If you mean hide out from a Mad max type outbreak where it is each man for himself and you lock yourself in the house and man the guns for 60 days, until it finishes it's pass, then my preps would apply, but if you mean a quarantine like in my child hood, then you would not be condemned to starvation.
Smallpox outbreak, 1950-51
""As children, this venture to our grandparents was something we always looked forward too, lots of nice treats and always a comic and sweets when we left. This particular Sunday we arrived, only to find the door locked and there was a big black cross, painted on the door.
The house in quarantine
My Aunt Alice called out to us from the letterbox. The house was in quarantine due to an outbreak of smallpox. We had to stay away for at least a month, or when we were told it was safe to return. This was the first we new about it, and were told that Brighton was affectedly isolated from the rest of the country. I think that only foodstuff and restricted merchandise was allowed into Brighton, nothing was allowed out until the outbreak had been contained.""
Whole different world now then back then. Do you really what to depend on FEMA to bring you food? Yeah why not they have proven to be stellar in handling emergencies.
Also depends on where you live, some places will pull together some won’t and there will be panic. Some that pull together will depending on how bad will eventually crack under the pressure if the epidemic is serve enough.
I could be wrong they could run a Rupual, Kardashian, American Idol marathon and then no one would leave the house! ;-)