newlondonprepper wrote:thanks, I recruit IT people - I geuss that makes me low risk since I never leave the flat, when I worked in London and commuted daily I was always sick, had a cough for 5 months once after three courses of antibiotics.
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I so hear you! I'm also in London and now work from home. When I commuted I was sick as a dog! In London the big petri dish for illness is the transport system, so the more you can avoid it the better you are likely to be. Wash your hands whenever you've been out (the first thing I did when I got to work was wash my hands, but I was still sick!) and try not to touch your face so much! Bus/train hand posts, shopping trollies/baskets, lift buttons, ATM buttons all can harbour germs.
As others have said, most people here prep for all sorts of reasons, not just pandemic; though there may have been one particular instance that initially triggered their prepping mentality. The thing that I always maintain is that stocking food, water and toiletries will never go to waste regardless of what catastrophe you may face, be it pandemic, job loss, terrorist bombing, broken leg etc.. With something like ebola you'd want you and yours to leave the house as little as possible, so stock up on food, water, toilet paper, toiletries, medicines (pain killers, diarrhoea/constipation/rehydration, plasters, antiseptic etc.), entertainment, treats, nappies etc.. Enough for a month maybe. The best way of doing this is to look at your weekly shopping list and simply buy a little more of the same stuff than you normally would the next time you shop, and then do the same the next week, and the week after. The tenet is: store what you eat and eat what you store. i.e. make sure you rotate your stocks by eating them
One important thing to remember is that if you are quarantined in your house for any length of time, maintaining some sense of normality is important for the morale, and eating the same food you normally eat is one way of doing this. It's also much better for the health of the bowel shall we say...
So unless you normally eat MREs just buy ordinary tins and packets and rotate them.
Storage is always a tricky one if you don't want your domicile to look like an army shed, but underneath beds is an often overlooked place that can hold quite a lot! Do not be tempted to store food or medicines in the attic though as the large temperature changes will shorten the storage life considerably. But providing it is dry the attic is great for toilet paper, nappies etc..
Specifically for the current ebola preparation I have checked on and added to my sanitising products: bleach, antiseptic, alcohol gel, PP3 masks, surgical gloves, coveralls etc.. Other than that it's business as usual - that's the great thing about being a prepper: this year it's ebola, next year it might be solar storms, it doesn't really matter because with a few tweaks your basic preps will cover 99% of eventualities without any fuss or panic.
By the way...you have filled those water tanks you've bought haven't you? No point in buying them unless you fill them!
Been there, done that, been caught short!
