[Pete]

It’s always a good idea to keep the pantry stocked with non-perishables and bottled water, the medicine cabinet stocked with unexpired OTC and prescriptions, and cleansers including alcohol (the rubbing kind, oh ok, both kinds!) and clorox. The need could come from any event including a pandemic, loss of income, natural disaster, power outages, etc. Just be prepared.

Agreed and done. One upside to a Pandemic (if one can say such a thing) is that essential services like water and power are not necessarily affected, like in a natural disaster.

[trisham]

One upside to a Pandemic (if one can say such a thing) is that essential services like water and power are not necessarily affected, like in a natural disaster.

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Not immediately, no, but within a relatively short period of time workers will become ill or afraid to leave their homes lest they contract the disease, or unable to leave home because they are needed to nurse their families. Even without widespread shortages of healthy people to staff various departments, all kinds of problems can result, just in upkeep of services.