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Coronavirus - what have done to prepare for this ???

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Gwolf said:
Y2K was hyped to be the tragic event of the century. I know people who spent thousands preparing for it. When it finally arrived it turned out to be a non-event.
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Excellent example. The general public are akin to a heard of wild cows. Two get spooked and the rest will stampede not knowing why.
 
billybovine said:
So using that logic. I had a gas leak in my house. I had it fixed. So that was big waste of money because my house did not blow up!!

Just because a lot of people put in a lot of work to get the problem fixed. Does not mean the problem was not real.
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Great analogy, Billy. Y2K was a non event due to the efforts of IT workers and others in the years leading up to the event. Analysis showed where systems would fail, mini test runs proved that they WOULD fail, and the implementation of modifications prevented them from occurring. I was working for a very large Construction company at the time, and it (and competitors) would have ground to a halt on the 1st January if these modifications had not been made. :thumbup:

Pete
 
Peteoz said:
It is obviously the cause, Troop, as a recent US survey of around 1000 people showed that one third of them would not buy Corona due to fears about the “disease”. That’s not having a shot at Americans, as that is probably a global average. Corona beer sales are taking a real hit, and that is a frightening indictment on human gullibility ������

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I know ... Just insane :(
 
Glad to see were back ON -TRACK with this thread :clap::clap::clap: …..thank you administrators :thumbup:...…. Mike :ohyea:
 
It's funny, but a lot of preparation is state of mind. I have evacuated for over 25 or more hurricanes over the years, along with various other problems around the globe. Been caught short a few times, had to ride it out. Things come into real clear perspective when you get a few under the belt. So much so that after Katrina wiped out the Gulf Coast I started asking the young people a a really simple but loaded question; "In the event of a catastrophic event that you have just survived through, what do you need today?" Most had answers that clearly showed they weren't well prepared. Some said minutes for their phone. Others said stockpiling food, etc. I asked again until most realized the today carried weight in the question. A lot of them finally got around to food and shelter. My reply was that in the real sense of the question, if uninjured and in a climate that won't kill you (think hurricane aftermath) that you need air. Period. Tomorrow, more air. About day 3 you begin to perish without fluids. A couple of more weeks, food becomes and issue. In a real and modern disaster I think boredom will cause a lot of people to make poor decisions and pay a price. Work up from the most basic and keep your wits about you.
 
billybovine said:
So using that logic. I had a gas leak in my house. I had it fixed. So that was big waste of money because my house did not blow up!!

Just because a lot of people put in a lot of work to get the problem fixed. Does not mean the problem was not real.
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I don't know where you got that from. I never even suggested the Y2K software problems should not have been fixed. The problems are not the IT department nor the company financial department. The problems are the people that panic the day before Y2K, or Major Hurricane, or in a Stock Market Crash. They go to Wally World and try to stack 15 cases of bottled water on a shopping cart and check out with it. Others are doing the same with canned goods, bread, and anything else. They got the carts loaded down until the shelves are almost empty, then they start fighting for what is left until the Sheriff's Department has to come in, close the stores down, and put armed guards on the doors. All this time they are fighting over bottled water, the water is still on at their homes and they could just fill up as many Igloo Coolers as they want to. Y2K arrives, Hurricanes hits, or whatever........ 2 or 3 days later the trucks are running again and the shelves are full again. Some people even went to the banks or credit union just before Y2K and borrowed a lot of money, getting it in cash, even after the company assured us we would all be paid as usual on payday. The ones causing the panic are the news media that hype every story to get the maximum ratings and the people who panic just before the event.

I have seen it happen plenty of times. The last time was about 12 hours before Hurricane Michael made landfall. Sheriff's Department had to close down the Wally World Super Center and put guards on the doors to stop a riot. Electricity was still on, city water was still working, nobody had even missed a meal yet........... still they started a riot.
 
New article in the WSJ says grocers are preparing for a surge in demand for disinfectants and staple goods. Anyone know how long frozen pizzas last in the freezer.:) ..... Jim
 
Wife has been to two different stores the last few days and says they look like a bomb went off and are wiped out. Hope we have enough TP at home because that seems to be a scarce item!
 
Toilet paper grows on the trees in the deep south..................

Or you can buy a copy of "Stars And Stripes" every morning and use it after you read it, like we did at Ton Sun Nhut. (just don't try to flush it).
 
Saluda said:
You had to pay for the Stars & Stripes ?
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Yeah, I think it was a nickle or something like that. There was usually some laying around the alert shack to read, but lot of times the crew bus went straight to the planes. Certain number were left with our scheduling, but the number of crews we had in country could vary by 20 or 30 in a month. If you wanted one of your own, you spent the nickle. Otherwise, you would be left dealing with the little pack of striking paper in the the C-rats.......... which was fine if you was wiping a piss ant's behind and he had not took any malaria pills recently.

In the interest of keeping this relevant to the topic, wad the newspaper up and then open it back out about 4 times and it is soft as Charmin when you use it.
 
Thinking about getting a back hoe and making dooms day bunker. Once done I can stock up on military grade dry food for the long haul.
 
trikermutha said:
Thinking about getting a back hoe and making dooms day bunker. Once done I can stock up on military grade dry food for the long haul.
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MREs are nasty and taste like preservatives. Buy Mountain House dehydrated hiking supplies. Light weight and long term storage.
 
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