By Ray Gano

Like it or not, Ebola has now invaded our shores and the potential of spreading this disease needs to be taken very seriously.

I woke up this morning and saw the following…

CRUISE SHIP NIGHTMARE: Texas hospital employee left the US aboard Carnival cruise ship.

Belize refuses entry with ship now in isolation...

(by Alan Cowell, NY Times) -- Adding a new and troubling dimension to the search for Americans possibly exposed to the Ebola virus, the State Department said Friday that an employee of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who may have had contact with specimens of the disease had left the United States aboard a cruise ship.

The employee and a traveling partner, who were not identified by name, had agreed to remain isolated in a cabin aboard the vessel, the State Department said, and “out of an abundance of caution” efforts were underway to repatriate them. A physician aboard the cruise ship had said the employee was in good health.

The disclosure by a State Department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, added to the growing concerns that have gripped Americans, health care workers, lawmakers and leaders across the country since a Liberian man, Thomas Eric Duncan, tested positive for Ebola last month and died on Oct. 8 in the same hospital.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/ebola-cruise-ship-dallas.html?src=twr&_r=2

We are reading about more and more “possible” cases popping up all over the US.

The early stages of panic are starting to take hold which is causing people to become hyper-aware.

This is a good thing, but left unchecked can quickly turn into “herd mentality.”

When “herd mentality” strikes, panic ensues and people start acting out of fear and instinct.

In all the articles I write on survival, this is the danger that we must avoid at all costs. Those of us who choose to be prepared, we need to do all we can so that we are not sucked into the “herd.”

If you are sucked into the herd, it is the herd that will direct your actions. History proves over and over again, those who become part of the herd are often led to the slaughterhouse.

Avoiding the herd along with herd mentality could literally save your life and the life of your loved ones.

A Need to Return to Victorian Manners & Etiquette

We live in the age of the antibiotic. It was with this discovery / invention that killed most manners and etiquette within civil society. It is also spawned and created our “loose – Free Love” society, where once the social sins of yesterday are now permissible.

How is that?

Before antibiotics the spread of disease was very high. The Victorian age and prior had to deal with many contagious diseases like pulmonary tuberculosis AKA Consumption, measles, and the pox. This also goes for sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis and gonorrhea. All these diseases meant death.   TB and other like diseases were and still are HIGHLY contagious, and yes they still kill many people yearly. But these were greatly feared then, like Ebola is feared today, prior to the discovery of penicillin.

Like Ebola, TB is a disease that is spread via contact and can also be “aerosolized” by coughing, sneezing, vomiting, spitting, etc.

Health and healthy living became a huge industry because cities and populations were growing. More and more people were moving from the small towns to take jobs and flocking to the city where these jobs were offered.

Here is something that one may not know. Do you know Kellogg’s Corn Flakes and Kellogg’s Special K was created during this time to help promote a healthy lifestyle?

John Harvey Kellogg, M.D. (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was an American medical doctor in Battle Creek, Michigan, who ran a sanitarium using holistic methods, with a particular focus on nutrition, enemas and exercise. Kellogg was an advocate of vegetarianism and is best known for the invention of the breakfast cereal known as corn flakes with his brother, Will Keith Kellogg.

He had many notable patients, such as former president William Howard Taft, composer and pianist Percy Grainger, arctic explorers Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Roald Amundsen, world travellers Richard Halliburton and Lowell Thomas, aviator Amelia Earhart, economist Irving Fisher, Nobel prize winning playwright George Bernard Shaw, actor and athlete Johnny Weissmuller(Tarzan), founder of the Ford Motor Company Henry Ford, inventor Thomas Edison, and actress Sarah Bernhardt.

Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg

The concern of infectious disease was very high during those days and a lot of the social behaviors of that time reflected these social concerns. Over a period of time people had to learn how to protect themselves from disease as well as prevent the spreading of disease.

They HAD to learn how to live with these killer communicable diseases, this is something that with the dawn of antibiotics has stopped.

So out of then need to protect one ’s self and prevent the spreading of communicable diseases manners and etiquette was born.

Now manners and etiquette has been around forever, but it was the Victorian era that raised it to a global social norm.

Fast forward 75 or so years later and the idea of good manners and social etiquette has been completely tossed out the window.

All thanks to the dawn of antibiotics.

Think about this for a moment. Because of antibiotics man was free to sin without repercussions of dying a horrible death. Get a shot of penicillin in the rear and one does not have to worry about communicable diseases again. That is till he / she caught it again.

Well as you well know, the age of antibiotics is coming to an end thanks to the mutated strains we now have. Antibiotics are losing the battle and diseases are winning.

OH NO… The sky is falling. What can we do?

Like it or not, we need to relearn these social manners and etiquettes if we do not want to contract some of the diseases that are very quickly beginning to plague us again today.

AVOID CONTACT WITH OTHERS WHOM YOU DO NOT KNOW

Today when you first meet someone it is “good manners” to shake hands with them. Our modern mindset is that if we catch some communicable disease, antibiotics will take care of it.

