June 30 update:
Lately, it's been really difficult to 'get a read' on what the World Health Organization and CDC have been up to. We got our answer today. Central pharmacies are being informed that the stocks of Tamiflu and Relenza, two drugs that might help with this flu, have been ordered to be set-aside for the CDC, WHO, and other official organizations. This is not a good sign.
This virus is trickling, not gushing, into a full scale pandemic.
The Level 6 warning means it's time for you to get some preparations in place. We're here to give you some help and ideas about how to prepare for a situation where you and your family need to isolate yourselves from contact with others. What if the people who supply the things that we need get sick, or stay home to keep from getting a deadly disease?
This Swine Flu is not seasonal flu. It's not a 'normal' flu. It is a novel influenza virus that is unlikely to be contained for a long time, and it has a good possibility of mutating into a much more deadly form.
Influenza viruses come in "waves" that might be compared to calm/storm. Each wave can become more deadly, and more contagious. Swine Influenza A has the scientific profile to become pandemic. It isn't about what the news people, or non-scientists, are saying on TV. Virologists are greatly concerned by this virus, and they've feared the potential for pandemic for months.
Are you prepared for a disaster and emergency that might interrupt the supply system in the U.S.? If something happens, will you be prepared and have the supplies you need?
Swine flu, or any big disaster anywhere in the country, could curtail the delivery of everything from food, to water and electricity, to fuels to run the trucking industry which delivers our necessities. Swine flu isn't the only thing to consider. Will you be ready to protect yourself and your family if a pandemic, terrorist attack, monster earthquake, or something similar happens? Now we have a crazy Korean dictator (who HAS nuclear weapons!) threatening Nuclear War against the USA. Preparing for national or severe local emergency isn't paranoid, it's common sense.
Will you have masks for protection for your upper respiratory system when you must go out after a disaster, or during a pandemic? Can you make clean water for yourself if the utility workers are home, ill? Can you get news and information if the electricity goes out from lack of critical workers? Be sure you have mask/respirators, a water purifier, a radio and flashlight that do not require batteries, extra food, and essential medical supplies.
When it happens, it will be far too late to plan! Illness of critical workers, such as truck drivers and utility workers, could cause lack of delivery for essentials such as; chlorination supplies for water systems, food, medicine, and other essentials.
Pandemics (and many disastrous flu epidemics) have been with us throughout history. Modern times give us no immunity from a pandemic flu. In fact, we are far past-due for the next disease pandemic. As you know, there is no cure for influenza. Modern medicine has not accomplished that!
In 1918, the Spanish Flu, a mutated animal-human Influenza, struck around the world. This flu started in the bird and animal population, but mutated into a very lethal human form.
THIS INFLUENZA KILLED MORE PEOPLE THAN EVERY SINGLE WAR IN HISTORY, COMBINED!
Everyone should do the common sense thing: Be prepared for a disaster. Bad things don't happen only to people in other countries, or to poor people.
We are vulnerable to nuclear war, biological terrorism, weather disaster, earthquake, and many other disasters. Most don't dwell on the possibility. But we don't want to be foolish, either. We want to prepare to take care of our families. Hurricane Katrina covered only a tiny geographic area. What if something big happened? Our country would shut down.
If a pandemic flu hits, the way to avoid serious illness and death is to isolate yourself from the infection, wear protective masks when you go out in public. You will need extra food, and a way to get clean water when the utilities begin to have problems. You need masks for when you are forced to go out. You need some lights and a radio, preferably not the kind that depends on batteries. The batteries will be sold out! Please look at our supply lists. They include most of what you will need, with an eye to budget.
From the U.S. Government:
The United States government is not prepared to provide necessities to every community in this country should a pandemic strike. Nor do most local governments have a pandemic plan to address the needs of their own communities in such a crisis. It will be up to each individual and family to make their own preparations for a pandemic threat.
Government officials somewhat play down these risks, to prevent panic and financial repercussions, but in the background is intense preparation. They aren't preparing to take care of you, though; they're preparing to take care of their interest, making sure that the government functions.
This is chilling. What will happen in your life if there is a pandemic? Will you go to work? Will the schools close? Will there be food in the stores? Heat? Electricity? Clean water? What if someone in your family gets sick? Some of these are out of our control. But some, you CAN do something about.
The question is: Are you going to prepare for pandemic disease, and weather disaster, earthquake, and a myriad of other disasters, or just take the chance that it won't happen?
