Posted on 02/24/2020 11:26:48 AM PST by MeganC
The Coronavirus is here and the first thing to do is to take reasonable precautions to prevent infection starting with the simple step of declining to shake hands with everyone. Just say NO!!
But at home you do need to be reasonably ready for the possibility that you may be quarantined yourself or that your city/town might be isolated for as much as eight weeks.
FEMA has a great list to start with and you can find it here:
https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1390846764394-dc08e309debe561d866b05ac84daf1ee/checklist_2014.pdf
The LDS also have a useful list of things to store up on and it's a good list to check as you go about your preparedness.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2006/03/random-sampler/food-storage-for-one-year?lang=eng
My own advice and how my family has already prepared is simple: Buy what you need for up to eight weeks of isolation but only buy those non-perishable foods, toiletries, and etc, that you were going to use anyway.
Don't go buying a 50 pound bag of rice if you don't eat rice. Ditto with beans or other such dry goods.
Only buy what you were going to use anyway but just get enough to last you up to eight weeks.
Then after this thing blows over you can just use up the extra supplies until they get down to your normal level of such things.
Oh, and I assume you're ALWAYS buying ammunition so I'm just taking that one for granted!
Megan
Thanks so much.
JHU did come back up, and things are running smoothly again.
I've had good results freezing cheese too.
Coffee beans have their own shelf, in our freezer.
Mom froze EVERYTHING, growing up. Not sure why. We had plenty of grocery stores, well stocked, close by.
Did you live in a bug prone area?
If you have not yet received the pneumonia vaccine, discuss it with your doctor. If you have received it, check with your doctor to make sure it is current.
I freeze because we’re not close to a great grocery store, don’t get there frequently, and buy with coupons, rebates and store specials. So if something ‘works’, like my 99c/5lb bag king arthur flour ‘deal’, I get a lot of it at once. I scored 25lbs of king arthur flour for 4.95. Total.
I don’t have a whole spare room dedicated to laundry sheets, detergent and paper towels though like the ‘couponing’ people did 10 years ago.
I’m reminded to get a bag of two of coffee beans, they last longer. And make sure I don’t need another coffee grinder as it’s been a while since I used mine.
Except for the eventual fruit on your pear trees, of course.
Good.
You will invariably forget something though.
We’ve learned this prepping for ‘canes.
Do get some seeds to put in your freezer. Just in case.
Well, yes. Hopefully I get pears.
We love pears.
Pear butter, caramel pear jam, dehydrated pears, pears with peanut butter, pears with ...
Mmmmm, pears.
CDC today instructs workers to do more than put on a mask.
Ya. I get the 2lb blocks of cojack cheese when they’re on special. Stack them on a shelf and use them over the course of 6m or so.
They make good Mac’n’cheese.
I cook the buggy rice I get from time to time and feed it to my chickens. They think I’m treating them :)
That’s nice of them.
Are they encouraged to test the sick people yet? Or no, because we don’t want to know the answer...
Look around online for a list of ingredient substitutes. It comes in handy if you don’t have something. Such as you want to make that boxed cake mix but don’t have or don’t want to use oil. Then subsitute apple sauce or some other mashed fruit. Don’t have milk for that cake, water does just fine.
Or you don’t have flour for gravy, then use some meat grease/drippings and a bit of cream cheese.
Nido powdered milk will make a type of butter - sometimes.
Put dried fruits on your list of things to buy if you would normally eat them. They can be eaten straight from the container or into a salad or used in a meat sauce or stuffing. Many can be interchanged in cooking. They give a bit of sweet if you’ve been missing that and can perk up a boring meal.
Don’t buy something you or the family simply won’t eat.
Somewhat.
The SE TX swamp.
They need them for hospitals?...and Homeland Security?....and military?...and police
Our pets. That’s my biggest worry. I did another pet food run this morning.
I’d dump all the food out, take the back door off, put a bucket under an outside faucet turned to drip and hope one day the neighbors take pity. It’s doubtful anyone would want to take in pets belonging to someone who died of the virus any time soon.
Hmmmm.....not a vodka drinker....I’ll have to check out their red wine :)
I used to get the best deals on that at Sam’s club where you could get gallon cans for a couple bucks.
Alas, they closed the Sam’s in our area. There are none nearby.
Do you live somewhere where you can have a garden?
I have grown an herb garden for many years. Here in NY, there are a fair number of spices that are perennials.
Sage, thyme, lemon thyme; and oregano will all grow and SPREAD.
Rosemary and marjoram are more hardy than basil but not winter hardly like the others. They can all can be had at somewhere like Lowe’s or Home Depot for pretty cheap, and can be brought indoors for the winter.
cytokine storm...that’s why Spanish flu was so bad and killed all the young, but the old and infirmed lived!
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