Water usage with illness.

[Mortblanc]

Yep it's a fact, and one that preppers tend to lose track of. Terribly sorry about that!

It harks back the the old "death and taxes" thing. Preppers seem to feel that once they are "post event" and shut of TPTB they will be tax free and live forever!

And us old preppers have additional facts to deal with, because when the lights go out we revert to the life expectancy that folks had back when there were no lights to turn on! Just check out the life expectantcies of people in some of the third world nations. Last time I checked even some of the eastern European countries were sitting on age 56!

And oddly enough, that was the life expectancy when my grand dad was born.

Yet we trundle on in the certainty that WE will not be part of the great "90% die off" that is a requirement for the prepper community to presumably flourish "post event".

So the thing Pete has not considered is that no matter how much water he has on hand if there is pandemic to deal with the chances are that there will be no one in the house well enough to go outside and fetch the vast store of water inside.

In the historic past the reason most pandemics raged was due to lack of patient care because of the weakened state/sickness of the care givers.

No one to bring a cool glass of water to prevent the dehydration that was certain due to watery diarrhea associated with many epidemic diseases, probably the most common and most certain killer of all time.