Posted on 10/12/2014 6:20:37 AM PDT by BobL
Ping
I’ve already started! The sh## is officially about to hit the fan!
“I’ve already started! The sh## is officially about to hit the fan!”
I’m not convinced it will (yet), but being a prepper, I will be ready for it.
When you mentioned the bathtub water containers were in short supply, I looked some up (I have the waterBOB, which is out of stock, currently):
While I agree about self quarantine, I am putting my money into food, etc. While I will have clorine, gloves, etc., I will not be stocking up in large amounts of PPE.
If trained HCW in a Hospital connot protect themselves, the chances of my allowing anyone that could have been exposed anywhere within the zone a 12 gauge blast is nil. I will not be trying to put on and take off PPE to shake hands with the mail man.
See here
https://www.clorox.com/dr-laundry/expiration-date/
The best way to identify the age of a bottle is to use the production code stamped on the neck of the bottle, which typically looks like this:A8116010
5813-CA3
The top line provides the information on when it was produced, which would be A8-1-160-10 (if you added dashes). You only need the first 6 digits and you read it from left to right as follows:
Plant Number—Last digit of year made—Day of the year made
A8 1 160
The bleach in this example was made in 2011 on June 9th, the 160th day of the year.
I'm still experimenting with using Calcium Hypochlorite as a dry, stable & store able medium for making bleach on-demand; maybe other FReepers can validate that method.
Yea, the problem is that these are small, outlier, companies that sit around selling a handful of items a week...and then BOOM, everyone and his brother wants it. They don’t have a prayer at keeping up.
Don’t be surprised if large bags and trash cans also see a run, soon.
We are always ready to be independent for a long period but we did get the masks and gloves last week as they will disappear if even a few more people start coming down with Ebola.
“If trained HCW in a Hospital connot protect themselves, the chances of my allowing anyone that could have been exposed anywhere within the zone a 12 gauge blast is nil. I will not be trying to put on and take off PPE to shake hands with the mail man.”
I’m with you...which is why I haven’t even tried to study it. Way over our heads, and maybe everyone else’s. I’ve seen some stuff on it, and who knows...and if it gets in my house, I’ll do my best not to get it, but it’s almost certainly too late then.
Have toilet paper, and a gun to keep it.
Don’t use lawn and trash bags as your water container/can liner. I’ve read (some of) these are treated with pesticides. Not sure about the white/kitchen type liners...of their food grade quality.
Sales of gas masks, bio-hazard suits and foil blankets soar as ‘survivalists’ prepare for Ebola epidemic - and warn others to store water
Good words, I checked my bottles, and that does check out. I do, of course, of Calcium Hypochlorite, otherwise known as Pool Shock, too, as a backup to my bleach - in case I get caught out of date. I had earlier read about that, but don’t have details on its use though.
Lots of money, then you’ll be able to buy whatever else you want or need.
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I didn’t see any reason not to stock up for the winter ahead of time. One thing I bought an ample stock of is homecleaning supplies. If disease takes hold, it’s going to be important to have a daily routine of keeping the house really clean, and that will take up a lot of supplies. Same thing with laundry. Things will get washed more often.
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Bing
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