Just When I thought...

I'm still around keeping an eye out on news and discussion.  I have just been on to other things.  Life re-opens and must move forward, as it were.  Besides, as I mentioned in another post, I was stress shedding hair like mad and I need to do something other than focus tightly on this for a while.

Just when I thought it was safe to scale back a bit all these variants emerge and have me worried again.  We may not see closures this summer, but I bet we will in the autumn and winter.  

Here I was pondering putting my N95's away in my emergency preps,  And just when I was thinking it might not be a bad idea to scale back on preps I decided its time to rethink things.  Instead, I'm now evaluating what I need and organizing purchases. Additionally I'm checking all my electronic/rechargeable gear.  

With all the hacking going on, I bought an extra tablet and a faraday pouch in which to keep it,  Although I know batteries arent affected by CME or EMP, I'll put my two 15000maH and my solar chargeable 10,000 batteries in with it.  I'll just switch the SD card that contains my *ahem* extensive audio-book library with the blank one I purchased with the new tablet.

Some of you may understand what I'm about to say, I know more won't.  But for those who do, I have the same sense of "something wicked this way comes" I had before the '93 bombing, 9/11 and the January we started getting news of Covid.  

I am not a happy camper.  

And then there's this: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/covid-patients-face-debilitating-conditions-after-beating-disease/#

WitchMisspelled wrote: I'm still around keeping an eye out on news and discussion.  I have just been on to other things.  Life re-opens and must move forward, as it were.  Besides, as I mentioned in another post, I was stress shedding hair like mad and I need to do something other than focus tightly on this for a while. Just when I thought it was safe to scale back a bit all these variants emerge and have me worried again.  We may not see closures this summer, but I bet we will in the autumn and winter.   Here I was pondering putting my N95's away in my emergency preps,  And just when I was thinking it might not be a bad idea to scale back on preps I decided its time to rethink things.  Instead, I'm now evaluating what I need and organizing purchases. Additionally I'm checking all my electronic/rechargeable gear.   With all the hacking going on, I bought an extra tablet and a faraday pouch in which to keep it,  Although I know batteries arent affected by CME or EMP, I'll put my two 15000maH and my solar chargeable 10,000 batteries in with it.  I'll just switch the SD card that contains my *ahem* extensive audio-book library with the blank one I purchased with the new tablet. Some of you may understand what I'm about to say, I know more won't.  But for those who do, I have the same sense of "something wicked this way comes" I had before the '93 bombing, 9/11 and the January we started getting news of Covid.   I am not a happy camper.

I share your 'intuitive' sense, and it's now escalating daily.

I have also been taking a break from here, but have been reading about the variants. And the studies out of Israel showing people with weakened immune systems are probably not fully protected.  Talked to my doctor about it yesterday, and she basically said keep up the same protection level as last year if at all possible.  UGH.  I've eaten out a couple of times (outdoors), but won't do it again.  I have a family road trip to/through Texas and Oklahoma in a few weeks, so not feeling great about that because the other 3 are all going to lots of public places without their masks right now.  

I had just started using up some of my expired/expiring extra supplies last month, yet, when the mask company I use announced a going out of business sale I found myself ordering a lot more medical grade surgical masks, and more kn95s as well. That 'voice'...

I've also felt drawn to get things much better organized, and am keeping everything charged including battery packs. If there are gaps I'll be ordering more.

I've also been shedding a lot of hair. That's interesting you are too.

I'm in the middle of getting health stuff taken care of (a bunch dental work, blood work, annual screenings I skipped last year,etc), and it feels like I'll be back to not wanting to go anywhere in a month or two.

UGH.

(Re CME - I'm prepped for a short term power outage - a few weeks - but in trouble if it's a Carrington level event. Still trying to figure out a way to access water. In a tiny apartment in the high desert during an exceptional drought there aren't many options. Feels like there's at least a year to prepare for that, really hope I'm right on that one, and wrong on the other one.) 

KiminNM wrote: (Re CME - I'm prepped for a short term power outage - a few weeks - but in trouble if it's a Carrington level event. Still trying to figure out a way to access water. In a tiny apartment in the high desert during an exceptional drought there aren't many options. Feels like there's at least a year to prepare for that, really hope I'm right on that one, and wrong on the other one.)

I went to a public talk about earthquake prepping recently and the 3 speakers all said that they lived in towns (not in the country) and that for water they had filled plastic milk cartons and then lined out the bottom of their chest freezers with a layer of them and then built a wall of them against the vertical wall of the freezer as well, putting all their frozen food in the gap in the middle. They did this in order to keep the water fresh and also to keep the freezer cold in the event of a power outtage. I thought it was a great idea, but of course, it only works if you have a chest freezer!!