Preparedness for when

daz378

Welcome Judy a bit too regimented for me......its more of a state of mind .for me ....more of a bug in for me , opsec is important /being discreet
..good luck

1Tonsil

Just a quick hello to everyone and a wave as we disappear into another stormy afternoon. The wind is blowing like crazy and it looks stormy but at the moment my washing is out as its drying more than it is wetting. Fortunately we got most of the roof fixed and now only have a little water coming in...

I have made a decision to train as a complementary therapist as I have very little chance of getting a job teaching here in Greece. I have already been offered a part time job when I pass the next course, which I hope to do by spring next year. I have already passed the Reiki and take the final in late February.

Hope you are all well and bearing up. Love from a very dark and very windy Greek island.

Here is a laugh for you, I went to buy a food processor and they were very expensive. I saw one for half price and asked for it....only to be told it had no blades or other things with it.......but what could I ask for at that price.... I left the shop speechless....:rotfl::rotfl:

GreyQueen

Thirty hours. 30 hours offline. It's a wonder I'm still sane. I did do some housework and gardening and saw friends, though. PlusNet lost a quarter million peeps their internet connections on Sunday morning. Were you affected, Mar?

Been a real headbanger of a day and feeling wan and pitiful, just popped on to say hi and wish 1tonsil and her hubs not blow away in the gales. Love to all, GQ xx

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I don't think I can come up with a team, there's only us and the dog!!! MAR perhaps we could band together and be a team but the world will be quaking in it's socks at that prospect won't it?

RAS

Some interesting stuff coming out about dehydration and electrolyte balances and ebola.

Three Nigerian doctors who were infected in the Sawyer incident think their survival was due in part to aggressive oral hydration when they first got raised tempuratures. http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/358108367/i-ll-gag-drink-to-that-oral-rehydration-key-for-ebola-patients Nigerian survival rates were 60%.

The reports on the treatment of the first two patients in the US indicate that managing hydration was very important, alongside electrolyte imbalances.

The issue for the services in the affected countries seems to be that by day 5 after symptoms develop people are so dehyrdated that intra-venous infusion can be dangerous and that oral hydration needs to be adjusted to maintain electrolyte balance. And very few patients get to clinics within 5 days.

It looks like home treatment even before diagnosis is going to be important.

mardatha

No GreyQueen I was ok but my daughter is with Plusnet and she was going mad for a day because she couldn't get online

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

No GreyQueen I was ok but my daughter is with Plusnet and she was going mad for a day because she couldn't get online

One of SG's neighbours and someone else they knew lost their PlusNet connections at exactly the same time as me, but theirs came back spontaneously on Sunday afternoon. I was hoping mine would self-heal but ended up having to call them to get it mended. They're a lovely bunch of peeps on their helpline, aren't they?

A quarter of a million of us offline, I wonder it that caused a ripple effect on online shopping? :rotfl:

I'm pretty much over shopping, apart from the chazzers for a few bits and food. It bores me witless and I hate malls.

Am now giving serious thought to not completing the census when it comes around next year. Don't like the American military industrial complex having their paws on this data. Wonder how long until they want to microchip us like straying pets, so we can access public services 'easily and efficiently'? Counting the years, my bet is 5-10 years off.

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I think most of us have a bug in and a bug out plan and several other schemes worked out for safe havens in extremisis. I've only the two of us to work with, so I'm certain that assigning duties would just be him doing what he does best and me doing what I do best. We live a very OS life so I guess we practise survival techniques every day of our lives. We've been around a long while too and have aquired the skills we'd need to rough it for a while and make our shelter, find water, food, firing etc. We also are relatively fit for people in our late 60s and ,make a point of being as active as we can and as self sufficient as we can too. More than that we cannot do, team building etc. not possible unless you count the lurcher and all he'd do in the event of being given a direct order is grin in a loppy tongued way, roll in any pile of bedding we'd made and run off with the sticks for fire making, no help at all!!!

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There's just me and buggalugs, so forming teams isn't really going to be possible.

greenbee

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

There's just me and buggalugs, so forming teams isn't really going to be possible.

I think you'll find that there is a team. Buggalugs is the leader, and you're the one taking orders...