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APR 2020 Part A.Pdf 1 HZS C2BRNE DIARY – April 2020 www.cbrne-terrorism-newsletter.com 2 HZS C2BRNE DIARY – April 2020 HZS C2BRNE DIARY– 2020© April 2020 Website: www.cbrne-terrorism-newsletter.com Editor-in-Chief BrigGEN (ret.) Ioannis Galatas MD, MSc, MC (Army) PhD cand Consultant in Allergy & Clinical Immunology Medical/Hospital CBRNE Planner & Instructor Senior Asymmetric Threats Analyst Manager, CBRN Knowledge Center @ International CBRNE Institute (BE) Senior CBRN Consultant @ HotZone Solutions Group (NL) Athens, Greece Contact e-mail: [email protected] Editorial Team ⚫ Bellanca Giada, MD, MSc (Italy) ⚫ Hopmeier Michael, BSc/MSc MechEngin (USA) ⚫ Kiourktsoglou George, BSc, Dipl, MSc, MBA, PhD (UK) ⚫ Photiou Steve, MD, MSc EmDisaster (Italy) ⚫ Tarlow Peter, PhD Sociol (USA) A publication of HotZone Solutions Group Prinsessegracht 6, 2514 AN, The Hague, The Netherlands T: +31 70 262 97 04, F: +31 (0) 87 784 68 26 E-mail: [email protected] DISCLAIMER: The HZS C2BRNE DIARY® (former CBRNE-Terrorism Newsletter), is a free online publication for the fellow civilian/military CBRNE First Responders worldwide. The Diary is a collection of papers/articles related to the stated thematology. Relevant sources/authors are included and all info provided herein is from open Internet sources. Opinions and comments from the Editor, the Editorial Team or the authors publishing in the Diary do not necessarily represent those of the HotZone Solutions Group (NL) or the International CBRNE Institute (BE). www.cbrne-terrorism-newsletter.com 3 HZS C2BRNE DIARY – April 2020 www.cbrne-terrorism-newsletter.com 4 HZS C2BRNE DIARY – April 2020 Editorial Brig Gen (ret.) Ioannis Galatas, MD, MSc, MC (Army) Editor-in-Chief HZS C2BRNE Diary Dear Colleagues, QUARANTINE! An experience that our generation will remember forever! The word quarantine comes from quarantena, meaning "forty days", used in the 14th-15th-century Venetian language and designating the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic; it followed the trentino, or thirty-day isolation period, first imposed in 1377 in the Republic of Ragusa, Dalmatia (modern Dubrovnik in Croatia). Quarantine – a time to reconsider things and values and to reshape our lives and targets! What are April’s highlights? Too much of everything could be hazardous for our health and mind! “Ουκ εν τω πολλώ το ευ!” ancient Greeks used to point out (= less is often more). Lot’s of information over the Internet; countless hours of television analysis with special focus on the millions of people affected by the coronavirus; new rules over existing rules and penalties to stay home; racism against the elderly as if they are responsible about the decline of human defenses coming with age; and the most important of all the global problem that everybody in this planet can equally express an opinion about everything because we have democracy – remember? We declared heroes all those involved in healthcare front-line but we award the same gold medal to those who deliver pizzas and take away food or those working in supermarkets or those involved in traffic control or guarding the quarantine. Do not take me wrong – I sincerely pay tribute to all those people who do not stay at home serving all of us staying in our castles but there are also silver and copper medals not to mention that in Olympic Games all those succeeded in the first ten places are called “Olympians”. At the end of this volume, there are some quotes I copied from the Internet addressing the ten things we become aware of during the last few weeks – very interesting and so true! The big question hovering over the planet is this: “What is the reason behind the global scientific mobilization in order to counter the ongoing pandemic? How come this wonderful scientific boom was not done before when the planet was facing similar and in some cases more deadly threats – HIV; H1N1, SARS, MERS, Zika and even cancer? Is there something special with Covid-19 that all of us are not aware of? Do not connect this with circulating conspiracies and infodemics. For CBRN people it is obvious that a pandemic (both natural or man-made) is the essence behind “B”! This is how a B-attack will progress – perhaps even faster or deadlier – but this is how it will happen in the future especially now that modern biotechnologies are capable of creating almost everything (both good and extremely lethal). In my lectures in front of medical audiences I used to say “of course medical people are more familiar with the “B” of “CBRN” – I was so wrong! We do not know shit (excuse my language). We thought that a few negative pressure wards would contain everything – not they do not offer anything in a pandemic. We forget that simple consumables like masks and protective equipment would make the difference; we did not train hospital personnel on how to use them even under normal conditions. We let one or two countries to be the main manufactures of simple things as if these items were not worthy