Guest Post by Ol’Remus
Your own best judgment determines what you do, if anything, to prepare for an epidemic of the Wuhan coronavirus. For myself, each round of information, as unreliable as it may be in its specifics, suggests an notable epidemic is more likely than not.
There are a few things known with certainty. Pneumonia is, as with all flu, the common mode of fatality. 
61.5% of patients requiring hospitalization and intense monitoring ended up becoming “non-survivors”. Wuhan coronavirus has an incubation period of three to twenty-seven days, i.e., infected but without symptoms. Fourteen days is typical. Fever and cough are common, diarrhea is not. Recovering from Wuhan coronavirus does not confer immunity, it can reinfect and cause further damage, including heart failure.
Only three of the more than 100 public health labs across the country have verified the CDC test for use . It means no one has been tested for this coronavirus in forty-seven states. The kits CDC distributed are flawed and none have yet been replaced. What are the real numbers of coronavirus cases in the US? As we say around here, “you can’t find what you’re not looking for”.
One chilling thought. We may be seeing the first of multiple waves of the Wuhan coronavirus. Victims of the 1918 flu’s “second wave” experienced their first symptoms and took their last breath all in the same day.
One other thing, from Centers for Disease Control, via CNBC
The virus is proving to be far more contagious than the flu, having spread from 300 people in mid-January to more than 75,700 as of Thursday morning.
As I’ve said elsewhere, I’ll almost certainly be my own caretaker so I’ve bulked up my “flu kit”. Flu pharmaceuticals are likely to disappear in the panic that accompanies the moment of general recognition. I shall make a checklist of symptoms, the appropriate medicine, the dosage and the interval. Living where I do I’m already in compliance with Remus’s Most Excellent and Inviolable Rule One for Survival, namely and to wit:
Stay away from crowds.
It’s said aspirin is contraindicated for flu. I find the evidence convincing. It’s said Sambucus may initiate or exacerbate a cytokine storm specific to the Wuhan coronavirus . I shall exercise caution until the question is resolved.
An epidemic may be disruptive enough to force the prepper to rely on his back room stash for a long while. Should a massive uncontrolled pandemic occur, a catastrophic breakdown of utilities, services, transportation and industry may follow. This would be the collapse, the black swan. The prepper would become a survivalist, forced to rely on his deep larder and other doomsday preparations. That’s another subject, but as I’ve asked in the past, if you’re not preparing for the worst, what are you preparing for?
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Vitamin D.
The overreaction and financial trickery is already making someone(s) billions.
Funeral homes make a pretty penny in the USA. In Mexico and China, among other places, people get rolled into ditches.
The alarmism and doom porn preppers are peaking.
(The 30 year T bill matters more than if 20 or 30 million people get rolled into ditches.)
“In Mexico and China, among other places, people get rolled into ditches.” – Winnie
Do you have any links? Mexico is a strange place, as Salvador Dalí said: “There is no way I’m going back to Mexico. I can’t stand to be in a country that is more surrealist than my paintings”.
However, Mexico is a modern country and not a primitive place as you would have people believe. BTW, did you marry your sister, Winnie? I heard people in the South do that.
Pictured below, Mexico, then and now. Please note the headlines and details.
EC, you may find it interesting to know what my Mormon bretheren laid on me in 1981.
I was told in no uncertain terms that in 2019 the Democrat Party would finally implode under the weight of it’s EPIC LYING and 2020 would be the knockout. So far given recent event, this seems dead nuts accurate.
That was 38 years in the future at the time. Being still a few years away from high school, I had some issues grasping politics, compulsive liars, and the end times.
As an adult, I’ve long believed the United States has been on Republican lockdown since 1871, so that’s not a big stretch for me to believe now.
See the founding date of the Mormon’s newsrag, the Salt Lake Tribune. It’s not a coincidence.
22 I really get you. And most of your comments…..they are very deep if people would take a moment and consider them…..seriously. Like I said months ago before you left us (took a break) but your downvotes indicate negative bias vs critical thinking by readers. ….jus saying
Have been trying to be well prepared for a long time now so I ain’t skeered.
40,000 men and women every day.
Slightly scared. I went to a med clinic today to gather my records from a visit several weeks ago. Lady at desk had mask on and was cleaning. I joked. She said a patient came in today scared she was exposed to CV. A group of chinese students on a bus with her had just arrived from wuhan yesterday she lives in atlanta….she was scared and came in for testing. I grabbed my mesel gas mask from my truck sprayed my ass down got my disk slathered it in hand sanitizer. Used entire bottle of lysol in my car. Shit shit shit….
“Slightly scared”
could stay home, not come out ….
