SARS
Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome All
suggestions on the page are not to be taken as professional
medical observations
by Steve Van Nattan. You should see you
doctor at once if you believe you
have SARS. THE
STORY APRIL
2003 AND THEREAFTER _________________________________________________ UPDATE:
May 16, 2021
This is a very timely article, even though I posted it long ago.
Sars is a coronavirus like Covid. So, this information can easily be applied to
Covid. SARS:
DEFEND YOURSELF AND FAMILY Based on what I am reading, and
based on known precautions I have used and seen in Africa during epidemics, here
is the best I can do to suggest a rational defense against infection by SARS: About
3 to 5% of those who get SARS die of it. If you prefer to gamble, close this page
and go on about your business. On the other hand, only 3% of the world population
is 180,000,000. If we are looking at a world class pandemic, that is a pretty
big group to risk joining at the mortuary. Fear is not our chief motive, but fear
is a tool to teach us to avoid trouble. A smart little kid reaches out to touch
the hot stove, feels the heat, and pulls back in fear. A stupid little kid has
no fear, touches the stove, learns about hot things, and is disfigured for life.
Fear is not to consume us, but it is a tool God uses to send us in the right direction. 1.
Immune boosting herbs and diet Start at
once-- don't wait to use these commodities to boost your immune system.
| Immune-Boosting
Herbs Help
your body resist illness with these
immune-boosting herbs.
This information
is not intended as medical advice. | |
Herb |
Symptom |
Function |
Side Effect |
Delivery |
| Astragalus
(Astragalus membranaceus) | Colds,
viral infections | Boosts
immunity, antiviral | None
known | Capsules,
tinctures, broths/soups | | Codonopsis
(Codonopsitis lanceolate) | Cough,
congestion | Demulcent
(sooths inflamed mucous membranes), expectorant |
None known |
Capsules, teas |
| Echinacea
This is the herb
of first choice
(Echinacea purperea, E. angustifolia) |
Colds, flu, cough, sore throat |
Antiviral, antibacterial, boosts immunity,
tonic | None
known | Capsules,
tinctures | | Elder
flower
(Sambucus nigra) | Colds
and flu, sore throat, sinus congestion | Boosts
immunity, diaphoretic (promotes perspiration), tonic |
None known (root is a strong purgative;
should only be prescribed by expert herbalists) |
Teas, tinctures |
| Eucalyptus
(Eucalyptus globulus) | Bronchitis,
cough, congestion | Antibacterial,
antiviral, decongestant | Allergic
reactions | Steam
inhalation; topically applied as oil | |
Garlic
(Allium sativum) |
Colds and flu |
Boosts immunity, antibacterial, antiviral,
antifungal, tonic | None
known | Capsules,
powder, eating as food is best, raw or cooked | |
Gingerroot
(Zingiber officinale) |
Colds and flu, sore throat, sinus congestion,
nausea | Boosts
immunity, respiratory system tonic, diaphoretic, stomach soother |
None known |
Powder or root made into teas, baths |
| Goldenseal
(Hydrastis canadensis) | Colds
and flu, bacterial infections | Antimicrobial,
anti-inflammatory | Strong
GI astringent; use with caution in young children; endangered species |
Tinctures, teas |
| Isatidis
(Isatis tinctora) | Colds
and flu | Antiviral,
reduces swelling | None
known | Capsules;
works well with astragalus | | Licorice
(Glycyrrhiza glabra) | Sore
throat | Reduces
swelling expectorant, cough suppressant | Can
cause sodium and water retention, loss of potassium |
Tinctures, teas |
| Maitake mushroom
(Grifola frondosa) | Colds
and flu | Boosts
immunity | None
known | Powder;
eat as food | | Onion
(Allium cepa) | Colds,
flu | Boosts
immunity, decongestant | None
known | Powder;
eating as food is best, raw or cooked | |
Osha root
(Ligusticum
porteri) | Colds
and flu | Boosts
immunity | None
known; endangered species | Capsules |
| Peppermint
(Mentha piperita) | Congestion,
nausea associated with flu | Pain
reliever, antispasmodic, stomach soother, antiviral, antibacterial, diaphoretic |
None known |
Teas | |
Sage
(Salvia officinalis) |
Colds and flu, fever |
