A warning about getting ready

[jimlup]

I hate to make this post and it is based on hearsay. Nevertheless, based on the hearsay information that I have received we should start stocking up for an emergency quarantine lasting at least 2 months starting late July or early August.

The information is third hand from an expert epidemiologist but the chain of this information is reliable. I have already made my first stock up shopping trip and will make another tomorrow.

Things are going to get very bad all across the country. The fire is lite in several places and the burning will not be over but will intensify and spread significantly in the coming weeks. Covid-19 is reeking havoc and is only now beginning its true burn through the population.

Get protein in particular as food supplies will likely be disrupted.

I am sorry. Protect yourself and your loved ones!

[MissB]

1. Was already planning on stocking up mid July

Enough to hunker down (except for every two weeks of curbside pickup of milk) through January. I’ve been slowly stocking up.

[doc03]

4. The states will have to do it Trump would

never shut things down again no matter how many people die

[kimbutgar]

2. We also have been just buying extra stuff just in case

[soothsayer]

3. If we really quarantined for two months we could defeat it

[uponit7771]

35. +1, Fauci is right, we only did a 50% level NPI vs 100% like all the other nations and it takes just

... around 2 months without isolation for the spread to stop.

[marlakay]

5. I have heard we will be closed down again by end of September

From a friend whose doctor at University in Portland had meeting with a bunch of other doctors. They are convinced we will be closed down by then told my friend to go to dentist or doctor in July if she can.

I plan on gathering extra from Costco this summer but out of Lysol, almost out of wipes.

[Girard442]

6. You don't need to get the skinny from a source with inside connections.

Just turn on your TV.

[jimlup]

8. That and understand science /nt

[rso]

7. Quarantine

I could actually see Donnie pushing for a shutdown during the October/November time frame in order to screw with the Election.

[Ilsa]

9. Except for fresh fruit, I think we are ready.

Still, it won't be easy.

[spinbaby]

16. I've started buying frozen fruit

Which has led to the delightful discovery that frozen fruit and Greek yogurt combined in a food processor makes something very much like ice cream.

[Ilsa]

17. I keep ice cream, so I'll

Skip the greek yogurt. I wouldn't want to need to eat it to survive. (I really, really dislike greek yogurt.)

[Tipperary]

18. Smoothies!

[Timewas]

10. Ready

Now ... But actually always pretty much capable of shutting down for 6 to 8 months, easier in summer but have food for that long and will have more when garden produces. We are not "preppers" just always pretty much ready for a shutdown and it is 30 miles just for a gallon of milk so have that covered with a good old milk cow... make our own butter and can our garden produce crazy during the season..

[misanthrope]

11. I'll say it again: August and September are the height of hurricane season

October usually has some storms, too.

[jimlup]

14. This is an extreme concern for my Dad

He's 88 and in the region where it could become a major problem. Our family may have to insist that he spend the fall away.

[misanthrope]

32. If you have anything stored up for a pandemic lockdown

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you can kiss a lot of it goodbye in the wake of a hurricane. Once the power goes out, frozen things thaw and dry goods start to mold and spoil in the sauna-like heat and humidity. Those same conditions exacerbate respiratory difficulties.

Shelters become places for possible exposure to contagion.

The entire experience after a storm is miserable and I can't imagine how much worse it will be with this pandemic added to it, especially since the states most prone to hurricanes are COVID hotspots.

[jimlup]

33. Yes, exactly

which is why I'm calling my brothers this weekend to talk strategy for having Dad stay with one of us away from the hurricane zone this Fall.

Thanks! Stay Safe!

[Renew Deal]

12. Toilet Paper time!

[jimlup]

13. Indeed...

I confess, I didn't make this post until I had secured mine.

[ChazII]

22. I also confess

that I have started to purchase two packages of TP at a time. Knew that there would be another lock down. Not hoarding but I now have seven packages.

[TheBlackAdder]

15. Grab a chest freezer while you still can.

[AwakeAtLast]

21. We were fortunate to be able to get one in March

We moved and had not gotten around to getting a new one. The virus made my husband spring for the bigger one!

They are handy if you have the space, and now with my parents next door, I'm freezing for two families.

[Renew Deal]

23. That was one of the things people were buying the first time around.

Along with lifetime supplies of rice, flour, and TP

[Tipperary]

19. I think you mean "wreaking."

But yep, something reeks, and it is not the virus.

[Sherman A1]

20. Always good to be prepared.

[BigmanPigman]

24. I can't stock up in a 500 sq ft apt.

Right now my oven is used for storage and I keep toilet paper and paper towels stored in the trunk of my car.

This pisses me off to no end. We have sacrificed for months but fucking selfish morons have made all of that worthless. I HATE them! Stupidity is bottomless with these idiots. Don't they realize that if they want to get back to normal and have an economy flowing again that EVERYONE must sacrifice at the same time and do it 100%?

[Hekate]

27. I know about using an oven for storage. Just put a piece of masking tape over the on/off knob...

...on the off chance someone else might turn it on (a visitor with a casserole to keep warm, perhaps).

[SammyWinstonJack]

36. I live in less space, in a 34 ft motorhome. Storage space is a joke

and my refrigerator/freezer is your standard RV model.

[BigmanPigman]

38. I bet you can't buy 6 rolls of

toilet paper and find room to store them either.

[peggysue2]

25. Hummmmm

This may explain the chit-chat I had with a woman at Krogers this afternoon. I picked up a 6-pack of paper towels, the cheapy, utilitarian kind and a woman came by and said, "I better pickup one of those packs, too. I went to Walmart and they had little to no paper products. No paper towels whatsoever."

"Really?" I shook my head. "Thought we had moved beyond the shortages."

She shrugged and moved on.

Now it is a holiday weekend. Despite the mandatory mask regulation in my county, cancellation of many official holiday festivities, many people are going ahead with the traditional backyard BBQs and swim parties. So . . .

Now I'm thinking a trip to Costco might be in order to resupply.

This is so messed up.

[Hekate]

26. We are stocked up. As long as there's no power outages, we should be okay...

I put a lot in the freezer. The pantry is really full by now. We get our fresh fruits from my BIL, who has a backyard full of fruit trees. So, fingers crossed.

[USALiberal]

28. IMO this post is worthless without some proof. Why is this "expert epidemiologist" not going public?

[jeffreyi]

29. Wreaking.

[caraher]

30. A quarter cow's worth of beef arrives in our freezer in two weeks

I also got a big box of TP before the first big shutdown (just pure chance, my sister was plugging "Who Gives a Crap?" and we'd ordered). And I planned my fall teaching assuming getting back on campus was just a fantasy (and fortunately my school gave me the flexibility to do that).

[brooklynite]

31. My sources don't say anything like that...

...and they WOULD say that if such a plan existed.

Short lockdowns in specific locations are far more likely.

[jimlup]

37. I'm not saying anyone is "planning" that...

but we are going underwater now. Food supplies will be interrupted. If that happens, it doesn't matter if we are in lockdown or not.

[uponit7771]

34. It makes sense, looks like at the current rate we're at 100,000 cases a day at end of July ...

... and that's 3 million a month with a case fatality rate of 3% (which is nearly half of what it has been) that's 9 thousand a day.

We're in for a world of hurt