25 tips on avoiding pandemic flu

[Mortblanc]

The only way I know of avoiding a pandemic of any kind is self-quarantine for the entire family (this means NO ONE leaves or enters the house). The length of the quarantine depends on the size of the city/village where the family lives. In our town of 2000, I figure 4 weeks should be sufficient for us.

Families should have food supplies and medication adequate for the timeframe that they need to self-quarantine.

Remember, virii can be transmitted on paper too, so taking your mail from the mailbox with disposable gloves and steaming the mail before you touch it could prevent exposure.

What if the disease has a gestation time of 21 days?

If the disease takes three weeks to exhibit symptoms, and a week to prove fatal, then you will be venturing forth among people that are still carriers and have not shown symptoms.

You spend 4 weeks in isolation, come out and find that a week latter folk are dropping over.

4 weeks latter you whole family is dead.

The most well known pandemics have long gestation periods or an intermediate carrier and debilitating symtoms.

This creates waves of sickness that sweep through the population, espically traveling from patient to caregiver and from caregiver to the next series of patients, who will suffer through without caregivers.

Pandemics that are of fast gestation and have 90-100% fatality die out within the originating populations and never have a chance to spread.

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I would think that one would need to remain in isolation for at least a month after the death of the last victem, which might take 4-6 months of isolation before the waves of sickness stop.

Then you have to weatch for its return once travel through a region resumes.