Swine Flu, Protect Yourself, It’s Easy!

What do you do every year to protect yourself and your family from the flu? That is what you should do for Swine Flu (H1N1). The media is over hyping this because it’s news you will watch. You wouldn’t watch the truth, it’s to boring and really non eventful.

Remember the news makes stories so you will watch or read with the truth in there somewhere.

Here are some simple truths about Swine Flu:
- It is harder to contract then the normal flu.
- It is less deadly then the normal flu.
- It is only unusual because three different animals can get it (Pigs, Birds, and Humans). All formally known flu bugs could only be in two out of three.

Something to thing about;
- Remember how deadly the bird flu was here a couple years ago?
- It normally takes years for any vaccine or medicine to get on the market, how is there a vaccine already?

Here are simple things you can do:
- Wash your hands.
- Don’t hang out with people that are sick.
- If you normally get a flu shot, get one, if not, don’t.
- Don’t worry about it. Chances of it killing you are about the same as you following down the stairs and killing yourself.

If you want more information check out the CDC’s website (www.cdc.gov) to get information. But read it all, the CDC isn’t much better then the news. You have to look close at their data to know that it’s not that bad.

If you need something else to calm you down I really enjoyed listening to Jack Spirko rant about this. You can listen to his POD cast at http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/swine-flu-pandemic-facts-myths.

Stay Safe,

Ben

ModernSelfProtection.com

9/11 We shall never forget.

September 11 should be a time to remember all those lost to the war on terror. Starting with almost 3,000 lost in New York. This is a number that will continue to climb. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." and will continue to be long after we are gone. If you want to give up doing that vigilance, you will give up your freedom. It's a high cost, and one that should be remembered and practiced.

I shall never forget where I was and what I was doing that day. But more importantly I will never forget how I felt, how a country can be stopped, with everything closed. Then the days after, watching the acts of heroism come out of New York, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania, I was filled with pride for our country. We the people will not be defeated! Then the coming months of unity were awesome. No one was fighting over, or worrying about the stock market taking a dive, whether we should have national health care, or some other B.S. that people in Washington like to fight over and not get anything done. Finally the country was moving in one direction, united. It was an awe inspiring thing.

I miss those days following 9/11. How people were proud to be Americans, and how they were resolved never to let anything happen to our country. Let us, the people, pull back together and become a proud nation, one that can not be divided or destroyed from now until eternity.

Stay Safe,

Ben

www.ModernSelfProtection.com

Domestic Violence

I read a couple things in the news this last week about domestic violence. The news didn't say call it that, but that is what it was. An "estranged husband" shoots his wife and wife's father in the head after an argument. A boyfriend throwing a brink and hitting a girl in the head and killing her.

Both sad, sad events. On my tips section of Modern Self Protection there are a couple things about noticing an abusive relationship at the beginning. Once you are in, there is a cycle of violence that will just get worst until it's broken with outside help, or someone is killed.

The Cycle looks something like this:

Normal Period
Either a healthy relationship or a growing anticipation of violence

Sparking Event
Either an argument or something small like the trash wasn't taken out.

The Abuse
One beats the other physically and mentally

Honeymoon Period
I'm sorry, it will never happen again. Normally girts and affection. The good parts of a relationship

Then back to the top - Normal

Please, if you are in an abusive relationship get help. If you know or think you know someone is in an abusive relationship help them.

Stay Safe,

Ben

ModernSelfProtection.com