 Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. My name is Doc. I'm the chief medic for the St. Louis battalion of the Missouri militia. Also past president of the St. Louis chapter of oath keepers and currently serving as a secretary for oath keepers. I'm a background, I'm a doctor of chiropractic, also licensed in acupuncture and in addition I've taken a lot of training in medic and the combat survival in topics like that. I'm also a preparer, also go by survival doc, in fact one of my websites is survivaldoc.com and at the very end of my presentation I'll have a slide where I'll have a slide at the very end showing you my various websites I've been doing and prepping back as far back as before prepping actually became the end thing to do but today my topic is hygiene sanitation and preventive measures. I don't normally use a script but when they told me I only had 20 minutes to talk to them I said the only way I'm going to manage that is if I stick to my script. So and also I'd ask that you hold your questions till the end and if I have time for questions at the end of my presentation I'll take a few otherwise we're going to have a question and answer session at the very end of today's seminars. Hygiene sanitation and preventive measures for preparers and survivalists for when the stuff hits the fan. First a couple of definitions, when we talk about hygiene we mean the things that you do to keep yourself and your surroundings clean in order to maintain good health. Sanitation the promotion of hygiene and prevention of disease by maintenance of sanitary high clean conditions as by removal of sewage and trash and the important points to take away here are maintain good health and prevention of disease. It was Benjamin Franklin who said it best, announce of prevention for the bound of cure and we all know that this is true but how much more important is this trueism for us preparers and survivalists when the system goes down and our access to doctors drugs and heroic medical procedures is impaired or cut off. I'm going to discuss some war stories today and you may wonder what war stories have to do with prepping. Well war obviously involves many survival situations that we can learn from but the conditions that occur during wars are often similar to the conditions that we would expect in a grid down scenario. There will be a breakdown in basic sanitation and the body's natural defenses will be reduced by fatigue, exposure and stress. So what can you learn from Napoleon's invasion of Russia? Of Napoleon's 600,000 men army only 100,000 returned to France from Russia in 1812. They were destroyed by guerrillas, disease and cold injury which forced retreat. There were 70,000 combat losses but 430,000 from disease and non-combat injury. It is estimated that over 100,000 soldiers that were grown by the army were lost due to Laos born typhus which was lousy luck for Napoleon. That's my best joke, sorry. It doesn't get any better than that. So while there were 70,000 losses from combat, Napoleon lost 100,000 of his men due to this little critter right here. Next we look at the war for states' rights which if you're from the deep south, you know that it's a war of Yankee aggression. Actually it's a takeover of the US government. We want to elaborate on that. Okay, there were two soldiers died from disease and other non-combat causes for every soldier who died in battle. And of course the war also, this doesn't include civilian deaths. Historically in every conflict up through World War II in which the United States was involved approximately 20% of hospital admissions were the result of combat injuries. The other 80% were the result of disease and non-combat injury. In some areas the incidence of disease was so severe that entire divisions became combat ineffective. The reasons for the vulnerability, harshness of the environment, the body's natural defenses reduced by fatigue, exposure, and stress. Breakdown in basic sanitation. Again, these are the same things I expect to see in a grid-down and a prolonged grid-down scenario. In case you have trouble making this slide out, this is a GI drinking from a ditch right here. This would be where your handy little light straw that Pierre has talked about would come in handy. Light straw basically is a straw, it's about this big around, but it's a straw you can stick down in water and you can drink any water except salt water. But it contains a ceramic filter impregnated with charcoal. And I've got several, I've got them in my car, in my bug-out bag, but that's a handy water filter that all of us prefer to have. The Phil Sanitation Team was the Army's response to the breakdown in sanitation and the resultant increase in disease that are a truth I've experienced during the years. The first Phil Sanitation Team was established during World War II to provide for control of insects and malaria as a big problem then. Proper disinfection of water, always a problem. Safe food supply and sanitation. The top medical threats identified by Phil Sanitation Teams are heat, which is the most lethal because it kills people in the quickest amount of time. Cold, such as hypothermia and frostbite. Here's a picture of nasty case of frostbite. And one thing I mentioned about frostbite is the thing, when someone experiences