The Need for Symbolism…
Government Cheese
So many layers of bureaucracy.
Anon wonders what the government is stockpiling to use in its war against the people besides Oil, Ventilators, and Cheese?
What is the Strategic National Stockpile?
The SNS grew out of an earlier program, the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile, which Congress created in 1999 to serve as an emergency supply of drugs and vaccines in the wake of a terrorist attack or other crisis affecting public health. It was overseen by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2003, amid a sweeping government reorganization prompted by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it became the SNS, and in 2018 was placed under the authority of another body within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The SNS contains a slew of medical supplies and equipment, including antibiotics, antivirals, vaccines, ventilators, and beds, stored in secret locations across the country to supplement state and local resources. Some of the materials are organized into “twelve-hour push packages”—each contains fifty tons of medical supplies that can be rapidly deployed to another part of the country. The exact contents of the stockpile are kept secret for security reasons, but it holds over $8 billion worth of inventory, according to Greg Burel, who directed the SNS for more than twelve years. The composition of the stockpile is determined by a special interagency body that includes experts from the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health.
The SNS has been used to respond to a range of crises since its inception, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks; Hurricane Katrina; and outbreaks of Zika, Ebola, H1N1, COVID-19, and, most recently, mpox, the smallpox relative formerly known as monkeypox. But because the SNS was initially designed and funded to handle chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) events, experts, including Burel, say it has not received the necessary funding for pandemic preparedness.
The Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve is a stockpile of one million barrels of diesel fuel kept in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Massachusetts to supply the northeastern United States, where the majority of heating oil is used. The federal government used to maintain a stockpile of helium near Amarillo, Texas, but Congress ordered the reserve to be shut by 2021, and the government transitioned it to private-sector use. While it was initially hoarded for use in military blimps, helium today is used in rockets and in superconductors. Additionally, the Defense Department reportedly stockpiles rare earth minerals, which are used to manufacture advanced weaponry, and lithium, a critical input for advanced batteries, to curb its reliance on Chinese sources. The Pentagon also maintains a National Defense Stockpile of about $1.5 billion worth of various metals.
The government has in the past stockpiled food, but these programs were mainly to support farmers hurt by low prices. For example, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) bought surplus dairy products, which it distributed to Americans via various welfare programs. Food stockpiling has been a point of debate in negotiations at the World Trade Organization because some critics say itdistorts trade flows.
Today, the USDA still buys various commodities for both domestic and international food aid programs. It also maintains a vault in Fort Collins, Colorado, that houses thousands of plant species and genetic material of livestock in the event of a disaster.
The SNS does not contain food reserves, but the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) stockpiles food, water, generators, and other resources across eight distribution centers located in the United States and its territories.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault safeguards the world’s flora in the event of a major disaster. The vault holds nearly one million seed samples inside a mountain on a remote Norwegian island in the Arctic.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/state-us-strategic-stockpiles
Combining multiple protective behaviors — such as mask-wearing and not gathering with other households — will remain important until a large percentage of the population is vaccinated, researchers say.
Mask use rises but social distancing guidelines are being ignored as pandemic fatigue sets in
More people are now having visitors over or leaving their homes unnecessarily, a USC study finds, opening up gaps in the ‘Swiss cheese’ model of COVID-19 defense.
Pandemic fatigue may become a larger concern as COVID-19 variants spread
The researchers developed an “adherence index” to 16 evidence-based protective measures to measure apathy and resistance toward interventions. Responses were adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, household income and the seven-day mean of daily new cases in the respondent’s state.
They found that overall adherence on the index decreased substantially from 70.0, out of a possible 100, in early April to the high 50s in June before increasing to 60.1 by late November. The trends occurred in all regions of the U.S.
“The general decrease we see in protective behaviors matches anecdotal reports, but the difference we find between behaviors is a very new and important addition to the conversation,” said co-author Matthew Crane, a medical student at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a visiting scholar at the USC Schaeffer Center. “Attention to pandemic fatigue is especially relevant given rising concerns about new variants of the virus, which may require even greater physical distancing measures to curb transmission.”
https://news.usc.edu/181077/mask-use-social-distancing-covid-pandemic-fatigue-usc-research/
https://news.usc.edu/files/2021/08/CheeseDefense_web-824x549.jpg
[C]heese [D]efence
https://www.keckmedicine.org/about/
About Keck Medicine of USC
Our 2023-2024 rankings are higher than last year in four specialties, including Cancer.
Keck Medical Center is now ranked in the top 50 in the nation in three new specialties — Obstetrics & Gynecology, Neurology & Neurosurgery and Rehabilitation.
Our medical center rated High Performing (the highest rating possible) in 15 common procedures and conditions that were evaluated nationally, including heart bypass surgery, colon cancer surgery and hip and knee replacement.
For the first time, U.S. News & World Report evaluated hospitals in Leukemia, Lymphoma & Myeloma and Keck Medical Center was rated High Performing.
So the Jovian system spans nearly half the arc-width as the Moon from Earth's perspective? That's big.
Great pic.
I wonder why they say, "The Moon is made of Cheese"?
>Learn to speak Russian
*Rushan
Rushan (Chinese: 乳扇; pinyin: rǔshān; lit. 'milk fan') is a cow's milk cheese of Yunnan, China. It is traditionally made by the Bai people, who call it nvxseiz (or yenx seinp, in another dialect of Bai), the etymology of which is unclear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushan_cheese
Russian Cheese is Chinese?
Cheeses are often dipped in dense salt water to help it develop a thick Rind to prevent spoilage.
Making Brine for Cheese Making
https://youtu.be/QvbWjVz2hdI
The armour of Salt.
>>19322264
A Coup Led by Joos?
Moo - Moo ?
Reign of Terroir
Rich, powerful and eccentric, Roquefort is still the king of cheeses. But for how much longer?
From late November to early July, some 770,000 Lacaunes on and around the Larzac plateau get milked twice a day, at 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. The cheese factory then has a maximum of 24 hours to start the process of turning the raw, unpasteurized milk into disks of blue-veined Roquefort. Hence the milk tankers speeding on back roads.
In fairness, Roquefort really is stinky. That’s the whole point of infecting an otherwise bland mound of sheep’s-milk curds with Penicillium roqueforti, the mold that runs through it in gloriously fetid blue-green veins. Medieval chronicles relate that the Emperor Charlemagne, returning from Spain, was served a piece of Roquefort at an abbey in the South of France. He understandably set about cutting out the blue mold. The bishop politely informed him he was throwing away the best part. Each year thereafter, two cartloads of Roquefort were dispatched to Charlemagne at Aix-la-Chapelle.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-much-longer-roquefort-reign-king-cheese-180978999/
The Bluebloods
The Blueveins
Roquefort = Rothschild?
You missed the Oslerianism Loserfarianism transition
They loved this vaccine injury coverup.
It made Nancy's Boobs leak on Live TV.
Plenty of exposed vets were excluded in the Legislation.