COVID-19 Prepper & Observations Thread

[HotKarl]

Buying a surplus of facemasks is not helping access for doctors and medical workers who actually need them. All other prepping with seem reasonable I am debating getting some food to keep my closet for the month.

[Hott Butt Mud]

I'm amazed at how many of you voted Level 1. I'm wondering if you'll be changing your thinking about that in 4 weeks.

This shit is real and especially anyone in a major US city needs to prepare now. You should have enough supplies to be quarantined for 3 weeks.

Repeat, enough supplies for 3 weeks stay-at-home. This is real.

[summit]

You should ALWAYS have enough supplies for 2-4 weeks depending where you live and your circumstances.

Nukes, asteroids, civil disorder, hurricanes, earthquakes, viruses, tornadoes, floods, solar flares, zombies, vampires, blizzards, power outages, avalanches, the second coming of Gozer the Gozarian.

Food, medicine, water purification capability, pet food, a deck of cards, self defense, and lube for the lady. It's just responsible living.

Know what you do NOT need? 4 gallons of hand sanitizer, 200 N95s, 400 surgical masks, and 6 months of TP. Fuck those people.

If it was pandemic super cholera, then TP would be the thing.

[senior researcher]

We are all gonna die.

[BobMc]

After living in Utah for over 25 years I’ve succumbed to their preparedness motto. I’ve got enough food and supplies to do a couple months easy. I also have enough guns and ammo to insure it stays in my house.

[iceman]

I'm amazed at how many of you voted Level 1. I'm wondering if you'll be changing your thinking about that in 4 weeks.

This shit is real and especially anyone in a major US city needs to prepare now. You should have enough supplies to be quarantined for 3 weeks.

Repeat, enough supplies for 3 weeks stay-at-home. This is real.

It's not the Black Death man. Basically, if you don't need to be in an ER you're gonna be fine, and if you do, you're gonna quite possibly be fucked, so I'm not sure what prepping does for you.

[rideit]

As posted in the other thread....


So, if we reach an infection saturation point where the majority of people have it, would we then all be able to go about our business again? (Coronavirus, not necessarily covid19).
Obviously the very young, elderly, and compromised would not count.
Thoughts?

(Not completely serious here, kind of spitballing). Thought about this while grocery shopping, would there still be a need to stockpile?

[iceman]

Rideit yeah it's gonna be endemic and just another thing everywhere at some point in the not-too-distant future. It's inevitable at this point. Everything governments are doing amounts to delaying tactics. imvho

if the government put the time bought to good use preparing, that would be great. but this is America, we're just gonna flail

[BmillsSkier]

we're just gonna flail

Like with our arms over Chad's Gap?

We're doomed.

[iceman]

yeah, but running around in circles screaming

[406]

You should ALWAYS have enough supplies for 2-4 weeks depending where you live and your circumstances.

Nukes, asteroids, civil disorder, hurricanes, earthquakes, viruses, tornadoes, floods, solar flares, zombies, vampires, blizzards, power outages, avalanches, the second coming of Gozer the Gozarian.

Food, medicine, water purification capability, pet food, a deck of cards, self defense, and lube for the lady. It's just responsible living.

Know what you do NOT need? 4 gallons of hand sanitizer, 200 N95s, 400 surgical masks, and 6 months of TP. Fuck those people.

If it was pandemic super cholera, then TP would be the thing.

x2


I would be pretty surprised if there will be a nationwide quarantine. Assuming mortality rates per age group are similar for us to those found by the Chinese.

[KQ]

It's not the Black Death man. Basically, if you don't need to be in an ER you're gonna be fine, and if you do, you're gonna quite possibly be fucked, so I'm not sure what prepping does for you.

For me prepping means if I do get sick and feel like shit I won't need to run to the store and get cat food or horse supplements. I've got stuff to do on the farm sick or not. I don't need to add to it when it's all I can do to get animals fed and watered.

Prepping = restocking the pantry which I generally keep pretty full because I don't have stores close.

[glademaster]

yeah, but running around in circles screaming

Might be a good way to deal with the obesity problem in this country.

[iceman]

@kq: ^^seems smart to me.

[S_jenks]

Like with our arms over Chad's Gap?

We're doomed.

