It's not time to panic about the Coronavirus.

Yet again it seems we have a dangerous respiratory virus originating in China and threatening to spread to the rest of the world. The Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) belongs to the same family of viruses as the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus and the Middle-East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). From what experts can tell, this nCoV has been traced to a wildlife/meat market in Wuhan, China. The city has a population of more than 11 million people.

The recent outbreak seems to have started in late December of last year, and has accelerated to the point now where confirmed cases have also been located in Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Nepal, Australia, France and the United States. My personal belief is that the Chinese government probably covered up knowledge of the outbreak for a period of time, and now their efforts to lock down and quarantine entire cities of millions of people are going to be futile. The virus has already escaped those limits and there is no sign they can contain it right now.

I work as a registered nurse in an emergency room, and I am usually unconcerned with the hectic and breathless news reports of the next pandemic that are supposed to wipe out the planet every year, like Ebola or SARS, despite the fact that our own regular old, boring flu has killed like 40 kids in the US just this past season. However, there are some differences going on here that prompted me to do a write-up on this one. I don't believe that this is the world killer either, but in less than a few weeks we are seeing some significant points with this. I've discussed the nCoV with some of my ER physicians, including three with overseas medical experience in the Middle East and East Asia via the military and one with medical experience in the Indian subcontinent.

One curious thing about this particular virus is the apparent reported ability to infect both cold blooded and warm blooded hosts, and pass from one to the other. It's being reported that highly venomous kraits (a snake) in China may be the original vector. These kraits hunt bats, and it's believed that some of the people who have been infected got the virus from eating bats (yeah...) that have possibly gotten the virus from the snakes. It's certainly not uncommon for dangerous diseases to spread from animals to humans in bushmeat markets, and there is high demand for the meat of wild and exotic fauna in China and other areas of East Asia.

Another thing of note is that China has undertaken a massive quarantine effort of at several cities with populations in the millions, and this alone has gotten huge international attention. Regardless of the prognosis of infected patients, the reactions of the Chinese has had a significant effect on global markets. The Chinese markets are often close during the Lunar New Year (LNY), which means there is going to be an information vacuum when they open back up. The US is dependent on cheap junk from China, so we may feel some effect ourselves. Reports are saying that approximately 56 million people have been quarantined, which is an unprecedented amount.

Like I had mentioned before, it's my belief and the belief of other analysts that, true to their nature, the Chinese authorities have covered up and obfuscated what is really going on with this outbreak, hindering quick action to contain the spread. You don't often see a viral event like this go from a local outbreak to suddenly being found on three different continents. It's apparently being investigated in at least 22 states last I saw, and we are only supposedly about five or six weeks into the game. There is something odd about that. There are healthcare workers in China making posts to Weibo/Tencent (Chinese government allowed social media platforms) saying that they are estimating 100,000 people infected, and that they are unable to keep up with the death tolls, to the point of lying dead bodies in the hallways. These posts are immediately censored by the government, but not fast enough to avoid being reposted on the free web. Are these healthcare workers exaggerating their reports? Or are they telling the truth?

A difficulty in diagnosing and treating patients is obtaining the specific testing kits. As far as I know, only three companies actually produce the kit and it doesn't appear they were ready for an outbreak to go from a dozen cases to into the thousands globally in less than a month. Add to that that at least one of the companies I know of is based in China, and many of those employees are working intermittently during the LNY.

Another problem with this occurring during the LNY is widespread holiday travel inside and even outside of China. This virtually guarantees that these large-scale quarantines are going to be ineffective. Pair that with the possibility that patients with nCoV may be treated like pneumonia patients or other patients with your run of the mill upper respiratory infections (URI). The treatments for those include steroids and antibiotics. A virus is not going to be susceptible to antibiotics. Current treatments for nCoV are supportive, which means medical staff are just treating the symptoms.

The physicians I've spoken to express the same thoughts I had on this nCoV, which is "how is this so different and so much more serious than the last several viruses we've had?" My only thoughts on it as far as prepping are concerned would be to watch closely how people are reacting. The illness itself is not likely to be any worse than SARS, or it may even be less dangerous as far as prognosis, but what is important to see is what a panic will cause in the global markets and in society. I don't predict pandemonium myself, but it seems like the public is ripe for a panic over something, and if, through initial Chinese failures, we see a large influx of infections throughout the US, we could see our own version of lock-downs and quarantines. People in the US are not accustomed to something like that and I think a lot of people would resist it. China has apparently quarantined about 56 million people at this point.

Johns Hopkins University ran a simulation about three years ago that showed a coronavirus-like pandemic could kill as many as 65 million people. Obviously that adds to the hype and isn't going to help the panic. The panic could be more dangerous than the illness itself.

My advice is to wash your hands when you've been out in town. Shopping cart handles and doorknobs will hold infectious particles and bacteria as long as people keep touching them. Bleach wipes are great, just make sure to allow the surface to dry, as that's when you know it's had time to kill the pathogens. If you're really concerned, wearing a mask can help prevent catching a contagious respiratory bug. If things got worse, 3M brand N95 masks are good to have, and if you're a prepper, you should already have several for each family member. If you have a person in your home who is sick, keep them at home. If you know someone who is sick, don't visit until they've had time to become non-contagious. Personally, I would not fret about the virus as much as the potential for others to panic and the markets to suffer a hit.

