Posted on 10/12/2014 7:40:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
* Survivalists warned families would not cope if an epidemic happened now
* Families 'must take it upon themselves to prepare for worst in advance'
* Experts advise avoiding all human contact and stocking up on supplies
* In worst case scenario flee to uncontaminated area with emergency kits
Stocking up on drinking water and avoiding all human contact are among steps that will have to be taken to avoid an Ebola epidemic, survivalists have warned.
To avoid contracting the deadly virus people will have to barricade themselves in their homes if the infection spreads, they say.
Their advice comes as sales of protective clothing and home infection control kits rise with an increasing number of people fearing the worst.
Around 4,000 people have died after contracting Ebola which broke out in western Africa in March.
While the threat of an epidemic in the UK remains low, experts have warned those who have a good chance of surviving an outbreak must prepare now before it is too late.
One survivalist, known only as Steve, said among the ways to stay safe in the worst possible scenario is to avoid all human contact.
'If this virus were to really get hold it would expand exponentially and result in a very big mortality rate....
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Praying that it doesn’t get out of hand, indeed. Glad you do have a bug out location, tho ;)
You really think we are discussing locking our front door and closing off the world for 2 to 10 years?
I don’t think that is the conversation we are having, nor should be wasting time on, is that the plan for yourself, 10 years without leaving the house, because some people have Ebola?
Why are you yelling. Despite your hopes, when people see a post in all caps they scroll right past it.
You have to remember that Mr. Duncan was on hemodialysis which meant dealing with his blood and a lot of it...It is so easy to break protocol it only takes touching one contaminated item with an ungloved hand
Being from Africa they might have an immunity.
Nobody knows exactly why some people get it from being exposed to someone and other people don’t that are exposed to the same person.
I remember reading they know of one group in Africa that has a natural immunity to at least one strain of Ebola.
They might very well be immune, or they were never in the house to begin with. My Mom is immune to chicken pox, never got the vaccine and all of us had the chicken pox but she never got it. She had a blood test and it showed she is immune to it, not sure if someone can be immune to Ebola, I doubt it, which makes me think they were never in the house
Which still leaves the vast majority of the country at extreme risk of infection, should this thing really get out of control.
I'm already wondering how on earth I'm going to make a living if the people of Dallas county go into a full-blown panic.
There are pictures of them coming out of the apartment, they were there.
The idiot county judge was in the apartment as was the deputy sheriff that served papers for forced quarantine.
If his family doesn’t get Ebola then the main question for the CDC should be why didn’t they get it, is there a natural immunity.
Yeah, that's the one aspect of all this that makes little sense. By all logic, those people should have come down with Ebola. They were in the same house with someone who was exhibiting full-blown symptoms.
The story we've heard, is that the grown daughter of Duncan's girlfriend jumped straight into sanitizing everything in the apartment and keeping contact between Duncan and the rest of them at zero, while she got the authorities to respond to the crisis.
It's been said that the daughter saved everyone's life.
I’ll give a clue as to the kind of person most likely to get the virus. Let’s say that someone is driving and sees a driver in front of them signaling to slow down and turn off of a narrow highway. That someone would be more likely to tailgate and honk at the driver turning off and would also be more likely to get the virus.
Another scenario. Some folks are looking for innocent people to blame altogether for the virus. Those folks are more likely to die from it.
That’s grounded in reality: the way natural interactions work. But many wouldn’t be capable of understanding the relationships involved.
You really ought to stop spamming every Ebola thread with that same post. Some of us have now seen it dozens of times.
We get it, okay?
Saranex coated tyvek, rubber over-boots, a full face respirator and proper taping and later decontamination and removal procedures are actually quite affordable, probably under 150 bucks to kit out, then 5-20 bucks unit cost for each suit, boxes of disposable inner gloves (latex or nitrile), and replacement respirator cartridges.
Google some Health and Safety Plans for hazmat/emergency response, they have essentially the needed decon instructions and way to move through the exclusion zones/decon/safe area...
No, that isn’t the discussion at all, I have no idea what you are talking about.
People trying to survive inside their homes for 2 to 10 years to avoid catching Ebola, it is nonsensical, have you already started?
Got it, don't blame others and don't tailgate, don't leave the house for 10 years.
It won’t become a full blown panic but I do hope that it stirs up people and politicians enough that it ends the complacency, and that we start truly preparing for the bioterrorism attacks that will probably come at some time in the future.
Hear, hear.
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