spk_1:   0:00
Hello, everybody. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the show. The big show. The largest chou recording in our car auras today and recording in our living room. Oddly enough, oddly enough. And yes, she's she looks like she may be about ready to forgive me. A made A comment a few minutes ago has steam roll out our ears. We won't go into what? It wasn't it. It wasn't that bad. It wasn't that bad. It was nothing personal. All right, we're fine. Pressing, pressing right along. Hey, we've got a We've got a double Dipper episode today that we're not going to. It's not gonna be a long episode. It's gonna be a double dipper. We're gonna talk about two different things, but they're both very similarly related. And in fact, they're about back to back prepper med Post that spice has made. So we've already got the one post is was posted yesterday, and we're about half an hour away from the 2nd 1 dropping. So let's go ahead and talk about these depots were gonna talk to different subject. I'll go ahead and tell you one of them is called to a rea mia, tularemia, Hillary, mia and the other one is all about splints, Sam splints. Okay, you're gonna combine these into to posted a one little quick podcast, and she's gonna give you the podcast version for those who'd rather get it through the through the ears than through the eyes. So, first off, let's talk to a re mia. What is tularemia and why? If why should preppers care about tularemia?

spk_0:   1:42
It's a rare disease right now, but likely to become a heck of a lot more common, as if more people spend a lot more time out in the wild. Out in the woods. It's caused by a bacterial, but the bacterium isn't passed from person to person. The bacterium is passed from around among rabbits. The version of the we have in the U. S. Is passed among rabbits, and the version they have in Europe and Asia and Canada is passed along. Rudin's like beavers and bowls, house mice and things like that. So it's a zoo. No, Cece, it is Ah, much more dangerous disease if you're a rabbit, because if you're a rabbit and get this thing, you're almost certainly going to die of it. You're probably not I don't think we have many rabbits among

spk_1:   2:32
our listeners. I know you're probably not a rabbit,

spk_0:   2:35
but a tick that bites the rabbit can bite a person, and then the person gets infected because it takes, like, 10 that bacteria, which is ridiculously tiny number getting into a wound, actually cause a full scale infection inhuman or where I first learned of it. If you're cleaning a rabbit that has the disease because it's caught it and it hasn't yet got sick enough to die, maybe gotten sick enough to get stupid and get shot. If you're cleaning a rabbit, that's got it, Then you can get it through handling the body fluids or getting poked by a nasty pokey rabbit bone. There bones tend to splinter when

spk_1:   3:15
they get shot. Yeah, both rabbit bones are very brittle, much more brittle in a lot of other animals, and they get really sharpened splintery and just one little poke and that's 10 cells is not a whole lot.

spk_0:   3:26
No, you get more than 10 bacteria if you prick yourself with a pin on on an average day. So yeah, um, there's a The more time people spend in the woods and around rabbits around ticks that have been around rabbits, The higher the disease great goes, So it's found in most parts of the Northern Hemisphere. In fact, in one variety or another

spk_1:   3:53
now it's not quite like the Monty Python killer rabbit. No, it's not quite that bad. It's like this is horrible, the tea that want not quite that bad, But but it's something to pay attention to if you are going to be rabbit hunting rabbit handling that you really need to like where stout gloves when you clean them

spk_0:   4:22
and take prevention is critical to anybody's well being. Because there's lots of disease transmitted.

spk_1:   4:27
You say there's it's not just this. It's lime And some areas it's We have Heartland here. Heartland. Yeah, we're big, big area for Heartland Tex. Announcement of fever. Lime is big in some areas. Rocky Mountain. You know you can actually get all of them here, although they're not nearly as common as way. We're in the Midwest, and we have a veritable cornucopia of tick borne disease opportunities.

spk_0:   4:55
Yeah, with ticks. The it's good news when it merely is a parasite. That sucks your blood.

spk_1:   5:02
Yeah. So we course, this is where the middle winner right now, so it's not that big of a deal. But we are really big on tick prevention to the point where why don't you give us just a couple of of examples of the things that you do when working out of the place to cut down on your picking up ticks? Because this is stuff that everybody can D'oh! It's not expensive. It's not difficult, and it's not even gonna hurt the environment.

spk_0:   5:32
I spray my clothing with permethrin. You can buy provisions for an infused clothing, but that's more expensive. And I don't I I buy things like scrubs and things that are really light because I'm working out there in the heat of summer and I'm gonna wear long pants I'm gonna wear, ah, full coverage except for my hands in my face.

