Posted on 10/17/2014 3:50:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s showtime for the Doomsday set. As the lethal virus crosses America’s doorstep, prep kits and gas masks are flying off shelves and fringe survivalists are going mainstream.
Jason Charles knows the exact moment he will lead his wife and five kids out of their Harlem home, pile into a car, and take off for the wilderness. It will be not long after Ebola reaches the population of New York City, hospitals overflow, and looting begins—when the first riots break out on the streets of Manhattan.
“Right now it isn’t bad, but if the first case happens in New York, you start hearing about hundreds or thousands of people getting sick and it shotguns through the city, then you want to start getting your plan together to leave,” says the 37-year-old fireman and dedicated prepper. When that happens, he says, “it’s a free fall, that’s the system breaking down.”
But the moment of evacuation is delicate. Skipping work, pulling the kids out of school—all of these decisions have lasting consequences. “If you leave too early, you look like an idiot; if you leave too late, you could be dead,” Charles says....
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Then there are the truly poor (not the welfare class) who cannot afford to prepare.
You betcha.
This is a developing black swan event. Making predictions is difficult at best. The one thing we know about Ebola is that we don’t know a lot about Ebola. I would err on the side of caution and make few assumptions personally. This isn’t a common cold virus.
Most of the Ferguson protest set (and people just like them, think like them)
are still waiting for gubmin to save them.
Well, good luck, I guess you are “sort of” safe.
Ha.
One minute apart.
As I said, that’s not who I mean. I mean the working & disabled poor, not the gibmedats and fake disabled.
I’m off for a while. They were just starting to establish their war footing the last day I worked so I don’t know where they’re at presently. I’ll go back to work in about a week and assess the situation again. I trust my boss to be all over this though.
I get spam everyday for “Ebola Survival Supplies”. Luckily, I’m still stocked up with Y2K stuff.
My brother is a PA in Ohio and feels the same way. They get a case in his hospital and he's done. He lives pretty frugal, so he's already figured that he'll quit, begin homeschooling the kids, and stay out of the medical field. They'll just scale back and live what his wife earns as she doesn't come into a lot of contact with people in her work.
I’m not going to desert immediately. But I expect to be given the necessary equipment, adequate staff, a solid plan, and competent leadership. If it walks in through the front doors, and any of that is missing, I’ll have to reassess.
Winter is coming. I was ALREADY prepared for a bad winter and extended snow-ins. Only thing I have yet to get is Snow Melt, and THAT is on the way in as we speak (Uline. Bulk Snow melt. Large quantities and MUCH cheaper than by-the-bag at the grocery store or Wally World).
If you leave too early, you look like an idiot; if you leave too late, you could be dead,”
I left 18 years ago.
I’m sure traffic outbound on the George Washington Bridge will be nice and smooth when this starts to come down. Better listen to the traffic reports on the AM news stations just to be certain.
World War Z?
Maybe a little over reaction :)
I posted this comment on the Beast thread. There are only a few comments, if you like it, it will cause thousands of libtards to spew their lattes.
“It’s pretty funny to read the comments of liberals who place all of their trust in the government to take care of them, come what may. I wonder if the buffoonery at the CDC is causing any doubts at all in their worship of Dear Leader Obama, and his underlings such as the CDC’s “no Big Gulp for you” Frieden.
“The rest of America can see the naked emperor and his naked CDC honcho as the politically correct drones that they are: they would literally rather allow more Thomas Eric Duncans into America, than to offend West Africans with a temporary suspension of visas. Note: Duncan would still get in today, if he was at the same stage of his infection, and he lied again.
“In that context, it’s rather funny to watch PC-unto-death liberals mock those who have, for example, purchased a month or more of survival food. If your neighborhood is quarantined, what will you do? Wait for Big Guv to roll in with free food? Or just get on the bus to the FEMA fever camp?
“To mock people who have made preparations for a pandemic is the height of stupidity. IOW, typical liberal behavior.”
No, it is deadly, but less contagious. I see the virus as a health system problem. In Africa they bring victims to hospitals in taxis, then turn around and take them back home. In America we will take them in protected transportation to a holding facility. The problem is that the holding facilities will be full of flu patients (99% or 99.9% depending on the spread of Ebola)
Once the holding facilities are full the suspect cases will be sent back home with an instruction sheet which they may or may not follow. If the test comes back positive they will go to the "treatment center" and their life will be a 50/50 proposition. There will be false positive tests and they will go to the treatment center as well. There will be false negatives and they will go infect the community until they are taken back to the holding center.
There's no doubt the health system will break down, I don't need to tell you that since you are inside it. The question is whether we will see the somewhat optimized system I described or descend into African style chaos at least in some locations. Personally I think the culture will be a big factor. We will not have the case as they did in Africa where the ebola tracking team had their throats slit. Civilization may rest on a fine line sometimes but Ebola does not have the contagiousness to push us over. Younger Jallah and others are ample evidence of that.
LOL
I asked on a thread the other day for a show of hands from people still sitting on their Y2K rations...
That healthcare workers leave their jobs- they have more mobility and resources than do African nurses
That First Responders fail to respond to cases with ebola symptoms (which could be flu or other illnesses) with excuse they are not equipped to deal with ebola
That entire hospitals and even clinics be shut down and people with illnesses like flu or even heart attack symptoms be turned away to die of treatable causes
That the deadly D68 enterovirus imported from central America continue to grow and afflict our children who will not find room in hospital ICUs
LOL- when the food runs short because supermarkets are closed for decontamination the libs figure they’ll just eat out or order in
Maybe visit their favorite soup restaurant
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