Can you survive a month at home?

[Mike 03]

21. My sister and brother in law are shooting for two months.

I'm probably okay for three months as long as we don't lose water for some reason. My mother and other sister are probably good for a month but of course I would share with them and live within walking distance.

I could help my next-door-neighbors for a certain amount of time, but not for two or three months.

It's unlikely we would lose water unless there's some black swan event that keeps utilities workers from getting to work or shortages of chemicals necessary to purify water, or some freak event I can't think of (a force multiplier like a cyberattack on our grid). Extremely unlikely. But it's good to have water on hand for other contingencies.

I don't fully trust this idea that it's totally safe to get the mail. Dr. Bill Wattenburg always said "Don't get the mail" during a pandemic. (Of course it's not realistic or practical not to get the mail during a year-long-pandemic; he was thinking more of a disease sweeping through a community in a two week period.) There's also the issue of ordering objects and the ability of the virus to live on surfaces for a period of days. If a robot packs your stuff, okay. But coughing and sneezing people pack stuff too. (Just my opinion!)