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reflections upon “the Thin Blue Line” refraction

A Blue Light Special  thought  . . . police-the-blue-light-special-photo-635874443578281807-police-lights As we ponder, (amid demonically induced stresses of the morphing beast-like emerging global order), the societal reflections upon “the Thin Blue Line” refraction, let us de-escalate our emotional discharge purposefully, for the allocation of discernment to clarify the way of peace,  which is undoubtedly opposite to the order’s yellow-bricked deceptive road to destruction.
police-white-badge-with-blue-line-imagesUmmm…that said, let’s talk candidly about what some of us are shamefully doing…Recently, a popular discount store’s bakery staff refused to make a cake for a young woman who wanted to honor her dad with a simple cake decorated with “a thin blue line/stripe” across the cake to represent his profession as a policeman. The bakery staff didn’t feel comfortable making the cake because of the stigmatization of racism super-imposed upon the entire USA police force. Whaaat?! Some places of business are refusing to serve cops as customers and some civilians are boycotting stores, schools, etc. because of these establishments’ support of community police and sheriff departments–whaat?!

As if that wasn’t incredible enough, People are actually looting and burning their own cities or neighborhoods because of their need to express frustration against police brutality? Whaaat?!  Seriously?!! Why would citizens destroy what they need?!  Huh?!

Okay,  let’s consider this scenario….suppose we are safely at home, relaxing and unwinding from the stresses of our day and all of a sudden a mob of frustrated people decided to run randomly through our neighborhood kicking in the front doors of our homes, stealing items, destroying stuff, beating us, tearing our clothes from our bodies, while laughing or screaming.  Suppose we didn’t have any sort of weapon to seriously protect ourselves while also being dangerously outnumbered by the mob.  What would we instinctively think to do next? The majority of us would instinctively dial 911 and hope our neighbors were going to do the same thing, right??!!  Yet, some business employees are refusing to serve police as customers??!!  Whaaat?!!

Don’t get me wrong, I realize racism is a serious matter and can lead to horrible abuses of power and violence, however, are civilians really trying to label every single police officer a racist?? Really?! Are people becoming that cold-hearted and unreasonable?! Seriously?! Are Americans becoming that thoughtless and vicious??!! Many of the grieving family members of loved ones shot by the police have constantly called for non-violence and peaceful exchanges and expression between civilians and police officers, but to no avail.

Would any of us want to be lumped together with those who promote criminality and violence just because a large group of people stampede the streets and airwaves and demand to label our entire profession or culture as racist killers, when we know it’s not?? Are we guilty by association??!!

If this is justified, then what would prevent people from incorrectly labeling all areas of law enforcement as racist, such as “all attorneys”, all judges (no matter what the specialty is), how about all court clerks, all bailiffs, all court stenographers, how about all legislators, how about the court house employees and cleaning crews? Hey what about the 911 dispatchers, are all of them racists too? Oh, how about law professors at colleges and universities? What about all of the utility companies that supply their services (for a fee contract) to keep their precincts and court houses running, are they racist too? Should we then boycott all businesses, boycott our entire nation too, and our own family members if they are employed within these professions in some degree?? Sounds absurd, right??

Without proper consideration and careful thought concerning a matter, people can often times do more harm than good, although initially they may have had plausible intentions.

The danger here is the underbelly beast wanting to rear its ugly head–called “lawlessness”.

Could it be that the unsuspecting public doesn’t realize it’s being coaxed into a lawless “dark ages” type society, to usher in a global ideology of forceful submission for a “controlled enforcement of pseudo peace”??

Could it possibly be a “grand experiment” that through a force-fed disdain for righteous law, would then lead to anticipated lawless-chaos, to where a new world emerges enforcing a new order, that sadly might be unrecognizable to citizens of nation states, where the new peace and law is perhaps the banishment of all individual freedoms??

What else ensues where lawlessness abounds?? Chaos, then a dictatorship of Marshall Law.

We are living in very perilous times within this world’s morphing order…thinking thoroughly before we act, is crucially imperative. Any thoughtless emotional reaction that might lead to regret during these times, can bring about severities many of us have not considered.

Let’s consider the face value meaning of the word “protest”…
**the prefix “Pro” can also mean “being for” something…
**the root word “Test” can mean “trial” or “experiment”…
**thus the word “protest” means being “for a test or testing and also “being for experiment”

Therefore, participants in protest, at times can be considered by some levels of global governance as being a willing participant for an experiment!

Sometimes there are bad apples that can be found in a bunch, but if the bad apples are carefully removed in a timely manner, they can’t spoil the whole bunch.

