Plagues, Peace plans and People in the Neighborhood?

(part 1 - Plagues)

And again, due to transpiring political events (some more "political tea leaves" to try and read having surfaced) my intended sequence of chapters has been disrupted again.

These next two chapters will be about "President Trump's" peace plan (encroaching "developments" on who possibly is "the king" in Daniel?), political wrangling in Israel (between Netanyahu and Gantz) that Tump eludes to in the opening of his presentation for the peace plan; BUT first off (and seemingly unrelated?) what is up with this Covid-19 virus in China?


China:

Anyone who's looked at the Internet in the past 5 minutes, has likely seen some reference to the coronavirus; which of all the current best efforts of the nations of the world, is heartily attempted at being contained in China.

And yes, I understand that any information I post on what's known of Covid-19 may already be outdated within those next 5 minutes. Of what I find today though (2/13/2020); the information is as "up to date" as I can find. Granted too though, understand that not all of this information may be accurate because information is still coming forth and it's still a "developing story" and will likely be for at least the next month.

To date though; the World Heath Organization (WHO) has deemed coronavirus (now officially named Covid-19) as a "global health emergency" and looking at the quarantine measures all nations are taking; something is definitely up here!

I'm of the opinion that world governments have some "insider information" that the general public is not privy of. I say this based on the measures they've taken. Some people would argue that it wasn't enough "fast enough"; yet in the matter of a month, nations of the world take on coordinated measures of containment that have not been seen in 50 plus years. That is unusual. Which this leads me to believe this wasn't actually a "novel" virus. Someone knew what this was. Someone has seen it before.

Who? (We'll look at that question later.)

So, China is basically shut down and anyone coming out of China is quarantined. All of China's airports and seaports are essentially "closed", as well as non-essential business and schools in most (if not all) major cities. Anyone who goes outside, at this point is mandated to wear a face mask and the hastily erected "hospitals" (quarantine centers) look like FEMA prison camps. The healthcare system is totally overwhelmed and people are literally dying in the streets. Through this shut down; Wuhan has no operating public transit and no open gas stations. It is said that the public emergency ("911") in Wuhan produces nothing but a "busy" signal.

I also found an article that stated the Chinese military is now infected also. We know (from two cruise ships docked in Japan) that this virus spreads rapidly. We know from underground reports coming out of China that 40% to 60% of the medical personnel in quarantined areas are also infected.

There's conflicting reports (some information coming from Taiwan of "leaked" stats that range from 75,000 infected and 1300 plus dead; (current governmental narrative) to more than a million infected and 50,000 dead. This is all in a matter of about 6 weeks.

The current mortality rate estimated of the outbreak areas in China are rated at about 3 to 5%. It's also said that this virus is affecting the older population much more lethally than children and young adults. (Typical seasonal flu is only about .5%.)

The economic impact of this plague is also likely to soon be felt, as much of the world's pharmaceuticals are supplied by China; (particularly antibiotics). India has large pharmaceutical production facilities; yet they get much of the raw materials for making their pharmaceuticals from China. So yes, it's likely the world will be facing a drug shortage. How extensive of one; is yet to be seen?

As of 2/12/2020 - Both the WHO and the US CDC say to expect (advises nations to prepare) for outbreaks around the world.


Coronavirus (Covid-19) and Influenza:

Now "coronaviruses" are not unusual. "Corona" is a class of virus. There are 4 different coronaviruses circulating in the human population and "coronaviruses" get their classification from their shape. They have little prongs on them that look like "crowns" (thus the Latin "corona".) Two of the common coronaviruses are pretty mundane. They account for a sizable percent of seasonal colds. The other two are a little more risky. All coronaviruses have the potential of causing pneumonia. Coronaviruses also exist in other animals, although all other known animal coronaviruses are different enough from human forms, to be not be noted as naturally observable "jumps" from animal to human; even though it is said they are suspected to have. ? (Here's an example of where hypothesis and real life can't be naturally duplicated. No humans who've worked with infected animals have come down with the animal version of the virus.)