Today’s CDC press conference tingled my “spidey-senses” big time, specifically this comment:
“Disruption to everyday life might be severe,” Nancy Messonnier, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases said, adding that she talked to her children about the issue Tuesday morning. “While I didn’t think they were at risk right now, we as a family ought to be preparing for significant disruption to our lives.”
Did Nancy have brown eyes?
The CDC is so full of shit, they’re up to their eyeballs in it.
So is your bullshit religion.
Yes, SR – they are dead right – it’s why I wrote my book and Part 2 to follow:
Be prepared!
just when you thought it was safe to go outside. Results in from other world countries – disease seems to be winning this one. For the truly unfortunate, their lungs cease to function even with the best of care. Little different than just take a bunch of cold medicine.
Not another aspirin-demonizing article, please.
The biggest contraindication (in all the US) against aspirin is that the patents don’t lie with an American company.
Would you like a little fluoride with your aspirin, Anon?
I wonder why the boy wonder, Robin Banks never questions those urban legends?
I’m famous!
Which urban legend are you referring to? I really don’t know shit about drugs and chemistry.
A cursory search found this;
I’m sure there are people far more qualified than me to asses this info.
I used to take 2 baby aspirins for my sky high cholesterol.
That lasted a year, maybe two.
Sick all the time.
You don’t take aspirin for high cholesterol, you take it as a blood thinner, (clot preventer) that helps prevents strokes, if and only if you have said problem.
This is why we prep,manmade or other disasters.
You have not even started,while,at moment you still have some time to,get at it.
A lot of us have been at it decades,keep rotating stocks that age/go bad and otherwise good to go.
canned food, dried fruit, rice/pasta – that will keep you for a couple of weeks.
I imagine some VC vultures and the Silcon Valley slime balls are already putting some sort of extra capacity grocery delivery service, with some sort of high price entry, to guarantee you fresh delivered food during times of “global pandemic” or other “terror alert level Red-Alpha” condition is put into service, and then into law, replacing previous “patriot act”
with the new and improved “patriot act II”.
I’m going to stock pile beer, I figure, as long as I have cans of beer, I will be able to trade with those who didn’t put the hooch into larder.
“a couple of weeks”
piker.
“cans of beer”
had some coke on a shelf, the acid in the coke ate through the protective lining and then the can. might want to keep up with whatever you have on a shelf, modern food packaging just is not set up for long-term storage and there might be some significant deterioration over time even in sealed products.
gman,
Don’t wait…don’t hesitate…ROTATE!
Store what you eat…and eat what you store.
Have some 25 year freeze dried food in buckets and cans.
Grow it yourself…freeze it yourself.
This is not rocket science…like trying to prove the earth is really flat (be careful with that one…can be risky) or that Gold and Silver are real money…that will soon be priceless!
“Gold and Silver are real money…that will soon be priceless!”
I predict a horse will be worth 100 oz gold, a chicken 1 oz gold, and an egg 1 oz silver.
a plow will be priceless.
Another view —
Islamic dirham (just under 3 grams pure silver–or 13 1/3 cents US junk silver) “we estimate that the value of chicken was one dirham. Now if we calculate the value of chicken [the cost of 3 grams silver in Saudi riyals] it is more or less equal to the cost of 1 dirham. Isn’t that amazing?”
“Isn’t that amazing?”
it is. now, after grid down, let’s see how many people find a chicken anywhere, for a dirham or for a thousand.
Do you have any chickens now?
$2 buck chuck or a whole chicken….
I live on a 14 acre farm gman with a massivly stocked pond, 60 fruit and nut trees, 22 berry bushes, two grape arbors, and 13 current chickens…my Rooster Dart and his 12 ladies alaying……rabbit cages ready to go, meat rabbits coming.
I don’t need a plow or horses, have tillers and enough stored gas for them for years.
Keep rocking back and forth on that hobby horse.
You can be thick as a brick.
78 acres cross fenced, chickens rabbits, fruit trees, berries, game, two 12 acre ponds acting a as a moat for 60% of front side of property with a narrow fenced driveway splitting them. Natural spring fed. Horses, all farm equip, bunker, field insulated storage, multi barns, shooting range,….yea i got chickens too….but i did lose all my guns in a boating accident, jus sayin
John Galt…YEA MAN…that’s what I’m talking about!
Go GAULT Go!
“Grow it yourself”
can’t figure it out. we’re at 3000 ft, the soil is one step above caliche, the growing season is 80 days from freeze to 120F every day for a month. onions do ok, and the weeds are six feet tall, but everything else just lays there under the blazing sun.
Life is full of choices…best of luck, really.
Prep up.
Come on man, you can import soil.
Just found this channel a few days ago if you have MRE’s in storage “Fear Not” for they are still good.
