The Quack Nation

Why? Because you have to be pretty much insane to venture into or hold your ground in viral hotzones where everyone else is trying to flee as a f'n coward. Even with the best bag of tricks in tow as a quack medic, your chances of contracting infection among contact with patients are extremely high and CQC will certainly see personnel losses. Always will you be poorly equipped with overwhelming masses of patients. There isn't any chance the mission will even be accomplished where the People depend too greatly upon the government and military. It boils down to the question of whether or not each American will stay and help -- maybe die -- with his local friends and family or run as a no good, f'in chicken.

There really aren't that many options for out-running Super Plague when airports, highways, sea, rail, and regional ground are fully locked down, and so one might as well die honorably and useful to the mission. While dying, we have at least tried to provide you with something useful to do; Some hope to keep; Some pride to the end. We try to give you a realistic dream of saving the Republic which is not at all impossible to do if CQC's forces can be exponentially multiplied overnight to meet patient demand. And, if all be pseudoscience as our twit critics claim, well, hell, maybe 50% living from Placebo Effect alone is near half the Republic kept alive. But, it ain't Placebo behind our way. Any positive placebo factor is a good thing to keep in the program, though.

And so, the first rule of CQC is that we don't attempt to control it too greatly. Armies with the greatest morale tend to be a rag-tag horde of rebels under loose control. We teach you what to do, but not how to do it. We also keep unseen WW2 Resistance structure so that the chain of command can be lost while individual "cells" continue to operate. Instead of terrorists, they're just medics.

We just infect the minds of the masses with the dream, an outline, and let YOU do the rest. The power of the Internet to link the world is one key strategy we keep. The utility of HAM radio is another asset to the mission. The utility of civilian pilots and air crews is another focus. Because existing government and military will be suffering up to 50% disability and losses, we do not rely upon those institutions. If they remain, their integration is useful. Though we give some priority to those institutions, no government or military is effective without national manpower and tax base! Thus, we roughly spread priorities in treatment and cure among the masses; for the military and government is composed of the People.

CQC takes focus upon the quack field of Homeopathy and unconventional vaccination methods. Why? Because homeopathy (along with earlier roots in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Greek Medicine) is the mother of modern vaccines. It is a medical art with impressive record against the plagues of historical Europe.

At least 4 medics and 4 civil aviators per state of the Union. We don't need big, bloated agencies and institutional constraints. We don't even need highly qualified medical people, but just insane people willing to remain on-site and lead as directed. We need you able to lead an inner circle of 12; For each in that generation to lead another 12, and so forth. We need each of those individuals able to gather equipment and manpower -- at least 400 local volunteers per 1 quack -- in a time of need. This is a purpose of our social networking and recruiting. Where we have just that, we do have the capacity to field a very effective counter-plague defense. It is already in place, scattered beyond our ability to know, continually growing, and completely impossible to crush. We have no need for a large structure, but just retention of that CQC army of 800 bold people (4 x 4 x 50 states); That plus a few rungs of Reserve quacks and pilots in the same numbers. The rest of the masses can be assembled in a time of need. This army is sort of the advanced echelon of the larger quack army out there.

What we need right now is a database of interested volunteers with the following information:

Your chosen call sign (we don't need email or identity at this point and don't want it). 50 MHz and other HAM bands or civil radio are where you'll receive your marching orders if ever called up. Don't even need to know your name.
Your city and state.
Your nearest major airport.
Your nearest small airport.
Your nearest military base.
The name of your nearest police station.

Then, we just toss you into an email list and study group forum. Instantly, we have the skeleton of the Continental Quack Command assembled with Reserve assets perpetually coming on line and gaining familiarity with the methods. Each of you is expected to gather some basic equipment -- stuff lying around the house; To teach to others as you learn; And to always gather one civilian pilot (any aircraft type) per medic recruited.

Each of you is expected to learn and perpetually search for upgrades to the methodology we teach and to make yourself capable of lone operation in your region. You may someday have to lead hospital and supply operations to serve hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people as needed. It can never be accomplished alone, and so you must always be able to teach and replicate yourself and methods rapidly. You must be able to operate all alone with no communications to the chain of command, no support, and no supply. We can equip you to do that, but the rest is up to you. You must be a self-starter who learns quickly and has a broad range of capacities in general.

It's basically a reserve medical militia outline. Until a suitable replacement is found, Dr. Quack, like any good dictator, has declared himself "Imperial Quack General of the United States of America"; CINC ("sink"; Commander-in-Chief) of all counter-plague Quackery; High Chief of the Quack Nation. And, your job is to take that job away from me. Outperform me as a quack. Take the dream and do whatever the hell you want with it! Just get the job done. I don't dictate how. I just focus upon raising and training the quack army.

As is the old master to young Grasshopper, often I may have the answers but do not teach them so that you will seek them out on your own. Though CQC has its favored methods, we really don't care about your practice style or the details. Just do whatever it takes to hold the line. Such is your mission, if you choose to accept it. The singlemost criteria is that you must be willing to possibly die while heading into viral hotzones rather than away from them. Should the shit ever come, that's exactly where you'll deploy with your recruited divisions in tow. Are you monster or mouse?! Will you die honorably fighting or as a coward? This is all we need to know about you. Think it over.