Prepping for the Coronavirus

[Quagmire]

For anyone who hasn't been keeping up on this:

coronavirus - Google Search

The World health organizations are taking this pretty seriously.


I'm in an area of California with a sizable recently-arrived Chinese population: Something over 75% of the international students attending the university here are Chinese, and many of them just arrived for the current quarter, so they would have been in China when the outbreak began.

So, since it's not really going to cost me any money I wouldn't have spent on food anyway, I'm going to spend the next few days stocking up on canned goods and things like rice, oatmeal, noodles (ramen), whatever else Youtube tells me to buy.

The real danger (what I'm concerning myself with anyway) isn't so much contracting the disease as it is waking up one morning and finding all the stores closed, or at the least supplies limited and prices skyrocketing.

With enough food and enough reading material I can hang out at my place for a month, no problem.

Anybody else taking precautions, just to be on the safe side?

 

[Subduction Zone]

For anyone who hasn't been keeping up on this:

coronavirus - Google Search

The World health organizations are taking this pretty seriously.


I'm in an area of California with a sizable recently-arrived Chinese population: Something over 75% of the international students attending the university here are Chinese, and many of them just arrived for the current quarter, so they would have been in China when the outbreak began.

So, since it's not really going to cost me any money I wouldn't have spent on food anyway, I'm going to spend the next few days stocking up on canned goods and things like rice, oatmeal, noodles (ramen), whatever else Youtube tells me to buy.

The real danger (what I'm concerning myself with anyway) isn't so much contracting the disease as it is waking up one morning and finding all the stores closed, or at the least supplies limited and prices skyrocketing.

With enough food and enough reading material I can hang out at my place for a month, no problem.

Anybody else taking precautions, just to be on the safe side?

I would not worry too much. It has a limited time between exposure and being symptomatic. Certainly less than a month. If there are no outbreaks in the community you are safe.

 

[Subduction Zone]

For now.

 

[Quagmire]

I would not worry too much. It has a limited time between exposure and being symptomatic. Certainly less than a month. If there are no outbreaks in the community you are safe.

I'm not really worried, I'm just looking forward to telling all my friends "I told you so" when they come pounding on my door begging for a sandwich.

 

[Quagmire]

OK I'll fess up: I've recently come to the painful realization that a zombie apocalypse probably isn't going to happen in my lifetime.

That being the case, I figure the least fate can do is throw a decent pandemic my way.

Not that I want people to die, it's just that I don't mind if they do if it means I get to live out some of my post-apocalyptic fantasies.

 

[SoyLeche]

Do pretty much the same thing you do to prepare for the flu (short of the vaccine until it’s available). That may be more dangerous overall.

 

[Quagmire]

Do pretty much the same thing you do to prepare for the flu (short of the vaccine until it’s available). That may be more dangerous overall.

Don't ruin it for me.

 

[Subduction Zone]

OK I'll fess up: I've recently come to the painful realization that a zombie apocalypse probably isn't going to happen in my lifetime.

That being the case, I figure the least fate can do is throw a decent pandemic my way.

Not that I want people to die, it's just that I don't mind if they do if it means I get to live out some of my post-apocalyptic fantasies.

Just in case stock up on shotguns and shells. A twelve gauge shotgun loaded with double aught buckshot is a zombie's worst nightmare.

 

[Quagmire]

Just in case stock up on shotguns and shells. A twelve gauge shotgun loaded with double aught buckshot is a zombie's worst nightmare.

Not a bad idea. Never hurts to be prepared.


Zombies have nightmares?

 

[Subduction Zone]

Not a bad idea. Never hurts to be prepared.


Zombies have nightmares?

Only about shotguns. They are not all that bright.

 

[Good-Ole-Rebel]

Perhaps China should rethink it's new policy of rewriting the Bible and other religious texts.

(Rev. 22:18)

Good-Ole-Rebel

 

[Howard Is]

For anyone who hasn't been keeping up on this:

coronavirus - Google Search

The World health organizations are taking this pretty seriously.


I'm in an area of California with a sizable recently-arrived Chinese population: Something over 75% of the international students attending the university here are Chinese, and many of them just arrived for the current quarter, so they would have been in China when the outbreak began.

So, since it's not really going to cost me any money I wouldn't have spent on food anyway, I'm going to spend the next few days stocking up on canned goods and things like rice, oatmeal, noodles (ramen), whatever else Youtube tells me to buy.

The real danger (what I'm concerning myself with anyway) isn't so much contracting the disease as it is waking up one morning and finding all the stores closed, or at the least supplies limited and prices skyrocketing.

With enough food and enough reading material I can hang out at my place for a month, no problem.

Anybody else taking precautions, just to be on the safe side?

It is SOP for me to have a supply of high-nutrient-value dry food, and water.
There are so many possible scenarios....
It isn’t difficult to ensure food and fresh water for a month. Don’t choose foodstuffs requiring refrigeration or cooking.