Just because the bath water becomes dirty after washing your baby, it doesn’t mean you should dispose of the baby with the dirty bath water. So, we shouldn’t inconsiderately negatively brand all police officers as abusive racists.

sheriff-blue-line-badge-lapel-pin-6-point-sheriff-s-badge-lapel-pin-tie-tack-1_largeI support all police officers of good conscience of heart that protect and serve their communities with respect in the service of good laws. We should respect these officers, the men and women in blue. We should pray for the safety of cops and military serving who are members of our families, who are family friends, who are our neighbors and who lawfully serve our communities justly as a whole. A nation or state without good cops, good laws, and a honorable military is without accountability, and will be destroyed through lawlessness and externally by its foes.

We call 911 when we are in a life threatening situation…therefore, we should pray for the many good cops who put their lives on the line when they answer our distress calls. As for the minority number of cops who seek to engage in criminal activity against citizens, they should be exposed within the law, by citizens and/or fellow police officers who choose to even hold themselves accountable to the law.

Let’s not help to push the global agenda for “order of darkness out of chaos” because we are intelligent beings (mankind). Let’s not become a part of the grand lab experiment.

May YAH ELAH Our Heavenly Father continue to open our eyes and hearts to The Truth that we may continue to be blessed in His Light to walk within it…and be kept safe in YAHUSHAs Name. Peace.

Columnist, Tonya M Woodbury-Sloan
The Complex Layers Series, Copyright September 2016

UPDATE – EBOLA…pushed backstage by coverage of US Congressional Elections, vies for the spotlight…as the abbreviated ‘alphabet soup’ global entities weigh in.

Photo: USA TODAY

Photo: USA TODAY

Although politicking and political elections are important to many US citizens, the self-indulgent grandeur of it all, done-up by the political machine and its dutiful broadcasters, should never have been allowed to bogart media coverage of the EBOLA pandemic.  Yes, of course politics and its elections deserve necessary attention, but not to the extent of nearly blotting out updates concerning EBOLA and reducing it to the (infrequent) scrolling text on the  mainstream media ticker-tape.

While the politicians were stumping, their monetary donors were attending and hosting $1000 a plate fundraiser dinners,  their grassroots campaign workers labored door to door, and the media broadcasts indulged in political pomp and pageantry, most of the general public were unaware of the issuance of more in-depth  medical protection guidelines against EBOLA, new (to the general public) EBOLA incubation period revelations, updates on specifically assigned locations to quarantine and monitor military personnel and civilians returning from EBOLA plagued regions to the EU and the USA, and field reports of new regions, as well as former regions with (“renewed”) EBOLA outbreaks.

Photo: NIH National Institutes of Health

Photo: NIH National Institutes of Health

According to the Emergency Management and Response Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EMR-ISAC) October 30, 2014 publication The InfoGRAM, within section subtitled: “Updated Ebola Guidance from the IAB, CDC, HHS”, it states, “…the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) and IAB (InterAgency Board) recently published or updated four  (4)  procedural documents aimed at keeping first responders safe from Ebola exposure during the course of their duties…” [1.para.1]

The published or updated documents are as follows:

The IAB published  “Recommendations on Selection and Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for First Responders against Ebola Exposure Hazards” (PDF, 623 Kb).”  This document entails, “…the selection and use of specific PPE based upon the risks of exposure,…a quick table to help determine that risk,…discusses PPE decontamination, donning and doffing, and provides a detailed description of different PPE.” [1. para.2]

The InfoGRAM also mentions The HHS (The Department of Health and Human Services) development of an Ebola Presentation Template (PDF, 1.5 mb), “…which consists of 35 slides, for organizations and public health departments interested in giving slide presentations on EBOLA to their employees or staff.” [1. para.3]

The CDC‘ has recently issued and/or revised and re-issued the following documents as it pertains to the EBOLA crisis:

1.  Guidance on PPE to be Used by Healthcare Workers During Management of Patients with EBOLA Virus Disease in US Hospitals, Including Procedures for Putting on (Donning) and Removing (Doffing). [1. para.4]

2.  Interim Guidance for EMS Systems and 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) for Management of Patients with Known or Suspected EBOLA Virus Disease in The United States. [1. para.5]

3.  Monitoring Systems and Controlling Movement to Stop Spread of EBOLA. As per the CDC, “…this document will serve as guidance on monitoring people traveling back to the US from EBOLA stricken areas of the world, and who may have been exposed.”  [1. para.6]

Photo: AP

Photo: AP

Being that the CDC, government politicians, the medical community, and local health departments have often stated emphatically, the incubation period for the EBOLA Virus Disease is 21 days, most of the general public is probably shocked (to say the least) to find the WHO (World Health Organization) only half-heartedly agrees with their statement.  Why “half-heartedly” you ask? Let’s allow the following information from the WHO to answer this question.