spk_1:   5:52
Now when we talk about, there's a special kind of permission that is designed for clothing,

spk_0:   5:58
that is the permit through.

spk_1:   5:59
Yeah, I mean, it's like against that, particularly clothing in it.

spk_0:   6:02
Yeah, you don't spray per me thrown on your skin. You spray permethrin on clothing and boots and stuff, let it dry, and then you get maybe six or eight wear rings out of it. Six right washings out of it before it's washed off enough to need to reapply

spk_1:   6:18
and And don't don't scrimp on the stuff. Let it rip. Yeah, and it really, really, really, really does work. Have you can keep that If you can keep the ticks off your clothing, your problem. We're gonna have much left less of a tick Issue the places tick central witnesses. We may not have too many different forms of wildlife fund it ticks or one of them. We're not so bad. And Skeeter's but ticks

spk_0:   6:43
Hey, if you've got ticks, you've got other animals because they're not out there waiting to eat people who almost never come out there.

spk_1:   6:48
No, but mostly into arts.

spk_0:   6:50
And, ah, small mammal ticks.

spk_1:   6:52
They take one Look at me. Go buffet. Here's the movie. Oh, what's that smell? Oh, you know,

spk_0:   7:02
I don't pick him up when I'm wearing that stuff, and I pick him up like crazy the rest of the time.

spk_1:   7:06
The other

spk_0:   7:07
third long sleeves long pants.

spk_1:   7:08
The other bonus about permethrin is not only doesn't not chick text, but it knocks chiggers, too. Yeah, they hate to stay and, frankly, mosquitoes GTO. Yeah, it's pretty much any. Any little nasty bitey thing doesn't like it. Now. We still we still deed up around our faces, hands and stuff like that.

spk_0:   7:28
I mostly don't. I mostly spread the heck out of my hat. Wear hat. That usually does it. So

spk_1:   7:35
because you don't want ticks in your hair, you know I'm expected. Mosquitoes in your face. Yeah, We used to have a really big fly problem at the place because there was a not too far away. A cattle. They ran cattle. Fortunately, running at last couple years. So in Ah, but even the flies don't like it, so that's a plus. Well, anyway, we got more information on this particular story on three B y and including a picture of a bunny and in some funny funny stuff to it will be some funny stuff there.

spk_0:   8:09
But the not funny part because if you don't have the antibiotics and you get to a re mia in the U. S, the fatality rates 30 to 60%. That's good. So it's not something to play around with.

spk_1:   8:21
Don't give me any waxes it use. Fortunately, Cipro approaches one

spk_0:   8:26
of the one of the ones that a lot of preppers have on hand. If they have any on end. Since it's mostly carried around by rabbits, it hasn't been experiencing a lot of selection pressure from antibiotics. We don't know of any versions that are antibiotic resistant, but there is talk that both the US and the Soviet Union weaponized tularemia during Cold War. Yeah, so that's an agent of concern when it comes to biological warfare, because it spreads really well in an aerosol. A couple of kids got it cause they ran over a dead rabbit with a long more, and they got nasty cases of tularemia from the disgusting rabbit dust that kicked up.

spk_1:   9:05
Now people might say, Well, yeah, that's that's wild rapids, But we have, we have. But we raised rabbits in cages and stuff like that. Well, they could still get the same text.

spk_0:   9:17
Yeah, I never met a chick you carried off. Your rabbit was tamed.

spk_1:   9:21
Yeah, So even though you may not expect that you have it, it is something you still have to pay attention to. So that's Topic one. Let's go on it. Let's go ahead and skip on over the topic to for today and topic to actually came out of an experience that you had last week. And, uh, we learned that we need to have a Sam Splint as one of the things that needs to be at our car bag.

spk_0:   9:49
One of my teammates got hurt in practice.