Stomach soother, reduces fever, antiseptic,
antibacterial, anti-inflammatory | None
known | Teas |
| Shiitake mushroom
(Lentinula edodes) | Colds
and flu | Boosts
immunity, antiviral, antibacterial | None
known | Powder,
capsules, root extract, eat as food | |
Usnea
(Usnea barbarata) |
Colds and flu |
Antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral |
None known |
Tinctures, often used with echinacea |
| White willow
bark
(Salix alba) | Colds
and flu | Pain
reliever, anti-inflammatory, reduces fever | None
known | Teas,
works well with cinchona bark | | Yarrow
(Achillea millefolium) | Colds
and flu | Diaphoretic,
expectorant, reduces fever | May
cause contractions in pregnant women |
Teas | Add
pineapple and garlic to the diet also. Eat healthy food, and get exercise in the
open where people are not milling around. Get plenty of rest. If you do catch
SARS, you should be well rested so that you have some reserve. Do not be dieting
during an epidemic. That can wait until later after the epidemic blows over. 2.
Isolation of the family from infection potential
Stop wandering around. Around the world, around the state, and around the
city where the mobs are. Stop going to athletic events. No Disneyland
and no traveling vacation. NO AIR TRAVEL. An
airplane does NOT have filtration of air sufficient to remove viral organisms.
I warned you of this long ago with regard to AIDS passed casually. Viruses are
too small to be filtered, and you breath the air the others around you have breathed.
Stay away from
hotels and motels. They may leave the lights on for you, but they reuse the
blankets and bed spreads many times before washing. You are walking on, and sleeping
in, the germ colony of all the visitors before you. Take vacations
or outings to places outdoors and where you are alone as much as possible. Go
fishing. Shop in 24 hours stores for groceries, and shop at about
3 AM. Mind your own business, and use the self checking out machine if possible.
I like to have casual visits with people at WalMart and the grocery store, but
during epidemics, this social practice just makes for risk-- to them and to you. Wash
everything you bring home, or spray or wipe it down with a cloth heavily dampened
with water based Lysol (in the UK and Commonwealth, Detol). Spray
your shoes with aerosol Lysol when entering the home. Have a family member spray
you down at the entry of the home, or outside, when returning from the market
place where you may have been seated in public seating. Stop eating
out. This is a very high risk practice. Many eating establishments will be slow
to let employees go who show signs of sickness because they will have to find
a replacement. If you enter an establishment where an employee is
showing symptoms of SARS, leave at once and make other arrangements. When
the Post Office delivery person leaves you mail, wear latex gloves to handle it
until you can spray it lightly with Lysol. Try not to spray letters which may
contain a check you need. It can ruin it. You may want to leave the letter laying
in the sun or a 140 degree oven for a couple hours before opening it. Beware of
burning it up! When UPS delivers anything, spray the box with Lysol before opening
it, and do not carry it leaning against you into the house. You may
want to make a disrobing area in the garage or, in the case of severe epidemic
in your area, right outdoors. Take off all outer garments and drop them into a
plastic bag with a shot of Lysol. Do this OUTSIDE the living area so that you
can enter the home without contaminating it. If you ordinarily shower at the beginning
of the day, move your shower time to right after coming home from work or the
market place. Ideally, build a shower outside the home for those working with
the public. If possible, the bread winner should have a automobile
used only for going to work. The family must not use this car. This way, the one
taking the most risk can disinfect the car in a manner which he feels will best
protect the family and reduce risk. Choose ONE market to shop, and
one area to shop, and do not wander to manner buying locations seeking bargains.
