Are you preparing for a possible Covid-19 outbreak at home?

[CalGalTraveler]

We have food stock on hand already because of earthquake risk. We've got a freezer full of meat and seafood and a propane bbq. We can work from home if needed.

I worry more about my kids at university.

 

[WVBaker]

Different era but nonetheless, works just the same with a little paraphrasing.

"There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is in the middle ground
between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the
dimension of imagination. [Political content removed.]

 

[bluehende]

Was going to get prepared for it but woke up this morning to find out the VP has been appointed the Covid czar! Feel much better now. Besides, as soon as things start warming up in April the problem will go away!

There is no warm weather experience with this virus yet. While likely to at least diminish there is no direct evidence that warm weather will get rid of the problem.

 

[CalGalTraveler]

Not panicking [Political content removed.]. Hurricane Dorian never came close to Alabama - [Political content removed.]

I believe the scientists and doctors who are just trying to do their job.

 

[PamMo]

Some data on mortality rates in China, as reviewed in JAMA article.

Will coronavirus kill you? Why fatality rates for COVID-19 vary wildly depending on age, gender, medical history and country

President Trump, based on what he called a ‘hunch,’ suggested this week that the WHO coronavirus fatality rate was incorrect.

www.marketwatch.com

 

[Panina]

First case in the U.S. where they cannot trace to foreign contact. Unknown how this person caught this and who this person infected including health care workers.. The Sacramento hospital waited 4 days before testing for corona and it took days to get test results.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta just reported that the U.S. government is not aggressively testing/surveilling cases so numbers are likely under-reported. [Political content removed.]

CDC Confirms New Case of Coronavirus in Solano County | KQED

A new infection of the novel coronavirus in Solano County may be the first case of a person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 in the general public in the United States.

www.kqed.org

No reason to make this political. It is a real issue and if it spreads in the US, imo is likely, it will spread way before election, there is no way to hide the spread.

It is easy to place blame but as we are seeing across the world it has no boundaries.

 

[easyrider]

Breaking news in WA is that the Bothell High School just closed because of Corona Virus.

Bothell High School to remain closed Friday over coronavirus concerns

Bothell High School will remain closed Friday after a staffer's family member was placed in quarantine for possible coronavirus, according to Northshore School District superintendent Michelle Reid. Reid said a staff member at Bothell High School returned to work Monday after a week of...

komonews.com

Bill

 

[rhonda]

FWIW, my husband and I either brought back something from travel in mid-Dec (cruise: Rome to Dubai; yes, many Chinese on board) or caught something locally on on return. It was fully awful stuff! I self-quarantined for three weeks in a relatively empty house ('empty' with respect to groceries), as we'd just returned from travel. My normal supply kept me going ... although I was enormously grateful when a friend left his homemade chicken-everything soup on my porch in the final week. Yummy, very yummy.

Looking back, I figure my living far from the 'normal world' played in my favor. I only make grocery runs every-other-week-or-so anyway and am used to keeping a stocked pantry. If I lived in town and were accustomed to a daily walk to Trader Joe's ... I would have been in greater trouble when the crud hit me suddenly and with force.

 

[caribbeanqueen]

Glad you are feeling better Rhonda. The flu itself is horrendous.
No politics needed, we are all in this together and making it political only divides. Praying this will be contained as much as possible and we will not have widespread Cornonavirus here.

 

[CalGalTraveler]

We should let the scientists and doctors at the CDC, NIH, public health etc. do their jobs. +1 The disease knows no political boundaries and politicians (on all sides) should stay out of this.

 

[bogey21]

You should also lay in a decent inventory of OTC meds. Aspirin, Tylenol, large bags is Ricola cough drops, Allegra, Benedryl, cough meds containing guaifenesin as an expectorant and Sudafed.

At one time I was on an aspirin a day regime recommended by my Doctor. Other than that I don't think I have ever used any of the OTC meds listed above...

George

 

[Talent312]

No reason to make this political. It is a real issue and if it spreads in the US (imo is likely), it will spread way before election...

But I draw the line at aliens bringing in alien-viruses.
OMO, they should be sent back to Mars where they came from.
... What?... Nevermind. <satire>
.

 

[WinniWoman]

So this thread got me wanting a stand alone freezer again. I really hate my small kitchen freezer. Problem is the best place for it would be the garage (pull right in with the car and one step into the house) but no outlet where it would need to go, so would have to get an electrician. Bummer.....

(We are still waiting for the builder to send an electritian over to finish up on punch list items!)

I do not want it in the basement as there are a lot of stairs. Not conducive to unloading the car and also retrieving food for meals.

Right now all I could do is get rid of the giant ice holder as we do not need so much ice. Gave me just a little bit more room in the tiny freezer.

I am going to get some water for reserves. I hate buying extra(or even any) over the counter meds as I always end up throwing them all out and wasting a lot of money.

Next year maybe a standby generator. I don't think they get a lot of outages here, though, so we will see. I did order an little electric fake wood stove heater for the living room which is coming tomorrow.

Times like this I do miss my former home with all the preparedness and we were so secluded from everyone we could hole up for months on end with no human contact. But we did not want that lifestyle any longer, but it was good for times like this.

Funny how things happen...

 

[WVBaker]

But I draw the line at aliens bringing in alien-viruses.
OMO, they should be sent back to Mars where they came from.
... What?... Nevermind. <satire>
.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... I told you not to say anything.

 

[VacationForever]

We finally decided to stock up today. Husband was out golfing this morning and I hit the stores. Masks were not found anywhere I looked - CVS, Lowes, Albertsons, Smiths, Walmart and Costco. We have a box of surgical masks and a couple of unlabeled masks which look like cardboard material from a while ago so we are good.