The WHO explains the incubation period for individual patients, healthcare workers in PPE who have treated EBOLA patients, and for the populace/country affected by the outbreak as a whole. This explanation is given in an October 14, 2014, WHO Media Centre article, titled: Are the Ebola outbreaks in Nigeria and Senegal over? Ebola situation assessment. Their definition and explanation of the incubation period is mentioned in the following article excerpts:

“….How does WHO declare the end of an Ebola outbreak?….”

“According to WHO recommendations, health care workers who have attended patients or cleaned their rooms should be considered as “close contacts” and monitored for 21 days after the last exposure, even if their contact with a patient occurred when they were fully protected by wearing personal protective equipment…

For health care workers, the date of the “last infectious contact” is the day when the last patient in a health facility tests negative using a real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test.

For WHO to declare an Ebola outbreak over, a country must pass through 42 days, with active surveillance demonstrably in place, supported by good diagnostic capacity, and with no new cases detected. Active surveillance is essential to detect chains of transmission that might otherwise remain hidden.” [2]

“…Incubation period.”

“The period of 42 days, with active case-finding in place, is twice the maximum incubation period for Ebola virus disease and is considered by WHO as sufficient to generate confidence in a declaration that an Ebola outbreak has ended.

Recent studies conducted in West Africa have demonstrated that 95% of confirmed cases have an incubation period in the range of 1 to 21 days; 98% have an incubation period that falls within the 1 to 42 day interval. WHO is therefore confident that detection of no new cases, with active surveillance in place, throughout this 42-day period means that an Ebola outbreak is indeed over.

The announcement that the outbreaks are over, in line with the dates fixed by the subcommittee on surveillance, epidemiology, and laboratory testing, is made by the governments of the affected countries in close collaboration with WHO and its international partners.” [2]

Based upon the information from this article, it is clear the EBOLA Virus Disease incubation period is between 1 to 21 to 42 days, as defined and expected. This WHO clarification would not prove the CDC and other associated alphabet abbreviation organizations and government agencies to be incompetent, on the contrary, it proves these organizations have a need or desire to with-hold pertinent information from all sectors of the general public, and from “general medicine” hospitals and medical center staff.  But why, you ask?  That is an excellent question which deserves an immediate reply from the government and medical community. The general public needs to respectfully demand an answer, and soon.

Another important Ebola update comes from Army General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Department of Defense.  Chairman General Dempsey listed 7 (total) US Military Bases to be utilized as locations of quarantine for EBOLA Mission Troops returning to the USA or to the 2 bases in the EU, from EBOLA stricken regions of the world. According to an Associated Press article, the list of the 5 bases stateside and the 2 bases abroad are as follows:

Image Graphic: DOD, Defense.gov

Image Graphic: DOD, Defense.gov

1. Fort Hood, Texas

2. Fort Bliss, Texas

3. Fort Bragg, North Carolina

4. Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington

5. Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia

6.  Military Base in Italy

7.  Military Base in Germany.

The EBOLA Mission Troops will be quarantine and medically monitored state-side at these 5 locations and the 2 US military bases abroad for a period of 21 days. However, US DOD Civilian Personnel can choose whether to go through the quarantine at these particular military installations or not.  In addition, Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said Friday any department civilians who become ill will receive medical treatment at military facilities at no cost. [3. AP]

The gloomy reality is as of today, EBOLA is still spreading in West Africa. Jene-Wonde in Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia, a small village neighboring Sierra Leone, has now become the latest deadly EBOLA epicenter.  Ten percent of their population has already died from EBOLA due to the lack of healthcare and some locals claim their government has remained unresponsive to their cries for help. [4.]

Mali, West Africa, very recently (this November) had 2 confirmed deadly cases of EBOLA, where both patients died in a just a few days.   Although both cases were associated with contact in Guinea, they traveled to different regions, and thus had no known personal associations nor acquaintance. They are not linked. The victims were a female nurse at a local clinic, and also a seventy year old male, Muslim Grand Imam. As per the WHO contract trace investigation concerning the Grand Imam, the collected data is as follows: ,

“He was a 70-year-old male resident of Kourémalé village, in the Siguiri prefecture of Guinea, had onset of symptoms from an undiagnosed disease on 17 October. On 18 October, he was admitted to a private clinic in the mining town of Siguiri.”

