[willyone]

It would be a very good idea to have enough food and water stored to last two or three weeks. Should an epidemic break out the best defense is to avoid exposure. Stay home and do not have contact with others.

[TBall]

And while you are home, might not be such a bad idea to spend some time cleaning the gun?

[SevenDaysInMay]

I think that Soylent Green factories take longer than 2-3 weeks to construct, but IMO, Pan-Islamists would relish the thought of Americans eating their dead.

We may well see, some of us anyway. We are foolish if we think that our nation's food and fiber production is not in their biowar sights.

[Gritty]

It would be a very good idea to have enough food and water stored to last two or three weeks.

I would think 6 months to a year would be more realistic. Epidemics usually progress in waves. It would be a long time from the first infection until the last, much longer than 2-3 weeks, which might be a time frame if everyone were infected at once, which they won't be.

But, if the situation is that bad where tens of millions get the disease, we are in an apocylyptic scenario anyhow. The economy would collapse, transportation would collapse, food distribution would collapse for an extended period, and things that normally get done will just sit idle, perhaps for years. Hopefully, this scenario is nothing more than conjecture and we get through this dangerous period we are in quickly without an outbreak.