The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

welshbabe88

Hm - the Tesco site is now down 'for maintenance, when I just went in to add a few items to delivery tomorrow??

Zentimes

welshbabe88 said:

Not going to work is it - if you are still allowed out - doesn't make sense. And with up to almost 30 days incubation - look at the number of contacts you could infect by then?
As previously mentioned - things are moving fast - and if lots are forced to self isolate - or be forcibly quarantined - then systems will start collapsing - like shops being restocked - maybe even electrical supply and water?
So its sensible to be prepared.

Oh I agree totally. His boss's comments showed he didn't really understand much about the virus. At first they wanted DP to go to his GP and get checked out! I said no way, if you are infected you must stay at home and ring NHS 111. Going to the surgery would potentially infect many people. Thing is, remote working in his tech job is fine, he does it anyway when he's not travelling abroad to teach. I saw an interview with a couple who are still in Milan on holiday. They said they were more worried about the flight home when you're cooped up people in a small space for hours, than they were in the city.

I am very glad of my stockpile now. If many people fall ill, even deliveries could be affected for a time.

euronorris

Payday. So restock day. As much as I can in the time available before work.

Self quarantine here would be very, very difficult also. There is no spare bedroom or space in this house. If one of us gets it, we're all getting it (as evidenced by the many standard colds we've had here already this winter). As DH is a stay at home parent, we could at least limit our spread as such, and no problem keeping DD home from nursery for a couple weeks. The problem would be if one of them was exposed, rather than me. My employer would be less than understanding about the need for me to also self isolate. I'd also be expected to continue working from home (which is easier said than done when you have a 3 year old around and no quiet space to hide away from them in which to work).

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IT'S SENSIBLE TO BE PREPARED should be our motto!

I'm aware over the years of so much ridicule and scorn being poured in overdose on the various prepping threads I've posted on because people haven't taken on board those exact words and only consider prepping for an end of the world apocalypse situation or invasion from space or some such happening and it's NOT why most preppers exist.  It's for just such a thing as the floods we've been having from this dreadful wet weather, it's for a huge storm disrupting power, water, roads, railways etc. it's for an outbreak of a highly infectious disease and being required to quarantine yourself at home for a given length of time too and now people are asking what to stock up on which is oh so sensible.

As a prepper I don't live my life in fear about what 'might happen' I live with a degree of comfort and some confidence that if things do happen for any of the above or many other diverse reasons we CAN already shut the front door, batten down the hatches and still be OK some time later without having to have any interaction with anyone or anywhere else because IT'S SENSIBLE TO BE PREPARED!.....isn't it?

welshbabe88

euronorris said:

Payday. So restock day. As much as I can in the time available before work.
Self quarantine here would be very, very difficult also. My employer would be less than understanding about the need for me to also self isolate. I'd also be expected to continue working from home (which is easier said than done when you have a 3 year old around and no quiet space to hide away from them in which to work).

Indeed - we only have one bathroom, and we'd probably have infected each other before we showed symptoms anyway!

Interesting discussion on radio this am - seems if you self quarantine - like staying home to look after a child etc - then you don't have to be paid apparently! Only if you boss tells you to stay home.  How many will go in to work when they shouldn't - and spread things around even more.  Especially those on zero hours etc and bills to pay.

Plus not everyone is conscientious - being told to self isolate and actually doing it properly is another thing.  With the bad weather people fuss after one day with having no food.  We only shop once a fortnight as it is and use long life milk so can go a good while without running out.  Lots of people these days never seem to think ahead.

MingVase

Agree with that last paragraph WB. And how typical of this country that bosses expect to get away with paying workers.

I'm off to Costco tomorrow for  major stock up.

boultdj

Like a lot of other's I prep for more 'normal' event's, like being ill, being snowed in [4 week's was the longest and only 2 of us in the village knew how to bake bread ], flooding, downside is if you use up the prep's and something else happens before you stock up again, so that's 2 more long life milk's in, coffee will be got this weekend when it's on offer at Lidl, other wise I would end up with a very grumpy OH, it take's 2 cup's of coffee to wake him up.

DigForVictory

boultdj said:

only 2 of us in the village knew how to bake bread 

Blimey. We played with bread dough as children, & I played (& taught) the lads. (Middleson now does a much better sponge than I ever managed...) 
Seems if you self isolate within a household, you're supposed to try limit contact (like that's going to be easy, say with a sick child)  & avoid sharing household items. Mind you that's Shropshire 10 days ago - there may be better ways emerging.

euronorris

It is impossible to limit contat with a sick child, nor would I want to. I take all the reasonable steps that I can with my 3 year old, but when she's upset/poorly/struggling/being sick, I will absolutely be there, hug her, hold her upright to help ease a cough/hold her hair back whilst she's sick and rub her back. Basically do whatever it takes to help her feel better, and recover quicker. I/We accept that I/we will inevitably catch whatever she has, unless we are very, very lucky to avoid it.

And equally, when one of us is ill, whilst we try to limit our contact with her so she doesn't catch it, it's very tricky. A 3 year old doesn't fully understand why you're doing that and quickly gets very upset and thinks you don't want them to hug you/they've done something wrong. She mimics the care we show her, which is lovely, but of course does mean she ends up with greater exposure to germs.

I can make bread, just not very well lol. Despite my best efforts, it's never very 'airy'. Still, it would do in a pinch lol.

maryb

The secret to baking bread is steam.  I went on a sourdough baking course and that tip alone was worth the cost of the day.  I put a big Le Creuset pan in the oven to preheat, tip the dough in from the basket it proved in, slash the top so the bread can expand, stick the lid on and in the oven for 15 minutes.  Then take the lid off and back in the oven for another 15 minutes.  That's why breadmachines work so well - they trap the steam in a small confined space.

I was going to get some UHT milk when I did the shopping today, though it's not my favourite thing.  Not a chance at the supermarket I went to.  I'll try my luck at Sainsbugs