The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

daz378

Tried  admin  reduced   with covid....can try contact my bank tomorrow up to 6pm....its 2 reputable  companies  a o  and my bank....so its probably ok....just uneasy until I'm sure its ok

jamanda

Is anyone else getting very twitchy about what we are possibly about to face in the coming months?  What with covid, Brexit etc. and the onset of colder weather, I seem to have a permanently bad feeling that "something" is coming to get me.

Paranoid, or what?

MingVase

I've had that feeling all year Jamanda and so far it seems to be right. Prepping like hell up here and going into seige mode come winter

GreyQueen

I think it’s normal, jamanda. In reality, we are always facing uncertainty, we just don’t know it in the way we know it right now.

If you care to break it down into portions, on balance of probabilities, we will have another mild winter. Most UK winters are pathetically mild by the standards of continental Europe or of Canada/ USA. It is unlikely any of us will be seriously cold or that our daily rounds will be inconvenienced by snow or ice. If we have a replay of 1962-1963, all bets are off, but there is no reason to think that our run of very warm winters is about to be interrupted.

Re Brexit, the great unknowable. If there are shelf-stable imported delicacies which are important to you, and you have sufficient funds, perhaps stock up? There is a high probability, IMO, of price gouging and a period of disruption in supplies which may last weeks or months, before things settle.

Re Covid, it is now one of the many infectious diseases which are endemic in the populations of this and other countries. As one exasperated epidemiologist pointed out recently, there are about 20 viruses in the UK population which, if you started testing for specifically, would be found. The more testing, the more cases. More cases does not translate to more seriously ill people or more fatalities; Covid causes mild illness in the majority of those infected. 

The current methodolgy of recording deaths deaths from Covid is disgraceful. Deaths of all causes within 28 days of a positive test?!  What, you have a road traffic death in the same month as a positive Covid swab, and you died of Coronavirus?

I don’t take Covid lightly, as pre-existing conditions mean I am likely to be very ill if exposed to enough virus particles, but all I can do is take reasonable precautions and get on with life.

My final thought as a prepper is that it’s prudent to be prepared, at all times, to ride out a multi week lockdown, whether personally for self and household, or for your whole region. The last thing one would want to have to do is run around the shops in the hours or days before lockdown, stocking up and running out of stuff to buy because everyone else is doing the same.

jamanda

I am a prepper, and have (hopefully) everything we may need.  It isn't fear of covid so much, as the general disruption to peoples' lives.  We're also ready for winter, whatever that chucks at us.  We don't eat much in the way of foreign delicacies, and I've stocks of olives, olive oil etc. so it isn't Brexit as such either.

I think I'm just getting fed up of trying to preempt every possibility.  I've also got my elderly mum in hospital which is adding to the general feeling of doom and gloom.  She's broken her hip and, because she has vascular dementia and can't remember she is hurt, she doesn't know quite where she is or why.

Sorry - ignore me.   I'm a miserable !!!!!! this morning.  I'm going to go down the garden in a minute and dig our spuds up so All is safely gathered in......   I'm going to shut up now.

MingVase

Jamanda pet we all get there at times. Lookat me, I'm always moaning! You go off and make yourself a nice burger - would you like one out of my freezer?

GreyQueen

I have my beloved Mum becoming disabled with a neurodegenerative disorder. It’s incurable, and there is nothing whatsoever I can do to change that. I cope by stuffing certain emotions in a metaphorical box and nailing the lid down. And eating chocolate. Sometimes, all you can do, is find a sunny nook and sit for a while with a cuppa and try not to overthink it. 

jamanda

MingVase said:

Jamanda pet we all get there at times. Lookat me, I'm always moaning! You go off and make yourself a nice burger - would you like one out of my freezer?

Sorry, I've come back in having done some hard work in the garden.  Feeling a bit better now instead of sitting there feeling sorry for myself.

I think I'll have to pass on the burger for now, thank you.  It's not that I'm scared, but I'm not hungry just yet.

Greyqueen, I'm so sorry your mum's poorly as well.  It is awful watching people deteriorate and feeling so helpless.  I think that's what set me off this morning.

On the bright side, we won't go short of spuds and onions.  I see several dozen variations on a theme here for meals.

Thank you for being there.

ivyleaf

(((HUGS))) Jamanda, so sorry you have all the extra worry of your Mum.

pineapple

I'm one who has been cynical about the level of risk - given that increased testing is of course going to identify more cases including false positives. Plus there is a random survey underway right now. It must be quite extensive because I and others I know are being sent test kits. Then I reassured myself that it was mainly younger folk, who would shrug it off. But it is reportedly spreading - with an increase in hospital admissions and an uptick in residential homes. The thing is, we can go quite quickly from 'nothing to see here' to 'OMG'.  That said, I think the elephant in the room is the number of people who are possibly going to have long term health conditions after 'recovering'.  With a trashed economy and a health service already on its knees, what can possibly go wrong?