I also agree with Gman, you should grow what you can either outside or inside.
Thanks SS…I’ll check it out tomorrow…always game for a little more Prep.
I’m all set, but had to run out to Sams Club and get a couple more bottles of Hennessy VSOP.
Hopefully there are hundreds of similar things being tried out:
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/gsk-gives-clover-adjuvant-for-vaccine-against-indispensable-covid-19-protein
Don’t forget seeds and nuts as a source of calories & protein. Sunflower seeds ~ $2/pound. As much protein as walnuts and other nuts. Yesterday I picked up some nicotine patches – the theory being that nicotine suppresses the immune system, possibly subduing a cytokine storm.
Trump asked for $2.5B for coronavirus. That’s about 5 hours’ worth of federal spending. Maybe they’re still trying to prevent panic, but he should have asked for $50B. Offer tax-free prizes to the first companies that produce a workable vaccine and/or treatment.
“Should a massive uncontrolled pandemic occur, a catastrophic breakdown of utilities, services, transportation and industry may follow. This would be the collapse, the black swan.”
and all the congregation sways in ecstasy and says: “Amen and Amen! Even so come Apocalypse!”
And once again, the stupid coming from the gman is off the scales. No one wants a pandemic, only people like you who don’t want to believe this is real are cheering the coming feces in the fan blades. God help those who aren’t prepared and also, those who are. I am officially in isolation, only foray I have to make is a vet situation. Other than that, Molly (Mygirl) has barred the door.
How long are you planning to hunker down?
sounds like she’s been hunkered down too long already.
You see, you speak from a position of freedom from lung issues. I have scarred lungs from a previous bout of pneumonia and I’ve had hospitalizations for lung issues. I’m like the asthmatic or a person with COPD or diabetes. The disease I suffer from is called Bronchiectasis.
You can be snide and attempt to make puerile jokes at my expense, and that’s alright. I’m intelligent enough to realize that many people are incapable of thinking about anyone or anything besides themselves and that they have little capacity to understand where someone is coming from and even less ability to understand why someone is concerned about prevailing circumstances.
If I’m wrong, great. If I’m right and I don’t hunker down I will be a statistic.
“The disease I suffer from is called Bronchiectasis”
I apologize.
gman: Apology accepted. Hopefully now you understand why many people are very concerned about this. When the numbers state that only the old and those with pre-existing conditions are succumbing, well, there are huge numbers who fit that description. I’m not sure about the facts here, however, like a mother who has an asthmatic child, I’m very concerned. I also have an elderly father and friends who have health issues and I worry for them too.
Additionally, if there is an outbreak then the hospitals will be overwhelmed and people like me who sometimes need those hospitals will be SOL.
Can you believe the big shots want to reduce the population by about 90%? That would leave uhm, 700,000,000 people around the world. How will they know they are eliminating the useless eaters and not the better half?
It’s all Columbus’ fault. Had he not found the new world and taken the Indian food back to the continent, the world would not have seen this population explosion. Damn Indians. The white man was doing fine with his piddling inventions, nobody needed Indian foodstuff like corn, tomato, potato, squash, pumpkins, avocado, peppers, beans, yucca root, cocoa, tobacco, damn!
I was hospitalized with pneumonia when I was in the Army, always had trouble with my breathing since then so I can relate. There are a lot of natural solutions that help to either prevent or mitigate the symptoms of colds and flu that I’ve used for a long time, like fire cider.
I don’t think that anyone is being insensitive to your concerns, they just don’t happen to trust the source of the information we are currently getting and I’m sure you understand why that is.
Definitely hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Although “worst” is definitely a relative term.
Because just when you think it can’t get worse, shit happens that no one ever saw coming. Ya know?
Herpes-riddled monkeys rampage as humans infected by ‘out of control’ macaques – Daily Star
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_River_(Florida)
Inbred fucking Red necks, not kidding here folks, mother fuckers.
I got sent there for lying to a VP, I got sent to Daytona for lying again and then Lakeland Fl, same VP every time, lol.
How does one get herpes from monkeys? Surely the monkeys aren’t raping people. If they are then they need to be shot. Bad monkeys.
Feed them to the Mormons. They’re all inbred anyways so herpes shouldn’t b a problem.
Don’t forget the electronic aspect.. if things go as they are trending the internet lockdown will accelerate. If they can’t control the spread of the virus the official reporting on it will dry up quickly. They will do this because preserving the ponzi economy is going to be deemed more important than preserving individual life. They will 404 the handful of sites still dedicated to posting the truth. Comments will be a thing of the past, as will any forums where word of mouth about the situation can get out. Heavy moderation on social media with stepping out of line resulting in loss of privileges. They will also use any clampdown to purge a lot of the real history and commentary still left on the internet, even if unrelated to the virus. It won’t be returning after the situation normalizes, either. This is a good opportunity for the Orwellian memory hole. Make sure you back up anything you want to save onto an external source. If travel restrictions are put into place they may activate SA on GPS as well. Most people don’t have hard copies of maps and most people under 35 couldn’t even read a map if they tried.