Influenza on the other hand (although it is also a respiratory infection) is its own class of virus. There are 4 known classes (A-D) of Influenza that infect humans. And unlike theories of animal coronavirus transferred to humans; it has been "naturally observed" that humans have transmitted H1N1 to household cats and H3N2 is transferable to dogs. H3N2 is most commonly found in pigs; yet humans have gotten this virus and apparently it can easily spread among dogs. (There was a canine H3N2 influenza outbreak identified in 2015.) Ironically though, it's only been naturally observed for animals to get these flu strands from humans than for humans to get them from animals.

So... is it possible that the 1919 Influenza pandemic didn't start with transfer from pigs to humans; but maybe humans to pigs as an "afterthought"? I'll look at that possibility a little more closely later.

As for Covid-19; a lot of information is still surfacing about this virus; but its most unusual characteristic is the fact that its incubation period could be as long as up to 24 days. That's a really long time that someone could be contagious before manifesting the symptoms.

The other serious issue is there appear to be people who are called "super spreaders". These people are asymptomatic, or so mildly symptomatic that they aren't even aware that they have Covid-19.

Some researchers are now saying though; that the "up to 24 day incubation period", may only apply to people who are "double exposed". Maybe they had a very mild case upon first exposure, did not develop sufficient immunity and/or then got really ill from either weakened immunity, subsequent exposure, or an auto-immune "over reaction" (cytokine storm).

This over immune response has been seen in animal test cases, as well as human infants who became critically ill from exposure to RSV (whooping cough) after having received the RSV vaccine. This is why infants under 3 months are not RSV vaccinated.

Interestingly though; older adults (30 to 55) almost never have a cytokine storm reaction to Influenza or such type strands of infections. Even the more serious Influenza strands like H5N1.

This also appears to be a factor with Covid-19 too. Rate of infection of children appears to be less severe. This is also the case with young adults; yet not everyone, because some do exhibit cytokine storm immune response.

Now the potential of reinfection causing acute critical illness from either weakened immunity, insufficient immunity (that one could possibly "catch" this again even after having a less severe case of it) or auto-immune cytokine storm; is a pretty scary possibility. This takes on a whole other level of pending ominousness.

Also of not well understood anomaly of this virus; is that it currently appears people of Asian ethnicity are becoming more critically ill per capita than people of European ethnicity. And here is why some people are calling this an "ethnic bio weapon".

Covid-19 attaches to the ACE2 receptors in the lungs; and for what ever reasons of human genetic variation, that Asians have 2X as many ACE2 receptors as Europeans is a possible reason why Covid-19 appears to be making Asians far more ill and have a higher mortality rate in that population. That is one possibility.

It's also noted though that smoking seems to be a factor here too. Smokers have more ACE2 receptors among their respective ethnic groups also. Could ACE2 receptors be an expression of certain genes "turned on" because of pollution? China has the most air pollution in the world. So could the population of China being more health compromised due to environmental factors from the onset; be why this particular Covid-19 has been so deadly in China particularly?

That question we are not going to know the answer to until epidemics begin to break out in the west.

The role of ethnicity in immune resistance to Influenza isn't well understood either; yet is statistically apparent. Native American populations (who have Asian ancestry) are more susceptible to complications and subsequent deaths from Influenza than European or African ethnicities. Why that is; I don't think the medical community knows?

Yet concerning Covid-19: Could it be that China has just passed into "phase two" of the virus's stages? The "first round of infection" not being severe enough to catch the attention of the medial community; whereas the second round of infection makes the population that much more vulnerable to lethality? Does this virus (like Influenza) have enough "mutation potential" to "reinfect"? That we don't know either!

There are some things we know about Covid-19. It is similar to the SARS and MERS viruses. Variants of all three of these viruses are present in the bird population. How it (they) "jumped" to the human population is not known.

The 1919 Influenza pandemic (H1N1 "swine flu") had also originated in the bird population and jumped from pigs to humans. (H1 was a human flu strain. N1 is an avian flu strain. It is believed they "combined" in pigs prior to "jumping" to humans. We know that was a "natural mergence" seeing how humans did not have the knowledge in 1919 to be able to intensionally create "super bugs". Research comparison of today from samples in 1919 have showed us that the original "human" version of Influenza is now "dead". (Strictly H1) Everyone who's coming down with the flu today, is coming down with some variant of the 1919 "swine / avian" flu. (From H1N1 to H5N3)

Was this H1N1 "jump" a result of chemical weapons used in WWI? I don't know if anyone has ever studied that question? I've never seen any research on it posted on the Internet. At the time of its outbreak, it was believed to have originated in the trenches. The first epidemic outbreak was in Europe during the war.

