Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

I suspect that a family will really benefit over the winter if they can find enough slow cooker recipes to maintain the variety.

mrsmortenharket

It's amazing how long the human race has been around and within 100 years of anti biotics being "invented", bacteria is become very resistant to them.

Mind you, I have friends who go to the gp at the drop of a hat and expect anti biotics.

GreyQueen

Yeah, they evolve a lot faster than we do. Microbes are the most dangerous things on the planet. It's the norm for a lot of children to die in infancy even now, in the less fortunate parts of the world. We tend to forget that this was the case for us in the West only a few generations ago, too.

Frugalsod

mrsmortenharket wrote: »

It's amazing how long the human race has been around and within 100 years of anti biotics being "invented", bacteria is become very resistant to them.

Mind you, I have friends who go to the gp at the drop of a hat and expect anti biotics.

Yes I know people like that. Though I never my doctor about anything viral. Though to be honest it has been decades since I have had anything other than food poisoning.

GreyQueen

I actually got told off by my previous GP for not going to the surgery enough, which baffled me.

OK, I have a life-threatening chronic illness, but it should be OK as long as I keep taking the tablets, and I otherwise keep pretty well. If I have a problem like a cold which is wiping me out, I tend to put myself to bed even if it's only 7pm, snuggle down and rest. Lots of things can be resolved by ample rest, good food and sufficient fluids. Not to mention time outside in the fresh air (spades are optional).

It took about 9 months of hoping-it-would-disappear-of-its-own-accord before I took the achy heel to the GP and got prescribed golf ball therapy.......only another 7 nights left to go. Whatever will I do with my free time - was reading Ray Mears' autobiography but have finished that.

maryb

My DH is one of six surviving siblings. But his eldest brother, who was born just before WW2, died of what would now be an easily treated infection. Prosperous middle class family, well fed, clean housing, able to afford a doctor in those pre NHS days - but powerless in the face of a chest infection. Imagine how terrifying it must have been - the sort of terror that is now largely confined to meningitis. And then imagine worrying every time your baby has a sniffle

maryb

jk0 wrote: »

As a slightly clumsy person, I would be worried about spilling/ dropping my pot getting it in and out of an insulated bag.

Good job I can afford the gas, eh?

JK0, the bag is basically a big circle which pulls up with a drawstring. So to put the pot in, or take it out, the thermal bag lies flat on the worktop, you put the pot on the middle and put a pad on top, then gather up the sides around the pot. So not much manoeuvering to do

craigywv

jk, mine doesn't even have a drawstring its just basically 3 pillows arranged around the pot and the lid pushed ontop belonging to the outer box ab no spillages.

Frugalsod

My mum was born to a Judge overseas and she was the only survivor of seven children and she only survived because of the US military and their health care during the war. So even the elites can be decimated by a plague. I suspect that the ones that will suffer most from a pandemic will not be the working classes but the elites. the working classes might actually have better immune system than the middle classes with their antibacterial and sterile lives.

mrsmortenharket

GreyQueen wrote: »

I actually got told off by my previous GP for not going to the surgery enough, which baffled me.

OK, I have a life-threatening chronic illness, but it should be OK as long as I keep taking the tablets, and I otherwise keep pretty well. If I have a problem like a cold which is wiping me out, I tend to put myself to bed even if it's only 7pm, snuggle down and rest. Lots of things can be resolved by ample rest, good food and sufficient fluids. Not to mention time outside in the fresh air (spades are optional).

It took about 9 months of hoping-it-would-disappear-of-its-own-accord before I took the achy heel to the GP and got prescribed golf ball therapy.......only another 7 nights left to go. Whatever will I do with my free time - was reading Ray Mears' autobiography but have finished that.

My grandad always said sleep was the best cure for illness. Obv not major things (or else cancer wouldn't have got him )

I am alive due to anti biotics. I got pneumonia. I was really poorly. The doctor said to me, before sending me to hospital, why didn't you come to he doctors earlier? I told him I thought it was just flu.

I have cleaned up all the yuk from outside. It smells much better now. I quite like the smell of jeyes fluid!

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