How close are you to bugging out?

[boisdevie]

I'd stay put in my hamlet of 15 houses but take extreme precautions to limit my physical interactions with others.

[2ndRateMind]

I think I might bugout if someone else in my flat got the virus. Not that likely though, 'cos I live alone. Otherwise, it seems to me, much better to stay warm, comfy and well fed and watered on my preps, and informed via various media, than to go somewhere cold, wet, ignorant, insecure and vulnerable out of a desire to see if my tentative bug out plans might actually work.

All that said, these kind of eventualities are what preppers prep for. It doesn't at present seem like ebola is a threat to the developed world. But, unless the powers that be clamp down hard on it, it could become so. I think we should be using this kind of 'what-if' scenario to upgrade our sense of priorities. There are other ways a disease like this might be a threat, than direct infection. The most obvious is the impact the very fear of infection might have on our economic outlook, should the virus become endemic to any population, either distinctly African, or global. So, let's stay cool, for now, but keep a close eye on developments.

Best wishes, 2RM.

[Trojanhorse]

Could be a Troll hiding in the smoke?

[preppingsu]

Interesting that he's not joined in with the discussion.

[britrb]

I'm not a troll - been working for the last eight days... Was just wondering how others felt. I think I have all the wrong ideas about this sort of thing.

Brian

[Wulfshead]

WARNING this may ramble on a bit.

When I was a 10 year old kid we had a wonderful spinney surrounded by a thinly covered grouping of young saplings.
It was a magical place which was our childhood gang hangout. It could be many things to us as kids and I remember making many courageous last stands against hoards of imaginary German soldiers.
Then after a few years that magical childhood place slipped in importance to the likes of girls, then mopeds and the trappings of teenage life.
for almost 40 years that place remained a frequent memory that needed just the right thing to make me take the 10 minute walk back to our childhood spinney.
When my grandson was about 3 & 1/2 I decided to introduce him to that wonderful place.
What a shock I got, the spinney was covered on 3 sides by a dense woodland with a ploughed field on the last side.
There was only 3 narrow paths that could easily navigated to get into the spinney and the open field was alive with game a-plenty.
Then the thought came to me, what a perfect bug-out location.
I took a less romantic look around and found a clean running stream that with the aid of a barrel dug into it would give is a decent water supply.
The real bonus is that I am sure that 99.9 of the population of where I live have absolutely no idea the spinney and woodland is there.
It is my BOL and I know it would work out well but at this time I have absolutely no feeling that I need to make a move to there yet.

Pardon the walk down memory lane but it's funny how some things turn out over the years.

Wulfshead

[Arzosah]

I'm not a troll - been working for the last eight days... Was just wondering how others felt. I think I have all the wrong ideas about this sort of thing.

Brian

Brian, why don't you expand a bit more, answer your own question? That'll give people a chance to know you better.

[2ndRateMind]

I'm not a troll - been working for the last eight days... Was just wondering how others felt. I think I have all the wrong ideas about this sort of thing.

Brian

Never thought you were a troll. Your enquiry seemed perfectly sensible, and genuine, to me. I am sure there are lurkers wondering exactly as you do.

Best wishes, 2RM.

[QUAID]

I have made plans and have relocated until this all blows over. It was a short term planned move... Not what i would call buggin out.
See my Thread '!!Getting Out"""