How to protect yourself from coronavirus (in general, and CoV-19 in particular)

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34. Very interesting about Shanghai.

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.