I told my parents to stock up a week before they finally listened.
Only 1 week?
I have been talking to people since January about this, but they all just blow it off, that is, untill they see it on facebook, then the normies believe it, like fools..
One person that visits me almost daily completely blew it off until he saw a video from that doctor in china who whistleblew about it then died from it, remember that guy..
He comes to me and shows me that video on FB and was finally talking seriously about stocking up.. I told him "Dude, look at the date on that video! That was a month ago! LOL" and laughed at him..
Just one example of those who dismiss concern until it hits the mainstream..
I have been telling my mom and grandmother, in a soft way, about it for just as long.. They stocked up pretty good a couple weeks ago, a bit earlier than most, and now are glad they did..
I myself didn't really fill my kitchen until just recently, but I am a bit of a hoarder of tools and equipment, including a lot of "prepper" type useful things, and I am extremely mechanically handy, so I am confident that I can make shit happen in a pinch when needed..
Where I live, the greatest danger I perceive is winter.. The loss of the ability to heat homes here is absolutely life threatening..
Some essential preps in my mind are designated chainsaw gasoline and 2 smoke oil for emergency heating.. My families houses that are not already wood het, each have woodstoves on standby that can be quickly installed in a pinch, though we would most likely consolidate to 1 or 2 houses for all of us in that serious of a situation..
But right now we are coming out of winter, only about a foot of solid snow left on the level in average in my yard now, and much of the most frigid temperatures have probably passed, so societal collapse is much less scary knowing we are coming into summer rather than going into the winter.. So that is a relief..
If shit goes bad soon, we will have all summer to prepare for the coming winter, you know, if like roads become actually impassable if the plows stop, electricity goes out, propane deliveries cannot be made, it will happen in time to be thoroughly prepared to really get independently sustainable for the next coming winter..
Actually, my area is famous for the amount of snow we get, but also the most beautiful summers on the planet..
When we first bought my families main property here, we lived there in the woods for almost 3 full years before we even got a well, septic, and electricity installed, so we kinda know what we are doing if we need to rough it for awhile.. BTDT
The good old days of melting snow in a washtub over a bonfire to use for showers..
The virus could knock a few of us out, but we are pretty hardy people if it seriously comes down to survival..
I think I will either die from the virus, or not.. That is something I believe is out of my control..
Surviving possible societal collapse on the other hand.. Game on..
The closest "potential exposure site" from me is 150 miles away, so I guess I am in a pretty good geographical location..
Their is a case of a person from only 1 county away, but that person got quarantined coming back into the country a long way from here at a major airport far south, and never made it back up here to spread it..
But who knows.. With a potential unsymptomatic incubation period while contagious of 2 weeks +-, we could all already have it..
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