When will you act?

The problem is - will we know when it is phase 5? Social distancing works for me now but not for every member of my family so they will just bring it home anyway. For me, I hope and pray that I get a small viral load initially so that I have some antibodies.

Let's see---I had gastro symptoms last week, 2 days of headache and this morning I woke up with a tickling deep cough...I hate wondering all the time if it is already phase 5 and will i or won't i get it.

I hate feeling like a hypochondriac and I am tired of focusing on every nuance of illness in my body. I am starting to ignore things rather than run to my med preps at the first sign of illness. I am already getting tired of high tailing it in another direction when someone coughs or sneezes. Then I think, what a baby, this is a picnic compared to what could be or will be.

I say it is past time to practice social distancing but that is just my opinion. It is easier said than done. I was in a crowd of about 500 yesterday. I had to be there because my daughter was receiving an award.

In a perfect world the government would tell us exactly how it is and we would all respond correctly but this is far from a perfect world and people are not responding correctly even now. The administration has to balance and juggle more variables than we can even know. I.E. What kind of vulnerability will this cause to our nation as a whole?  I don't think they can quarantine us en masse so "it" will be allowed to "blow on through" and then society will pick up the pieces. JMO, prayer will be the most important prep.

My college age daughter informed me that she will not leave college and come home unless they close the school. The only good thing is that she has a car there, I will plead with her to keep a full tank of gas.Maybe she should keep some supplies in her trunk.
I keep hoping that between this forum and fluwiki, we may all get a heads up at least a few hours before the rest of our communities. Maybe even the fact that we are on line checking the news more often so we will see it first.

What happened to the previous post?

Irene wrote: [   I have trouble believing we'll go from Phase 3 or even Phase 4 to Phase 6 in a couple of days. Is this belief based on any facts?

Unless you are of the opinion that we are already at a 4, just not being told.

nawty

I am planning as if it is here except for the quarantine and masks.

I will quarantine myself in July .    

I spend money wisely only for preps. I want new patio and other stuff I tell myself that Iwill wait till the danger is over .(It amzing how conditioned we are to want things now.


I have built hiding place for money and food
I most importantly understand there is no charity that will help me or my child and must be prepared to plan wisely.

I have talked to many people lately and they still think the goverment will help them , that there will be food distribution centers and support .
    
    

I am using EVERYDAY and EVERY HOUR to do at least one if not more things to prepare.  I am buying,freezing,storing everyting.  I already carry hand sanitizer and wash my hands more than often,after shopping or any other contact with people. I have stopped going to meeting places of many people i.e. church,and no parades for us this Memorial Day.  We always go to the park/lake, but there are Canadian Geeses here(ohio) now so NO WAY.  Bird-Feeder is empty and will stay that way.  I am trying to decide if I should home school this fall..kind of a hard choice,my one son is to be a senior....The only time I have contact with others is when I buy my supplies...A lady at Wal-Mart said people have been coming in to shop with masks on...I haven't seen this though.  Perhaps I am mentally preparing myself for what is to come....

That is funny I have not seen anybody with masks, but my mother said she saw one at the store and one at church and that was at least a month ago. Plus she said the woman she saw at church stopped going altogether.

With all the information available online, we should be able to act before most people know what's going on.  I'm also keeping an eye on what happens with my sons, both are in the Army National Guard.   If military starts to mobilize in the US,  that will certainly be a heads up for me. 

I think we are all watching Indonesia very closely, and it is all over the regular news. If that situation explodes, I'll make the last minute preps and go on high alert.

I think we will be informed rather quickly when it arrives in this country, and that will probably signal the serious lockdown for those who are prepared.

Depends on where you are though. If I was in Miami or NYC or some other major port of entry, I'd be more cautious. I live rurally so I feel like I have the luxury of a little more time.

Personally I will not act until confirmed human cases are in the United States.

My main concern at present, is because of the developing situation(multiple earthquakes and volcano threats) in Indonesia with the huge figure of injured, and the dead...  the very real danger of disease will make it difficult for anyone to seperate illness/death from disease or that of h5n1 spread. They have a major problem over there and now that we have people from all corners converging there to help..they may possibly bring disease 'home'. We need to watch Indonesia VERY carefully

    Same here Char, my son is in Marines, and said, no matter what, he will inform me of anything that may raise an eyebrow.

Should water be treated before storing it?
If your local water is treated commercially by a water treatment utility, you do not have to treat the water before storing it. Treating commercially-treated water with bleach is superfluous and not necessary. Doing so does not increase storage life. It is important to change and replace stored water every six months or more frequently.

Ditto - Thank you ChickenHawk!
That's great information.

Unfortunately I will wait and play by ear when it comes time to quarantine.  Got to many bills and things that have to be done for many of the family members... Say a prayer and continue prepping

It will be a hard call. I will be on high alert with H2H confirmed overseas in numbers over 100. Same with BF in birds here in the US.  The first reports of hH2H in the US would definately make me stay home, but might be too late?

In my case, my family already lives in an isolated community.  I seriously doubt that the BF will raise its ugly head here.  But shortages of all types will cause our little island community to go into panic mode pretty quickly I would imagine.  If it comes to that, a mad rush at the stores, it will already be too late to "stock up".  "Pro-active" is the operative word here.  

When I hear of the first human case in the US, I will go and do my best to clean out the stores. I have adequate preps now, but am holding an extra $5k to fill the garage with more. I, like a few others here, think this forum will give us at least 3-4 days headstart over the average person. From there i will play by ear for lockdown, but it won't be long after. Don't want to chance infection by pre-symptomatic carriers. 

Femvet wrote: To me, the question is, when to start using PPE in public? Besides the ridicule, how much will that make us a target for later?

Femvet,

If you feel the need to use PPE in public, perhaps the time to quaratine has arrived. Why take unnecessary risks?

Llike Scotty, I have been practicing self-imposed exile for months. A certain reinvigoration of my prep reflex has lately taken hold, and I find myself wanting to finish up some projects, that will see me through next winter, way ahead of time. One must trust these small still voices.

My daughter is in Tibet, soon to travel to Thailand. My main project of late is coming to terms with the idea of never seeing her again.

Red
    

I and my wife are virtual recluses anyway. We are self employed and work from home in horticulture.
Every day things are being sorted and finalised for a lock down.
The day reports come that it is H2H in Australasia (NZ and/or Aus.) I get my mother, 2 of the kids come home and the big gate is shut.
The other kids and spouses have other plans. Ones in the military and the other is in a cultish type of survivalist church so they will be as ok as they can be..

who of you will cut off the world at phase 5?

ok - good - me too but in Aussie