SP0015 – World Crisis “Swine Flu”

 

Pandemic Threat – Now Swine – Flu

By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, April 15th 2009

 

Subject:  epidemics, pandemics, plagues

Info source 1: Swine influenza frequently asked questions, from WHO, World Health Organization, 25^th April 2009

 

We suggest to carefully read two items of this authoritative FAQ:

 

What are the implications for human health?

Outbreaks and sporadic human infection with swine influenza have been occasionally reported.

Generally clinical symptoms are similar to seasonal influenza but reported clinical presentation ranges broadly from asymptomatic infection to severe pneumonia resulting in death.

Since typical clinical presentation of swine influenza infection in humans resembles seasonal influenza and other acute upper respiratory tract infections, most of the cases have been detected by chance through seasonal influenza surveillance. Mild or asymptomatic cases may have escaped from recognition; therefore the true extent of this disease among humans is unknown.

 

 

 

What about the pandemic risk?

It is likely that most of people, especially those who do not have regular contact with pigs, do not have immunity to swine influenza viruses that can prevent the virus infection. If a swine virus establishes efficient human-to human transmission, it can cause an influenza pandemic. The impact of a pandemic caused by such a virus is difficult to predict: it depends on virulence of the virus, existing immunity among people, cross protection by antibodies acquired from seasonal influenza infection and host factors.

 

Info source 2: Mexico Takes Powers to Isolate Cases of Swine Flu, By MARC LACEY and ELISABETH MALKIN, From NYT, April 25, 2009

White-coated health care workers fanned out across the international airport here to look for ailing passengers, and thousands of callers fearful they might have contracted the rare swine flu flooded government health hot lines. Health officials also began notifying restaurants, bars and nightclubs throughout the city that they should close.

Of those Mexicans who did go out in public, many took the advice of the authorities and donned the masks, which are known here as tapabocas, or cover-your-mouths, and were being handed out by soldiers and health workers at subway stops and on street corners.

“My government will not delay one minute to take all the necessary measures to deal with this epidemic,” Mr. Calderón said in Oaxaca State during the opening of a new hospital, which he said would set aside an area for anyone who might be affected by the new swine flu strain that has already killed as many as 81 people in Mexico and sickened more than 1,300 others.

 

 

Info source 3: PANDEMIC HYSTERIA: towards Tamiflu overstocks?. See also Poop Pandemic and WebMed Swine-Flu Faq

Info source 4 (Asian): Health Authorities Move to Contain Swine Flu Threat, from Don-A, South Korea, April 27th 2009

 
The National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service said, “Though influenza viruses are not transmitted through food, consumers are deeply worried about the safety of pork. We will conduct tests for the virus on all U.S. and Mexican pork imports, including those not yet inspected.”
Of pork imported this year, 208 tons from Mexico and 28,726 tons from the United States passed quarantine inspection as of the end of last month.
All travelers arriving from the United States and Mexico will be checked for fever and be tested for the swine flu virus. Those who enter Korea from a third nation after traveling to North America will undergo health inspection.
Mexico is put on high alert in the wake of a new strain of swine flu that has killed 81 people and infected 1,324. The World Health Organization held an emergency meeting Saturday to declare a public health emergency of international concern.

Other countries are scrambling to protect their people from the deadly disease by conducting quarantine inspections at all points of entry.
The outbreak was first reported April 13 and has spread. Mexico City’s 30,000 schools and those in two other Mexican states and San Luis Potosi will remain closed until May 5. Public events expected to draw large crowds of people were also canceled.
 
World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan warned that swine flu could evolve into a global pandemic. She convened Saturday the first meeting of her organization’s emergency committee comprised of influenza experts from around the world in Geneva.

Comment: The danger is real, planetary and next to all of us. However more than ever we all have to be rightly informed reading authoritative sources, mass media and people opinions. This danger should prevent us from being too light when judging crisis. World crisis do not occur of a sudden without a progressive series of warnings signs and alarms and even more: this progression tends to accelerate “exponentially” before the failure of the “system in this case The Gaia System, our planet. Even plagues and all types of epidemics arrive progressively.

Categories: people health, pandemics, people diseases, plagues

Tags: epidemics, pandemics, flu, swine flu, WHO, World Health Organization, outbreaks, influenza, quarantine, vaccines, vaccination, gaia, pandemic risk, pandemics threat, Margaret Chan, Mark Lacey, pandemic hysteria, global pandemics, health emergency, swine influenza, swine flu threat, seasonal influenza, Calderón,

 

 

 

 

 

SP0014 – World Crisis “Invisible Citizens”

 

Invisible People – Invisible Children

By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, April 25th 2009

 

 

Source: UNICEF

 

Subject: nationality, birth registration, non person

Info Source 1: Child Birth Registration, from Childinfo.org of UNICEF, July 2008

A name and a nationality are human rights

Article 7 of the CRC gives every child the right to be registered at birth by the state within whose jurisdiction the child is born. This means that states must make birth registration accessible and available to all children including asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants.

