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
I’ve stopped kissing Chinese chicks at the airport.
Stay home for a couple of weeks if you have it. We’ll collect your body and give you a good cremation.
Until now.
Good idea to carry it with you or keep in the car.
Hand sanitizer is mostly for when you are out and about away from soap and water. I keep a big jug in the bathroom anyway. Most people don’t wash good enough for long enough if using soap. I also hang one on my purse and keep one in my truck.
I’ve got a stash of gloves and masks in my car. Just in case
Keep buying ammo also - we’ll take it when the birds are done picking your body.
Lot of good ammo preppin’ will do you when a microbe kills you and your entire neighborhood.
There is a product called Nozin that used to be sold in stores. I think you have to buy it online now. I didnt use it when I went out over the weekend..and sure enough I caught something nasty that hit me the next day.
I frequently use it even if it may not work.
Used my Protocol last night..or at least part of it...and knocked it out overnight.
So will I still be able to make my Chinese Chicken Salad?
Also an extra filter (oil, etc) for your car and maybe an extra belt.
Ordinary hand sanitizer doesn’t kill this coronavirus.
Needs to be the 90% alcohol one. Check labels/etc.
Pretty good overall advice.
Living in a hurricane-prone area, we tend to generally do most of those recommendations on a regular basis anyway...including batteries, fresh fuel for generators, etc.
Ammo? Heh, well, let’s just say this is the very LAST place on the face of planet earth that the low-life would want to try and loot. Gators and turtles gotta eat too.
War of the Worlds was a training film. Seems to me Tom Cruise would have been better off if he just hunkered down with the kids until the whole Martian invasion thing blew over.
Johns Hopkins University has seemingly chosen to block public access to
their Coronavirus statistic web site.
Trying to obtain the latest update this morning, I was prompted to
sign in.
I guess the public doesn’t need to know.
I gave up Wuhan bat soup. It was hard but it was the right thing to do.
While it was just china, the public could be reassured it was just china.
now that it’s lots of other places...we don’t want anyone to know...
heaven forbid people prepare for this and begin basic avoidance stuff...airlines and stores might lose money...or something.
Damn....me too!!
Thank You for posting Megan! We are on the same wavelength again, I was just thinking today on what first steps I should take to safeguard against this. :)
> Most people don’t wash good enough for long enough if using soap. <
A good rule: Wash your hands long enough to sing the “Happy Birthday” song TWICE.
P.S. If your wife asks whose birthday it is, don’t jokingly say it’s your mistress’s birthday. Wives do not think that’s funny. I know that from personal experience.
Prepare?
Put a blindfold over your eyes and quit reading scare tactic media. Put ear plugs in your ears and don’t listen to scare tactic audio.
In a few months we can fret over some storm of the century, or new ice shelf that broke off...or...and...or...
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