One Canadian research hypothis is that a respiratory infection present in China in 1917 was the origin of H1N1; stating there were Chinese workers hired by British and French militaries who brought this infection with them.

It is possible that what ever respiratory infection these Chinese workers may have carried, could have contributed to the H1N1 combo merging in pigs. Yet I think its erroneous to say the H1N1 virus originated in China; because if that had been the case, the first epidemic would not have been in Europe. Subsequently, the Chinese workers did bring H1N1 back to China; which did breakout epidemic there also. Yet that outbreak happened after the outbreak in Europe.

So, did chemical weapons used in WWI have something to do with the H1N1 mergence in pigs? That's a good question seeing how chemical exposure can mutate genetics!


Current "conspiracy theories" on the Covid-19 pandemic:

The current potential overall death rate is still unknown.

How its spread is still not well understood; although Taiwanese (as well as other) officials are saying its "aerosol airborne".

How contagious it really is, is unknown.

And whether or not the nations of the rest of the world have "stopped" it from becoming a global catastrophe won't be known for another month. It's already a catastrophe for China.

The current mainstream narrative is that it is a virus that has jumped from bats to humans. Others though believe it is a "biological weapon" that has escaped from a lab; (although not to say it wasn't an intentionally altered version of a bat virus). This is stated by the Russian media, as well as an American congressman. A "conspiracy" about this was also shown to the Filipino senate.

Ironically, to those who propose the possibility of the latter; there was actually a book published in…. 1981, that appears to support their hypothesis. The book is entitled The Eyes of Darkness and is authored by American writer Dean Koontz.

(book except:)

Tina removed an electrode from Danny's neck, careful peeling the tape off his skin.

The child still clung to her, but his deeply sunken eyes were riveted on Dombey.

"I'm not interested in philosophy or morality of biological warfare," Tina said. "Right now I just want to know how the hell Danny wound up in this place."

"To understand that," Dombey said, "you have to go back twenty months. It was around then that a Chinese scientist named Li Chen defected to the United States, carrying a diskette record of China's most important and dangerous: new biological weapon in a decade. They call the stuff 'Wuhan-400' because it was developed in their RDNA labs outside of the city of Wuhan, and it was the four-hundredth viable strain of a man-made microorganism created at that research center.

"Wuhan-400 is a perfect weapon. It afflicts only human beings. No other living creature can carry it. And like syphilis, Wuhan-400 can't survive outside a living human body for longer than a minute, which means it can't permanently contaminate objects or entire places the way anthrax or other virulent microorganisms can. And when the host expires, the Wuhan-400 within him perishes a short while later, as soon as the temperature of the corpse drops below eight-six degrees Fahrenheit. Do you see the advantage of all this?"

Tina was too busy with Danny to think about what Carl Dombey had said, but Elliot knew what the scientist meant. "If I understand you, the Chinese could use Wuhan-400 to wipe out a city or a country, and then there wouldn't be any need for them to conduct a tricky and expensive decontamination before they moved in and took over the conquered territory."

(page 209)

An incident of what has been dubbed "predictive programing"; or just an "interesting coincidence"?

The Wuhan Institute of Virology does exist. It began in 1956 as the Wuhan Microbiology Laboratory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and became a level 4 biosafety laboratory in 2015. This was after a 44 million dollar renovation that began in 2003. The lab has strong ties to Galveston Laboratory at the University of Texas. Yet to any data I've been able to dig up; Dean Koontz has no connections to that college, nor has he ever lived in Texas, or spent any time in Wuhan China that I could find. So theories of any "insider information" Koontz may appear to be presenting, is likely pure coincidence.

Still "interesting" how this book written in 1981 "predicted" that this lab would one day have the capacity to house biological agents that could potentially become weaponized and kill thousands of people. The lab is 30 kilometers from the live animal market where the virus allegedly came from.

Koontz's book does not imply that China kills its own population though. Yet, there are people who still question that if this is a human engineered illness; was its escape accidental or not? If this is a diabolical scheme cooked up by extremely wicked bad actors; we the public are never going to be told that.

