed by the commissioner of health or any person acting under the commissioner’s authority to submit to medical procedures and protocols because the person is infected with or reasonably believed by the commissioner or by the person acting under the commissioner’s authority to be infected with or exposed to a communicable disease and who refuses to submit to them may be subject to continued isolation or quarantine according to the parameters set forth in section 144.4195.
144.4195 DUE PROCESS FOR ISOLATION OR QUARANTINE OF PERSONS.
Subdivision 1.Ex parte order for isolation or quarantine.
(a) Before isolating or quarantining a person or group of persons, the commissioner of health shall obtain a written, ex parte order authorizing the isolation or quarantine from the District Court of Ramsey County, the county where the person or group of persons is located, or a county adjoining the county where the person or group of persons is located…. The evidence or testimony in support of an application may be made or taken by telephone, facsimile transmission, video equipment, or other electronic communication. The court shall grant the order upon a finding that probable cause exists to believe isolation or quarantine is warranted to protect the public health.
(b) The order must state the specific facts justifying isolation or quarantine, must state that the person being isolated or quarantined has a right to a court hearing under this section and a right to be represented by counsel during any proceeding under this section, and must be provided immediately to each person isolated or quarantined.The commissioner of health shall provide a copy of the authorizing order to the commissioner of public safety and other peace officers known to the commissioner to have jurisdiction over the site of the isolation or quarantine. If feasible [Not “shall, without fail….” – REL] , the commissioner of health shall give each person being isolated or quarantined an estimate of the expected period of the person’s isolation or quarantine.
[If not feasible, then you will not be notified of how you can expect to be held -REL]
(c) If it is impracticable to provide individual orders to a group of persons isolated or quarantined, one order shall suffice to isolate or quarantine a group of persons believed to have been commonly infected with or exposed to a communicable disease. A copy of the order and notice shall be posted in a conspicuous place:
If the court determines that posting the order according to clause (1) or (2) is impractical due to the number of persons to be isolated or quarantined [We are not talking about one or two people here – REL] or the geographical area affected, the court must use the best means available to ensure that the affected persons are fully informed of the order and notice.
[So perhaps you will get a notice of the Court’s decision and, then again, perhaps not -REL]
(d) Any peace officer, as defined in section 144.4803, subdivision 16, may use force as described by sections 609.06 and 609.066 to apprehend, hold, transport, quarantine, or isolate a person subject to the order if the person flees or forcibly resists the officer.
[The use of deadly force is permitted under these circumstances – REL]
(e) No person may be isolated or quarantined pursuant to an order issued under this subdivision for longer than 21 days without a court hearing under subdivision 3 to determine whether isolation or quarantine should continue. A person who is isolated or quarantined may request a court hearing under subdivision 3 at any time before the expiration of the order.
Subd. 2.Temporary hold upon commissioner’s directive.
(a) Notwithstanding subdivision 1, the commissioner of health may by directive isolate or quarantine a person or group of persons without first obtaining a written, ex parte order from the court if a delay in isolating or quarantining the person or group of persons would significantly jeopardize the commissioner of health’s ability to prevent or limit the transmission of a communicable or potentially communicable life-threatening disease to others.
[Once the Court decides that holding you for any period of time is justified, your appeal rights dissolve – REL]
The directive shall specify the known period of incubation or communicability or the estimated period under the commissioner’s best medical judgment when the disease is unknown. The directive remains in effect for the period specified unless amended by the commissioner or superseded by a court order….
(b) If the commissioner of health wishes to extend the order for isolation or quarantine past the period of time stated in subdivision 1, paragraph (d) [30 days -REL], the commissioner must petition the court to do so. Notice of the hearing must be served upon the person or persons who are being isolated or quarantined at least three days before the hearing. If it is impracticable to provide individual notice to large groups who are isolated or quarantined, a copy of the notice may be posted [Note provision for large groups of people in isolation or quarantine – REL] in the same manner as described under subdivision 1, paragraph (c).
[With a rubberstamp “due process” hearing, any number of people may be held for any lenght of time. One’s only protection would be an honest judge willing to buck the system to let you out of isolation and/or quarantine. My confidence level is very low here – REL]