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The Story of ACID Mitigation Training Academy
To understand why I decided to teach infectious disease control to cleaning people I have to tell a short story. It begins with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, (SARS-1) of 2003 which was the first coronavirus to evolve to cause serious illness in people. Viruses themselves were discovered around the year 1900. And up till 2003, there were a few hundred known coronaviruses in the entire animal kingdom Four of those agents along with parainfluenza and Rhinoviruses cause most of what we call the common cold, in humans. But this new Coronavirus had mutated into something different because it developed the ability to attach itself to receptors deep in the lower repository tract of its victims. Whereas the other viruses only affect the upper tract, making their victims uncomfortable but ultimately everyone recovers. With SARS-1 not only was the agent highly contagious but by the second week of infection, nearly a third of all those ill experienced the now-infamous cytokine storm. Many of those died from its atypical pneumonia. What is not well considered is that many of the people who caught and died from the 2003 epidemic were doctors and nurses. How was it that in an age of advanced scientific medicine that so many hospitals were unprepared? How could the cream of the crop lack basic control measures of personal protection equipment and proper containments to handle infectious disease? SARS-1 had 8000 documented cases spread to multiple countries, including Canada, and resulted in 774 deaths.
The medical-industrial complex seemed a bit more prepared when MERS another serious and distinct Corona family virus spilled over ten years later in Saudi Arabia. Some fast decision making and collaboration between watchdogs like the World Health Organization and regional epidemiologists were lauded for being able to contain the outbreak. But there have been many other infectious diseases moving into human populations. Antigenic shifts of influenza, i.e., HINI and H9N1, Swine Flu, and Bird Flu and added to the burden of Seasonal outbreaks. In 2014 there were 28,500 cases of Ebola Virus across spread across several nations. One case of Ebola made it to Texas and killed the primary carrier and two nurses. We have had relatively recent zoonotic events with the NIPA virus and Hendra virus. Zoonosis is when parasites that formerly infect animals find a new host in some portion of the now seven and a half billion humans on our planet. Check Out janitorial cleaning training .
The point of the story is that none of these facts were unknown among public health officials. Despite that it now seems to me that everyone must have been preoccupied, perhaps watching The apprentice, and failed to notice what is happening in the world of infectious diseases! The furthest thing from my mind last November when I was taking a refresher biology course is that I would be teaching a course about infectious diseases to cleaning people. I had my sights firmly fixed on building my cleaning franchise. With an 80% increase in sustainable sales and adequate profitability the previous year, I was well on my way. It was sometime after New Year’s 2020 that word began to buzz around about a new virus in Wuhan China that was causing respiratory distress syndrome also called “ARDS”. After completing the biology course with Christina Leaders College I began to audit Professor Racaniello’s virology class at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. I also rewrote my entire operations plan for the coming year, which became my “pandemic Operating Plan. Which I published in mid-March. This incidentally is more than a month ahead of competent judgment published by the CDC, The National Institute of Health, and local authorities. Suffice to say that I made a call to the Governor’s office and expressed my concerns. Check Out Our janitorial cleaning tips And Training Course With Certification .
Think about the environment at the time. Our hospital systems lacked sufficient stock of PPE. Although the mathematics of epidemiology has been known for almost a century, Susceptible people, (ST) Infected People, (IT) Recovered People (RT), the calculus is long been established fact. Why wasn't the CDC prepared? Why did they shut the front door, flights from (China), and Leave the back door open (Europe)? In closer to home, if the brightest minds in America didn’t think to protect themselves with adequate personal protection equipment and other controls, what did that mean to us lowly cleaning people? What did it mean for the essential workers? It means that we climb down into the footing ditch and hold tightly to the forms as the cement is poured.
The training I had provided my cleaning people was insufficient for spaces occupied by people carrying an infectious disease. My program was not suitable even to perform secondary “touchpoint” cleaning. I am a certified Microbial Remediation Technician, but I had no one else trained for that. So I built a new training program. If I was going to be sending people into the fire, they damn well would know something about germs. They would know something about the immune system, natural flora, and the antimicrobial tools at their disposal.