spk_1:   9:51
She we're not gonna get into what this is, but let's just say it's a rough and tumble type of ah, of a sport. It is a vigorous physical activity, Um, think rugby hockey, that kind of thing. Okay,

spk_0:   10:09
lots of luck until you know

spk_1:   10:11
what, That's a fun little bones break. And until it's what you have spared yourself,

spk_0:   10:17
yeah, turns out it was only a sprain, but she it was an ankle shouldn't hurt before years ago, and it hurts like heck. And she called out when she went down with this ankle injury. And on the team, there happened to be a physician's assistant Ah, firefighter with her first responder kit nurses, nurse's aide, caretaker and myself. Yeah, so we scattered in all directions, collecting ice, getting the bag for the ace bandages taken off her a safety gear. I started looking for some something to use as a splint if it was broken once we got the boot off it. So afterwards, we got our teammate taking care of sprained ankle, got her wrapped up, got ice on it, got her headed off to the emergency room to get it x rayed to make sure it wasn't a break. And then we're all cleaning up the, uh, cleaning up the mess and getting ready to go. And the physician's assistant and the firefighter are both wishing they had Sam splints in their kits, which for various reasons, they didn't have. But I don't know what a Sam split is. That sounds like a useful item. Can you get him without prescription? Oh, yeah. They're about five bucks,

spk_1:   11:38
which they are. They're a little higher than that, but not much. Not much. 10 bucks I got. We have one coming and we're going to see whether we like it or not in order a couple more, but yeah, we got one all the way from Amazon. We just went on the Amazon and looked up Sam s a M splint. And there are all over the place.

spk_0:   11:55
Yeah, after I got home from practice told Salty who was a master shopper than I wanted one for my car kit.

spk_1:   12:02
Yeah, so this one's gonna go with her car kid. And if we like we like it will put at least one in the big The Big Kit. And a big kid is crazy. Big.

spk_0:   12:12
Yeah, that's more like a home base kit for a when medical care isn't ready available than anything

spk_1:   12:19
else and then one more for my car kit. So the basic

spk_0:   12:23
idea is it's a sheet of malleable plastic. Sam stands for structural aluminum malleable splint, so sheet of aluminum 36 inches by four inches, covered with foam on both sides, and that you can fold it up. You can bend it. I've seen people cutting it on YouTube. Videos, too fit around smaller limbs like a fingers and toes. When they were broken and they wanted to splint him, they just cut off a piece of the big split. But mostly you just fold it up and it's reusable. You mold it to the shape you want. It will really help somebody if they have to walk on an injured ankle. It provides support to the ankle, and you can walk on the Sam splint a lot better than you could walk on, even Justin Ace bandage. And then you use the ace bandage or gauze roll or whatever else to hold the thing in place. After you've got it bent into the shape you want to immobilize whatever it is you're supposed to be sporting.

spk_1:   13:26
Sounds like an amazing thing for a bug out bag and or for, ah, hiking kit

spk_0:   13:31
exactly where I wanted one.

spk_1:   13:33
Yeah, I could see Definitely after seeing this. You know, if you're a backcountry hikers, this could save your life.

spk_0:   13:40
There have been times when I've been up there looking down on the snow in the middle of July, up in the mountains. I'm thinking Spice. Let's watch where you put your feet because you really don't want to sprain an ankle while you're up here. I still wouldn't want to spread my ankle, but it would be a lot less dangerous if you had a good quality split. Help you get down with.

spk_1:   14:05
So yeah, so we get that article. That article is is yesterday's post on three B y. So we've got those two, so check him out and I'll put the late this link to the story in both of them. Is there anything else you want to add? A. Is that gonna wrap you?

spk_0:   14:23
I think the only thing I gotta add is the reason we're probably doing this is because after I wrote that story on the Sam splint, I said, I hope some people read this because this is a really useful item that I'd never heard of before. And I bet a lot of other people haven't either,

spk_1:   14:38
so Well, if you haven't, if your list if you're looking at the rabbit, we got a cute picture. A rabbit. I'm a photographer, but I don't have pictures of rabbits like rabbits. Okay. I don't mind them. Cute, nasty little garden thieves here. They're riddance. There really are. No. You were right in sending a little rats. Like squirrels. Girls, hoppy. Yeah, I don't like him.

spk_0:   15:06
Very good at getting into gardens. Not as good at getting out. So then they're sitting there among your stuff, eaten all night going. I don't know how to get out. I guess I'll chew us up. Mouth?

spk_1:   15:14
Yeah. These air desert animals begging to be shot put in the stew we're pleading for pleases shoot day. Put me in your stew. But if you do, be very, very careful When you cut them apart and cook them thoroughly,

spk_0:   15:30
don't get the body fluids on your hands. Then scratch your eye

spk_1:   15:33
and cooked him thoroughly. All right, we're going to say Ta ta for now. See you.