Posted on 02/29/2020 4:09:08 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
As the new human coronavirus spreads around the world, individuals and families should prepare — but are we? The Centers for Disease Control has already said that it expects community transmission in the United States, and asked families to be ready for the possibility of a "significant disruption to our lives."
Be ready? But how? It seems to me that some people may be holding back from preparing because of their understandable dislike of associating such preparation with doomsday or "prepper" subcultures. Another possibility is that people may have learned that for many people the disease is mild, which is certainly true, so they don't think it's a big risk to them. Also, many doomsday scenarios advise extensive preparation for increasingly outlandish scenarios, and this may seem daunting and pointless (and it is). Others may not feel like contributing to a panic or appearing to be selfish.
Forget all that. Preparing for the almost inevitable global spread of this virus, now dubbed COVID-19, is one of the most pro-social, altruistic things you can do in response to potential disruptions of this kind.
We should prepare, not because we may feel personally at risk, but so that we can help lessen the risk for everyone. We should prepare not because we are facing a doomsday scenario out of our control, but because we can alter every aspect of this risk we face as a society.
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The first Oregon case was announced yesterday. Today, the nearest Costco sold out of toilet paper, etc. First time they have ever sold out of toilet paper.
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Great to hear the voice of common sense. Anyone with the smallest bit of life experience knows that you plan for the worst and hope for the best.
Nonperishable groceries, fuel, bottled water, rifle, ammo, your prescription drugs and maybe a small generator are great insurance in case of disaster.
Love these know-it-alls who believe everything the government tells us.
Yes you are right but not are only masks in short supply, so is common sense in the new America
That is racist........
I suppose you could eat all the “survival cache” foods at the end, or at the beginning. My thoughts were to just eat the normal stuff, just either intersperse it, or have it over a pasta or rice base.
Salmon over rice, instead of just salmon. Likewise with chicken. Chili Mac instead of chili ( ok, for some that is sacrilege). Soup as a rice dish instead of as soup. Casseroles.
Potatoes are a good add, though their lifespan is more limited. There are a lot of things you can do with them.
It takes so, so little, if you are ok with starch. While it’s still cheap and simple to do better, even $30 can do a lot.
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I have at least a month’s supply of Kleenex, plenty of Gatorade, and I have recently binge watched the first four seasons of “Walking Dead”. I’m ready.
I work from home for a large IT company. We us Skype for business to IM one on one with co-workers or as a group and to hold meetings. We do not use the video feature. For Skype meetings you log in to a link and if desired a presenter can share their PC screen, for spreadsheets and any other type of documentation. It is really very simple to use.
Wasn't it the German government who told the Jews they were moving to new digs in the country....as they were being loaded on to box cars?
For the last 15 years I have always kept a 12-15 month supply of my heart meds in the closest. The last for at least 3 years and I properly rotate them.
A few years ago my family doctor gave me a script for antibiotic ointment for treating MERSA. He said keep it unopened in the refrigerator for 20 years. Ditto for several months supply of cipro of which he said the same. For all the bad press, cipro is a very effective broad spectrum AB and first choice for anthrax. I'll take my chances with it in a SHTF situation if the alternative is dying of an infection.
Here's a suggestion for everyone, keep 4 or 5 of the large size bottles of 90% isopropyl alcohol on the shelf. It's cheap & lasts forever. And you can burn it in a chafing dish in a pinch!
Civic duty.
A quaint and novel concept in today’s American society.
I would prepare by deporting all illegal aliens and close the borders for six months, but that's out of my hands.
I don't do pro-social, altruistic things. Go pound sand Commie!
Zeynep Tufekci is a Turkish writer, academic, and techno-sociologist known primarily for her research on the social implications of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data in the context of politics and corporate responsibility.Of course that's not directed at you BF.
Yes, like Italy, home of the pasta-loving Asians. 🙄
FYI: The region in Italy where the breakout occurred has a very large population of Chinese immigrants and guest workers that work in the garment industry.
I was interested in video because I currently have a bad cold and I need to meet with clients who are sometimes frail, I used a mask today but it might have been more professional to have videoed into my conference room from my office, in any case by Tuesday I should be over major contagious period. Just wondering about future. This is first time in over 40 years I have been sick during tax season.
This virus is a political virus just as the hurricanes are used as political hurricanes to get the president.
I’m prepared. We got hand soap, wipes, and a generator. We’ll be OK.
Far too few left who grok what civic duty is...and even less who would respond positively.
The CDC and all the other government agencies use the term community transmission because that is the defined medical term for what is taking place in parts of Washington state, Oregon and California it is not a grand conspiracy it is the expected and required terminology for the events that are taking place.
The significance of community transmission is that it confirms the presence of individuals in a community spreading infection that are not known cases. This by definition means containment has been lost and unrestricted movement of infectious persons is occurring. Like it or not this bug is out in the general population now and that marks a change in the strategy to contain it to a limited geospatial area, and most importantly to break the chains of infection to bring the R0 to under 1. Only when the R0 is under one can the virus burn itself out any number higher than one and the cases will increase currently the R0 is unknown in the USA the CDC has only done less than 500 tests, but world wide it has been from 2 to 6 A for reference influenza A typically has an R0 of 1.2_1.6
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