The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

markin2

euronorris wrote: »

Yes, I think they would aim for something with the mortality rate of ebola, but contagion of chicken pox!

Transmission is higher than SARS, but so far less deadly, But who knows how many have really died in china, And many could be dead at home and not yet found.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6KjmK_GS44

The Flu jab you get every year is usually for last years version, its like trying to cure the common cold you can't, it changes person to person.

euronorris

markin2 wrote: »

Transmission is higher than SARS, but so far less deadly, But who knows how many have really died in china, And many could be dead at home and not yet found.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6KjmK_GS44

The Flu jab you get every year is usually for last years version, its like trying to cure the common cold you can't, it changes person to person.

I think you've misunderstood my comment. I wasn't saying that coronavirus was like ebola. We were talking hypothetically, and that IF it was bioweapon, they would aim for something more deadly. And I responded to that.


MrsLW, quite right. Keep calm and carry on for now

markin2

Living_proof wrote: »

Have just seen the latest news and the film of about 50 diggers on a huge site in China where they are building a 1000 bed hospital in a week.

That's right, one thousand bed hospital in a week.

Absolutely amazing, although I imagine it will be fairly basic.

A week is just to long really, reports being that all hospitals are full and closed, and the emergency phone number was simply over loaded and useless, The Car ban i presume means no taxis and any sick would have to walk if they could.


And they are simply struggling to even test for it, they can only do 2000 a day. And some are showing clear until the third test.


Average cure rate in wuhan is 12 days, and then 10 days observation.

DigForVictory

At Team Meeting, Liverpool based colleague all for the coronavirus, as he says a month in a hotel with no responsibilities sounds blissful. We hadn't the heart to point out odds of mortality, nor the obvious logistics of and what of your beloved family all 3 of who are studying (at different locations) & who might not share your enthusiasm?!

(Although I found hospital was a cracking good place for exam revision - fewer distractions & more immerse into alternate universe preferable.)

I appear to have nearly wiped the tea stash. There may be other locations, but the main heap is down to just one sealed box, so steps will be taken. Quietly appalled, but grief does take your eye off the ball.

pineapple

markin2 wrote: »

The Flu jab you get every year is usually for last years version, its like trying to cure the common cold you can't, it changes person to person.

My consultant will probably tell me off but I didn't even get the flu jab, having encountered a couple of people who got really poorly just after - even though the vaccine wasn't 'live'.

Meanwhile 30,000 expats in China advised to return to the UK. What could possibly go wrong? :eek:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51374056

euronorris

pineapple wrote: »

My consultant will probably tell me off but I didn't even get the flu jab, having encountered a couple of people who got really poorly just after - even though the vaccine wasn't 'live'.

Meanwhile 30,000 expats in China advised to return to the UK. What could possibly go wrong? :eek:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51374056

I didn't get poorly this year (or any previous year), but I did have a much stronger reaction this time. Big, red, raised and painful. Usually just a bit of pain. But I understand that this is also a common reaction and it went down by itself within a few days.

C_J

I’ve only just realised that the first Brits who were evacuated from Wuhan into Brize Norton were transported to the Wirral in coaches. The company was called Horseman. There were four of them.

Oh dear.

mardatha

Copied from FT - I hate the sound of this..

"A town in China’s Guangdong Province is taking an unusual approach to hunting down people from Hubei, the most affected region in the coronavirus outbreak that continues to roil the whole country and beyond.

Sanjiao, a town in Guangdong's Meizhou City, has recently published a notice asking residents to provide information leading to the whereabouts of “outsiders” from Hubei or locals who have returned from the hardest-hit province, wrote Guangzhou newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily.

Individuals whose claims are verified will be rewarded with 30 surgical masks per person, a bounty that appears to be appealing as such protective gear has become a scarce commodity, with shortages experienced across Asia.

The authorities have received several tip-offs in the three days since the notice was posted. Around 140 people from Hubei have been identified in 17 communities in the town since the establishment of a local epidemic command center, according to the report."

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How many of us as preppers only feel the need to prep for specifics like coronavirus, swine flu etc. and between those happenings don't feel the need to hold stocks as a general way of life? One poster mentions 'having to stock up for the third time' but I always have stock levels of most things to last us for a few months and use the stocks in general day to day living and replace then as I do so. I realise the levels of prepping are as individual as the people doing it and the reasons for prepping are as individual as the people are too. We like to be prepared for the unforeseen events that crop up in life from time to time, the being ill and housebound, the weather event that causes disruption to the whole area where we live, the call out of the blue to look after a poorly grandchild and my preps give peace of mind that in any of these and many other scenarios the one of us left at home will have everything they need until the one away can get home again. I guess there is a very wide range of reasons as well as prepping levels and it would be interesting to see how many of us prep as a general rule as against for specifics like this coronavirus.

pineapple

I used to prep generally and be quite an active member of a UK prepper site. Old habits die hard and I do keep a decent supply of dried food so I would never starve. But it would be very boring and not very nutritious. Plus due to moving areas, getting ill etc, I have fallen off the wagon the last 2 or 3 years - especially re non food supplies. I need to get back on track. In the first instance it will be specific - so that I don't need to go and shop should we get any local infection hotspots. Albeit not very likely - fortunately more sheep than people here.