Useful Vaccinations

[Little Lou]

Tetanus - yes. That's a basic, and I make sure to keep up to date with that.

For me, cholera is also basic. While Highlander is 100% right in that these diseases were largely eradicated here before the vaccines, as a historian I know that they were eradicated by sophisticated sewage and plumbing systems (thank you, Mr Bazelguette!) and later by the chlorination of water. Post SHTF these things will disappear, and even the cleanest stream that runs by your house may have dead animals and humans floating in it. Post SHTF we will have nothing to rely on but ourselves, and the precautions we've seen fit to take.

Or not.

Maybe I'm being paranoid, but in defence I can only say this. Before I started prepping seriously I sometimes talked about what we might do - and heard a lot of arguments along the lines of 'you'll never need it', 'it won't help much', 'if things are that bad, what difference will it make?' If I'd listened to those people I wouldn't be a prepper now.

But I am, and if there's something I can do now for zero cost that will give me a chance of a greater edge after SHTF then I'm going to do it. I have loads of gear stashed that I hope I'm never going to need - but I'm stashing it all the same. Since I've found out cholera and typhoid vaccines are free, I want to share that knowledge with those friends here who might approach these things the same way.

We're all free to choose.