11 March 2013, 10:19
During the last bird flu breakout, I started making some survival notes for my children and grand children and eventually created a web site for them. Since the expected pademic has not yet happened, I never got around to publishing it's existence. The site is called Influenza UK and can be found at .... http://bbirdfluuk.runboard.com/ .
If H5N1 and H1N1 exchange DNA then it will become an enormous game changer. The mortality rate for the last outbreak was over 60%, but it was very difficult to catch in the first place. An H5N1 / H1N1 DNA exchange could mean that the virus could be highly contagious, with the same mortality rate.
The last outbreak differed greatly from the 1918 strain that ended World War 1. That outbreak killed between 20 -40 million people world wide, mainly young adults. The current mutation kills mainly the young with the highest mortality rate among infants and then tapers off to insignificant figures for a 40 year old adult. If you have small children it might be worth browsing the site because it will be extremely difficult to protect them. Children below 3 years cannot wear respirators because their lungs are not powerful enough to overcome the breathing resistance of the filter. The government has already stated that they have no intention of issuing infant respirator cots as happened during World War II. So your infants only hope is what you do about it !.
Bugout as we know it, will be not be possible, because the authorities will impose quarantines and curfews, backed up by the police, army and foreign mercenries. Also if you were hiding out in the woods how would you get any new medication that would automatically be issued to registered people bugging in ?. How are you going to get government issues of food ?. Logic decrees that no-one will be allowed to roam around spreading a virus and the restrictions to stop that will be enforced by the bullet.
Is there anything that can be done to improve your chances ?. I think the first thing is to understand the nature of the beast and how it kills. If you get that far, then decontamination and positive pressure masks start to have some meaning.
I have not updated this site since I created it, but the content remains valid. Maybe it will help someone.
If H5N1 and H1N1 exchange DNA then it will become an enormous game changer. The mortality rate for the last outbreak was over 60%, but it was very difficult to catch in the first place. An H5N1 / H1N1 DNA exchange could mean that the virus could be highly contagious, with the same mortality rate.
The last outbreak differed greatly from the 1918 strain that ended World War 1. That outbreak killed between 20 -40 million people world wide, mainly young adults. The current mutation kills mainly the young with the highest mortality rate among infants and then tapers off to insignificant figures for a 40 year old adult. If you have small children it might be worth browsing the site because it will be extremely difficult to protect them. Children below 3 years cannot wear respirators because their lungs are not powerful enough to overcome the breathing resistance of the filter. The government has already stated that they have no intention of issuing infant respirator cots as happened during World War II. So your infants only hope is what you do about it !.
Bugout as we know it, will be not be possible, because the authorities will impose quarantines and curfews, backed up by the police, army and foreign mercenries. Also if you were hiding out in the woods how would you get any new medication that would automatically be issued to registered people bugging in ?. How are you going to get government issues of food ?. Logic decrees that no-one will be allowed to roam around spreading a virus and the restrictions to stop that will be enforced by the bullet.
Is there anything that can be done to improve your chances ?. I think the first thing is to understand the nature of the beast and how it kills. If you get that far, then decontamination and positive pressure masks start to have some meaning.
I have not updated this site since I created it, but the content remains valid. Maybe it will help someone.