“As his condition did not improve, he was transferred to another clinic located just across the border in Mali. On 25 October, he travelled by car, together with 4 family members to seek treatment at the Pasteur Clinic in Bamako.”

He was treated at the Pasteur Clinic from 25 October until his death, from kidney failure, on 27 October. In addition, a friend who visited him at the clinic also died abruptly from an undiagnosed disease. Both are considered probable Ebola cases. For both, no samples are available for testing.

The nurse, whose fatal Ebola infection was confirmed on 11 November, worked at the Pasteur Clinic.

Because of his religious status as a Grand Imam, his body was transported to a mosque for a ritual washing ceremony/ The body was then returned to the native village of Kourémalé for formal funeral and burial ceremonies. Although these events are still under investigation, WHO staff assume that many mourners attended the ceremonies.

In that same village, the deceased patient’s first wife died of an undiagnosed disease on 6 November. His brother and his second wife are currently being managed at an Ebola treatment centre in Gueckedou, Guinea. All 3 accompanied the patient during the car trip to Bamako.

On 10 November, his daughter died from an undiagnosed disease. The family declined offers of a safe burial.

On 11 November, the man’s son, who is currently at the Ebola treatment center in Gueckedou, tested positive for Ebola at the European Union’s mobile biosafety level 3 laboratory there. He was the fourth family member in the car trip to Bamako. Confirmation of his infection further increases the likelihood that deaths in other family members were caused by Ebola.” [5. WHO]

There are at least 2 main reasons why  it is vitally important to pay attention to the contact trace data  of those showing any of the symptoms of EBOLA. First, it enables a quick quarantining response and prompt treatment of individuals in hopes of staving off the disease. Secondly, the investigation of physical contacts with the infected host, may reveal if there are any changes in the characteristics of the spreading of the virus, as well as if the EBOLA virus scientific markers have changed, which may or may not reveal if the virus has mutated, become more lethal, and if there is evidence of it becoming aerosolized or airborne.

How people respond to prevention and protective medical protocols is very important. No matter how many differing opinions there are regarding the onset of the first human case in West Africa, the point is it is here and deadly! Denial of any aspect of  this virus, its incubation period, its symptoms, and how it is spread will put other peoples’ lives at risk. Taking precautionary measures of prevention and protection, is prudent, in which the well known phrase, “it’s better to be safe than sorry” would definitely apply.

Let us stay safe, show remorse for our wrongs, seek to do what is right, show true care and love, and make wholesome lasting memories, because life in this world is fragile.

For those who believe like me, let us encourage one another and comfort one another in AhaYAH and The Messiah’s Love with Psalm 91:

1 Who so dwelleth in the [a]secret of the most High, shall abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

2 [b]I will say unto the Lord, O my hope, and my fortress: he is my God, in him will I trust.

3 Surely I will deliver thee from the [c]snare of the hunter, and from the noisome pestilence.

4 He will cover thee under his wings, and thou shalt be sure under his feathers: his [d]truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

5 [e]Thou shalt not be afraid of the fear of the night: nor of the arrow that flieth by day:

6 Nor of the pestilence that walketh in the darkness: nor of the plague that destroyeth at noon day.

7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come near thee.

8 Doubtless with thine [f]eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

9 For thou hast said, The Lord is mine hope: thou hast set the most High for thy refuge.

10 There shall none evil come unto thee, neither shall any plague come near thy tabernacle.

11 [g]For he shall give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.

12 They shall bear thee in their hands, that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone.

13 Thou shalt walk upon the lion and asp: the [h]young lion, and the dragon shalt thou tread under feet.

14 [i]Because he hath loved me, therefore will I deliver him: I will exalt him because he hath known my Name.

15 He shall call upon me, and I will hear him: I will be with him in trouble: I will deliver him, and glorify him.

16 With [j]long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.  [6]

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 91:1 He that maketh God his defense and trust, shall perceive his protection to be a most sure safeguard.
  2. Psalm 91:2 Being assured of this protection, he prayeth unto the Lord.
  3. Psalm 91:3 That is, God’s help is most ready for us, whether Satan assail us secretly, which he calleth a snare: or openly, which is here meant by the pestilence.
  4. Psalm 91:4 That is, his faithful keeping of promise to help thee in thy necessity.
  5. Psalm 91:5 The care that God hath over his, is most sufficient to defend them from all dangers.
  6. Psalm 91:8 The godly shall have some experience of God’s judgments against the wicked even in this life, but fully they shall see it at that day when all things shall be revealed.
  7. Psalm 91:11 God hath not appointed every man one Angel, but many to be ministers of his providence to keep his, and defend them in their vocation, which is the way to walk in without tempting God.
  8. Psalm 91:13 Thou shalt not only be preserved from all evil, but overcome it whether it be secret or open.
  9. Psalm 91:14 To assure the faithful of God’s protection, he bringeth in God to confirm the same.
  10. Psalm 91:16 For he is contented with that life that God giveth: for by death the shortness of this life is recompensed with immortality.  [6]

May His Loving Peace, Blessing, and Protection be upon you.