Each day I watched the numbers accumulate, beginning with 40 cases in the USA to over two million today. I was wearing a mask going to get groceries in early March. I don’t mind admitting that there was no lack of opinionated people who mocked my precautionary behavior. My wife Cherie I are both over 50 and we both have high blood pressure and other comorbidity factors. We instituted a program for measuring and documenting body temperature and many other physical distancing protocols for everyone’s safety. After getting our own house in order and retraining our people I decided that I would teach others what I know about infectious disease and what I can about how to reduce our chances of getting ill on the job.
health is connected like a chain. Health needs to be a priority. We shouldn't wait for for-profit companies to find and build vaccines. Companies patent their research and their drugs, they own the technology and that process makes access unaffordable for most. We need to break the medical/pharma/industrial complex and make more medicine for every American! Even vaccinating animals can prevent spillover. We do it for expensive racehorses already. The evidence suggests that Racehorses are worth more than American citizens in our present system. But that shouldn’t come as a surprise to my brethren cleaners. How many of us can even afford a decent health insurance plan? So part of our surplus from the sale of our ACID Mitigation Training Academy will go to these kinds of causes. We need to invest in the science that we already have. David Baltimore developed a revolutionary science called “The Baltimore Scheme” So we know that every virus must use a messenger RNA to be translated its code in a cell. Modern Biogenetics has in its knowledge, the step by step process (seven of them actually) that every known virus has to follow to take over cells! Science can isolate the proteins and enzymes that do that work. Science already has the tools necessary to make a vaccine for every virus. What is needed is adequate funds to do the lab work. Ask any virologist. We could have had vaccines for coronaviruses already after SARS and MERS but we sat on our hands instead
We pledge 5 % of our surplus to fund ECHO Health Alliance whose job is to sample bats and record genomes so that we have a jump on the next pandemic and vaccine. Ours is just a small part of what I necessary. We need a strong health care system that all Americans can access. We need military defense, but we also need biological defense. The numbers show us that war (barring nuclear annihilation) is not even the greatest threat to life. Infectious Disease has always killed more people than war has. It just isn't as heroic and to talk about Smallpox, Polio, Measles, and on and on. But the truth of the matter is that more people died in the Civil war from infections than from bullets and bayonets. 50 million were killed from influenza in 1918-1920, much more than from the whole world war! Also, we mustn’t wait to develop more antibiotics. MERSA (antibiotic-resistant Staph) is killing more people every year!
Aside from being a biology geek and science nerd, I am also a Conservative Christian. The Bible tells me that the first rule of life is to love God and others. 1st Corinthians chapter 13 tells me that love always protects others. I care about the unborn and I care about the people who are here already. Surely, there is something I can contribute to the community given relevant knowledge and skillset. just like I did when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gold Coast. On day three from when the hurricane hit the coast, I camped in Pascagoula Mississippi, sanitizing and repairing flood-damaged homes. I am certified by the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning, and Restoration Certification as an Applied Microbial Remediation Technician and hold a separate certification in Health and Safety (among several other bio-related certifications) from the same institution. What good is one’s training if I can’t use it when it is needed most? Of course, I seek to remain solvent. But our daily bread is more than what we have to eat. So, our goals have changed given these dire circumstances. This course is my best effort to prove myself useful in times of national crisis. I hope that you will support our mission.
The medical-industrial complex seemed a bit more prepared when MERS another serious and distinct Corona family virus spilled over ten years later in Saudi Arabia. Some fast decision making and collaboration between watchdogs like the World Health Organization and regional epidemiologists were lauded for being able to contain the outbreak. But there have been many other infectious diseases moving into human populations. Antigenic shifts of influenza, i.e., HINI and H9N1, Swine Flu, and Bird Flu and added to the burden of Seasonal outbreaks. In 2014 there were 28,500 cases of Ebola Virus across spread across several nations. One case of Ebola made it to Texas and killed the primary carrier and two nurses. We have had relatively recent zoonotic events with the NIPA virus and Hendra virus. Zoonosis is when parasites that formerly infect animals find a new host in some portion of the now seven and a half billion humans on our planet. Check Out janitorial cleaning training .
The point of the story is that none of these facts were unknown among public health officials. Despite that it now seems to me that everyone must have been preoccupied, perhaps watching The apprentice, and failed to notice what is happening in the world of infectious diseases! The furthest thing from my mind last November when I was taking a refresher biology course is that I would be teaching a course about infectious diseases to cleaning people. I had my sights firmly fixed on building my cleaning franchise. With an 80% increase in sustainable sales and adequate profitability the previous year, I was well on my way. It was sometime after New Year’s 2020 that word began to buzz around about a new virus in Wuhan China that was causing respiratory distress syndrome also called “ARDS”. After completing the biology course with Christina Leaders College I began to audit Professor Racaniello’s virology class at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. I also rewrote my entire operations plan for the coming year, which became my “pandemic Operating Plan. Which I published in mid-March. This incidentally is more than a month ahead of competent judgment published by the CDC, The National Institute of Health, and local authorities. Suffice to say that I made a call to the Governor’s office and expressed my concerns. Check Out Our janitorial cleaning tips And Training Course With Certification .