Some accuse the Chinese government of releasing this virus. Yet that accusation doesn't fly logically either; because any group in political power who had a desire to "cull" their own population a bit, would not intentionally introduce such catastrophic means as to overwhelm and potentially collapse their own infrastructure, that they become their own "collateral damage". Was this a "biological Chernobyl" of sorts? That's possible; but I don't see that the Chinese government would have intentionally done this to their own nation!

The most recent version of this "released by" theory coming from the Russian media; is that the US is responsible for this.

Ironically, Q dropped an interesting post on the 12th:

The lines are drawn.

[Zw7301-&vQ-00-00-03]

Define Renegade [Hussein USSS code name].

Define Evergreen [HRC USSS code name]

Non-standard defintion.

Think depopulation

The Silent War continues…

Q

(I have no idea what the series of numbers in the second line mean.)

Evergreen definition:

1. having foliage that remains green and functional through more than one growing season. - compare deciduous.

2. a: retaining freshness or interest: perennial

b: universally and continually relevant: not limited in applicability to a particular event or date.

After doing a little digging, I did find some documents of an "Evergreen services" from a company named Redpill Linpro; which provides open source independent IT assistance for those looking for independent servers and other API management and connectivity platforms.

Think former US presidential candidate and "hacked server".

Now the information on this server was accessed by the Chinese (allegedly hacked by the Russians according to the "narrative"); which resulted in issues of US military hardware not functioning correctly. This was caused by software "bugs" inserted in computer hardware parts made in China. This was "tipped off" to US military intelligence by the obvious fact that American Naval ships and planes weren't functioning properly. The NSA through military intelligence captured this data. Q states that the NSA has the server data and knows what classified information the Chinese had access to. Thus former Secretary of State (as well as former POTUS) have committed treason.

"Think depopulation"

"The Silent War continues".

What was "the Silent War"? Well if we take our definition by what is currently in the news cycle; we see Russian media is stating that the US is responsible for releasing Covid-19. Now obviously American media dismisses this as propaganda; just as the Chinese government dismisses as propaganda that they had intentionally released this.

Yet is there a cornel of truth to what the Russian media is saying?

Is / was this a "deep state" / (Beast system) act of vengeance on China for being exposed in nations' efforts to try and dismantle it? (This is a spiritual war and obviously not something I would put past Satan as "possessing" someone to do!)

Q also posted something else recently labeled "state funeral" and gave a link to the description of the pomp and regalia that happens when famous figures in a nation die.

Some anons were hypothesizing that former President Carter, SC Justice Ginsburg, or even the Queen of England was going to be the next "state funeral"; as the last "state funeral" was Bush senior and this was said to be "ammunition" the deep state was "using up".

Did the "deep state" / Beast system up the anti on "state funeral" this time and make it the literal death of a state / nation? Again, not something I would put past Satan as "possessing" someone to do. Even "spiritual wars" have casualties in real human life!

After all, "the lines are drawn" and this will take up the news cycle for months! Which if this does eventually go as (infectious pandemic) as it has gone thus far in China; any political happenings in the US related to elections or arrests, would certainly pale in comparison!

This also certainly has the potential of altering the Dispensationalist narrative of eschatology. Remember there are several components of this Beast System working against each other to try and (at this point) survive. Which, the next chapter will be about Israel as related to that segment of the Beast System narrative.


So…. next question? What about the Scripture?

Does this "event" have a veiled referenced in the Scripture?

(That I'm not sure of either!)

Revelation 15 does speak of seven angels with seven plagues. These plagues are stated in the text to represent the wrath of God. For the most part, I've generally interpreted them as "spiritual plagues" (such as Satan deceiving people). But now that I think a little more circumspectly about this; that would not be a typical manifestation of the "wrath of God". Literal physical plagues do fit the historic Biblical description.

7 deadliest plagues:

New Testament Era: Measles, Malaria, (also called "yellow fever"), Leprosy, Syphilis and Tuberculosis are all recorded in history to have existed prior to the 1st century and so are not included as appearing post 1st century.