The ol’ shot in the rear fixes it every time.

But prior to the age of antibiotics, to shake ones hand is a sign of trust and a personal bond.

You trust that person enough to have physical contact with them. Shaking that hand / coming in physical contact meant putting your own health and welfare in jeopardy.

This is why all business deals were/are closed with a handshake. It was an ultimate sign of trust.

During the Victorian times and prior to that, to offer someone your hand was something akin to playing Russian roulette. You did not know what sort of disease that person might be carrying or what sort of people that person may have come in contact with prior to shaking hands with you.

So when you offered your hand to another, you were literally putting your life in that person’s hand.

“ I trust you so much that I am willing place my life in danger and shake hands with you.”

Avoiding human contact was necessary in a society that is forced to live with contagious diseases.

This is how the Victorians dealt with that.

"To a casual acquaintance you may bow without speaking; but to those with whom you are well acquainted greater cordiality is due. A bow should always be returned; even to an enemy it is courtesy to return his recognition."
"Hill's Manual of Forms" 1873

"Between gentlemen, an inclination of the head, a gesture of the hand, or a mere touching of the hat is sufficient; but in bowing to a lady, the hat must be lifted from the head."

"The body is not bent at all in bowing; the inclination of the head is all that is necessary"
Our Deportment 1881

"In meeting a lady it is optional with her whether she shall pause to speak. If the gentleman has anything to say to her, he should not stop her, but turn around and walk in her company until he has said what he has to say, when he may leave her with a bow and a lift of the hat."
Our Deportment, 1881

"One should always recognize lady acquaintances in the street, either by bowing or words of greeting, a gentleman lifting his hat. If they stop to speak, it is not obligatory to shake hands. Shaking hands [between a lady and gentleman] is not forbidden, but in most cases it is to be avoided in public."
Our Deportment, 1881

"If...you have been introduced to a person whose acquaintance you do not desire, you may merely make the formal bow of etiquette when you meet him, which, of itself, encourages no familiarity; but the bow is indispensable, for he cannot be thought a gentleman who would pass another with a vacant stare, after having been formally presented to him...

PROTECTING YOURSELF WHILE IN PUBLIC

The wearing of gloves was not only a way to keep your hands warm, but also a means to prevent your body from having direct contact with other humans and objects that may transmit disease.

The need to wear gloves in public will become necessary again. Taking this sort of precaution now is a good idea and investing in several pairs of good leather “driving gloves” would be wise.

Women’s Leather Driving Gloves - http://tinyurl.com/PZ-Womens-Driving-Gloves

Men’s Leather Driving Gloves - http://tinyurl.com/PZ-Mens-Driving-Gloves

Another thing about wearing gloves is that they also create a mental reminder.. Do not touch your face, which was also a big no no during the Victorian times.

"Never scratch your head, pick your teeth, clean your nails, or worse of all, pick your nose in company; all these things are disgusting. Spit as little as possible and never upon the floor.

If you are going into the presence of ladies, beware of onions, spirits and tobacco."
The Art of Good Behavior. 1845

One ALWAYS wore gloves when in public. This was hammered into the masses. So much so that to not do so was uncouth, and rude. No gloves showed that they were someone with no social etiquette.

Always wear gloves in the street, in church, and at other formal occasions, except when eating or drinking. White or cream-colored gloves were worn in the evening, gray or other dark-colored gloves were worn during the day.

Always wear white gloves in a ballroom. Very light shades are admissible.
Polite Society at Home and Abroad, 1891

You remember back in school we were taught that you never “cut in line”? Even today it is seen as poor manners. Just think about the amusement parks today. Cutting in line puts one in jeopardy of being tossed out of the park.

Why is this?

Because to “cut” means that you could possibly rub up against someone, thus passing your germs onto someone else. It was and still is seen as very poor manners in multiple ways.

What is called 'cutting' another is never practiced by gentlemen or ladies, except in some extraordinary instances of bad conduct on the part of the individual thus sacrificed.
Martine's Handbook, 1866

CHIVALRY & PROTECTING THE WOMAN

With the birth of the feminist movement, men were emasculated and the woman demanded that she was able to open the door for herself.

This is a manner again that was born out of chivalry and protecting the woman from disease. Believe it or not, men prior to antibiotics had a more virile character than that of a woman. Work at that time was mostly physical and men’s physical fortitude equated to being in lot better physical shape than they are today. People had built up natural immunities. Men worked outside the home, women stayed in the home where she was protected from many illnesses. Most men’s “constitution” and strength were a lot better than that of today.

When both sexes were in a common area, it was seen as the man’s social responsibly to “expose” himself to the possibility of viral infection.

This is why a man would open a door for a woman. The door handle is a prime area to spread disease.