This practice of multiple shopping destinations is the first line of defense used
all over the world to contain epidemics. I trust you can figure out why. If
someone thinks you are stupid and mocks at you, just keep to your defensive protocols.
You may read their obituary later. If you pastor and local church
leaders don't take the SARS issue seriously, stay away from church until the epidemic
is over. You are not duty bound to attend a church which does not care who is
sick and dangerous. Do not send you children to a church which takes no precautions.
At church, greet verbally, and avoid physical touching and hand shaking. Church
dinners and "pot lucks" should not be held during an epidemic. What
social gatherings the church has should be close with no pressing new comers to
attend. Rallies and events which "pack the house" are irresponsible
of the leaders during an epidemic. Public restrooms are dangerous.
Try to plan trips to work and shop so that you can get home before you need to
use the restroom. Otherwise, clean off everything with portable Lysol spray in
small bottles. Also, do not wash your hands in such facilities. Carry a small
bottle of alcohol gel, and squirt your hands and rub it in after leaving a restroom. As
you enter a store, a gathering, church service, or the work place pause and discreetly
look around to see if someone is wheezing or dry coughing. Find something to make
you look distracted as you reconnoiter. If you see a check out person who seems
sick, or if someone in a gathering is clearly in trouble, either move to the opposite
part of the room, or turn and walk out. 3.
Stocking up, BEFORE the rush, on supplies Surgical
and allergy preventing masks are very important. You have seen them in the news
in the Orient. Also, when shopping and handing money during a shopping trip, you
should have latex or rubber gloves. Try to shop once to last for
two weeks or more. Shop in the largest stores so that there is a high ratio of
air space to people present. Also, shop after midnight in all night grocery stores.
Again, shop in the same stores-- Don't visit many stores. If a town
up the road has no reported SARS, you may want to shop there instead of nearby.
Price is not the top priority during an epidemic. Also, head for the suburbs.
City centers concentrate population, and so they also breed disease faster. Avoid
subways and city buses if possible. If you live in a city, a visit to a local
small store would be much safer than a subway ride to WalMart. Subways and buses
are deadly incubators of disease, and the sleaze of the city hang out there on
cold nights. Buy ahead on auto needs such as oil and parts you intend
to replace. If you get cash in change, spray it after you get home
with Lysol. 4.
Movement, School, and the Market Place If
you are in employment which heavily involves meeting the public, find another
kind of work. If you can arrange to do your vocational duties when people are
not in their offices or where you do your skill, do so now and set the pattern
for the future. As SARS nears your community, or the community where you work,
ask to take vacation you may have coming. Call in sick. Is it OK to lie? Yes,
if it is life and death, and if employers are carelessly forcing people to work
who are infected. No employer has the right to force his people to get sick and
possibly die just so he can keep the cash flow up. If you learn
that SARS is in your kids' school, you must take your children home at once. Report
the school to the health department is the school is slow responding to SARS.
School officials are wimps about epidemics. They wait for several children to
be seriously sick, and then they send the kids home. Levels of discussion and
palaver have to take place in school setting before someone finally makes a decision.
You may have to simply remove the child yourself. DO NOT TRUST OTHER PEOPLE TO
PROTECT YOU FAMILY. 5.
When infection is suspected Do not hesitate
to make an appointment to see the doctor. When you go to the doctor's office,
if you are clearly having SARS symptoms, have a friend or family member register
for you and wait outside. If you enter the waiting area, you could infect people.