At least not for right now...

Some thoughts on the ruling class.

It’s no coincidence that the people in media and journalism, the talking heads you see on TV all the time, and the professors of academia, the officials at the highest levels of the unelected bureaucracies, the most honored uniform wearers in the alphabet soup agencies, our elected officials in both parties and the celebrities of Hollyweird belong to the left-leaning political persuasion. Aside from their left-wing, neo-liberal, collectivist-socialist-communist philosophical beliefs, they share another common trait: They’re all completely, utterly disconnected from the reality that the average American lives on a daily basis.

This does nothing to prevent them from issuing edicts and judgments from their ivory towers and golden toilets on how we should live, behave and even speak. They are the cloud people, pontificating to us, the dirt people.

Study your history and take note of the habits of communists. Especially pay attention to what communists do when they feel like the dirt people aren’t lining up the way they want them to.

Sic Semper Tyrannis. Every single one of them.

A hint about debating.

A common tactic people will use when debating politics (or really any subject that may be uncomfortable to them) is to respond to your points with some variation of the phrase “That’s not what I’m saying.” They might phrase it as “I wasn’t saying that” or “That’s not what I mean” or “I didn’t say that.”


This tactic serves three purposes:

1. It absolves them of the responsibility to actually respond to your point. If you’re making an argument that is hard for them to counter, then they’ll put themselves into a position where they’re not required to do so.

2. It gaslights you into being the one who is unable to understand their points. If you don’t understand what they’re trying to say, then obviously your responses are invalid.

3. It allows them to transform the argument into one of semantics instead of substance. No matter what words you use, they will never be the correct ones. With every point you make, they’ll simply return to “That’s not what I’m saying.”


Learn and practice the Socratic Method to avoid and defeat this debate tactic.

Escape the ranks of the insane.

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -Marcus Aurelius

How appropriate this is when applied to the backdrop of today's version of Western Civilization, if you can call it civilization at all.

I was reading Drudge the other day and found an article that I will not link here, since the readers do not need to add another few points to their blood pressure. It is there is a person with severe delusions regarding their gender. I believe it was a woman pretending to be a man and expecting the rest of us to join them in there delusion, or else be labeled with some variation of bigotry. The subject of the article was dismayed that despite their decision to masquerade as a man, she was still having a monthly menstruation and was forced to buy a $12 pink box of tampons that had a woman (by all evidence, an actual one) on the front of it. In the article the mentally ill woman complained about the price, complained about the look of the box itself, complained about the "dysphoria" her monthly event caused her, and there was even a tone of surprise that I sensed. Surprise at the fact that the menstruation didn't cease the moment this individual decided that she was now a man. NBC News of course thought this was newsworthy and ran it like a serious piece. That's our media, and they wonder, they serious wonder, why at least 40% of the US population don't take them seriously anymore.

You and I are expected to full embrace these delusion, these literal delusions, and take part in them, encourage them. We are expected to alter our own language and behavior, our own perception of reality. We are expected to offer our minds and the minds of our children to the alter of this insanity. This is the new Western Civilization in the 21st century.

I'm currently taking an art history class in pursuit of my bachelor's degree. My degree is totally unrelated to either art or history, but I chose art history over the other humanities because I love history, and the art of a society is conjoined with its history. The art that a people produces is a direct reflection of what they hold to be valuable, what they see to be important, what they want the world to remember them by. It reflects their society's personality and what makes that society good, in their view. It tells us what those people respected and found to be beautiful.

This becomes instantly apparent looking at the art of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. It's obvious in the art of the Middle Ages. The art of the Renaissance blatantly shows a civilization breaking through a wall into modernity, into the good of modernity. So then what does the art of today's Western Civilization tell us that it values? What do the people of Western Civilization hold dear today? What beauty do we find in our people?

Nothing. Today, Western Civilization values nothing, holds nothing dear, respects nothing, takes what should be beautiful and either tears it down or ignores it.

The book "The Naked Communist" had 45 goals to destroy the US, in which "US" could really be seen as non-communist Western Civilization. Number 23 said "Our goal is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art." I was at the University of Florida earlier this year and saw a piece of "art" in an open area near some museums. The piece was simply three, long metal beams. Two of them formed an "x" and the other was propping them upright. That was it. That is art in our modern civilization. Recently I read that an art exhibit had a piece that sold for quite a lot of money. It was a banana duct taped to the wall. There have been several pieces of art made entirely, or mostly, from shit. Excuse my language here, but is that what our society, our civilization here in the West, hold dear and values? Shit?