frostbite, the best thing to do is to warm it up as quickly as possible, even if that means sticking the hands in hot water. But when that occurs, when it begins to thaw out, though, there's swelling, there's not only pain, but there's swelling. And so if the person is wearing a ring or any kind of constrictive jewelry, you want to make sure you get that off before you treat frostbite. Number three is biting insects. Insects or arthropods kill more people than all other animals combined. Arthropod means, basically, it's a category that includes insects, plus, if you remember, insects are six-legged critters. Arthropods includes ten-legged and eight-legged critters, like ticks, scorpions, ten-legged. But anyway, these mosquitoes, ticks, bees, scorpions, fleas, flies, and other arthropods more deaths than all other animals combined. Here's a partial list of vector-borne diseases. Vector-borne means that it's a disease that is carried by a vector such as an insect. These ones I have highlighted here, I want to take your attention to the Rocky Mountain spider-feathered Lyme disease and erythmiosis, erplicosis. And the reason I mention these is because these are personally struck me. I don't know a man who'd actually died from Rocky Mountain spider fever in Arkansas, he got ticked by in the Arkansas Ozarks. Personally, I have Lyme's disease. A lot of people in Missouri have Lyme's disease. And also, I have a friend of mine who's currently going for a 30-day antibiotic treatment because he has this disease right here. So most of us know people who have been hospitalized from tick bites. The last top medical thread identified is diarrhea. Personally, I think diarrhea is going to be, in a grid down scenario, I believe diarrhea is going to result in more deaths than any other cause. The reason for that being compromised waste disposal system and resulting contamination of our drinking water. When people have to start going to the bathroom, their drawers and their toilets are backed up because there's no electricity to keep the pumping stations running. What are they going to do? They're going to go outside to go to the bathroom or they're going to go to the bathroom inside in a bucket or something to carry outside to dump it. They're going to be contaminating the same water supply as the streams and ditches that the rest of us are going to be trying to get our water from. If you don't have proper water purification methods, you could end up dysentery, which is a cause for amoeba in contaminated water. Dysentery is almost always from food or water. It can incapacitate an entire unit and it's prevented by good hygiene, washing, and a safe food source. Alright, in the time we have left, I'd like to explore some basic preventative medicine measures. Include water disinfection, as I mentioned, as Pierre talked about today. Very, very, very important. Food service sanitation. Waste disposal. I mentioned how people are likely to dispose of their waste. Most of us preparers are going to be educated enough to know how to properly dispose of our waste. We're going to bury it. We're going to dig a latrine, or at least just go out and make a hole where we're going to bury it. Alright, the average person out there is probably not going to dig that. Maybe a few will, but it won't even take a few to actually contaminate all the water supplies out there. And personal hygiene. Alright, in individual preventative medicine measures, which we'll explore more in just a minute, our preventative medicine measures against arthropods and rodents. They give you how basic sanitation measures clean up the conditions against the rodents that arthropods thrive. Alright, keeping yourself clean. If you're out in the woods, and when you come in first thing you should do is take a shower, because actually you can wash off a lot of the ticks, that may be on your body before they even have a chance to attach to it. Alright, here's one tick. That's what you should be looking for, of course. If a tick, and after you take a shower, you should inspect yourself carefully. And make sure that you don't have any of these little critters attached to you. If you remove these things within 24 hours, even if it's a disease-bearing tick, you're not likely to get the disease if you remove it within 24 hours, even if it's attached to you. There's a little thing that I have a word for. Amazon.com is called a tick key. And I use it every day to take ticks off of my dog. You just snip that hole over the tick, and you drag it and you can remove the entire tick. You get mouth parts and all. Individual protective measures, such as deep and permethrin. Alright, here's a fella applying deep. I know it's deep because it's applying it to his skin. Permethrin is not something I normally apply to my skin, but it's great for treating your clothes with. Places like Bass Pro, Cabela's sell a form of permethrin in a spray bottle. And what you do is you take your clothes and hang them up on your clothesline and you spray them down real good and you let them dry for at least an hour before you put the clothes on. And this stuff stays on your clothes, they stay up to six washes. But anyway, I personally use that. Some of the exercises we do out in the woods, before I started using this product, I came home one weekend