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Post by spinifex on Jan 31, 2020 8:02:52 GMT 10
Not worried about the disease. The survival rate is very high. We all have to die of something eventually.
Have done a few things to hedge against some economic disruption because I don't want to be inconvenienced. Including buying extra toiletries (since most are made in or with chinese ingredients).
Will keep fuel storage and cars topped off against disruptions as well.
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Post by tomatoes on Jan 31, 2020 9:27:29 GMT 10
Just been stocktaking, etc. And more careful with hand washing and the like. Keeping up with the news closely of course.
Rereading a novel that I read a while back set in Sydney about an epidemic. “An Ordinary Epidemic” by Amanda Hickie. It’s very different from the usual prepper fiction.
I remember the first time I read it the biggest impact of it was questioning myself on whether I would have quarantined myself and loved ones as early as the main character in this book, or what would have been the trigger for me. How close would it need to get?
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Post by spinifex on Mar 14, 2020 8:10:42 GMT 10
I'm on prepcon 3 now - social distancing, being wary of what I touch (especially my own face) and hand washing before getting in the car to drive home from any public area I need to operate in. When someone in nearest regional city gets it I'm switching to 2 - which is shelter in place. Lucky I can do that for a very long time without suffering financially.
I'm willing to catch it myself just to get it out of the way, but have a teenage kid with a serious immuno-disease which makes it a no-no. Although ... I could catch it and stay somewhere else until I test negative and then return home.
I just know isolation isn't a viable long-term plan.
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Post by frostbite on Mar 14, 2020 8:31:09 GMT 10
I've upped my readiness a notch. Mrs now working from home, I've slightly modified my work routine to reduce face to face contact with customers, we have limited public outings to shopping only, and I've rearranged my freezer and filled it with meat.
No cases in my area that I'm aware of, but if it takes off here I will take a month's long service leave and self isolate.
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Post by norseman on Mar 14, 2020 9:03:19 GMT 10
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Post by bushdoc2 on Mar 14, 2020 9:45:26 GMT 10
Still working in the hot zone.
Planning wtf to do if it hits or is presumed to hit locally (eg. separate tent in the carpark and full PPE).
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Post by bce1 on Mar 14, 2020 10:41:19 GMT 10
Still working in the hot zone. Planning wtf to do if it hits or is presumed to hit locally (eg. separate tent in the carpark and full PPE). Same problem BD. Makes it tricky when your job expects you go into the red zone. Provided work keeps fronting up with the PPE I’m all good - it is a droplet Illness and relatively easy to avoid - but worry is when supplies run low and they try and skimp. |
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Post by norseman on Mar 14, 2020 11:31:30 GMT 10
Still working in the hot zone. Planning wtf to do if it hits or is presumed to hit locally (eg. separate tent in the carpark and full PPE). Those "Red Zones" / "Hot Zones" sounds seriously Evil boys like good luck with that! Sorry blokes but remember you do come from the Era of the Hippocratic Oath so must uphold your pledge!! |
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Post by bce1 on Mar 14, 2020 11:56:05 GMT 10
I’m all good provided there is PPE, once that is gone all bets are off. That oath only goes so far!!!
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Post by frostbite on Mar 14, 2020 12:28:15 GMT 10
All your neighbours are either gay or latte sipping, metro vegan types. Forget the wire, string lumps of meat at regular intervals around your perimeter, and have them patrolled by bikini clad young blonde Vietnamese backpacker types, carrying patrol rifles. |
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Post by spinifex on Mar 14, 2020 13:27:04 GMT 10
 Probably for sale on Alibaba somewhere. More cost effective. More fun. |
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Post by SA Hunter on Mar 14, 2020 13:55:53 GMT 10
Could always get a few Nerf claymores.  |
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Post by SA Hunter on Mar 14, 2020 13:58:43 GMT 10
All your neighbours are either gay or latte sipping, metro vegan types. Forget the wire, string lumps of meat at regular intervals around your perimeter, and have them patrolled by bikini clad young blonde Vietnamese backpacker types, carrying patrol rifles. I'm so glad I have to go to work in 3 min - I could see myself taking this conversation from G, to Pg to M, to MA, to R then finishing XXX. See you all tonight 2345hrs (EST). |
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Post by ygidorp on Mar 14, 2020 19:35:17 GMT 10
All your neighbours are either gay or latte sipping, metro vegan types. Forget the wire, string lumps of meat at regular intervals around your perimeter, and have them patrolled by bikini clad young blonde Vietnamese backpacker types, carrying patrol rifles. I wasn't going to ask where this bug in location is because I try to be polite, but now I need to know where these patrols are for safety purposes. |
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Post by milspec on Mar 15, 2020 5:04:13 GMT 10
All your neighbours are either gay or latte sipping, metro vegan types. Forget the wire, string lumps of meat at regular intervals around your perimeter, and have them patrolled by bikini clad young blonde Vietnamese backpacker types, carrying patrol rifles. Awesome, we could swing by and pick up, meat, patrol rifles and ladies! I would support this course of action. 🤣🥰👭🥩 |
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Post by bug on Mar 15, 2020 14:35:29 GMT 10
Concertina wire is farking horrible. Storing and moving it is an absolute pain. |
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Post by SA Hunter on Mar 15, 2020 19:36:46 GMT 10
Concertina wire is farking horrible. Storing and moving it is an absolute pain. That's why God invented Engineers! |
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