Preparedness for when

samanthaneww2d

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Just received my latest energy bills, and I'm amazed.

Compared to the same period last year, electricity usage is down 40%, and gas usage is down 49%. :cool:

I wish mine was well done you

Frugalsod

StanwithaPlan wrote: »

I find this really interesting, I was surprised at how quickly the pharmaceutical companies have managed to find a vaccine and can roll it out in massive numbers so quickly...OR...they have always had the vaccine and now our Governments are willing to pay top dollar to prevent an epidemic so 'ta da!' here's a vaccine :mad:

I suspect that with most rare tropical disease that there is simply not the money for a private pharmaceutical company to develop a vaccine for it. It is something a government might be willing to pay to research should it every become a more serious national threat. Also I think that the US already has the patent for identifying ebola, so they can mass produce a test without having to pay big royalties to a private company during an epidemic. The US military also tries to keep abreast of potential threats to its forces during a biological war. Ebola could definitely become a problem to any army if it were to be used by any enemy. It would not be beyond the realm of possibility for an islamic extremist to deliberately infect themselves and then travel to some city as some form of a biological suicide bomber. So that is why the US military studies ebola even though it is not yet a existential threat to the US yet. I do not see this as a conspiracy.

Frugalsod

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Just received my latest energy bills, and I'm amazed.

Compared to the same period last year, electricity usage is down 40%, and gas usage is down 49%. :cool:

How much of that is down to using that lantern for your lighting?

moneyistooshorttomention

Valid point re a potential biological timebomb terrorist and may well be on the cards unfortunately.

Ebola is now there in America I understand, courtesy of that daft doctor who had been treating it elsewhere and then proceeded to come back to New York and spend days running around the place living a normal life before he got diagnosed with it.

:mad: to that stupid **** who has just way more than cancelled out the good he has done in his life so far from being a doctor:mad:. His personal "scales" of "what did he achieve in this life?" have just slammed down heavily in the reverse direction then...:cool:

craigywv

well done bob that's a great dip from your bill last year wish i could do it. unfortunately im the runner rounder switcher offer! i have this great gift i was blessed with from birth which enables my fingers to home in on various switches under beds, behind cupboards etc i can tell when phone batteries are are buzzing electricity through them with no phone on the end of the wire also im a witch according to my husband as i can from my mums house 10 miles away whilst on phone to him sense he is boiling a full kettle of water for to make himself a cup of tea .............i know the noise a full kettle makes! these are just some of my many energy saving talents. im sure im not the only one on here blessed with the insight to turn off a switch, a thing only a woman/thrifty man can do .kids are not blessed with this till they move out and pay their own bills as electricity along with heating is a free thing apparently like air! also came home last week to see ONE football top blowing in the breeze outside oh put ONE top in washing machine for a full cycle .............was all proud of himself till i informed him he cooking that night..............

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Frugalsod wrote: »

How much of that is down to using that lantern for your lighting?

Actually, I think the gas reduction is down to the 12" of insulation, which was put in the loft last year.

I've no idea why the electricity is reduced.

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My SUNNAN lamps when turned on as it gets dark are still showing enough light to let me see clearly on the landing as it gets to be daylight again. Not bright enough to sit and read by but bright enough to safely traverse a fair sized area. Then they are switched off and popped back on the windowsill to recharge the battery and are ready to go again in the evening for the same length of time overnight. Very useful things to have around as they don't need fuel or batteries or electricity. Once you've made the initial purchase the recharges are free.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I have been thinking, I don't think anyone has mentioned it, but could people be 'potential' carriers of ebola, and not show signs, like their body is emmune to it?.. say if someone has had ebola, and managed to recover can they catch it again and show all the symtons or catch it again and have only mild symptons and not die of it ??

BitterAndTwisted

Once you have caught a virus and produced antibodies to it you cannot catch it again.

I refuse to be worried about this ebola outbreak. I could be living in cloud-cuckoo-land but from what little I understand it's not that easy to catch as under normal circumstances I don't often willingly come into contact with strangers' body-fluids.

If it should mutate and become transmissable via airborne droplets like colds and flu I'll change my tune but not before.

There are a few things to be concerned about which might happen but ebola is not one of them. Well, not while I live in the UK, any road.

Pollyjuice

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Don't know how good it is but its meant to rain here tomorrow so some light reading I think .

Just noticed this also free http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ebola-Update-America-Preparedness-Guide-ebook/dp/B00O6ET6N8/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1414238285&sr=1-7&keywords=first+aid . Talk about jumping on the band wagon. Someone has been quick of the mark, don't know how factual it will be. Whilst I enjoy some of these free books I think you need to use your common sense when reading them. Though I think the more knowledge you have the better prepared I will be, its just sifting the chaff from the wheat.