 

[Quagmire]

It is SOP for me to have a supply of high-nutrient-value dry food, and water.
There are so many possible scenarios....
It isn’t difficult to ensure food and fresh water for a month. Don’t choose foodstuffs requiring refrigeration or cooking.

Most of the food I'm buying and planning on buying can be eaten right out of the can, but I'm also stocking up on, like I mentioned in the OP, rice, oatmeal, and noodles. They're easy to make, just need to be boiled, and their calorie to dry weight ratio is hard to beat.

Where I'm at cooking over an open fire wouldn't be a problem.

 

[oldbadger]

For anyone who hasn't been keeping up on this:

coronavirus - Google Search

The World health organizations are taking this pretty seriously.


I'm in an area of California with a sizable recently-arrived Chinese population: Something over 75% of the international students attending the university here are Chinese, and many of them just arrived for the current quarter, so they would have been in China when the outbreak began.

So, since it's not really going to cost me any money I wouldn't have spent on food anyway, I'm going to spend the next few days stocking up on canned goods and things like rice, oatmeal, noodles (ramen), whatever else Youtube tells me to buy.

The real danger (what I'm concerning myself with anyway) isn't so much contracting the disease as it is waking up one morning and finding all the stores closed, or at the least supplies limited and prices skyrocketing.

With enough food and enough reading material I can hang out at my place for a month, no problem.

Anybody else taking precautions, just to be on the safe side?

Last week there were 400 cases. Yesterday there were 4000 cases and 400 deaths.

Yes, a Chinese student at York University UK has fallen ill in the UK.

The next week might give us an idea of where and how Coronavirus is moving. Trouble is, if early spring temperatures rise then that could make a big difference.

 

[oldbadger]

Most of the food I'm buying and planning on buying can be eaten right out of the can, but I'm also stocking up on, like I mentioned in the OP, rice, oatmeal, and noodles. They're easy to make, just need to be boiled, and their calorie to dry weight ratio is hard to beat.

Where I'm at cooking over an open fire wouldn't be a problem.

Porridge Oats. I could live for a time on porridge, but our little hounds and my wife would object!

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Anybody else taking precautions, just to be on the safe side?

Nope. Just regular every day stuff, including going about my regular daily business. I am probably at a slightly high risk working with the public like I do, but as far as I know it would be incredibly unlikely to kill me if I were to get it. So, for me, it's SS,DD.

 

[exchemist]

For anyone who hasn't been keeping up on this:

coronavirus - Google Search

The World health organizations are taking this pretty seriously.


I'm in an area of California with a sizable recently-arrived Chinese population: Something over 75% of the international students attending the university here are Chinese, and many of them just arrived for the current quarter, so they would have been in China when the outbreak began.

So, since it's not really going to cost me any money I wouldn't have spent on food anyway, I'm going to spend the next few days stocking up on canned goods and things like rice, oatmeal, noodles (ramen), whatever else Youtube tells me to buy.

The real danger (what I'm concerning myself with anyway) isn't so much contracting the disease as it is waking up one morning and finding all the stores closed, or at the least supplies limited and prices skyrocketing.

With enough food and enough reading material I can hang out at my place for a month, no problem.

Anybody else taking precautions, just to be on the safe side?

Why are Americans ALWAYS doing this? Is it some kind of atavistic survival gene, from the frontier days when people perished in blizzards or were attacked by the local tribes?

This strikes me as hysterical over-reaction, quite frankly. It seems most unlikely that any draconian clampdown on the way people live in the USA or Europe is going to be applied in the immediate future. We should just stay informed and wait to see how it unfolds. No action needed at this point.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Why are Americans ALWAYS doing this? Is it some kind of atavistic survival gene, from the frontier days when people perished in blizzards or were attacked by the local tribes?

This strikes me as hysterical over-reaction, quite frankly. It seems most unlikely that any draconian clampdown on the way people live in the USA or Europe is going to be applied in the immediate future. We should just stay informed and wait to see how it unfolds. No action needed at this point.

It could not hurt to buy an extra tinfoil hat.

 

[McBell]

For anyone who hasn't been keeping up on this:

coronavirus - Google Search

The World health organizations are taking this pretty seriously.


I'm in an area of California with a sizable recently-arrived Chinese population: Something over 75% of the international students attending the university here are Chinese, and many of them just arrived for the current quarter, so they would have been in China when the outbreak began.

So, since it's not really going to cost me any money I wouldn't have spent on food anyway, I'm going to spend the next few days stocking up on canned goods and things like rice, oatmeal, noodles (ramen), whatever else Youtube tells me to buy.

The real danger (what I'm concerning myself with anyway) isn't so much contracting the disease as it is waking up one morning and finding all the stores closed, or at the least supplies limited and prices skyrocketing.

With enough food and enough reading material I can hang out at my place for a month, no problem.

Anybody else taking precautions, just to be on the safe side?

Eh...
It is swap out time anyway.

 

[Subduction Zone]

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