Also, PLEASE wear a mask to protect other. A sneeze or heavy cough travels across
a room and back several times. A family member who is sick should
stay in a room of their own if possible. Anyone in the home who has a weak immune
system, or older people with respiratory problems, may need to be moved to live
with someone else for a while. When attending a sick person, down up, cover the
head, use goggles, and a face mask and gloves. This has been found with SARS to
be almost 100% effective in health care facilities. Feel sick people
on paper plates and throw away cups and plastic utensils. Discard them away from
the rest of the family in sealed plastic bags. The sick person should ideally
have their own restroom. If this will not work, they should have their own towels
and washing things, including hand soap. Cavalier hicks who think it is cute to
share tooth brushes and other toiletries will ALL pass SARS around to each other. Treat
this like a very serious cold of the flu. Stay in bed, drink fluids and fruit
juice, eat soups and food which does not irritate the throat. If you have diarrhea,
drink plenty of water to replace fluids. I am not reading about vomiting, but
if this is present, drink more fluids. A dilute solution of Gator Aid might be
in order since electrolytes may be lost. Other than this, call your doctor and
ask what is needed for the patient. Try to deal with coughs with whatever soothing
product works and with cough suppressants. Eucalyptus in a handkerchief is very
helpful to clear the airways. If breathing becomes labored, pneumonia
may well be setting in. Go at once to the hospital emergency room for attention,
for a respirator may be needed for a period of time. This is especially true with
older adults and children with weak immune systems. AIDS victims
will need to go to the hospital as soon as the symptoms of SARS are evident, for
they lack a complete immune system. 6.
Eternity-- Are you ready? Are you ready to die?
Most people are not, and it is quite normal to NOT want to die. The problem with
epidemics is that death comes closer and closer. The time to prepare to die is
the same as the time to prepare to avoid the epidemic-- NOW! Both preparations
are critical. If God has chosen for you to survive the epidemic, it may very well
be because he has made you wise enough to avoid the epidemic. Fools will not prepare.
God has also provided for your death. Death comes sooner or later,
and God, through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, has provided
for you to die without fear. By receiving the free gift of his salvation, you
become immune to eternal damnation, and you receive the promise of eternal life
with Jesus Christ. Now, if you would like to get SARS, do nothing to protect yourself.
If you would like to go to hell and be eternally separated from God, do nothing
about the Lord Jesus Christ. You will get your wish. YE
MUST BE BORN AGAIN SEND
MAIL if you need to talk about your eternal destiny. 7.
Legal and financial considerations Will
your family be able to continue if you or someone else in the family die? Will
your estate be thrown into probate? You should make arrangements for all names
to be on all accounts and on titles to real estate. You should make
arrangements to name, in a will or such document, who will be receiving your children
if both parents die. If not, your children will become wards of the court, and
any atheist or sodomite could be assigned to your children. You should
seek to be either 100% in debt or 100% out of debt. If you are half and half,
the courts will take one half to pay off the other when you go bankrupt. 8.
Law and Order Harry Truman said, "When
you see ten troubles coming down the road, just wait a while, and nine of them
will go into the ditch." The potential for lawlessness during
pandemics is very high. People become desperate, and they do things they ordinarily
would not do in order to survive. You should look down the road as a family, and
discern what lawlessness may come your way. You should take basic precautions
for security of your home, and you should have in place weapons for self-defense.
Then, pray that God will send the troubles you see coming into the ditch. Do not
become panicked by the urgent and the unknown. Just keep your powder dry. If
the health department demands that you participate in a quarantine arrangement,
do as they tell you. It is not fair for you to sneak around breaking the health
principles. What makes you think you have a right to infect people because you
think you have some civil right to wander around sick? If a sick
person in your neighborhood or work place is breaking quarantine, report them
to the law enforcement people responsible for this sort of infraction. If you
have no success in this, go home. If such people come around your home, or sick
children try to entice your kids to play with them, you must do whatever necessary
to prevent these lawless factions from endangering you. If you see
a sick person in the check out line, or working in a public area, report them
to the health officials and the police. 9.
After the crisis is over Get back to normal
as soon as you feel the epidemic is over. Continue to be aware that a second wave
of disease could arrive in your area, but do not continue to live with all these
precautions. The common cold can be avoided by using these precautions, but these
protocols could make a real recluse of you if you maintain them indefinitely. 
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