Viral Outbreak preparedness

[Cdnwolf]

The ebola outbreak got me thinking about the fact we may be prepared with weapons and other survival gear but how many have a viral outbreak preparedness kit ready for a pandemic?

[pmulcahy11b]

I just got a flu shot and pneumonia and tetanus shots -- how many points does that earn me?

All kidding aside, I simply don't have the money and resources to prep -- my house, including the garage, is only 1280 square feet. I don't have the space for much in the way of prepping. And due to mental illness, I can't legally own a firearm in Texas.

[Cdnwolf]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

And due to mental illness, I can't legally own a firearm in Texas.

I thought in Texas that automatically QUALIFIED you to own a gun.

[.45cultist]

Bioweapons and natural pandemics are the hardest of the "Big Three" to defend against. If I remember right, "keep fit, stay healthy and take vitamins, keep clean" is the summary. I don't get strange shots since my discharge, and I'd need to look over the storm kit. Isolation is one's best defense for a pandemic, the authorities will impose quarantine in worst case scenarios.

[stormlion1]

Viral Outbreak, I expect the Umbrella Corporation to kick down my door by just saying it. It has to be the hardest initially to survive. If you can avoid contact during the initial stages and survive the die off you should be fine. An example is the Black Death, once the die off was great enough and enough died the plague petered out leaving survivors to pick up the pieces. At that point prepping is all about avoidance, enough supplies to outlast the die off and only coming out when everyone else is dead and only those unaffected are still around. Of course there are other issues like dead bodies and a breakdown of civilization but that's another matter.

[Cdnwolf]

Over all, the W.H.O. reported, there have been 2,917 deaths from Ebola. At least 2,909 people have died in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, with 6,242 reported Ebola cases over all, according to its latest report. Nigeria and Senegal have recorded a total of eight deaths and 21 cases of infection.

The numbers for Sierra Leone come from the Ministry of Health, and diplomats and international health officials say they are largely inaccurate, substantially underplaying the gravity of the situation on the ground. “Even a 2-year-old child can look at them and see they don’t add up,” the Western diplomat here said.