"In passing through a door, the gentleman holds it open for the lady, even though he never saw her before. he also precedes the lady in ascending stairs, and allows her to precede him in descending."
Polite Society at Home and Abroad, 1891

Same goes with a chair. The back of a chair is where most people would handle it or touch it as they are walking by. Men would hold the chair, thus touching the area where most people have contact.

Another chivalrous act was the man assisting a woman into and out of a public carriage, bus, or car. These handles, rails, hold points are areas where disease is spread. Over the ages men would assist the woman so that she would not have to expose herself to these public areas thus being exposed to disease.

TABLE MANNERS STOPPED THE SPREAD OF DISEASE

Even at the table there are manners in place that helped prevent the spread of disease.

* Do not put your elbows on the table, or sit too far back, or lounge

This is in place to tell if someone you are dinning with is ill. Ill people have and weak and ill constitution. They will slouch, relax back in the seat, put elbows on the table to prop themselves up, ect. They do this because they are weak. Where someone who was not ill and had a strong constitution could sit at the table and conduct themselves properly.

* Never, if possible, cough or sneeze at the table.

This is pretty self-explanatory. TB and other diseases can be spread this way.

* Do not talk when the mouth is full.

Again, you spew food that has been in the mouth, you raise the chances of spreading disease.

* Never make a noise while eating

Sick people make noise, groan, moan, sniff, flatulate (fart) ect.

* Do not open the mouth while chewing, but keep the lips closed. It is not necessary to show people how you masticate your food.

Again, this prevents germs in your mouth to stay in the mouth.

THE USE OF THE HANKERCHIEF

The age-old tradition of carrying a handkerchief has been making its comeback over the last few years for health and environmental reasons. With the many colors, patterns, shapes and sizes, many people are recognizing the benefits of the reusable personal handkerchief today.

When I lived in Texas I carried one a lot and also wore one on my head because of the heat. In fact, I am carrying a homemade desert cammo handkerchief that Tracye made me from some cotton fabric I saw at one of her fabric stores.

Handkerchiefs can also help prevent one from possibly catching a virus. You can fold them multiple times and use them to breathe through if you are in an enclosed area that you need to vacate quickly. You can create a quick head covering with one and use another to cover your nose and mouth.

You can use it to cover your mouth if you need to sneeze or cough, thus preventing the spreading of germs.

When sitting at the table do not blow your nose, but rather cover your nose with your handkerchief, leave the table, and then tend to your nose. If sneezing, cover your nose with your handkerchief and turn your head away from food and people.

Keep your handkerchief close, such as in a pants pocket, so that you’re always prepared! For gentleman at formal events, always use a white linen handkerchief in the left breast pocket. The monogram should stay hidden. 

I am not sure about you, but I like to use bandanas. They are larger than the standard handkerchief and a little more robust.

There are a TON of uses for a bandana. It’s right up there with duct tape and 550 cord. They are dirt cheap, and a must have in your Bug Out Bag or Urban Survival Gear.

As a side note, here is just a short list of possible uses for a bandana.

1. Signal (also see signal mirror)

2. Neck Gaiter for cold weather

3. Tourniquet (But for Snake Bites use a Sawyer Extractor)

4. Pot Holder

5. Collecting Wild Edibles

6. Sun block for neck

7. Sling (first-aid – also see medical kits for you BOB)

8. Sling (as in David and Goliath)

9. Sling (for a staff )

10. Cordage (strips or as is)

11. Washcloth/Towel (Bathe out of a Collapsible Bucket)

12. Sweatband

13. Waist pack/pouch

14. Hobo Pack

15. Padding a hotspot

16. Cleaning Patches for Firearm

17. Bullet Patches for Muzzleloader

18. Gun Wipe Cloth (with oil)

19. Toilet Paper

20. Mark a Trail

21. Dish Rag

22. Napkin

23. Eye patch

24. Pre-water Filter (like Coffee Filters)

25. Clean Glasses and other lens

26. Ear Muffs

27. Bind a stone and toss a line over a limb

28. Dust Mask (in Urban Survival)

29. Wet and wear for Hot Weather

30. Sneezing

Black & Red Trainmen Paisley Jumbo Bandana (27" x 27") - http://tinyurl.com/PZ-Black-Red-Bandana

6 Pack Trainman Bandanas - Jumbo 27" Bandanas - http://tinyurl.com/PZ-Bandana-6pack

Manners and etiquette were put in place over the ages to protect man from deadly disease. Because man also had strong religious upbringing, it helped stabilizes these manners and etiquettes because it was the right thing to do in light of God’s Word. Thus reinforcing good, healthy, prosperous living through Christ Jesus.

Due to the dawn of antibiotics, man no longer needed to take personal responsibility for his actions, manners, and etiquette. A simple shot in the rear cured that.

Be we are at an age where we must take that personal responsibility again for the sake of our own health and the health of others.

It is going to take a learning curve. How many will die in that process is unknown.

Like it or not, we are going to have to become a civilized, well-mannered people who will display proper etiquette again.

Our lives very well may depend upon it.

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