The coronavirus wager If you buy rice beans and water but it turns out the reports are over hyped or wrong then you have some rice and beans for taco night If you don't buy anything and its worse than we thought you'll be fighting over the last can of beans with Agnes at Costo
Bottled water won't last long if city water supply fails. Naive prepper question: if you buy a 2,000 gallon above-ground swimming pool from Amazon for $150, fill it with water, chlorinate it, duct-tape a tarp on top, & use a siphon, is that a viable water supply?
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I know someone who works at a nearby county's water treatment plant, and he said that all plant employees were told that if the epidemic spreads here they will be encouraged to live (with their families) in a county-owned facility to keep them quarantined and the plant running.
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Setting up quarantined work/live in sites is the way to keep many pieces of key infra working: water plants, electric plants, natural gas facilities, warehouses, and even some office work units. Time to get the mobile home factories in gear to make the adjacent living sites.
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You’re better off keeping a barrel to capture rain water
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That won't work so well in Albuquerque.
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Yea, I'm not sure why anyone expects the water infrastructure to fail. Regarding the pool idea, I wouldn't recommend that as a long-term solution, but would be better than nothing if supply did fail. Managing chlorine levels would be tricky.
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Store the water. Tarp it. Then filter or boil as necessary with a backpacking travel filter
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This is basically a bad flu level event, IMO (Spanish flu was a bad flu event, so still bad). In this case, older people (out of workforce) and people with existing illness (a % not working) are the primary casualties. Some disruption, but not the zombie apocalypse.
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Why specifically older people and people with illness out of work are primary targets? Wouldn't working people in high risk group be more vulnerable since they need to leave the house?
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Bullets, whiskey, and weed are the most valuable commodities in a broken economy.
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