Polio Update and Monkey Pox Commentary

Safety Wars

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The following broadcast contains adult language, adult content, frank safety discussions and stories That might sound unbelievable. But believe me, every one of those stories is true. We didn't start the safety war, but we are going to fight to win it for our families, for our communities, for our workplaces and for our lives. Good morning, good evening. Whatever the case may be welcome to safety Wars for Tuesday august 9th 2022 we're going to start out today with an update on polio. Now you might be saying, well, jim, why are we talking about polio again, it's a real simple reason. I'm pretty much at the epicenter of this outbreak or whatever we're calling this situation right here at home in Rockland county new york. And reportedly according to social media posts, this is happening about a mile or two away from my house. So we all have a lot of concern here in Rockland County on this, if you've been paying attention. But the question is always with all these situations, what's the real risk here? According to reports, polio has been found in sewage, which is one of the main vectors that had spread is through blue vinyl Results indicate that there are hundreds of people exposed right now. They are only reporting that on one person that actually has the illness. But sometimes this illness like Covid could appear as something else is my understanding, polio containment has been a victim of its own success. What, what am I saying? Why would I say that right? Because we have polio vaccinations, we have treatments of varying effectiveness. We have not really seen a huge polio outbreak since 1952 or 53, polio has pretty much been eradicated. And when we were growing up meeting people in my vintage, our parents or grandparents, maybe even our great grandparents had nightmares with polio. They knew people who actually had polio, knew people who died of polio and they made what do they do? They made sure that we got our vaccinations. So human nature does what human nature does. You can read ancient religious texts that describe what human beings do and what our outlook is unless it's not personal and we don't have personal experience with it. People don't take the rest serious, we've seen this. So vaccine rates have waned and a lot of communities because of polio because polio being contained because we don't have these major outbreaks until we had one with Covid a couple of years ago when we know what happened with that just hit my microphone there. So if you ever bang, that's what it was, all this stuff should not be new to the safety community. So for example lock out and tag out. We have not had a lock out tag out incident mirrors jim. So why do we have all these procedures now? We have a license to violate all of them. I had to deal with stuff with like PPE, I just got an audit report yesterday. One of the projects I'm involved with, a whole bunch of people that were wear hard hats. Well we have no overhead hazards and nobody's having, you know, blah blah blah. We haven't had a overhead hazard in weeks. And I was like, well dude, you have, we've had things falling from overhead and advert nightly things have gotten by our precautions that we take kinda wear a hard hat. Well I don't know anybody who's had a head injury. Well, you know, I don't wanna know anybody who has had a serious head injury, especially on my project goes back and forth. We hear this all the time. You pick your safety procedure that people don't want to do right. Same thing happens with getting rid of your safety person first, when you have an economic slowdown, then your workers all get put at risk and then all of a sudden you're paying these huge workers comp payouts and stuff with OSHA citations fine. So you name it. Well, maybe if you would've just paid safety person that's gonna been swapped out. But this is, you know, you could have paid a safety person to prevent this rather than pay someone else to respond to it and you know, medical stuff insurance, it's a nightmare. So what am I doing here? We have vaccinations which are the primary fighter against polio. We have a whole bunch of other stuff on how to manage this. Let's take it serious. Let's remember, polio requires multiple doses over years. According to the information I have and you need to seek guidance from your medical provider on vaccinations. I'm not giving medical advice here. What is reportedly happening, especially in my area is that Children are not getting vaccinations because they historically have had a religious exemption that has been since repealed in the state of new york. There is no religious exemption. So what a lot of parents have been doing because of this and because of Covid have been yanking their Children out of school and then all of a sudden those Children don't get tracked or it makes it a lot more difficult to track vaccination rates lacking medical advice here. Now we have a new threat right here in new york and it has spread started out in new york, but it went to all states except for one Wyoming. As of yesterday, there's almost 9000 cases. If you catch the monkey pox, you guessed right now, I'm gonna warn you this may offend some people and uh, you know, you may want to have the kiddies out of the room for this. I was hoping that this would not become a major issue because uh, people get offended, you know, and say a few words and sometimes will get offended on safety. I f. M re offend people. One of my first thoughts