There are not that many of us left today, those of us who find ourselves in a smaller and smaller minority of the sane. We must find each other, stay together, steel ourselves against the insane majority. They've taken so much, our academia, our government, our businesses and corporations, our sciences and our art. They're attacking our religion and our churches, and have succeeded in corrupting much of the leaders in the Catholic, Methodist and Episcopalian churches. The Baptists are feeling that heat. They're now trying to take our minds by pushing us to join them in their delusional reality and they surely are trying to take our children. But they're going to hit a wall against those few of us who remain grounded, and make no mistake they will react violently.

Be ready, and give them no ground on your mind or the minds of your children.

Spotting counterintelligence threats in your group

Originally posted at American Partisan by The Gray Man.

When the Ammon Bundy-led Malheur standoff ended in 2016, it was discovered that at any given time, the FBI was receiving information from as many as 15 informants through direct contacts with the Malheur occupiers. The group had been heavily infiltrated by informants and agents, many of whom were given authorization to commit felonies while functioning as occupiers. At least one of the informants has said he was intimidated to join the group and provide information to the FBI. In this example, we see two types of infiltrators, those being the provocateur and the probe.

A provocateur is someone who is in place to entice people in a group to take certain actions that would be detrimental to their cause, or otherwise beneficial to and outside and competing cause. In this case, the provocateurs were aiming for criminal actions.

A probe is in place more as a means of collecting information and passing it to an outside handler. Also called a mole, these people can work their way into the higher levels of a large group and gain access to deeper information.

There is nothing stopping someone from occupying the roles of provocateur and probe at the same time. In fact, this is quite common. In my opinion, we saw at least one example of this in the Ruby Ridge events that took place in the early 1990's leading to the 11 day August 1992 standoff. The ATF had multiple federal agents embedded inside the Aryan Nations (AN), and some have claimed with credibility that the regional leadership itself was primarily run by the ATF. If the leadership structure of a nefarious organization is primarily comprised of federal agents, what does that tell you about these nefarious organizations and the federal agencies themselves? In this case it was noted that ATF agents and their informants were actively collecting information on members and non-member contacts of the AN, and attempting to get people to traffic in illegally modified firearms. This was a tactic used against Randy Weaver.

In order to protect a group from infiltration is to learn how to detect the infiltrators. Here are several ways to do this:

1. If someone is routinely pushing the group to conduct illegal and risky activities, this is a red flag. I fully understand that the line between legal and illegal has never been more fluid, thanks to the design of a system meant to allow the law to arrest anyone they see fit at any time for any nebulous violation. However, we still live in a time where we could theoretically win this fight and still easily remain free from criminal conviction. We are not required to break the law today in order to achieve our goals. If someone in your group doesn't see it that way and is actively advocating for risky, lawbreaking behavior, take a closer look at them.

2. If someone is brand new to your cause and begins making moves throughout the group, bending the ears of the "leaders" or the old timers, rising through the ranks despite not having the requisite experiences to gain the trust of everyone, this is suspicious. With some training, moles can join a group and place themselves among the leadership in quick order. Try to distinguish between a person who seems off and a person who is a go-getter would good ideas and high levels of motivation. It's a good thing to make moves and make progress, but if someone seems to be moving up the ladder without doing the real legwork, trust your gut.

3. If a person is repeatedly found to be dishonest, they may be a mole. Most of the time when someone is acting as a mole, there is something that they're not able to be honest about. It could be something regarding their background. It could be something about their family. It might be a lot of things. They could be hiding an entirely separate identity, but it may be just some minor things as well. Often, if a mole finds that embellishing or outright lying will help them achieve their goals, they'll do it. If they do it enough, it can become habit, and they can be caught. Keep in mind that not everyone who does this once is a counterintelligence threat, but it's a hard sign.

4. If someone has an unexplained surplus of funds and resources, this needs to be examined deeper. You may not be inclined to pry into someone's private affairs, but if you can find a way to explain what's going on, do it. Until then, you may need to compartmentalize that member.

5. If a member of your group is conducting surveillance-like activities, such as recording meetings that don't need to be recorded, taking photographs of things that would only matter to a source handler, taking notes when it's not necessary, this is a bad sign. If someone is asking odd questions that contain strange information, like license plate numbers or unusual personally identifying information, look into it. Ask yourself if the information the person is recording, photographing, writing down or asking about would be useful to anyone other than a source handler. If you can't think of anyone besides that who might care about the information in question, then it's time to investigate.

6. If someone already has a criminal background, this can be a counterintelligence threat. They've already had extensive contact with law enforcement and may be accessible in that way. Not everyone with a record is a bad person or a liability, this is very true. But there does seem to be a high correlation between provocateur activity and possessing a rap sheet.

7. This is an obvious one, but it still sometimes needs to be mentioned. If your group has been discussing some high level information and suddenly the other side ends up with it, then you may have a leak. Observe who has access to the info and limit it as you're able and as is necessary.

8. If your group has a location where you all meet and spend any significant amount of time, observing a member coming and going at odd times or for unexplained reasons could be a tip that they are bringing materials in and out of the location.

It's important to be aware and look for counterintelligence threats in your group, but don't let the possibility of infiltration stop you from connecting with like-minded folks. Just be watchful and trust your instincts!