Hey, rolling down the windows can be a life-saving tactic in the moment.

[SirVicSmasher]

Thanks for the idea. I wanna do coronavirus porn movies of people who panic and want to have sex before they die.
There will be lots of copulating couples falling out of the sky, too.
Call it Fknado.

Im dead

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[powdork]

As posted in the other thread....


So, if we reach an infection saturation point where the majority of people have it, would we then all be able to go about our business again? (Coronavirus, not necessarily covid19).
Obviously the very young, elderly, and compromised would not count.
Thoughts?

(Not completely serious here, kind of spitballing). Thought about this while grocery shopping, would there still be a need to stockpile?

fuck no, just go by your old aged neighbors' houses and step over their corpses while you raid their pantry.



edit: and in none of the places you posted this do I have a clue what you mean, especially the parentheses. Also, why don't the very young, elderly and compromised count in this scenario? Also, you do know this barely effects the very young, at all.

[powdork]

today I made sure I had two+ weeks of beer and wine, and odwalla (my vitamin c source). also bought an extra bag of dog food. the rest of the stuff I kind of always have.
if your quarantined it's not like you can't have stuff. I have friends that would drop stuff off on the porch. i have venmo, etc.
the thing i need to stockpile, is money

[splat]

[powdork]

^that's awesome


but on a serious note, what do we need to prep for? I'm not talking about quarantine. I'm talking about the lack of container ships coming from china for the foreseeable future. what of our everyday needs will be in short supply when the ships stop arriving? (and yes, skis and bikes are part of my every day needs)

[Cono Este]

I went from a 1, meaning 2 days of food on hand and 10 gallons of water lm a couple of jerry cans, to about a 3 or 4. Two weeks of canned food, and stocked up on cleaning supplies, bleach, waste bags.

I probably spent 150 bucks, but I’ve already eaten in a few extra times and paid for that by not getting shitfaced with $13 per glass Cabernets.

I feel bad for my bartender though.




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we had a conversation the other day about how we've adjusted our diets to more "perimeter of the grocery store" & how we basically have no real long term food storage anymore

one year, santa decided we needed some PNW seismic preparedness, so we had 14gal water/person & N95 masks already (for volcano/forest fire particulate) (& already had a garage full of camping stuff, as most others on here do)

just gotta figure out a food storage plan

[Pegleg]

So a couple of folks asked why bother, what's the benefit. Here's the reason that the CDC and other organizations whose job is to try to manage this situation are recommending being ready to stay home for a couple of weeks:

Right now, the main thing about this virus is that (A) it's highly communicable and spreading quickly, and (B) a significant number of people who get it (20% maybe) need extensive treatment to survive it, which can include assisted breathing or sustained oxygen for weeks. Our health care infrastructure can't accommodate all of those people at once, which means that if everyone gets the virus in a short period of time, a lot of folks will die simply because the care that would normally be available wasn't available due to shortages of hospital beds and supplies.

The way to deal with this is to mitigate the spread, i.e. slow it down. That way, fewer people get sick at once, and hopefully we keep the number of folks needing urgent hospital care to stay alive within our ability to provide those services. Over time, maybe the same number of people get sick, but not all at once. That can save a ton of lives.

A mass quarantine is the way to do this. By keeping everyone home, the spread is slowed way down, and everyone doesn't get sick at once. Yes, you may end up getting sick eventually, but when you do it's not at the same time as literally everyone else so if you need the hospital, there's room for you.

The upshot then is that all this planning isn't really for you specifically (especially if you're younger and healthy, and therefore not likely to have severe complications requiring hospital intervention). It's to benefit everyone - by staying home, you're helping slow the spread of the virus and thereby reserving hospital space for people who really need it. And saving a lot of lives.

From all the epidemiologists I'm following and talking to, they all agree that this is the real thing. It's not zombie apocalypse - society isn't going to completely collapse, food will still be available, water and power aren't likely to be cut off, etc. A lot of people are going to die from the illness, but successfully managing the spread might mean 1M people dying instead of 8-10M. Which seems worth doing.

[Dhelihiker]

If the shit hits the fan, I own guns and live amongst pussies.

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we're a long way from 1M dead at the moment...worldwide, much less the US