at the beginning of this thing four weeks ago, it was limited to the homosexual community And I heard stuff that I hadn't heard in 40 freaking years. Right? What I heard with HIV and coronavirus at the beginning? Well, these people deserved it. Oh, really? Can you name a bigger, for lack of a better word, asshole comment than that? No, these are not from no. Uh, the conservatives or this was from all corners here. This is from everybody. Well, like this is a behaviorally spread disease. If you could change the behavior, blah, blah blah. It sounded like a lot of BBS practitioners change the behavior, blame the worker, right, blame the employee blame the victim. This is the way AIDS was managed back in the 1980s, there's a famous documentary on all of this and how it was managed and how it was managed horrible and probably was caused. We know now cause more problems than it solved. So today we know HIV the virus that causes AIDS was likely present since antiquity to a certain extent, but definitely since the late 18 hundreds to the 19 eighties, several patient zero's were identified and personally called out in part, that's what led to the Hipaa regulations, the privacy medical privacy regulations and are familiar blood borne pathogen standard being passed by OSHA with HIV other communities started to become impacted hemophiliacs. Uh medical practitioners and everybody know that's the nature of human behavior and viruses. They tend to go everywhere. So don't think that this is just going to be limited to uh one population. And you know, all of a sudden we gotta pick on that and we got to do this, we gotta do that's not the way to handle this. This one is morally wrong. And as I, my former minister, God rest his soul said to uh during his interview for his ordination. What, which was about the time of when this came out of HIV in the mid to late eighties really became a problem. He said jesus had his lovers. Now we have people who are sick here, we've got to help the sick, you've got to help people. Now We had a situation going on where there is a daycare center in Illinois and reportedly one of the workers at the daycare center has monkeypox. Now here's the question, did he or she get it from the Children or did the Children that get exposed from this person? We don't know at this point. And let's remember this is spread by casual contact as well as sexually. So who knows where this is going. This has gotten out of this esoteric theoretical thing. Whereas in this population now in what do we call it, what's the daycare center called? It's called the workplace, how are we going to manage this? Are we gonna backlash and blame people for getting monkey pox? Because I tell you what now and that's what I can in the background agreeing with me now this is an HR issue. We have over 9000 people as of yesterday that have this thing. But there is good news. We have a vaccination and unlike covid there is a better on handle on how this is transmitted this unknown illness. But I'm going to predict that if we do not go and manage this thing, this might be another covid situation because there are shortages on vaccinations. There's reportedly one facility in europe that makes this stuff and I don't think it's too soon for us to start asking the question, what do we plan on doing about this right? I'm trying to get the organizations I work with out front for this thing. You can contact us at 8452695772 or gym at safety words dot com. What do we need to do? This is what I'm trying to teach. This is what we promote here. We're talking about being reasonable. We talk about being rational, taking logical precautions, not an emotional knee jerk response. That's what we're used to doing. And they're bad results all the way around. So what do we need? Rationality, Logic, science, everything else. And that's how we're gonna win that safety war. We're gonna be able to win that safety war on monkey pops without actually having to fight it. And let's also remember going around judging people does not help the situation because maybe God's judging us and how we react to these situations. I think of it that way. What am I gonna do to make the situation better? What am I going to do to make the situation less severe? All that goes into fighting this safety war that we're always talking about? It's not about conflict, it's about conflict resolution, it's about mitigating things. It's about not letting things not get out of hand. That's what that safety war is. It's not going in arguing with people. It's having backbone and having and having respect for the other person. And also, what are you going to do to get some type of respect on your end for safety wars? This is jim puzzle. Is your safety training. Old stale. And Hackney is your safety trainer. Still preaching a warped version of behavior based safety. How about safety training that actually addresses your hazards in your workplace? Is and it's not standardized bologna from 25 years ago. Contact the safety Ward's team at safety words dot com or call Jim Postal at 845269577. To remember if you're receiving this message, you are the solution to unsafe workplaces. Is your safety training old stale and Hackney is your safety trainer. Still preaching a warped version of behavior based safety. How about safety training that actually addresses your hazards in your workplace is and it's not standardized bologna from 25 years ago. Contact the safety Ward's team at safety words dot com or call Jim Postal at 845 to 69577. 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