Think about the environment at the time. Our hospital systems lacked sufficient stock of PPE. Although the mathematics of epidemiology has been known for almost a century, Susceptible people, (ST) Infected People, (IT) Recovered People (RT), the calculus is long been established fact. Why wasn't the CDC prepared? Why did they shut the front door, flights from (China), and Leave the back door open (Europe)? In closer to home, if the brightest minds in America didn’t think to protect themselves with adequate personal protection equipment and other controls, what did that mean to us lowly cleaning people? What did it mean for the essential workers? It means that we climb down into the footing ditch and hold tightly to the forms as the cement is poured.
The training I had provided my cleaning people was insufficient for spaces occupied by people carrying an infectious disease. My program was not suitable even to perform secondary “touchpoint” cleaning. I am a certified Microbial Remediation Technician, but I had no one else trained for that. So I built a new training program. If I was going to be sending people into the fire, they damn well would know something about germs. They would know something about the immune system, natural flora, and the antimicrobial tools at their disposal.
Each day I watched the numbers accumulate, beginning with 40 cases in the USA to over two million today. I was wearing a mask going to get groceries in early March. I don’t mind admitting that there was no lack of opinionated people who mocked my precautionary behavior. My wife Cherie I are both over 50 and we both have high blood pressure and other comorbidity factors. We instituted a program for measuring and documenting body temperature and many other physical distancing protocols for everyone’s safety. After getting our own house in order and retraining our people I decided that I would teach others what I know about infectious disease and what I can about how to reduce our chances of getting ill on the job.
health is connected like a chain. Health needs to be a priority. We shouldn't wait for for-profit companies to find and build vaccines. Companies patent their research and their drugs, they own the technology and that process makes access unaffordable for most. We need to break the medical/pharma/industrial complex and make more medicine for every American! Even vaccinating animals can prevent spillover. We do it for expensive racehorses already. The evidence suggests that Racehorses are worth more than American citizens in our present system. But that shouldn’t come as a surprise to my brethren cleaners. How many of us can even afford a decent health insurance plan? So part of our surplus from the sale of our ACID Mitigation Training Academy will go to these kinds of causes. We need to invest in the science that we already have. David Baltimore developed a revolutionary science called “The Baltimore Scheme” So we know that every virus must use a messenger RNA to be translated its code in a cell. Modern Biogenetics has in its knowledge, the step by step process (seven of them actually) that every known virus has to follow to take over cells! Science can isolate the proteins and enzymes that do that work. Science already has the tools necessary to make a vaccine for every virus. What is needed is adequate funds to do the lab work. Ask any virologist. We could have had vaccines for coronaviruses already after SARS and MERS but we sat on our hands instead
We pledge 5 % of our surplus to fund ECHO Health Alliance whose job is to sample bats and record genomes so that we have a jump on the next pandemic and vaccine. Ours is just a small part of what I necessary. We need a strong health care system that all Americans can access. We need military defense, but we also need biological defense. The numbers show us that war (barring nuclear annihilation) is not even the greatest threat to life. Infectious Disease has always killed more people than war has. It just isn't as heroic and to talk about Smallpox, Polio, Measles, and on and on. But the truth of the matter is that more people died in the Civil war from infections than from bullets and bayonets. 50 million were killed from influenza in 1918-1920, much more than from the whole world war! Also, we mustn’t wait to develop more antibiotics. MERSA (antibiotic-resistant Staph) is killing more people every year!
Aside from being a biology geek and science nerd, I am also a Conservative Christian. The Bible tells me that the first rule of life is to love God and others. 1st Corinthians chapter 13 tells me that love always protects others. I care about the unborn and I care about the people who are here already. Surely, there is something I can contribute to the community given relevant knowledge and skillset. just like I did when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gold Coast. On day three from when the hurricane hit the coast, I camped in Pascagoula Mississippi, sanitizing and repairing flood-damaged homes. I am certified by the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning, and Restoration Certification as an Applied Microbial Remediation Technician and hold a separate certification in Health and Safety (among several other bio-related certifications) from the same institution. What good is one’s training if I can’t use it when it is needed most? Of course, I seek to remain solvent. But our daily bread is more than what we have to eat. So, our goals have changed given these dire circumstances. This course is my best effort to prove myself useful in times of national crisis. I hope that you will support our mission.