Don't wait for the government or the media to tell you what to do. Then it will be too late.
Reasonable people should be able to imagine that for weeks that each of us could be "on our own" without gasoline, groceries, water, and power. The idea is frightening, but you can manage, just as they did in days past.
As Americans, we have a tendency to think that bad things only happen in the third world, like the terrible Asian Tsunami. Some think they are above a pandemic or other disaster that could interrupt our supply chain. Are we magically protected from the unthinkable? Of course not.
If there is a little snowstorm, humans converge on the grocery stores and strip the shelves of food and water. They act like they'll be trapped in their homes for months. Well, what if they really could be trapped inside for a period of time, either by quarantine or by the choice of saving their lives? The supply of necessities could be gone in the blink of an eye, and the stores could stay empty for weeks. There could be a frightening and sickening competition for food, taking place in an infectious public environment.
Do you think you will just quickly buy your supplies when a pandemic starts, or if there is a giant West Coast earthquake, or a Tsunami on the East Coast similar to the huge Asian Tsunami? (The fault conditions are the same on our East Coast as in the Asian Tsunami area) Any of these will put a screeching halt to supply!
There are hundreds of thousands of "preppers" who follow disaster planning. They will be on this website, and in the stores, like birds on bugs, grabbing everything in their path. Even worse for the "late shoppers", U.S. Emergency Planning allows the government to immediately enforce statutes to prevent mass purchasing, and they will do it, instantly, with police and National Guard in stores to limit your purchases!
Good luck getting your supply of food to stay inside your home during a pandemic, when a big old cop is standing there to make sure the store manager limits quantities. To complicate further, people in the stores could already be infected.
Medical supplies could be inadequate and hospitals could be completely overwhelmed. A disease outbreak could cause great stress on the modern medical system. Many medical workers have already decided they will go home during a pandemic, rather than expose their families. The hospitals will be hotbeds of disease, so other care for other illnesses will be out of the question. You can see that if hundreds of thousands (or even millions) are gravely ill, there are not enough hospitals to treat the sick.
Essential workers in food manufacturing, trucking and delivery, grocery, water and electric utilities, transportation, will go home, either because they are sick or to avoid contagion. Do you think the truck drivers will continue to take your lettuce to the grocery store, or will they go home and "batten down the hatches" to avoid exposure to pandemic flu and to protect their families from hungry intruders?
The electric grid, water company, and other utilities will be in big trouble, almost certain to fail.
Severe social disruption is going to occur when food shortages begin.
Will FEMA come to rescue us? I hope we've learned not to expect that! You need to have a plan now to protect your family. Preparing for swine flu will also prepare you for other possible disasters.
To add a further complication, our government may try to enforce quarantines around cities during a swine flu pandemic. This will slow down the spread of the disease. Unfortunately, this could actually make the pandemic last longer, leaving even more households without food.
Around the world, during disasters, it has been proven time and time again that the official infrastructure collapses during extreme stress. Our natural 'wiring' for survival and family protection rules over the greater good. Our survival instincts keep us alive, as they kept our grandfather, and his grandfather, alive. No one wants to die of a horrible disease for a job, nor do they want to expose their family. However distasteful you find this, it's true. It's chilling to think how easily America could be shut down.
The federal government is telling the states and local communities to make disaster planning a #1 priority! Local communities and state governments will not be able to handle a pandemic or a big disaster, not in a million years. Don't count on a disaster worker coming to your door with food and supplies. It won't happen.
We live on an uncertain planet. A disaster could happen at any time. A bit of self-sufficiency is only common sense. Stay alert and keep your preparations in good condition.
Please use the "send this site to a friend" button at the bottom of the page to send this site to friends, co-workers, and relatives. The more people who prepare, the better for all of us!
It really isn't so hard when you take it one step at a time. You can keep your family safe and secure from a pandemic, weather disaster, earthquake, or other disaster if you prepare now!
Please add us to your "favorite places" or bookmarks, so you can easily refer back to the lists as you prepare. We always appreciate being saved in your bookmarks, or reached on your address bar, since this saves us the extra costs we incur each time you click on us on a search page. We know some of you refer to the lists repeatedly, and we WANT you to!
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Prepare yourself and your family for self-reliance. Get the supplies you will need if we have a collapse. It seems hard to believe, but many things are in the mix right now to make it happen.
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