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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
(15,813 posts)Enough to hunker down (except for every two weeks of curbside pickup of milk) through January. Ive been slowly stocking up.
doc03
(35,431 posts)never shut things down again no matter how many people die
kimbutgar
(21,240 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)uponit7771
(90,370 posts)... around 2 months without isolation for the spread to stop.
marlakay
(11,527 posts)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
(6,087 posts)Just turn on your TV.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)I could actually see Donnie pushing for a shutdown during the October/November time frame in order to screw with the Election.
Ilsa
(61,710 posts)Still, it won't be easy.
spinbaby
(15,092 posts)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
(61,710 posts)Skip the greek yogurt. I wouldn't want to need to eat it to survive. (I really, really dislike greek yogurt.)
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)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
(7,435 posts)October usually has some storms, too.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)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
(7,435 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 4, 2020, 04:25 PM - Edit history (1)
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
(7,968 posts)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
(81,893 posts)jimlup
(7,968 posts)I confess, I didn't make this post until I had secured mine.
ChazII
(6,206 posts)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
(28,242 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,134 posts)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
(81,893 posts)Along with lifetime supplies of rice, flour, and TP
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)But yep, something reeks, and it is not the virus.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)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
(90,978 posts)...on the off chance someone else might turn it on (a visitor with a casserole to keep warm, perhaps).
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)and my refrigerator/freezer is your standard RV model.
BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)toilet paper and find room to store them either.
peggysue2
(10,848 posts)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
(90,978 posts)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
(10,877 posts)jeffreyi
(1,945 posts)caraher
(6,279 posts)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
(94,911 posts)...and they WOULD say that if such a plan existed.
Short lockdowns in specific locations are far more likely.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)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
(90,370 posts)... 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