Aside from the normal worries, food, fuel for winter heat, protection from the sure-to-come hungry mobs, how do we survive this killer disease that sports a 70% mortality rate? Jokes aside (get under the desk, put your head between your legs and kiss your butt good bye) can one isolate a family member and home-treat him or her, without killing the rest of the household? We wouldn't be here if our ancestors didn't survive several plagues over the generations.
Would the game plan be to hole up until the virus finally fades, or can we expect everyone to eventually contract it and survive or die on the stamina and genes gifted to us by our fore parents?
What would we need to have in stock to self-treat a family member, keeping in mind that the Africans living in huts and with NO resources seem to have at least as good a success rate as the Dallas hospital?
I’m running to the country home and holing up. I just saw five deer eating apples in my back yard last week. They looked real tasty. With winter coming, food preservation may be easier.
We need help from those folks who have survived or have a natural immunity to the disease. It appears West Africa is undergoing a screening for those folks through natural selection right now.
If the virus escapes into the wild as it threatens to do, this situation would rapidly turn into a “Black Swan Event” that would cause the kind of social ,and economic breakdown many preppers have been warning of for a long time now.
Start reading blogs and articles and YouTube videos on that topic. Maybe there would be enough time to accomplish the basics of prepping, but not much more.
TC
I hope people wake up and realize 0bamacare coverage is not care.
0bama will not stop flights.
The only thing we can do is self quarantine.
I know it sounds harsh, but is you are sick, stay home. Family/friends/church can drop off food at your front door, avoiding contact
2 Chronicles 7:14King James Version (KJV)
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
While I expect the GOP will take over Congress in a few weeks, that doesn't solve the political problem. We know Obama wil not deviate from his failed policies and the at best wishy-washy GOP leadership will likely not step to up to the crisis. It may take desperate measures to finally address the Ebola problem.
The problem is and remains Obama. So far he is unwilling and unable to become the leader we need in this crisis. He seems incapable of making even common sense decisions and appears detached or even deluded. The crisis we face is not only an Ebola pandemic, but also a crisis of leadership.
The same way in which you weathered the great Swine Flu Threat of 2008?
Don't wash the bodies of dead relatives
Don't go near anyone who does that
Don't take any public transportation including cabs
Be careful when you go out shopping, use gloves if you really want to be safe
That's it in a nutshell. If you believe it is spreadable more than the above, then stock up because the only food will be doled out in unsafe locations.
While the economy will take a huge hit, it's the hit they have been postponing for a couple decades. A new economy will take its place rather easily. OTOH the politicians may go for hyperinflation instead. Can't predict except to say we probably won't get that far gone.
It won’t be that bad. Stay calm and call Batman.
Ping!
One thing for sure: every sensible American should have at least a month or two of survival food in their home, minimum. Under many scenarios, people might be forced into quarantine. Do you want to wait for govt. food deliveries? What if the only alternative is a govt bus to a FEMA quarantine center? I’d rather stay home eating survival food than get on that bus. And going to the local supermarket might be very dangerous, assuming it hasn’t been looted to the empty shelves. The predators will circle the supermarkets like lions around a water hole.
If your locale offers early voting, do it as soon as possible. Bring your own pen and pencil.
You do not want to be queued up in a line of sneezing, coughing people in early November.
There is a commonly available antiviral, Lamivudine, which is normally used for treating Hepatitis or HIV which has been reasonably successful at treating this outbreak of Ebola. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamivudine
It would be most effective beginning treatment as early as possible - at the first sign of symptoms or even the first possibility of exposure, rather than waiting for a positive blood test for Ebola.
Not sure how easy it is to get it without a prescription. It seems like it is available from Mexican online pharms for about $6.50 per gram.
You need to read more science fiction. This has been covered extensively and precisely in many stories and novels. Science fiction is simply tomorrow’s news reports.