Biosafety for Better Epidemic Management

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An invitation to US public health leaders Dr. Bill Foege, Mr. Bill Gates, Ms. Deanne Criswell, Dr. Tom Inglesby, Dr. Pritesh Ghandi, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, Dr. Denise Fair, Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, Ms. Deborah Glasser, Ms. Lee Anne Jillings, Mr. Daniel Loepp, Dr. Gary Disbrow, and Major General Butch Graham:

You are invited to participate in developing a prototype for an innovative and independently-operated 21st-century Care+AIR TM respiratory epidemic response toolkit in conjunction with FEMA/CERT, for testing in the Detroit/Windsor market in Spring 2024.

The Care+AIR toolkit uses the 130-year-old principles of BIOSAFETY - invented in Ann Arbor, Michigan and refined in New York City - to COMMUNICATE, CARE, CONTAIN, and CONTINUE when infectious disease is a concern.

No one wants strangers making important life-changing medical decisions for them, when non-medical public health measures like learning BIOSAFETY are plenty adequate.

While US politicians

When a conventional desiccated/dead-virus vaccine is not available before exposure - such as what occurred in the 3 months prior to our SARS/COVID-19 outbreak - there are many other ways to help people get thru a crisis. Care+AIR offers the full range of options and services for people to rapidly build immunity, reduce their risk factors, and decrease their likelihood of germ exposure.

We can do this because we are trained in BIOSAFETY.

Unlike other generic toolkits, Care+AIR is specially tailored for respiratory cold/flu viruses. AND, it is independently-operated, which means it removes involvement from US politicians, making sure that they NEVER interfere with the critical procedures of our civic safety nets or try to make medical decisions for us EVER again.

I estimate a cost of about $250,000 over approximately 90 days of collaborative professional input and refinement, to prepare for wider market testing by Spring 2024. This is a match to the $250,000 that I already personally invested in R&D since February 2020.

If the prototype is successful, I can easily envision a full-time respiratory biosafety research and epidemic response training center in Detroit. This could provide many hundreds of new jobs, especially for young adults interested in 21st century public health, life safety, natural science, and biotech/biomedicine. A few dozen partner/franchise locations around the country could handle all of the US respiratory infectious disease care needs and support local health officials and emergency first responders in their seasonal and non-seasonal epidemic response work.

I am sure you are already thinking "Oh no, here's ANOTHER smarty-pants snobby do-good Ivy-League STEM-type US architect and planner who knows about biosafety asking for a quarter mil to help a bunch of under-served, over-whelmed, and fairly pissed-off Americans by empowering the dedicated workers of the US public health sector. What the heck kind of bizarre US Declaration of Health Independence is THAT? I really don't need this stress right now. Go pound sand."

It's a completely understandable response! I can empathize. As Dr. Foege once said: "No one will thank you for the disease they didn't get." Except maybe during an outbreak. I would think that there is a bit more gratitude and appreciation then.

++++ I certainly think an epidemic response toolkit is much-needed, and that many Americans would follow its development and refinement in Detroit - America's UNESCO "City of Design" and one of the worst underdog anti-health and smiggity-smoking asthmatic armpit of the US - with a lot of interest! ++++

Don't believe me about Detroit?

Take a read for yourself: https://aafa.org/asthma-allergy-research/our-research/asthma-capitals/

We could use public health leadership here, that's for sure.

But if you are STILL not quite sure, then ask yourself these important questions:

Did your business find itself facing massive risk management and PR problems when our new SARS respiratory coronavirus emerged in October 2019?
Did you have concerns about widespread sickness, medical misinformation and systemic overloads, civilian panic, insurance claims, lawsuits, loss-of-income, economic shutdowns, layoffs, increased operating costs....and worse - all because of a brand-new germ?
Were you dissatisfied with the performance of the World Health Organization (WHO) and with US politicians, who couldn't quite figure out how to explain SARS pneumonia, hypoxemia, and viremia in everyday and understandable terms - much less explain the basics of germ adaptation and immune system preparation?
Did you think that biosafety, biodefense, and biosecurity programs to protect and educate people are something that US politicians are SUPPOSED to budget for and offer to people as a fundamental part of their government work contracts and oaths of office to "provide for the common defence"?
Was your business able to embrace the hundreds of natural science advances that have been made in biosafety and viral health over the last 130 years, to better open the doors of market innovation and opportunity? Or were you left behind like so many other Americans - forced for 2 years to inhale carbon dioxide, produce nose swab test results, inject experimental new drugs, and falsify medical records simply to go to work or to eat indoors at a restaurant?
Did you wonder if Americans could REALLY benefit from organized, dedicated, and specialized STEM-centric and data-driven assistance to deal with a new respiratory coronavirus and with respiratory infectious disease and oxygen-processing functions in the 21st-century, or if we are all doing OK totally on our own?