I bought 10 cans of SPAM Lite, shelf stable almond milk and evaporated milk from Albertsons. At Costco, I got a large bag of onions, fruit cups, eggs, 2 Mortons marinated tri tip, frozen salmon patties, marinated wild salmon filets and paper products. I am wondering if I should have gotten water - we use filtered water from our fridge, do we really need to get water? Our medicine cabinet is well stocked and did not buy anything new.

We have a couple of club events and dinner parties with friends planned over the next couple of weeks, and have decided against going to shows and such. We still golf regularly but we have definitely stopped going to the gym and instead, use our home exercise equipment. Even though we don't have any reported cases around us but what we don't know, we don't know...

 

[Talent312]

So this thread got me wanting a stand alone freezer again.

We have a fridge in our garage (leftover from our kitchen remodel).
But we only use it for homemade blueberry pies, ice cream, and beer.
I 'spose that stuff would be useful for a self-quarantine.

 

[Glynda]

Yesterday, I tried Walmart, Lowes, Walgreens, CVS, Target, Amazon (gouging) and grocery stores for masks. I found a box of 3M N95 masks at regular price at Nappa Auto Parts. I think at this point parts and paint stores, perhaps some garden supply stores that have a big inventory of spray chemicals, are the best bets.

 

[Glynda]

We have a little freezer but it's loaded as it usually is. My mother just got over pneumonia in January and we have to take precautions.

 

[Brett]

But I draw the line at aliens bringing in alien-viruses.
OMO, they should be sent back to Mars where they came from.
... What?... Nevermind. <satire>
.

certainly better than the zombie virus outbreaks

 

[CalGalTraveler]

With a run on masks in local stores after the Camp Fire smoke we found our n95 masks from a local industrial supply shop.

 

[Panina]

So this thread got me wanting a stand alone freezer again. I really hate my small kitchen freezer. Problem is the best place for it would be the garage (pull right in with the car and one step into the house) but no outlet where it would need to go, so would have to get an electrician. Bummer.....

(We are still waiting for the builder to send an electritian over to finish up on punch list items!)

I do not want it in the basement as there are a lot of stairs. Not conducive to unloading the car and also retrieving food for meals.

Right now all I could do is get rid of the giant ice holder as we do not need so much ice. Gave me just a little bit more room in the tiny freezer.

I am going to get some water for reserves. I hate buying extra(or even any) over the counter meds as I always end up throwing them all out and wasting a lot of money.

Next year maybe a standby generator. I don't think they get a lot of outages here, though, so we will see. I did order an little electric fake wood stove heater for the living room which is coming tomorrow.

Times like this I do miss my former home with all the preparedness and we were so secluded from everyone we could hole up for months on end with no human contact. But we did not want that lifestyle any longer, but it was good for times like this.

Funny how things happen...

You might consider one of the smaller freezers, basically counter height. I am getting a Danby 4.3 cubic ft and putting it in my laundry area using the top as a table. I use to have the skinny tall one with 5.3 cubic. It broke so opted for this one and will just be more selective on what I get.

 

[Panina]

We finally decided to stock up today. Husband was out golfing this morning and I hit the stores. Masks were not found anywhere I looked - CVS, Lowes, Albertsons, Smiths, Walmart and Costco. We have a box of surgical masks and a couple of unlabeled masks which look like cardboard material from a while ago so we are good.

I bought 10 cans of SPAM Lite, shelf stable almond milk and evaporated milk from Albertsons. At Costco, I got a large bag of onions, fruit cups, eggs, 2 Mortons marinated tri tip, frozen salmon patties, marinated wild salmon filets and paper products. I am wondering if I should have gotten water - we use filtered water from our fridge, do we really need to get water? Our medicine cabinet is well stocked and did not buy anything new.

We have a couple of club events and dinner parties with friends planned over the next couple of weeks, and have decided against going to shows and such. We still golf regularly but we have definitely stopped going to the gym and instead, use our home exercise equipment. Even though we don't have any reported cases around us but what we don't know, we don't know...

I stocked up today so have what I need in my pantry. I have two functions this weekend and am going. My other half refuses to stop doing stuff unless an outbreak locally occurs. My reason for stocking up is when an outbreak occurs the shelves will be bare in the stores.

Basically right now, unless you close your door and do not leave and live in a detached house, and do not leave to get the mail and do not get packages there is no way to 100% protect yourself from getting it. Oh and the things you purchased in the last 9 days or the things you touched already, the virus can be lingering in your home. You just never know but meanwhile I am not waiting to be sick. I am living.

If and when the time comes and we are told to stay home, I am ready. I pray everyone I know will be ok. Two years ago I lost dad ultimately to the flu so I understand the risks. He was 94.

 

[WinniWoman]

You might consider one of the smaller freezers, basically counter height. I am getting a Danby 4.3 cubic ft and putting it in my laundry area using the top as a table. I use to have the skinny tall one with 5.3 cubic. It broke so opted for this one and will just be more selective on what I get.

Yes- I did look at small and inexpensive chest freezers as well. It’s just that no matter what the only outlet is right in front of our step to the house from in the garage and would block it.

 

[WinniWoman]

One thing we do have a bucket of 25 year shelf life emergency food so that’s something. We only have a couple of masks. Been reusing them over and over again when we go in the basement due to the radon.

 

[Panina]

Yes- I did look at small and inexpensive chest freezers as well. It’s just that no matter what the only outlet is right in front of our step to the house from in the garage and would block it.

Out there idea, use as a side table and cover with a beautiful piece of fabric. This way short term you can put somewhere else.