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Sales of gas masks, bio-hazard suits & foil blankets soar as 'survivalists' prepare for Ebola...
The London Daily Mail ^ | October 11, 2014 | Jennifer Smith

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....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: ebola; ebolapreppers; epidemic; preppers
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To: hinckley buzzard
Might as well put a bomb shelter in your back yard while you're at it. Sheesh.

I'd love to have one, but then, the nearest ICBM silos are fewer than 50 air miles from me.

81 posted on 10/13/2014 2:27:25 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: ansel12
Looks like a new link is needed in re. bureaucrats and their government-linked business associates.


82 posted on 10/13/2014 2:33:50 AM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wonder if anyone has checked to see if barack or Pelosi et al have stock in survival supply companies?


83 posted on 10/13/2014 4:55:36 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Texas isn't just a state. It's a state of mind!)
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To: null and void

Please add me to this list.


84 posted on 10/13/2014 5:56:07 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: ansel12

Is the ebola scare acting as an October surprise against the incumbent Democrats?


85 posted on 10/13/2014 5:59:23 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: familyop

You aren’t making any sense.


86 posted on 10/13/2014 6:52:40 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: tbw2

This has to be really damaging the democrats and the image of immigration and one world open borders and multiculturalism, ghetto politics, Obama’s image in regards to competence and his hands off indifference, and his democrat corruption of government agencies, this has to be one of the worst beatings that a party’s image has taken like this just before an off season election, that we have seen in some time, and it is the kind of thing that the general public picks up on.


87 posted on 10/13/2014 6:58:24 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


88 posted on 10/13/2014 9:24:24 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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89 posted on 10/13/2014 9:25:56 AM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Irresponsible politicians and thier governments deliberatley allowed this to happen and should be jailed!


90 posted on 10/13/2014 3:18:04 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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