Body Functions:
I have a portable potty, has metal frame with seat and seat cover, and plastic bucket underneath seat – put plastic bag in bucket, putting down the seat holds bag securely in bucket. That potty is for bowel movement only. Adding water causes more smell. After a bowel movement, add a bit of Arm and Hammer cat litter. That absorbs moisture, cuts down on smell and makes a more solid mass. After removing plastic bag, bury in ground below any outlet for water you are using if using ground water and not piped in town water.
Use another potty for urine such as a house potty that isn’t working. Put a plate in bottom of potty. That sounds strange, but a plastic bag tries to slide down into the potty and a plate will prevent that. Use only for urine. After using, put a bit, just a bit is all it takes, of Pine Sol into the bag. That prevents odor from developing. When bag is full, whatever you want full to be, take bag out and bury as the potty bag is buried. If you have two regular potties, you can use one for bowel movement and other for urine. Be sure to plug that potty so the bag cannot go down the toilet. The portable potty I have can be placed anywhere it needs to go and, of course, the stationary potties are there to stay.
I have stacks of hand sanitizer packets to use after going to potty. Make sure everyone uses them. Also have big bottles of hand sanitizer for that purpose and anytime someone comes in from the outside.
Buy a stack of N95 facemasks. If someone has a bad cold or especially flu, have the ill person wear a mask before you approach him/her. That is to keep spittle from a cough landing on you. Wear a mask yourself as double protection to keep spittle from invading your nose or mouth. If you wear glasses, your eyes have some protection from spittle. One can guy cheap clear plastic goggles for this and other reasons at Walmart for less than $3-4. I saw them on line a few months ago.
Buy medical gloves and wear them when approaching the sick person. To take off gloves, pull them down and off so the inside is now on the outside, and do this stripping them off into a plastic bag.
Sewer lines:
If you are on a city sewer line, you sewage may back up after several days when power to water/sewage goes off. If your house is higher than other houses around it, their sewage backs up before yours does. If you are the lower side, you get backup before others do. Know where to cut off the sewer line to your house.
Re-hydrating:
I have Gatorade powder and Pedialyte powder for re-hydrating.
My little shotgun shack here doesn't have a washer/dryer (or room for them). I either hire my laundry out, or go to a laundromat, or hand wash.
When I was a mountain man, I handwashed.
Handwashing clothes takes some special tools, and lots of hot water and patience.
I have a converted stainless steel keg that I used to boil clothes.
Soap for clothes washing is important to have. It can be made from scratch, but you need that skillset now, or have plenty of commercial soap on hand.
/johnny
Having spent a number of years without regular indoor flush toilets (on a few occaions, total several years), I would highly recommend reading “Humanure”, it is online. It is the best book I’ve read about how to deal with excrement in a clean, safe and easy way without regular plumbing.
Burying human (or any kind of) excrement in plastic bags will so slow down composting that the crap will remain nasty for a long, long time. Building or making a simple composting toilet and using compostable material such as sawdust (from raw lumber or wood, not kiln dried lumber), leaves, leaf mould, dirt, or chipper shredded leaves/sticks etc), and done properly, composts crap quickly and easily. I have done it and I highly recommend it.
Pit outhouses are doable but much more nasty and can pollute ground water if the water table is high. Even a trench latrine is better than a pit outhouse or plastic bags. It composts very quickly if the trench is not very deep, and a movable little “outhouse” can be used. But composting toilets can even be used indoors. When done right, there is practically no smell at all.
When Hubby and I went camping (with the 5 kids) some of the state forests didn’t have toilets....we had a simular toilet to what you describe, no bucket, just blue bags the seat came down over and then bury the bags....after a hard rain, those blue bags would start to show up....I laughed at it then and now....