Tonya Woodbury Sloan, TCLS.

 

 SOURCES:

1.  Updated Ebola Guidance from the IAB, CDC, HHS. The InfoGRAM. Vol. 14 – Issue 44. 30 October 2014. Emergency Management and Response Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EMR-ISAC). http://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/USDHSFACIR/2014/10/30/file_attachments/337040/October%2B30%252C%2B2014%2BInfoGram.pdf.

2.  Are the Ebola outbreaks in Nigeria and Senegal over? Media centre. World Health Organization. Ebola situation assessment – 14 October 2014. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/14-october-2014/en/

3.  Military Names 5 US Bases for Ebola Mission Troops. Associated Press. Nov 7, 2014. LOLITA C. BALDOR.

4.  Liberia village becomes a new Ebola epicenter. Associated Press. Nov. 12, 2014. WILLIAMS, WADE.

5.  Mali confirms its second fatal case of Ebola virus disease. Media Centre. World Health Organization. Ebola situation assessment. 12 November 2014.  http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/12-november-2014-mali/en/

6.  PSALM 91. Geneva Bible, 1599 Edition GNV. Tolle Lege Press.  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+91&version=GNV

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A L E R T ! FEMA Region II PANDEMIC Preparedness Information Update (NY, NJ, P.R., US V.I.)

VERY IMPORTANT… guys…

…..For those who live in FEMA REGION II: New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands…

……….Please, try and set aside 1 hour and 46 minutes to listen to and view slides to this very important FEMA REGION II Pandemic Webinar I : Federal and Local Government Planning…Hosted in conjunction with SIFMA – held on Sept. 23, 2014…

……….This has everything to do with YOUR LIFE and their plans set in place to protect, organize, handle, control, conduct operations of each portion of infrastructure, ALL forms of metro, suburb, and rural transportation not limited to-but-including the aviation sector–ferry & all ports–taxi services and your personal vehicle travel & toll pass cards, ALL school districts’ operations including-but-not limited to public and private school bus service & family vehicle drop offs, ALL areas of everyday life needs and services-including-but-not limited to such sectors as Food Supply & Distribution including import-export-trucking, ALL Utilities – Water, gas/propane, electricity, ALL merchandise retail operations, goods & services, ALL forms of hospitality & lodging, banking….etc…and more!….everything is discussed and thus has been implemented.

This is more in-depth than anything being given ‘piece-meal’ on this important Pandemic subject matter in the mainstream news…..this is directly from the infrastructure directors and managers themselves.

Stay ahead of the pack!  Click on the link to this very important and very informative Pandemic Webinar they have conducted. Not many civilians in Region II are aware of this…but you will be….and can help advise others. See the link below to their webinar and also a link to the FEMA and Red Cross regions map.

1. FEMA REGION II Pandemic Webinar I : Federal and Local Government Planning…Hosted in conjunction with SIFMA – Sept. 23, 2014…

https://share.dhs.gov/p7b0mlqsepi
2. FEMA and Red Cross regions map
http://maps.redcross.org/website/maps/images/NationalLevel/FEMA_Regions.pdf

Just a note here…..it is rather interesting how this pandemic webinar took place on September 23, 2014…….and……on September 24th was when the man from Liberia, Mr. Duncan, who was visiting his family in Dallas, went to the hospital the FIRST TIME because he was feeling sick, and yet the hospital misdiagnosed him…when he indeed had EBOLA. The webinar seems to have been held just at the right time….hmmmm.

Here is a very good “workplace” pandemic preparedness illustration graphic below, which could also be used for home and school use too, if properly adjusted and applied to each environment. [Graphic Source: Pandemic Planning Visual Summary. New Zealand Ministry of Health. http://www.officehygiene.co.nz/pandemic_planning/pandemic-visual-summary.jpg ].

Source: New Zealand Ministry of Health, Pandemic Preparedness Planning

Source: New Zealand Ministry of Health, Pandemic Preparedness Planning Visual Summary

Stay safe and let’s continue to stay informed by sharing important information!

May Yah and Yahusha’s peace and protection be with you and your loved ones, always.
Tonya M. Woodbury Sloan
The Complex Layers Series

Sources cited within post.