to invest on. And many more! Hope we will learn and fill the gaps after the pandemic – though I am not so sure about this … www.cbrne-terrorism-newsletter.com 5 HZS C2BRNE DIARY – April 2020 And then, there is the day after – back to normality, we call it. Some envision “immunity passports”; others propose the electronic surveillance of the population marking citizens with red, yellow and green tags – via their smartphones of course! There is a huge debate on how to prove immunity in order to restart the broken economy and make money again. Rapid tests are in the front-line of this debate. A negative rapid test could be dangerous for the people and communities because it might provide a false feeling that people can do whatever they were doing before the pandemic with no limitations. How can we speak about immunity against a pathogen just four months old? How can we demand a 100% accurate test the moment the gold diagnostic standard – the PCR – is way out of this desired 100%. And then there is a parallel race of profit with a big number of companies producing these rapid tests (mainly Asian) that in many instances provided very poor results. The important thing that everybody forgets (?) to mention is that we are not talking about a SINGLE test (positive or negative)! The very cheap price per test allows frequent repetition of these tests over a period of time in order to establish a relatively safe immunity profile ALWAYS in correlation with the clinical status of the individual. A protocol describing when to do the test and when to repeat the test is highly required. The bottom line is that in a war, you fight with what you have at hand and not with what you would like to have. And for the time being, rapid tests are what we have at hand – prefer/trust European products from companies that have a long list of similar diagnostics and back experience in this field. In Greece, we did well – compared to the hecatombes in the rest of the world. The only “problem” is the nice climate we have here and this might urge people to overpass the social distancing rules in place towards summer time. The financial consequences in a country with a single heavy industry – tourism – could be devastating and difficult to predict. But as if the pandemic was not enough, Greece is confronted with thousands of illegal immigrants that are gathering again in the coastal Turkey opposite our islands in the Aegean Sea. After their unsuccessful attempt to invade Greece from its land borders in Evros earlier this year, a second- round is expected now from the sea – not to mention the additional fear that many of them might be coronavirus infected due to the high toll of Covid-19 cases in the neighboring country. Unfortunately, nobody in Europe (I do not use the term European Union anymore) is proposing a valid applicable solution because every country cares only about itself – a solid proof is Italy that is fighting the coronavirus alone with some support from non-European nations (Russia; China; Cuba; Qatar). Our only hope stems from our own history indicating that Greeks excell in difficult times! Finally, you might have noticed that the C2BRNE Diary is now a HotZone Solutions Group publication. After some time of informal collaboration, we decided to join forces in order to serve better our reading audience, This issue and few to follow will be a transition period to a total restructure of the journal delayed for the time being due to the extraordinary conditions caused by the pandemic. So, stay tuned! Take care First Responders! Be safe! Keep on the excellent work! Calm seas always follow the rage of Poseidon! Hope for the best; prepare for the worst! The Editor-in-Chief www.cbrne-terrorism-newsletter.com 6 HZS C2BRNE DIARY – April 2020 Highlights - The situation at the Union’s external borders in Greece, 2 April 2020 - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs 30-03-2020 06:54 PM CEST LIBE Members will exchange views on the situation in Greece with Margaritis Schinas, Commission Vice-President for Promoting the European way of life and Ylva Johansson, Commissioner for Home Affairs, Notis Mitarachi, Minister of Migration and Asylum and Michalis Chrisochoidis, Minister of Citizen protection (Greece) and with Terezija Gras, State Secretary for EU and International Affairs (Croatia - CLS Presidency), Fabrice Leggeri, Executive Director Frontex and Michael O'Flaherty, Director FRA Fundamental rights of refugees and migrants at European borders Fundamental rights implications: COVID-19 pandemic FRA Report on “Children in migration in 2019" FRA Practical suggestions on relocation of unaccompanied children from Greece Council of Europe’s Anti-torture Committee visit to Greece to examine treatment of migrants EDITOR’S COMMENT: I did not open the links provided because I did not saw any link about the rights of the Greeks defending their national borders against the invasion of the illegal immigrants’ tsunami along with the Turkish offensive.
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