[CottonBall]

This is your ping to the All Things Prepping, Simple Living, Back to the Basics Thread - Coronavirus special thread

If you want off/on this list, just let me know - here, freepmail, smoke signals, carrier pigeons...whatever works for you.

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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.

The false positive rate was 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...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[caww]

Good to have this specific thread for prepping regarding the Coronavirus. Hopefully some ideas and what to check will be forth coming.

I'll offer this....check you're thermometers to make sure they're working.

Also my Pharmacist said the closest cough medicine to have on hand to a prescription is “Delsym”.

[eartick]

sign me up please.

The one thing I did as this was taking place and gas prices going down, we converted our "L" tank that normally holds diesel to gas. This gives us 110 gallons on hand and 300 gallons of diesel in overhead.

We also moved our 1000 gallon propane tank from the greenhouse (just not using it there much) and tied it into our existing 500 gallon on the house. Can fill portable propane bottles from the 1000 gallon tank for running portable propane generator.

One thing that we have not done yet is install a manual water pump in our existing water well. Next on the list to do.

My wife and I sat back and shook our heads at the panic shopping going on. We are well prepared and have been for going on 12 years now. It felt good to be as prepared as we were. Not bragging. We put a lot of effort to be prepped up for any circumstance.

[little jeremiah]

DH and I drink a lot of milk. He can handle powdered and evaporated, I would only in a nuke war. We usually buy 6 or 7 gallons at a time and put in freezer, as is. Then unfreeze as we need, works well. From now on, I will use the extra fridge and freeze a lot more milk.

No fresh veggies is the worst, we have home canned fruit which is an acceptable alternative to fresh. But I would love oranges, drool...

Since I always buy bulk stuff; mostly from Azure Standard (delivered to drop off points once a month), I always have enough grains, legumes, cereals, flours on hand. Azure has been out of stock of more things lateyl, even before China virus but they have very good customer service and good prices on bulk items.

Link in case anyone wants it, the family who started it are Seventh Day Adventists who grew wheat in NE Oregon, then started selling their flour, and diversified from there. I’ve ordered from them for years.

https://www.azurestandard.com/

[Ellendra]

Thanking God for my little flock of laying hens. My family uses a lot of eggs every week, and thanks to the chickens we’ve been eating normally even through the shortages.

I’ve started taking seed catalogs apart and using them to make origami seed-starting pots. I save a copy of each of the best catalogs, but since they all sent me 3-4 copies each this year, I’m going to run out of greenhouse space before I run out of pages.

I’m planning on starting some extra plants and selling them. Reports are coming back about seeds and starter plants being sold out at the stores. I’ve put together some care packages with vegetable seeds in case my neighbors need them. Just about every neighbor is talking about gardening this year. For some of them it’s their first. I’m curious to see how many keep it up.

I’m planting with the assumption that there will be several waves of shutdowns like this one. If I’m wrong, I’ll have tons of home-grown food to eat. If I’m right, I’ll have tons of home-grown food to eat. I tend to grow things that keep or preserve well, so not a problem if there’s more than I can use right away.

One of my hens went broody yesterday. I’m not quite to the point yet where I can let her hatch out a dozen chicks, but I’m working on that. We’re still eating some of the meat from last year’s excess chickens. I have no problem with the idea of raising more, but that’s something that needs family consensus.

It’s kind of amazing to see the mental reset going on in people’s heads. People who had no interest in cooking are learning to cook. People who mocked preppers or gardeners are coming to them for advice. That eccentric relative who butchers their own meat? That’s your new grocery store.

It’ll be interesting to see the long-term changes that result from this.

[V K Lee]

After several months and a hiatus of ROKU, today dug deep into the apps the service is now offering. Was I surprised.

In addition to a number of FAITH BASED CHANNELS, they have included channels such as OLD SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES, and one which grabbed my attention for this thread.

PRIMITIVE CHANNEL
https://channelstore.roku.com/details/580751/primitive-channel

Also they have included channels to learn another language, learning to knit — a vast number of categories have been added. In one of these categories is an app for live streaming for FOX NEWS CHANNEL, for those who still enjoy watching this network. Unfortunately, OAN is not yet offered.

ROKU APP STORE:
https://channelstore.roku.com/browse