 Drawing from the right to a name and nationality contained in this article 7, the 2002 General Assembly Resolution ‘A World Fit for Children‘ reaffirms governments’ commitment to ensure the birth registration of all children and to invest in educate and protect children from harm and exploitation. In order to achieve these goals, it is necessary for governments to have accurate population data in order to plan services provision for children and their caregivers.

 During the 1990s, there was growing awareness of the importance of prompt birth registration as an essential means of protecting a child’s right to identity, as well as respect for other children’s rights. The lack of a birth certificate may prevent a child from receiving health care, nutritional supplements and social assistance, and from being enrolled in school. Later in childhood, identity documents help protect children against early marriage, child labor, premature enlistment in the armed forces or, if accused of a crime, prosecution as an adult.

Infor source 2: Fact Sheets – Birth Registration, from UNICEF, April 25^th 2009

The right to a name and nationality is well established. However, in 2000 alone, some 50 million births went unregistered – over 40 per cent of all estimated births worldwide that year. These unregistered children are almost always from poor, marginalized or displaced families or from countries where systems of registration are not in place or functional.

Globally, South Asia has the largest number of unregistered children, with approximately 22.5 million, or over 40 per cent of the world’s unregistered births in 2000. In sub-Saharan Africa, 70 per cent of all births went unregistered in 2000. In South Asia, the figure was 63 per cent. In the Middle East and North Africa, nearly one third of the children born in 2000 were unregistered, while in East Asia and the Pacific, 22 per cent of births were not registered.

Info Source 3: The invisible children, report from Invisiblechildren.org, one recent and randomly selected, April 25^th 2009

THE RESCUE
The Lords Resistance Army’s violent tactics have devastated the populations of four nations in east and central Africa; we now have the opportunity to stand in solidarity with the affected populations and urge for action from the international community to protect innocent civilians and rescue children senselessly involved with this war. Join us April 25th in 100 cities in 9 nations for The Rescue.

Info source 4: statelessness people status ó NN, from Wikipedia

Statelessness is the legal and social concept of a person lacking belonging (or a legally enforceable claim) to any recognised state. Statelessness is not always the same as lack of citizenship.

De jure statelessness is where there exists no recognised state in respect of which the subject has a legally meritorious basis to claim nationality.

De facto statelessness is where the subject may have a legally meritorious claim but is precluded from asserting it because of practical considerations such as cost, circumstances of civil disorder, or the fear of persecution.

Comment: By undocumented people common people and media mean somehow illegal immigrants, refugees, gypsies, perhaps keeping our mind save. Unfortunately most invisible people are “native” children born in existent countries and many of them potentially leading the world development.

Categories: people, invisible people, establishment. people rights

Tags: invisible people, NN, invisible children, statelessness, statelessness people, gypsies, refugees, war children, De facto statelessness, De jure statelessness, UNICEF, China, India, Chindia, child birth registration, CBR, CRC, Beijing, citizens, citizenship, non person,

SP0013 – World Crisis “IMF Report”

SP0013

What the IMF says about the World Crisis

By Juan Chamero, from Caece University at Buenos Aires, Argentine, April 15th 2009

 

Source: WEO, World Economic Outlook, IMF

Subject: Economy, finance, global finance

Info Source: Global bank losses likely to reach $4.1 trillion, says IMF, by Larry Elliott , The Guardian, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 22 April 2009.

The global financial sector faces write-downs of $4.1tn (£2.8tn) from the toxic assets that have crashed in value since the start of the credit crunch 20 months ago, the International Monetary Fund said today .

In its first comprehensive study of the impact of the crisis on banks and other financial institutions, the Fund said that it had increased its estimate of the potential losses in the US from $2.2tn to $2.7tn as a result of the deepening economic slump over the past three months.

Europe and Japan between them account for $1.3tn of the write-downs, with UK banks facing losses of up to $316bn (£216bn). The Treasury last night disputed the UK figure, saying the IMF had offered a range of costs between 6% and 13% of GDP, and that £216bn was at the highest end of this range

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The key challenge was to break the “downward spiral” between a weakened financial system and the global economy. The Fund set out a detailed program of reforms, including curbs on credit growth during booms, tougher regulation of a limited number of institutions ­considered “too big to fail” and better cross-border supervision.

In its breakdown of the losses on toxic assets, the IMF said two-thirds of the write-downs affected banks. But the FSR warned that pension funds had seen the value of their assets

Comment: This report could be interpreted as the first formal evaluation of the worldwide Crisis deepness and reach. However in despite of its dramatic tone it could be considered too optimistic. See our next entry SP0014 about the effect of “politically correct” measures in times of crisis. From a “systems” point of view the recovery trajectory towards the next future looks highly improbable. The history tells us that society inertia is so “high” that recoveries, whether occurred, take decades.

We mean that the failure is so big and extreme that a new system should be buildup and it takes time.

 

Tags: IFM, GDP, WEO, the guardian, guardia.co.uk, Larry Elliot, global bank losses, politically correct, credit crunch, society inertia, global economy, global finance, FSR,