Here are the steps and topics to work with.
Remember fine tune them in your own home.
- Create a Department of Pandemic Control
- Massive Public Education Program
- Meet with Hospital officials and have them join the Department of Pandemic Control “DPC”
- Increase CERT TEAMS and give extensive training to deal with Pandemics
- Massive preparations for supplies for individuals and families
- Massive preparations for supplies for the city to stockpile
- Expand Medical Reserves by certifying any volunteer who would like to become a First Responder
- Lobby Schools to offer a class on Universal Precautions and how to care for their sick family members. The upper levels of education will then in turn educate their parents
- Lobby churches to educate their members
- Develop locations for make shift hospitals based on Pandemic needs, i.e. cruise ships for the sick. Make a list of hotels, former Department of Defense ships or any other location to be able to be made in to a make shift hospital.
- Establish Triage centers that can keep minor medical problems out of the hospitals and keep people who are not in Pandemic crisis or severe illness out of the Emergency Rooms…Including birthing centers for non risk births.
- Establish Vaccine Centers
- Establish an identification card or emergency bracelet for those who have been exposed and immune to the virus. These people can now be trained to work in the front lines of helping others or taking the positions of vital services. This would be especially valuable to employers important to our infrastructure so that they could have a fast track training program thus keep business running as usual. These same people can be moved to another area of the country to assist another local community and each city can help each other with the federal government involved in the transportation. For example, a Publix janitor should know how to use a register. There needs to be lots and lots of cross training. Move public safety workers from different locations, allowing an officer from one area to come and work in another location. Work from home programs for people who can work from home to avoid infection
- Establish service centers for basic needs such as mask and food distribution
- Establish secure and sanitary locations for the dead in order to protect animals and people from contamination
- Establish Crisis Counseling services to deal with the large death toll to prevent suicides
- Decide what services shall continue and what ones will cease at the time of a pandemic
- Establish a list of non pandemic supplies that will be short due to the large amount of absenteeism in the work place and create a stock pile of those supplies, example fuel.
- Quarantine and isolation teams
- Grants Management Teams to assist the city gaining funds for preparation
- Volunteer Ambulance Service for transporting the very sick
- Establish a list of all doctors in the community
- Volunteer Civilian Police Assistance by community members who are prescreened and approved by the police department to handle minor police problems to allow police to do more security and keeping the peace. Institute the police reserve system and fast track training them on basic law enforcement needs. Encourage real law enforcement instead of private sector security. These same law enforcement officers can be used for any homeland security issue
- Ask our local residents to adopt people with special needs such as the elderly so they can be checked on daily in case they are sick and not able to call for help
- Create CERT teams in elderly condos and to require that every housing unit that houses over 100 people to establish their own CERT Team by city ordinances. Younger seniors will provide aid to older seniors. This too will be very helpful at the time of hurricanes
- Emergency communications that will transmit over AM radio, email alerts, and auto dialers similar to the SEX OFFENDER system
- Generate a list of retired doctors, nurses, police officers, fireman and any other occupation that may be able to rehire its former employees or ask them to volunteer. Also encourage employers to keep a list of retirees who may be able to fill important positions in the private sector because of heavy absenteeism
- Solve the Ventilator shortage problem and pre train citizens on how to manually ventilate their loved ones and having many volunteers performing the task of manually ventilating patients
- Lobby the state for fast track medical training if necessary or to use other people in the health field industry such as nursing students, physical therapists or dental hygienists
- Train disinfecting crews to back up Hazmed teams to prevent the spread of the virus