I’m no epidemiologist, so I just went to Costco and bought what I thought might be helpful:
Bleach
Hydrogen Peroxide
Isopropyl alcohol
400 pairs of rubber gloves
I’ve got 4+ months of food in the house. My weak spot is I need electricity to flow to the water plant so I can get tap water. Otherwise, I could be an island for maybe half a year while this thing burns....
Then I’m toast too.
Doomsday warning: UN Ebola chief raises 'nightmare' prospect that virus could mutate and become airborne - making it much more infectious
United Nations warns Ebola virus currently plaguing West Africa could become airborne
The longer it moves between human hosts the greater possibility of mutation.
The risk grows the longer virus is living within the human 'melting pot' NGOs have said the Ebola virus is currently infecting five people every hour
More than 3,300 people have died from Ebola since the outbreak first began
Officials call for 1,000 new Sierra Leone isolation centres to contain virus British survivor says 'horror' of children dying from disease must be avoided
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2778022/UN-Ebola-chief-raises-nightmare-prospect-virus-mutate-airborne.html#ixzz3F0lfsMRP Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
From Pigs to Monkeys, Ebola Goes Airborne
Nov 21, 2012 | Jane Huston | Research & Policy –
http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/pigs-monkeys-ebola-goes-airborne-112112#sthash.srRHtwa1.dpuf
The Ebola has a 21 days incubation period before the infested person show symptoms. The CDC maintains that a person infested with Ebola cannot transmit it until they show symptoms of the disease. How can they assure that the person cannot infest another person after 10, 15, or 19 days of being infested by the virus while still not showing symptoms of the virus? The CDC falsely assure the American people that it cannot be transmitted by air although studies in Canada seems to prove otherwise.
When news broke that the Ebola virus had resurfaced in Uganda, investigators in Canada were making headlines of their own with research indicating the deadly virus may spread between species, through the air. The team, comprised of researchers from the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, the University of Manitoba, and the Public Health Agency of Canada, observed transmission of Ebola from pigs to monkeys.
They first inoculated a number of piglets with the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus. Ebola-Zaire is the deadliest strain, with mortality rates up to 90 percent. The piglets were then placed in a room with four cynomolgus macaques, a species of monkey commonly used in laboratories. The animals were separated by wire cages to prevent direct contact between the species. Within a few days, the inoculated piglets showed clinical signs of infection indicative of Ebola infection.
In pigs, Ebola generally causes respiratory illness and increased temperature. Nine days after infection, all piglets appeared to have recovered from the disease. Within eight days of exposure, two of the four monkeys showed signs of Ebola infection. Four days later, the remaining two monkeys were sick too. It is possible that the first two monkeys infected the other two, but transmission between non-human primates has never before been observed in a lab setting.
While the study provided evidence that transmission of Ebola between species is possible, researchers still cannot say for certain how that transmission actually occurred. There are three likely candidates for the route of transmission: airborne, droplet, or fomites.
Airborne and droplet transmission both technically travel through the air to infect others; the difference lies in the size of the infective particles. Smaller droplets persist in the air longer and are able to travel farther- these droplets are truly “airborne.” Larger droplets can neither travel as far nor persist for very long.
What do these findings mean? First and foremost, Ebola is not suddenly an airborne disease.
Doctor Boards Atlanta Flight In HazMat Suit To Protest "Lying CDC"
Zero Hedge ^ | 10/2/14 | Tyler Durden
"If they're not lying, they are grossly incompetent," said Dr. Gil Mobley, a microbiologist and emergency trauma physician from Springfield, Mo. as he checked in and cleared Atlanta airport security wearing a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a hooded white jumpsuit emblazoned on the back with the words, "CDC is lying!" As The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, Mobley says the CDC is "sugar-coating" the risk of the virus spreading in the United States.
Soory, Uncle. If you buy food, gum, or toilet paper, chances are it IS or WILL be contaminated.
Just saw an epidemioligist on FOX who said Ebola may have a life of 6 days on surfaces .... that result is a little fuzzy (may have been other contamination), but for sure it’s a couple of days. BTW, unlike the head of the CDC, I believe this woman. If you’re buying decontaminant, buy more bleach:
WHO guidelines:
“For environmental decontamination . . . the WHO recommends using chlorine solutions for cleaning up spills of blood or body fluids by flooding the area with a 1:10 dilution of 5.25% household bleach for 10 minutes for surfaces that can tolerate stronger bleach solutions (such as cement, metal).
“For surfaces that may corrode or discolour, the WHO recommends careful cleaning to remove visible stains followed by contact with a 1:100 dilution of 5.25% household bleach for more than 10 minutes.”
Throw away plastic gloves would help if you had to push an elevator buttons or accept paper money...
Good reminder to stock up on disinfectants. My supply is low right now.
Buy bottled water for drinking NOW. It’s pretty cheap at most discount stores. You can fill up empty soda bottles with water, and treat with a little bleach.
Beyond that, if your state allows it, and you own your home, you can collect rainwater from your roof to use for many things. With a filter, and some water purification tablets or bleach, it can even be safe to drink.
Consider getting masks/face shields and boots and coveralls. Not one teen tiny bit of skin can be exposed if you get close to a person who has Ebola, cause it doesn’t take much of it spread. Who knows who might come knocking at the door.LOL
Now if you can stay 6 ft away from everyone, you might not need all that, but why take a chance?
One more thing, I forgot to mention. When the electricity goes off, remember that your hot water tank, if you have one can be drained as needed, which is about 50 gallons of water, in case you are short on preps at the time.