Reposting my comment from the Wuhan thread-seemed apropos to this conversation, too.
A few weeks ago, it was funny to watch people hitting the Home Depot trying to score masks that had already sold out. Now, it’s going to be the food.
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Don’t bother watching any apocalyptic movies now. You’re living in one and the opening music and credits just rolled…
Yesterday, I talked to a friendly garage guy I know. I asked him if he had seen any shortages, thanks to China being sick with the Red Flu. He said no. He was surprised I asked, because he hadn’t thought about that issue effecting him. He said he would be paying attention now.
I was doing the grocery shopping today. Spouse was at home with Young One, so I did it on the way home from work. A friendly cashier told me she heard a rumor there’s a woman an hour south of us on quarantine. That was a surprise. I hadn’t heard that one yet. We’re not exactly a popular destination here.
Later, at wallyworld, I walked through the camping aisle. I do it practically every time I visit out of habit. All the freeze-dried food was stripped. The cheap Chinese camping crap, Coughlan’s whatever, and first aid kits were all there in abundance. Even the “astronaut” ice cream was missing. The wally also has a place up front with more freeze-dried food, buckets, gamma lids, and whatnot. A lot of the food was missing from up there, too.
I think the normies are waking up. It seems like the lamestream media has been beating the fear drum pretty hard the last 24 hours and it’s starting to sink in.
Anyone else seeing things change?
Tomorrow, I’ll be visiting the gun store to see what that looks like. Maybe I’ll hit the surplus store to see if people are buying up all the liferafts and hunting camo.
I shop Walmart online, usually for heavy stuff like kitty litter and large bags of dog and cat food. So, for sport, I went and checked on the long term storage foods….almost all are gone, stuff like powdered eggs and milk are long gone. Then I checked for canned bread, gone. Ditto butter. For some strange reason, napkins were scarce, the better quality napkins, not the cheap ones. So, what does one do with table napkins? Plenty of paper towels and overpriced toilet paper so why napkins. It is a great mystery.
Warriors creed. Gummybear….tons of calories for that long day of fighting and sugar burst….
FWIW- Today, I visited my local survival store. The proprietor stocks everything you can think of-MREs, freeze-dried #10 cans, solar stoves, radios, etc. He didn’t have time to talk; he had some important business call to take, but I overheard him state he had been extremely busy all day and 530 was the first time he had been free to talk all day. It was hard to tell, but it looked like he had sold powdered milk and his of ova-easy powdered eggs in #10 cans were low.
I went to the gun store and looked at all the awesomeness. A counter guy told me they had been busy all day, too. He said the crowd was about half guys spending tax refunds and half preppers.
I visited my surplus store, too. The cashier told me they sold a ton of MREs and camping food this weekend. They still had a lot of the Mountain House stuff; the expensive camping grub. The deserts were hardly touched, but the beef and mac and chicken and noodle-type meals were a bit thin. I couldn’t tell from the big boxes of MREs. I don’t know who wants to survive on MREs. That’s almost as bad as the virus.
And I hit a grocery store, too. All I saw were a few gaps in the canned veggies and beans aisle. The cashier said they had an average low turnout, but he did see some folks buying freeze-dried food from a small area they have with #10 cans from Augason and plastic buckets of Wise-type stuff. I noticed a lot of the bulk sacks of wheat and quick oats were taken, too.
I also visited my local industrial welding supply shop. They had N95 masks. Cartons of them. I passed it on to my coworkers and my neighbor if they’re looking for some, there’s still one source in town.
being proactive may help alleviate some anxiety, since all stores in my area are sold out of face masks, I bought half a dozen bandannas at the dollar store, washed them well, went to the local office supplies store and bought a viral disinfectant cleaning liquid, soaked the bandannas in it and when dry, folded a couple up to take along with me. The simple act of doing something is sometimes enough to make one feel better altho if the virus is airborn, a mask will not really help as it could land in your hair or on your shoes. I do have sympathy for the “lung-y” folks out there, every year they come down with bronchitis and their lungs fill up, well if coronavirus is as bad as they say, even a pneumonia vaccine will not help, be prepared to drown in your own fluids.
Not gonna drown. Will take the cheap fast way out….
Omfg, i just touch the damn screen or try upvoting or tap the comment bax and i am fuckin redirected. This is becoming as annoying as fuck….seriously.
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