A variation "predecessor" or "cousin" to the deadly small pox virus likely existed prior to the 1st century, as "cow pox" and "monkey pox" are a similar viruses. The origin of small pox is not known. Yet like H1N1, it is suspected of being a "combo virus" that jumped to humans; whereas the original "human pox" virus is "dead" / now "disappeared" from history? Yet how viruses "combine" and "jump species" is not known either.

Archeologist have found Egyptian mummies dating about 300 BC who have skin lesions that resemble small pox; yet there is no supporting evidence of epidemics that resemble descriptions of small pox as exist in latter centuries. There are "plagues" described by the Greeks and Romans that match the spread of small pox; but the details of the disease are not clear. The first clear medical description of a small pox outbreak appeared in China in 400 AD.

So, these Egyptian mummies may have monkey pox; which is similar in presentation to small pox, but accompanied by notably swollen lymph nodes (which would not be readily noticeable on a 2500 year old mummy).

Monkeys were common in ancient Egypt and monkey pox are also spreadable from human to human in the same way small pox are. (Contact with body fluids and puss from lesions of infected people or animals.) Monkey pox like cow pox though, are not as contagious, nor as lethal as small pox. Cow pox is only animal to human contagious; not human to human contagious.

Ironically though, people who've had cow pox, or monkey pox apparently have some immunity to small pox; which gives some validity of the idea of a "viral jump". This was also noted in the 1919 Influenza pandemic. Prepubescent children over five and people in their 30's to 50's were less likely to die from that strain of Influenza than teens and young adults. (Today cytokine storm immune response being suspected as the cause of so many deaths of young people in 1919.)

The most common disease today mistaken as small pox is chicken pox; although those viruses are not related at all. Chicken pox is a strain of the Herpes (simplex 1) virus; which can reemerge later in life as Shingles.

I've also seen memes on Facebook claiming scabies are small pox.

Yet, there are Egyptian and Hittite descriptions of plagues that passed between the two groups during wars. The Hittites claim this plague came from the Egyptians.

Could it have been monkey pox? If it was casually communicable, that is possible; but if slaves were exchanged between the two groups the plagues could have been sexually transmitted also.

Now the Hittites were a neighboring tribe to the Midianites and the Old Testament does describe what was apparently a sexually transmitted disease contracted by Israelite men from Midianite women. This is the reason given in Numbers 31 for killing all the Midianite adults. So was this the same "plague" the Hittites got from Egypt, passed to Midian, passed to Israel?

Without archeological evidence; there'd be no possibility of a definitive identification of the disease that plague represented.

1. HIV - (100% fatal. Largest "western affected population" though still being those engaged in immoral sexual behavior. Currently, Africa is hardest hit with 64% of the world's cases being in Sub-Sahara Africa. Greatest global percent of new infections occurring in heterosexual females between 15 and 24 years old. Some of these undoubtedly are human trafficking cases. Prime era of infection - 1975 to present. )

2. Small Pox - (up to 80% fatality in virgin population. Responsible for majority death of native North and South American populations. Prime era of infection - mid 17th century to mid 20th century.)

3. Bubonic Plague - (up to 60% fatality. Prime era of infection - fall of Rome to the Renaissance.)

4. Cholera - (Up to 60% fatality if untreated; (caused by bacteria due to lack of urban sanitation. Prime era of infection - the 19th century.)

5. Typhus - (Up to 60% fatality in uncontrolled environment - (caused by lice). Prime era of infection WWI and WWII.)

6. Influenza - (Believed to be described in classical era Greek diseases. 1918 pandemic - about 20% fatality. Alteration of virus strands created "combo super bug"; (more severe in certain populations): Death rate from "new current" (H1N1) "common flu" is about .5 percent.)

All these plagues spanned the globe; the one to take the most lives over the course of the past 2000 years was probably Small Pox. Bubonic plague likely came in a close second. Both these plagues have existed (with various outbreaks) into about the 1970's.

HIV was officially declared "pandemic" in the 1981 when the CDC declared 5 cases in homosexual men in San Francisco. Like H1N1 Influenza and Corvid-19, HIV is said to have "jumped species" from gorillas and chimpanzees to humans. Yet how it became the virus that it is, can not be explained seeing how the alleged "originator viruses" (SIV) in monkeys are found in humans who've eaten infected monkeys, but are not contagious and are not HIV.

