Preparedness for when

siegemode

This ebola thing has got me worried a bit, but I'm trying not to react too much. There's also another nasty virus spreading in the states and mostly it seems that children are getting it. Then there's also the mers virus in the mid east, but it's ebola that has all the attention. I can't help but be a little suspicious and cynical when there are so many in the alternative media discussing this current crisis and mention the ebola virus as being synthetic and patented by the us grubbyment along with them being in control of all potential vacines hmmm.

Anyway as for how people will react if society and infrastructure breaks down, I would like to think that people would rally and pull together. Unfortunately I think that trust and respect are severely lacking in todays society and even in small towns and villages there is an unsavoury element and hierarchy of influence or power.
There is even more chances of unrest and bubbling undercurrents of dis satisfaction or entitlement in large cities along with a much more diverse number of communities.

I am trying to keep a grip though and we have a number of arena concerts booked over the next 6 months which both OH and I are excited about. It is a bit of a concern as we avoid people as a rule because of OH's problems coping, but music is our love and enough of a distraction and focus that OH although extremely stressed manages to cope with. Being in close proximity to so many at this uncertain time is not something I'm/we are looking forward to. However we can't stop living and put things on hold or we could miss out. Many artists and bands on our bucket list may not be around in a few years or finances may change so it's very much a case of now or never.

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99p Store has these 3 LED Solar Keyring Torches in.

By no means the most powerful torch in the world, but a handy way to make sure you will be able to find your house/car door locks, in/on a power cut/moonless night.

siegemode

Oh dear having just read now how concerned everyone else is and stocking up, shopping etc am now thinking I too should be doing more and not thinking of entertainment. Whilst concerts are our only indulgence and we are able to get 1 plus carer rates I'm now thinking should I be directing those funds towards more supplies instead.

Bob that keyring looks good, any idea how robust it is ? my keyrings get a bit of a bashing and I would imagine those solar panel thingies are at risk.

RAS

siegemode wrote: »

Bob that keyring looks good, any idea how robust it is ? my keyrings get a bit of a bashing and I would imagine those solar panel thingies are at risk.

I got one of those last year; have to admit it spent most of the summer near a south facing window so has been charged permanently.

The main body is a rubber or rubber like material and should be quite robust.

As for the concerts; just go. Take hand wipes or gel and use them. Avoid anyone actively throwing up or toileting but otherwise enjoy.

You are much more at risk just crossing the road now and in the foreseeable future. if things change, they would probably cancel the concerts anyway.

As for preps; £2 will buy 6 packs of budget pasta and make 40 meals. Add £2 worth of budget rice and that's another 40 meals.

A bottle of budget oil from Lidl - £1 and a few tins of budget tomatoes and then some sardines. And 2 bags of oats.

For a tenner you have enough to survive any quarantine. official or self-imposed.

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siegemode wrote: »

Bob that keyring looks good, any idea how robust it is?

Hard to say, as I only bought it today.

However, at 99p each, you could always buy a few.

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RAS wrote: »

As for preps; £2 will buy 6 packs of budget pasta and make 40 meals. Add £2 worth of budget rice and that's another 40 meals.

A small handful of rice, and a tin of baked beans, will make a filling meal, full of protein and fulfilling at least one of your 5 a day.

A squirt of brown sauce will make it more attractive to a jaded palette.

When times have been really bad, I've got by on the above, beans on toast, tinned soup etc., for weeks.

moneyistooshorttomention

I guess it will depend a lot on peoples individual circumstances, but personally I'm not in the slightest bit bothered and just thinking "What will be will be - c'est la vie" and taking precautions for minor level if the SHTF (eg if the Financial System hits the wall). For major level stuff, eg an Ebola epidemic or something, then my attitude personally is "You never know your luck..and that might be that and...oh well.....so what? <shrugs and thinks "That would be me let off the next 20-30 years, so I don't care at all personally"".

Hums that tune "Whatever will be will be...que sera sera":whistle:

moneyistooshorttomention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azxoVRTwlNg

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I can sense panic setting in and there is no need, we just have to be sensible and keep using the soap. None of us is likely to be directly in contact with active secretions. We can wear gloves if we are worried about holding handrails and so on but we were given our return tickets when we were born and nothing can alter that so we need to relax and accept that what will be will be

I remember cuba and the missile crisis, now that really was a panic situation and we were told to prepare the space under the stairs but it came and it went. The 15% mortgage interest situation, the panic that people felt wondering how on earth they would manage but we did, somehow. I have seen too much to panic over this nasty virus and not to forget that panic is contagious and stress making, people die through stress caused by `what if` situations

Frugalsod

merlin68 wrote: »

potentially everybody on that flight could have ebola as she was contagious.

It is a lot harder to get than that. It would be the passengers one or two seats away at most that were most at risk. It has not mutated into an airborne threat yet, which would make all the passengers at risk. Checking them all is probably a sensible option as passengers can move around.

The way that the US hospitals work makes them especially vulnerable to mistakes of this kind.