How to protect yourself from coronavirus (in general, and CoV-19 in particular)
"How does the coronavirus spread?
The Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak is a new illness and scientists are still assessing how it spreads from person to person, but similar viruses tend to spread via cough and sneeze droplets.
When an infected person coughs or sneezes, they release droplets of saliva or mucus. These droplets can fall on people in the vicinity and can be either directly inhaled or picked up on the hands then transferred when someone touches their face, causing infection. For flu, some hospital guidelines define exposure as being within six feet of an infected person who sneezes or coughs for 10 minutes or longer."
The main headings for protective points as presented are:
1. Wash your hands.
2. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze...
3. Face masks offer some protection.
4. Seek medical help.
5. Avoid live animals.
6. Avoid raw foods.
7. Quarantine yourself after travel from affected areas.
8. Seek medical advice before leaving home. (after being in self-quarantine)
details at link:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/25/how-to-protect-yourself-from-coronavirus
This is good information and I can do it, you betcha! How about you? I just turned 71 and I plan to stay around a lot longer!
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The food's somewhere, but supply chains disruptions caused this guy to split.
For most of us, though, food for ease of mind against unlikely need to shelter comfortably at home for a while is easy. Lack of water, medication, and medical care are more problematic and could quickly turn into emergencies.
We already lazily have food for probably three or four months (or more, not sure). We have bottled water for a fraction as long, but we have a well and marsh water and basic hiker filters. Eating would get very boring once the goodies we eat all the time anyway and just stock extras of were running down, the canned and boxed foods, spices and condiments, et cetera.
That'd mostly leave us, though, with the bags of inexpensive but long-storage-life rice and dried beans that we tossed in the shopping cart along with salt for a stash at this vacation home two years ago. Rice and beans combine to make a complete protein, and salt is a critical nutrient. 200 multivitamins are another $8 or so at Walmart.
Fwiw, it's been awhile, but I believe a twenty-pound bag of rice will give roughly 100 good-size, one-cup servings. It costs $10 or under, isn't very big, and will retain most of its nutritional value for years so can be tucked away (safe from bugs and rodents) and just forgotten, or eaten and replaced now and then. Both are also edible after being soaked in liquid, without being cooked, and most dried beans can also be sprouted.
I've heard there are a bunch of eels in the muck at the bottom of our beautiful marsh, but I don't actually expect to ever have to find out. 