and with the help of my wife, we found 16 ticks that were attached to my body. Alright, when I started treating my clothes with this, I don't get any. Very, very thick. It's pretty toxic though, but you know, so are ticks. So I wouldn't put this on my skin. Mechanical and chemical controls such as traps and poison. And I'd like to tell you the story about black death or plague because we can learn something about this from this story. The black plague or bubonic plague is estimated to have killed 30 to 60 percent. So you could say roughly 30 to 60 percent, which is roughly 50 percent, if you're going to like to use, of Europe's total population, half of all of Europe was wiped out. It took, I mean somewhere like three centuries before the population of Europe got back to pre-play conditions. What's the cause? This little bacteria, right here, your syni-testis bacteria. What was the cause? The flea. The bacteria was carried by this flea and the flea vibes transmitted it to people. What was the cause from the black rat? The fleas were carried by the black rats and which were prolific during this time period, especially in the cities. Okay, here's the real cause, in my opinion. It's the conditions which allowed for the multiplication of the black rats. This is from a history book in the 1970s. Household waste, sewage, leather pairings, rotting vegetables, and any other rubbish was thrown into the gutter and ran down the center of the street, here it accumulated in rotting, rat, and germ-infested stinking peeps until a violent rain storm washed it out. Sounds like a situation we could have in a prolonged, grid-down scenario, right? Yeah, that in New York during a garbage strike. I'm getting a thought. Oh, sorry. Could this happen again? Women I think alike, it's one of my such good ladies. How many of you are old enough to remember the London garbage strikes in 1979? I remember them very well. The garbage workers weren't on strike for just a couple of weeks and this was the result in London. Can you think this type of scenario could occur in a grid-down scenario if your garbage collectors are interrupted? Make especially in cities if the garbage collection is shut down? Could this happen again? It's just a matter of time. Okay, so in conclusion, there's some final thoughts that I brought for you. Here are the take-home points I want you to take home with. Do what your mother told you. Wash your hands, change your underwear, eat right, don't smoke, beware of strangers. And also I'd like to add, drink clean water, in other words purify your water, stay hydrated, and dispose of your waste properly. And in case you do end up drinking some bad weather, bad water, or you know someone who does drink some bad water and you end up with some diarrhea. All right, here are some remedies for diarrhea. Of course, one thing you can do in your storage as a preparer is you can store some diarrhea medicine. All right, but what about when your medicine runs out or when you're in some place where you don't have your medicine? All right, you can drink tea. Will Randy Snyder please come to the checkout desk? Randy Snyder. You can drink tea made from the roots or leaves of blackberries and their relatives to stop diarrhea. I like this one because, as you all know, blackberries are everywhere in Missouri. They're easy to identify and the most effective part is actually the root, all right? So even though the fruit may only be available during certain months, the root is always there 12 months out of the year. You can dig it up, chop it up, make a tea, steep it in the boiling water, make a tea, and drink that. You can also stop diarrhea by eating white clay, charcoal, or a campfire. And one thing about diarrhea is if you can maintain your electrolytes, it is self-limiting. It will eventually go away on its own if you can keep yourself alive long enough for it to go away. So drink electrolytes, stay healthy. Here's the recipe I like for making electrolyte drink. Two parts sea salt, one part baking soda, one part potassium. If you just remember the chloride, you just remember that. Two parts sea salt, one part baking soda, one part potassium chloride. Potassium chloride is available in any grocery store and it's a light salt. They sell it to people who are on a restricted sodium diet. Real inexpensive. One little container will last you forever. What I do is I mix this up and then I keep this in a bottle in my backpack when I need to make a rehydration drink. I just take one teaspoon of this out, add it to a quart of water, mix it up, and get it to go. Here's another one of my favorites, activated charcoals. I keep this in my survival supplies. You can make handmade charcoal, homemade charcoal, but this is not activated when you make homemade charcoal. Campfire ashes, as I mentioned, not charcoal briquettes. Here are the websites I mentioned. It's my survival website, survival doc. Also naturalhealthskill.com, combatmedic.training. I'm also responsible for the Cyclist Oath Keepers website. There is a URL to that. There's an email address if anybody wants to contact me. And I'll see you according to my precious little timer here that I'm right old. Well done, doc. So I ask you to hold your actions until the end of our presentation. We'll have a question next period. Thank you.