How long do we have to get ready?

Rome_is_burning wrote:  The worst part is she is an epidemiologist.

If nothing else, use it as an excuse to prep. There will be a reason to do it one day, and you don't want to be caught off guard when the SHTF. My wife doesn't know the extent of our preps - I tried to get her on board a long time ago and failed, but I decided her cynicism wasn't enough reason to cave and become one of the sheeple.  So I have two lives - this is the one where I hang out with people as crazy as me

Albert wrote: Luckily my pit bulls hardly need anything for their preps.

That's great pheasant.  She's a good woman.  Behind every great man is a strong woman, as they say.  

Tell her I might have to pop in as my preps will last about two days at the moment.

I'm wondering where all the ebola news is. Supposedly ebola is "out of control", yet there is very very little news about it. I think there may be a lot more going on than what we are aware of. This "out of control" ebola coverage it just too quiet.

Dang, scr3w Ebola! I am still at home from sinus infection /pneumonia I have been down 9 days. Now all the antibiotics are hitting my gut yes I am taking a probiotic but just started. I was so sick I did not remember to take the probiotic.

I am not the only person a kid at our school went to the ER for D68...wonder I that is what I had but because I am an adult me Doc did not test. He was worried about the Pneumonia in my left lung and getting me better so I did not have to go into the hospital.

I had an electrician here today too he had a cough also. He said he is seeing a lot of people with this cough. This is going to be a bad year folks! I have had a pneumonia shot and still got bacterial pneumonia from this sinus infection. This is starting fast, hard and early!

I was pregnant when news of H1N1 began to emerge from Mexico. I knew how immunosuppressed I would become, added to my asthma not a good combo.. I also looked at the initial data and noticed many victims were pregnant, For the first time ever I started prepping.

Scotland was one of the first places it came to in Europe, in a couple who came home from holiday and went straight to a music festival while beginning to show symptoms. There was no vaccine but I managed to get hold of antivirals. All this time we continued prepping up on food, essentials etc. Not a clue if we were going to use it.   

Early August more cases were turning up at hospitals. We stopped the kids going to nursery. In October we took unpaid leave off our work. ( both worked in busy hospitals not the best of locations during a pandemic), I was in my third trimester by now. So we stayed at home for a whole 5 weeks together with minimum contact with outside. The prepping worked for us, and the little shopping we needed as top up was done by hubbie in deserted middle of night 24hr supermarket with self check out and hand gel straight afterwards. The kids played together in the back garden for hours every day which lucky for us was away from nearby roads, and we actually had loads of fun. We took them to see the local Xmas lights at 10pm when the streets were near enough empty.

I had to go to hospital to have baby in late November but was in a single room and was out 12 hrs later. I had deliberately chosen a maternity only small hospital and stayed clear of general hospital with maternity attached. Two weeks later vaccine came out and a few weeks after that we were covered. Life went back to normal.

We never advertised what we were doing, just kept people away by claiming norovirus, or we were busy getting ready for the baby, spending family time etc etc. going away for a few days, maternity leave etc. It seemed to work.   All the time we were at home self isolating. Were we right to do it?   I think we had no choice. During that time a pathologist my husband worked with died of H1N1, as did a nurse, and a local pregnant woman, who had delivered a week before me. Her baby was only 4 days old and had lost its mum. The nursery my children attended had many confirmed cases and the head of our local school ended up in intensive care for 2 weeks.   Where I lived was hit hard in that initial waves.

I honestly believe that being aware of events and prepping was not over the top. I think it allowed us to make the right decisions for our family. Judging by the high number of cases and the fact we both worked at the time in busy city hospitals, it was the only thing we could do.

So don't let anyone make you feel stupid for prepping, sometimes it is important to always have your options open. If I had followed everyone else's lethargy about H1N1 the outcome may have been very diffeent.

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I saved two nice ones and one deeply tucked away...just in case. A Chevy will get me there just as a Lamborghini. If it wasn't so terribly inappropriate and I wasn't already attatched I think I would ask you out on a date. Quit being mean to people, Astro. You can be quite charming and ticklish and are as sharp as anyone on here. Quietly, you have won over many hearts. I have seen it. I know it because you have won over mine. But then you get ticked off easy and out of the blue you let in to certain people who meant you no harm. I have used your name a couple/few times on here in a negative, teasing way. Maybe it is part my fault you're so predictable. Or unpredictable. Beneath the surface I admire and root for you. I want everyone to like and listen to you and most would if you would just let go of what you see as bad in all of us. The paint on my office wall is bad. I may or may not fix it but meanwhile it is fine. We are all fine.

Always be prepared..Buy long term expiration dated foods..Canned foods last a very long time..Rice, beans, pasta..Store foods in Food saver bags and freeze. Rotate your food, minimizes waste..Always remember, Better to have and not need than to need and not have.


A good website: http://readynutrition.com/

I'll meet you there, A. Don't worry about bringing rice - I have some. Just make sure the pit bulls have enough food please.

Be careful with other forums and their senseless panic.  we'll let you know when it's time to panic, lol. We're the ones who know that to do and when to do it.

JD-  Sounds like a plan.  Car pool to pheasants - and the pits will be fed.    They will have no prob bringing back food when needed.  No joke. Really, if anyone grabs their ball to play fetch, its basically all she wrote. They love that damn ball.  

They would have feeding frenzy in Liberia.  Ya that's terrible...

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This is Louie.  He's a little on the skinny side.  The wife hardly lets me feed him.  No joke.  

Albery.good looking dog.Johnray1

And don't worry about if Ebola goes wrong.  You're the first stop on JD's road map over to Pheasants. 

Just make sure JD gasses up REAL good!

Hey Albert, nice looking buddy! A blue too! I hate to say it but my dog would take him though....

...get lodged in his throat!

Well he can stop in Utah and I will fill his tank. And I'll load him up with some extra food. -not the expired stuff. Saving that for you know who.gov

I'm still working on the bug out vehicle. Nobody leave without me.

3,000 to 6,000 passengers fly into the U.S. every single week from Ebola infected W. Africa. If you use an average of 4,500 per week and multiply this by 12 weeks with an infection rate of .005 (1/2 of 1 %) then the number of infected people arriving in the U.S. by Christmas would be 270.

I used an infection rate of 1/2 of 1% as just a guess. It could be more or less. Use your own estimates to see where you think we will be.

I believe it is likely that infected people are here already, but the CDC won't tell us because they don't want us to panic.

It is only a matter of time.

OriginalHappyCamper wrote: I am already bugged out. 2.5 miles behind a locked logging gate (yes on a logging road over hill and dale (not Hillary)), on solar power, springs for water and wood for heat. Only three families back here. Vets with experience in Vietnam and Iraq, needless to say don't come over the hill except to visit. Over year supply of vittals thanks to a wife who loves to can. Only have cats and we don't eat mice. So we are vegetarians.

Awesome

That's great Johnray.  Like I said, my hummer is fully equipped.  With Ginger and Louie hanging out back windows, while licking JD's and Oneflu's face the whole way, lol.   We could get there pretty damn fast to be honest.   The hummer doesn't even really pick up speed until after 80mph.