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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no.
Ebola does not have the contagiousness to push us over.
debatable but irrelevant. our fundamental mistake will be in having allowed it to establish itself in the first place, not only on this continent but within this country. We need to learn from HIV. This demon must not pass.
Close down the bridges and tunnels, you might as well give the keys to the city to Snake Pliskin...
Forget eating out or take out order, these set think it a hardship when they can’t get their Starbuck lattes.
Possible. Of course, regardless of whether this guy is real or just a journalist’s creation, he doesn’t know sh*t about getting out of NYC. If he waits to leave until he says he will, it’ll be too late to do so by either foot or vehicle.
Best bet would be to have a small storage locker somewhere outside the city, up the Hudson River a ways, with gear stashed in it. Then be prepared to exit the city via watercraft, either kayaks or canoes (possibly having a small outboard for the later). Water is going to be the only feasible way out at that point.
The funny thing, to me, are all the Libs who believe in depopulation via diseases like Ebola. There was a thread on a bunch of scientists who supported that the other day. They assume that THEY, being the smart ones in society, will be protected and will survive. What they don’t realize is that after a mass pandemic of Ebola has run it’s course, they’ll emerge from their safe rooms and hiding places to find that Preppers, survivalists and apocolyptic cults have survived as well. And are seriously pissed. At them.
I’ve heard that from several health care workers.
Prepper worthy ??
bttt
Do what you want but I have my “stuff”.
Just to be on the safe side we slid into CVS pharmacy the other day and got a box of surgical gloves and a box of viral masks. If the S does hit the fan those will be gone in a few hours. We have some N95 masks but we figured what the heck.
Preppers’ PING!!
Hat tip to Arrowhead1952 for the heads up!
Hey, Kart - do you have any info on using TRIChlor as a water purifier.
I had it once, but can’t seem to find it.
As opposed to DIChlor, you use much less, that I know.
If I remember correctly, it was something like 1/4 teaspoon in a gallon of water to make a bleach strength solution, then 8 drops of that per gallon to purify.
I also remember that if you put too much Tricholor in too little water, you can get a dangerous explosive effect.
Your plan, to escape NYC, sounds similar to the guy who suggested biking (on bicycle) to Jersey. I guess you’d need to have a vehicle stashed in your storage unit.
Swimming the East River is dodgy and a great way to drown.
Not to mention that it’s a superfund site :(
His slow moving Ebola is sneaky. It could be at his doorstep up to 42 days before he knows it.
And what are you gonna do about 10,000,000 people swarming the exits? Blow the bridges & drown the tunnels? Sink any boats?
And what about people going the other way: those millions going to _get_ someone off the locked-down island?
“Consent of the governed” applies. Locking down NYC for more than a few hours will evaporate that consent.
I still have some non-perishables i.e. guns, bandages etc. but have restocked on foods over the years.
I’ve worked with the truly poor in rural communities and it’s amazing how resourceful they can be when the need arises. However, the ones in the city may be of a different animal.
As for the EBT crowd, eliminate the bling, tatoos, weaves and fake nails and they could easily do a decent job of providing preps for their families. Heck, they’re raking in more than this family.
Those are definitely problems.
But it’s far easier to control a few exits than somewhere like Houston or Dallas, for example.
And NJ might have a vested interest keeping an outbreak out of their state.
If you’re trying to ‘get out’ it’s easier to walk out of Houston or Dallas than it is fight 10M other people through a few narrow passageways off your island. Definitely. Being trampled at the exits isn’t my idea of prepping.
If you need to cross a river, how about using an inflatable boat?
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