I think about all of these things - and I don't even work for the US government or get paid to act in the best interests of US human health, life safety, public well-being, or operational infrastructure, like our politicians are supposedly paid to do!

I guess that's the joy of starting-up and operating a non-profit organization in the US. Always scrambling for funding from short-sighted politicians who can't prioritize the basics and prefer to manipulate our emotions over actually taking any kind of meaningful action.

++++ Another great reason to remove respiratory epidemic response duties from politicians and assign them to professionals! ++++

(I'll assume that I still have the attention of at least one of you, and I'll keep going....)

At a minimum, like many Americans, I was also disappointed with how US politicians didn't seem to know how to follow any "normal" emergency response procedures - even for a NON-infectious disease emergency situation. Their bizarre "new normal" policies actually INCREASED our instances of civic disorganization, disruption, disinformation, discrimination, danger, duress, distress, depression, disease, and death.

They showed us all just how pathetically unqualified they are when it comes to biosafety, biodefense, and biosecurity - and how little they know about applying the basics of epidemiology/immunology, physiology/medicine, and environmental controls/engineering to protect a population - even though these exact same principles have formed the basis of the global health and medical system and have been used in the US for over 130 years to plan for prevent, mitigate, and recover from respiratory cold/flu virus epidemics.

++++ As a biosafety professional, I think America can do much better at managing our next epidemic if more qualified emergency first response leaders are allowed to conduct their important life-saving work without such grotesque political interference. ++++

I guess I should mention here that I also studied civic disaster prevention and rapid-response disaster mitigation as a young architecture student at the University of Virginia and at Yale University. After that, I trained in low-level civilian biosafety and biohazard response standards with NYCDOH and with FEMA, CalOES, OSHA, EPA, CDC, and NIH in 2000-2004, while designing, building, and certifying a state-of-the-art government Biosafety Level 3+ facility in NYC to identify new germs and to study "loss-of-function" methods against vectored airborne pathogens such as SARS coronaviruses, weaponized anthrax, and drug-resistant TB - and many other potentially harmful natural, accidental, and/or manufactured germs that hadn't yet emerged 24 years ago.

I also attended a great STE(a)M high school. And, I grew up around a US Army Base that was well-known for innovations in public health and life safety, as well as for biological and biochemical containment methods, although the Biosafety Division of the USACE-MX is not located there. But that was way back in the late 20th-century. So that may not actually count as "qualifications" for why I think you should fund my Care+AIR prototype! Although biophysics and the laws of gravity haven't changed TOO much in the last 2-3 decades, as far as I know.

++++ In summary, my education and experience has taught me that professional public health leaders and medical first responders who are trained in biosafety, biodefense, and biosecurity will ALWAYS provide more rapid, objective, effective, efficient, and ethical STEM-centric and data-driven leadership during a public health and medical crisis than ANY politicians! ++++

You can decide for yourself if you agree with me!

But please hurry....the next epidemic could be right around the corner....

++++ You can learn more and sign up for a presentation at www.carePLUSair.org ++++

Let's be more "air-aware and body-better" for our next global respiratory virus!

Sincerely,

Anne R. Goulet

Executive Director

Care+AIR Health, Inc.

Care+AIR Health, Inc. is a nonprofit STEM group focusing on respiratory biosafety and viral health to manage against infectious disease. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law. 15% of any GoFundMe donation goes to outside processing fees. Please visit www.carePLUSair.org to setup fee-free funding opportunities.

Thank you in advance for your generosity, interest, and vote of confidence in a Care+AIR respiratory epidemic response toolkit prototype.