[GraceG]

What say you oh great freeples?

[Brother Cracker]

Just stay out of hospitals and Wal-Mart and you should be okay.

[metmom]

ping

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

Hat tip to metmom for the heads-up!

[Abigail Adams]

I say #3.

[grania]

Eyes wide open. When I observe people showing flu symptoms, I’ll avoid public places. Also, read the obits. When numbers start increasing, it could mean something’s out there.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

BTTT!

[arthurus]

1 case in Atlanta, Birmingham, or Miami, or closer.

[Paladin2]

Include Ebola in adjacent states in the analysis.

Also include your proximity to large airports (and 'rat controlled cities).

[Marcella]

Well, Grace, I live about 20 miles from the Dallas patient, so Ebola is fairly close to my house.

We know 5 children in five different schools were with the patient so the children have been isolated (three elementary schools, one middle school, one high school). They attended two or three days of school before they were identified and removed from those schools.

If a case happens in Denton County, my county now, and it’s not close, we will limit trips for food, etc. and start mandatory cleaning after coming out of stores and before entering the house and cleaning ourselves again after entering. If more than one case is in the county, we go into self imposed “lockdown”. We can do that without any problem for a number of months if necessary.

[bgill]

It if spreads, people should cancel travel plans during the upcoming holidays or it’ll be unstoppable. Of course, obola will never suggest that because that would kill the airlines.

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

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.

So far the false positive rate is 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...

[null and void]

ping

[ctdonath2]

A friend, not a pepper type, just stated that if Ebola so much as enters the state she’s keeping all five kids home from school.

[SisterK]

I would bug in with #1 or #2. If there is one case in my county, then I have probably waited too long.

[Prophet2520]

I would do none of the choices you list, if by self- quarantine you mean keep you and your family completely isolated in your own home. Keep in mind patient zero in Africa was in December. By this December the pandemic will still be raging worse than ever. My point is, if you want to take those kind of extreme safety measures, I hope you have done some serious prepping. Because if it were to actually turn into a pandemic in America, which I don’t think will happen, you could be isolated for years.

Start now by building your immune system. Under good health care the survival rates is quite good for healthy people, compared to the dire figures normally given. Build your supplies of natural treatments.

As you think risks in your area begin to increase, then begin to increase protective measures. Limit public exposure. If you want wear gloves in public, or bring disinfecting wipes or both. Wash hands frequently. Don’t touch public surfaces. If you buy any fresh food from public places disinfect it very well, and or cook the daylights out of it.

There are plenty of stages of protection without making a mad dash toward complete quarantine. Franlkly five homes in my neighborhood could get it, and my only increased risk of exposure would be the handle of the gas pump, and the grocery store, unless it was someone I knew personally.