Revelation 13:16-17 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
5G + Biometric Facial/Hand Scanning + Digital/Cashless Transactions + Mark of Approval/Authorization = Tomorrow’s Economy (2020)
Biometric scanning used for migrant/border control, secure identity verification and approval, government benefits, domestic and international travel security, economic inclusion of everyone, buying/selling transactions and fund transfers, instantaneous speed of transaction and convenience, VAT/taxation collection, mobility, social credit score and ranking, population movement and tracking, monitoring political and religious ‘extremism’ (terrorists). ‘Mark, number or name’ for verification and approval.
End Times Technology, ‘Mark, Number or Name’: CDC (Center for Disease Control) Looks to Upgrade Its Biosurveillance Database.
APRIL 6, 2020 05:12 PM ET next.gov
The system collects data from hospitals, local public health departments, pharmacies and more to give researchers and officials a view of how diseases spread across the country.
As the coronavirus spreads across the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is teaming up with Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory to pull data from hospitals across the country into the government’s biosurveillance program.
APL’s Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics, or ESSENCE, was developed for the government’s biosurveillance program, which tracks key indicators from doctors and hospitals across the country to give researchers and officials a view into the spread of diseases.
APL’s ESSENCE is the “primary syndromic surveillance tool” for CDC’s BioSense platform. It provides the raw data that is then filtered through BioSense’s other applications, which include research, analytic and visualization tools.
The ESSENCE application itself is “a data-agnostic tool that can process any data that contains a date and something you want to count,” Sheri Lewis, manager of APL’s Health Protection and Assurance program area, told Nextgov in an email Monday.
“There are many goals for many different users. Public health users at the CDC, state and local levels use the data for situational awareness of the current disease burden in their communities, as well as early event detection, and numerous analytics to help understand ongoing situations—like COVID-19,” she said. “It is often used for population-based surveillance more so than individual surveillance. Understanding the potential spread of a disease, understanding the results of interventions, understanding current trends in a timely fashion before finalized ‘gold-standard’ datasets are available are all things for which the system is used.”
In this case, the contract for upgraded system capabilities is with the CDC’s National Syndromic Surveillance Program, which runs the BioSense program.
“In the National Syndromic Surveillance Program, ESSENCE is used to analyze emergency department and urgent care center visits, laboratory orders and results, mortality records, [Defense Department] visits, Veterans Affairs visits, weather information, air quality information, and [Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response–Disaster Medical Assistance Teams] visits when available,” Lewis said.
But the program has the potential to get more granular.
“What do you do when you’re sick? Think about it,” Wayne Loschen, an APL software engineer on the ESSENCE project, said during a talk in 2017. “Your kids might not go to school. You might go to the pharmacy and get some over-the-counter drugs. If it’s really bad, you might end up in emergency rooms. … You might buy more orange juice. Maybe you’ll buy more Kleenexes. The real fun one: You might flush your toilet a little more often.”
The ESSENCE project pulls data from a wide variety of sources to give epidemiologists a broad view of the situation as a pandemic develops.
“If you can understand the behaviors, you can start to look for the datasets that contain those behaviors,” he said. “And if you get those datasets, then you can analyze them, visualize them, help detect what’s going on, potentially, so that you can have better situational awareness.”
The base datasets include information collected from local sources, including emergency room visits, poison control calls, reportable disease data, death records, school absences, over-the-counter drug sales and other data from local health departments, Loschen said.
The program has an authority to operate, or ATO, from the CDC—a certification that the app meets a baseline for cybersecurity. However, the level of data anonymization is determined by the data source, according to Lewis.
“The level of anonymization depends on each jurisdiction’s version of ESSENCE and the data they put into the system,” she said.
The program has been used many times in the past, including recent global outbreaks of Ebola and Zika, and even to combat America’s opioid addiction.
Under the new contract requirement, CDC wants APL to upgrade the system, including new filters, an improved user interface and analytic tools, and a focus on cloud infrastructure.
Along with ongoing access and maintenance of the system, the contract calls for APL to add new functionality to ESSENCE. The new requirements include:
A tool that can identify hospitals that have disruptions in their data feed and return a “yes/no” value for whether hospitals have “been consistent” or “has disruptions.”
A tool to better track data quality measures for states.
Making the alerting system more actionable at the local level.
Exploring machine learning natural language processing improvements to allow users to tag records and develop new connections and search methods.
Developing a “US_Census_Region” filter.
User interface improvements, such as interactive data visualizations.
CDC also wants APL to look at improving the architecture and data flow of ESSENCE, with a focus on using cloud services and cost control.
“These tests should consider at least two major cloud service providers,” according to the work statement, which suggests Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, “in order to determine if there are advantages or disadvantages associated with different providers or if in general the services provided across vendors are essentially offering equivalent options that could be deployed in any major provider environment.”
(Night Watchman Note: What will happen when millions of Christians suddenly ‘disappear’ in the ‘twinkling of an eye”??? Those who may be first-responders, doctors, nurses, support staff, policemen, firefighters, homeless volunteers, those in the red cross or other emergency aid and relief organizations, in the national guard or military, pharmacies, grocery stores, etc. You get the picture.)
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Jesus Christ’s Offer of Salvation:
The ABCs of Salvation through Jesus Christ (the Lamb)
A. Admit/Acknowledge/Accept that you are sinner. Ask God’s forgiveness and repent of your sins.
. . . “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23).
. . . “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” (Romans 3:10).
. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8).
B. Believe Jesus is Lord. Believe that Jesus Christ is who He claimed to be; that He was both fully God and fully man and that we are saved through His death, burial, and resurrection. Put your trust in Him as your only hope of salvation. Become a son or daughter of God by receiving Christ.
. . . “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:15-17). For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).
C. Call upon His name, Confess with your heart and with your lips that Jesus is your Lord and Savior.
. . . “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10).
. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” (John 1:8-10).
. . . “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (John 2:2).
. . . “In this was manifested the love of god toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.” (1 John 4:9, 14-15).
. . . “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:8-10).
. . . “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23).
. . . “Jesus saith unto them, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6).
. . . “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” (Romans 1:16).
. . . “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts: 4:12).
. . . “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth for there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:4-6).
. . . “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).
. . . “But as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” (John 1:12).
True Church / Bride of Christ Spared from God’s Wrath:
Romans 5:8-10. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”
Romans 12:19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians 5:9. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Romans 8:35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Jeremiah 30:7. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.