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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Over the last 10 years, the sickest I’ve ever become with respiratory junk (2X pneumonia) is from church. If they don’t announce today that they’re dispensing with the handshaking we’ll be watching Charles Stanley at home on TV for the duration.
It worked good for Bush that is.
People in Wuhan go out every two days for food because that all the supply they have
People in FL prepare for a hurricane a day or two before it hits. Easy button food, water, plywood and beer supplies get wiped out.
IOW, your SIL’s family will starve the first week she loses her job. The kids don’t have milk for their breakfast if she gets sick on Sunday and can’t get out of bed, or there’s a flood, snow storm or other natural disaster or the car won’t start. There’s a reason pantries and freezers were invented.
Unfortunately, there are many out there with the same mind set.
How sad to know you have to shop so often. All that time wasted on the road (an hour here), and all that time pushing a cart going up and down the same aisles week in and week out. Granted, I’ve been going weekly during this virus thing but normally it is once a month or six weeks. Saves so much time and effort.
Chicken quarters at Walmart - .49/lb.
Hand soap won’t help much. Hand sanitizer with alcohol might.
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