The following is from the "opinion" page of the NYT (Sept 11, 2014). It follows the Playbook Dr Sherri Tenpenny wrote about fairly well.
What we're afraid to say about Ebola
What we're afraid to say about Ebola
Author: Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
Excerpts:
What is not getting said publicly, despite briefings and discussions in the inner circles of the world’s public health agencies, is that we are in totally uncharted waters and that Mother Nature is the only force in charge of the crisis at this time.
[Step 1: start where your audience is and lead them to the conclusion.]
There are two possible future chapters to this story that should keep us up at night.
[Step 2: Don't be afraid to frighten people.]
The first possibility is that the Ebola virus spreads from West Africa to megacities in other regions of the developing world. This outbreak is very different from the 19 that have occurred in Africa over the past 40 years. It is much easier to control Ebola infections in isolated villages. But there has been a 300 percent increase in Africa’s population over the last four decades, much of it in large city slums. What happens when an infected person yet to become ill travels by plane to Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa or Mogadishu — or even Karachi, Jakarta, Mexico City or Dhaka?
[Step 3: Acknowledge uncertainty and don't overly reassure.]
The second possibility is one that virologists are loath to discuss openly but are definitely considering in private: that an Ebola virus could mutate to become transmissible through the air. You can now get Ebola only through direct contact with bodily fluids. But viruses like Ebola are notoriously sloppy in replicating, meaning the virus entering one person may be genetically different from the virus entering the next.
[Steps 6, 7 and 8: Make specific suggestions on "how bad things could get".]
The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years. Each new infection represents trillions of throws of the genetic dice.
[Steps 6, 7 and 8: Make specific suggestions on "how bad things could get".]
If certain mutations occurred, it would mean that just breathing would put one at risk of contracting Ebola.
[Step 9: Guide the adjustment reaction - one of continual concern and impending doom.]
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This is a great example of Problem - Reaction - Solution, i.e. create the problem, fuel the reaction and offer the predetermined solution.
Here comes Osterholm's solution:
First, we need someone to take over the position of “command and control.” The United Nations is the only international organization that can direct the immense amount of medical, public health and humanitarian aid that must come from many different countries and nongovernmental groups to smother this epidemic.
Translation: global problem needs NWO global governance solution! None of those he wishes to put in "command and control" were elected . . . by anyone!
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