Cholera and Typhus are still issues in the developing world and are diseases mostly related to sanitation and hygiene.

Corvid-19? - (Mortality rate currently unknown to the general public. First suspected human bioengineered virus; to cause global pandemic. Prime era of infection - 2020 - ?)

If "the end" is actually 2033; this virus would be present for the last 13 years of history. 13,000 years of Earth's existence according to Biblical genealogies came to its conclusion in 1988. 1988 to 2033 = 45 years. (I referenced this in "Time, Times and 1/2 Time - part 1.)

13 years is only referenced three places in Scripture:

Genesis 14:

This chapter discusses a series of conflicts that occur between kings in the lands where the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah resided. The wars last for 12 years and in the 13th year, Abraham comes and rescues Lot who was taken captive by these warring kings. This is the year Abraham meets Melchizedek, the king of Salem.

Genesis 17:25

Ishmael is 13 years old when he's circumcised.

1 Kings 7:1

Once Solomon finished the temple; it took 13 years to build his own house.

All of these diseases except HIV and Covid-19 (as far as can be determined by historical record) started in the 1st century; although Typhus, Cholera and Influenza did not become prominent killers until the 19th and 20th centuries.

So are these actual plagues / the actual plagues; that Revelation 15 makes reference to? I don't know?

Still, just as God's use for human warfare; if this was some released bioweapon? "What men mean for evil God uses for good." God's intent in allowing plagues, wars and natural disasters to happen is that people would come to repentance. Maybe Covid-19 is God's facilitating of His collection of the elect out of China, (and eventually across the globe) because we are getting so close to the end?


Prevention / Covid-19 mitigation:

This is a new virus entered into a virgin population. There's no "herd immunity" and no stop measure immunity; (like oceans). It is already globally pandemic. It has an extremely long incubation / potential contagious phase. (Potential of "super spreaders".) There is no treatment. There is no vaccine. (SARS vaccine will cause a cytokine storm.) It's current complication rate is 15% with 5% requiring intensive care. Its current lethality rate is 3 to 5 percent with a potential of being as high as 20%. Its lethality rate will be higher in an older population. (This will likely hit the baby boom generation hard.)

This virus has a "natural RO factor" of between 4.5 and 6.7. THAT'S REALLY HIGH! (RO factor is the measure of how contagious it potentially is. Current Influenza RO factor is 1.5) Covid-19 is potentially so contagious because (besides all these other factors mentioned in paragraph above) it isn't just "droplet spread" which requires one to be within a certain distance of an infected person. It's also "aerosol spread"; which means particles can spread further distance because they are small and can be carried in the wind and things like building ventilation.

The good news is RO factor can be controlled for to a certain extent.

RO factor in this case would be controlled by measures like forced quarantine, self quarantine, social distancing, avoiding public gatherings, FREQUENT HAND WASHING!

Yet even at the most draconian measures as displayed by China in forced quarantine zones; they could only reduce the RO factor to between 2 and 3.

So, be mentally as well as physically prepared as possible; because this virus is "coming to a neighborhood near you"!

How bad it will get; depends on us!

So what is the best way to mitigate the affects of this virus?

(Because the likelihood we will all be exposed at some point or another is pretty high.)

Do what you can to support a healthy immune system!

The most important aspect of that is to get 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night. Adequate sleep has a huge impact on immune function, because our immune systems build themselves in stage two sleep.

Eat well. Fruits and vegetables facilitate a good immune system to function well.

Vitamin B, Zinc, Folic Acid, Selenium, Vitamin D, Vitamin E and Vitamin C are all immune system helpers.

Don't panic!

(There are a lot of "preppers" in the United States. I don't expect we'll have a food shortage. We may have a medication shortage. We may see things like fuel rationing. Depends on how bad this gets? Americans are generally generous. Work together with your neighbors.)

Expect disruptions in the "supply chain".

Do what you can NOW to stay healthy, so you can stay away from hospitals and doctor's clinics later.

Expect periodic store closings.

Expect school closings.

Expect there may (likely will) be times cities are quarantined (even in the US).

Obey the authorities when they tell you to stay home.

Expect there will be people you know who don't survive this.

Pray!