China Virus Threat 2020

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RS I am glad that you have a belief system and group to contact and rely on. Mentally that is very important when under this kind of stress. Remember that the group is still there even if not gathered in one spot. Skype, e-mail, and all the other media contact offerings are great for staying in contact. A time for Twitter and Instagram to be used to a real purpose and not entertainment.

I hit 70 two months back, have coronary artery disease, survived a massive heart attack 16 years ago, am meds dependent over that, also have type 2 diabetes and use meds to control that. Oddly, I am probably more healthy than at any other time in my life other than when in the military. All of my "problems" are under control, but I am still in the extreme high risk group for this particular virus.

My greatest prepper problem now is that most of the foods we use for long term survival will eventually kill me. I might be one of the only preppers known that does not have wheat, flour, beans, pasta, potatoes and rice as standard fare. My stores consist of tons of canned green beans, spinach, mixed veggies and greens and not a can of beans in sight.

Extreme isolation is being stressed so much due to the viability of this virus. the New England Journal of Medicine just released a new study of the live span.

The virus can last as droplet vapor in the air for 3 hours.
It remains alive for 4-6 hours on copper.
It remains alive for 2 days on cardboard.
It remains alive to three days on stainless steel and plastic.

that is why they do not want people out and about. If someone sneezes and you walk through the mist cloud 2 hours latter you have been infected and no one was in sight!

You open a door three days after an infected person, then touch your eyes, mouth or nose and you are infected.

The alcohol based sanitizers we use so freely are generally a placebo, this stuff needs to be bleached. No type of alcohol is listed as a cleaning agent for CV.

Those little bits are taken directly from the NEJOM and the CDC and not You tube, CNN, BBC or the Daily Mail.

My normal routine for life is staying at home on my own. Self isolation is my norm. I go out once each week to meet friends for lunch and meet my faith community once each week. One day a week I go to the big box store and buy fresh food, supplies and such.

My new norm is now calling the people I once sat down with on the phone, reading e-mails from my faith group, and going to the store only because I ran out of meds.

I did go to the Kroger store (much like your Aldi) yesterday to pick up meds from the chemist and since I was already there I decided to make a supply run. They had no fresh veg, no canned veg, not a can of soup in the place, canned meat was gone including sardines, which are most folks last choice. No rice, pasta, no dried beans or lintels of any kind, the frozen food isles were stripped and the stock boy was mobbed when he came out with a trolley of cheap frozen cheese pizzas. There is not a potato anywhere in the area, which is home to 1,000,000.

When I left that store I felt like I needed to go through a decontamination tent and be sprayed with bleach!

Now, I have been informed by a trusted source that within two weeks my state will be under MARTIAL LAW and the military will be manning road blocks at the state borders turning back all travelers, the highways system will be closed (the end of hope for a long distance "bug out") Yes, they are actually speaking the words MARTIAL LAW and the majority of the people are agreeing with the decision to legally suspend individual rights.

This is already in motion, the decision has been made. My source has already been informed that part of his job will be taken over by troops and he will be under control of the State military command. The civilian police will be fully militarized.

My state borders on two rivers that have only a dozen bridges crossing so they can actually shut half of it off with a few dozen troops.

The land borders to the south and east will be more tricky, but are doable with more troops. I would actually be much easier if the neighboring states assist and declare their own emergency. The state south of me has twice the number of CV victims as us and should have sealed their borders already.

When I say "state" I am referring to an area of land the size of England up to the Scottish border.

GB is now behind the curve in control of the population by the government for disease prevention. If I were Boris I wold have sealed off London and dropped a nuke on it long ago! London alone contains half of the CV cases in GB.