Coronavirus prep
kshama2001
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My OH keeps telling me to stock up on Fritos 
I've been seeing stories like these, which are encouraging me to start stocking up for the eventuality of price increases or temporary shortages:
I'm thinking about shelf stable milk. I think reconstituted powdered milk is gross, but have had some ascetic milk that wasn't bad. Don't remember the brand. Anyone have recommendations for brands and best place to buy for best prices?
I was in south Florida for the dreadful 2005 hurricane season, so I believe in preparing for times when stores are not available, although as time has passed, I've done less stocking up.
I've been seeing stories like these, which are encouraging me to start stocking up for the eventuality of price increases or temporary shortages:
- P&G Says 17,600 Products Could Be Affected By Coronavirus In China, Highlighting Supply Chain Risk
- I heard stories about panic buying in New York and Washington states on the news, so I do not have the exact links.
I'm thinking about shelf stable milk. I think reconstituted powdered milk is gross, but have had some ascetic milk that wasn't bad. Don't remember the brand. Anyone have recommendations for brands and best place to buy for best prices?
I was in south Florida for the dreadful 2005 hurricane season, so I believe in preparing for times when stores are not available, although as time has passed, I've done less stocking up.
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While is is mainly on the West coast today in the USA one article said it will be spreading the month of March and April to the rest of the country. Thankfully spring time is coming.7
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I don't trust the aseptic milk.
P&G...what products do I buy of theirs?
Why are we panicking about Covid19? Isn't it just a little bit more virulent than a cold? Why are we panicking?*
*I looked at the WHO site about it, and I just am not feeling the fear about this...I'm more worried about people not vaccinating their kids against the flu to be honest. We've had zoonotic diseases forever...I don't think it's even possible to contain something like this now that people travel. I had a friend return from overseas and they wee encouraged to use hand sanitizer as they left the plane.76 -
We just got some extra dry beans, rice, and gallon jugs of water. We aren't really afraid of the virus, but more of the panicked shoppers that might clear the shelves, lol.42
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DancingMoosie wrote: »We just got some extra dry beans, rice, and gallon jugs of water. We aren't really afraid of the virus, but more of the panicked shoppers that might clear the shelves, lol.
Same for us. I'm not terribly concerned about the virus but of the surrounding panic that will cause empty store shelves and panic about people going out in public. We haven't bought anything yet, but we are going to stock up on things like oats, frozen fruits and veggies, frozen meat, boxed macaroni and cheese, and crackers. And probably flour and sugar so we can still make cookies 19 -
kshama2001 wrote: »My OH keeps telling me to stock up on Fritos
I've been seeing stories like these, which are encouraging me to start stocking up for the eventuality of price increases or temporary shortages:- P&G Says 17,600 Products Could Be Affected By Coronavirus In China, Highlighting Supply Chain Risk
- I heard stories about panic buying in New York and Washington states on the news, so I do not have the exact links.
I'm thinking about shelf stable milk. I think reconstituted powdered milk is gross, but have had some ascetic milk that wasn't bad. Don't remember the brand. Anyone have recommendations for brands and best place to buy for best prices?
I was in south Florida for the dreadful 2005 hurricane season, so I believe in preparing for times when stores are not available, although as time has passed, I've done less stocking up.
I think Horizon is shelf stable and it tastes pretty good. I believe many grocery stores in the US now carry it.8 -
cmriverside wrote: »I don't trust the aseptic milk.
P&G...what products do I buy of theirs?
Why are we panicking about Covid19? Isn't it just a little bit more virulent than a cold? Why are we panicking?*
*I looked at the WHO site about it, and I just am not feeling the fear about this...I'm more worried about people not vaccinating their kids against the flu to be honest. We've had zoonotic diseases forever...I don't think it's even possible to contain something like this now that people travel. I had a friend return from overseas and they wee encouraged to use hand sanitizer as they left the plane.
I'm not panicking, like the poster above, I'm prepping against panicked buyers that might clear the shelves
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/02/worse-than-the-flu-busting-the-coronavirus-myths-face-masks-vaccine-covid-19
Claim: ‘It is no more dangerous than winter flu’
Many individuals who get coronavirus will experience nothing worse than seasonal flu symptoms, but the overall profile of the disease, including its mortality rate, looks more serious. At the start of an outbreak the apparent mortality rate can be an overestimate if a lot of mild cases are being missed. But this week, a WHO expert suggested that this has not been the case with Covid-19. Bruce Aylward, who led an international mission to China to learn about the virus and the country’s response, said the evidence did not suggest that we were only seeing the tip of the iceberg. If borne out by further testing, this could mean that current estimates of a roughly 1% fatality rate are accurate. This would make Covid-19 about 10 times more deadly than seasonal flu, which is estimated to kill between 290,000 and 650,000 people a year globally.32 -
Done and done. The half has not been told. No one knows when the outbreak will end. This thing is not the usual flu and it could mutate many times before/after vaccinations are found. I live out in the middle of nowhere and already food delivery chains are shrinking. The store manager told me so and many of our shelves are bare. I've made a couple big grocery hauls. We can only do what our budgets afford. I have frozen and canned fruit/vege. Soups and broths. I have large bins of legumes and rice. Paper products, bandaids, toiletries. Large canisters of protein powders, dehydrated fruits and vege. Tinned fishes and jerky. Water purifier and tablets. I already have boogie bags prepared with all of the 'uzhe' emergency gear for weather events and power outages that happen during the winter months.
I've taken over a decade of Winter Survival and Cold Weather/First Aid Training courses. I'm ready but I wish everyone out there to remain in good health. Much love to you all.24 -
I'm not stocking up on anything here in the US in a state with no reported cases. That said, I always have ample dried goods and shelf stable foods. We always have costco-quantities of soy milk (no refrigeration needed), quinoa-rice packets, meal pouches (tastybite), ramen, cereal, granola bars, dried fruits (craisens), oatmeal, nuts, baking ingredients (bread, cookies, pie), and soylent. I always keep the pantry full so I'm not tempted to eat out and because I love to bake.18
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I'm personally not that concerned with it for me, my wife or my kids, that much. They are younger and healthier.
But, three things really concern me. One -- from the data I've read, 25% of the cases require extensive health care -- either ICU or hospitalization. Two -- we have the largest population of uninsured people in the US of any developed nation. Third, we also have the least amount of paid sick days. In addition to that, it's worse in transmission because it's easily spread, unlike viruses of the past, even when someone isn't showing symptoms yet.
This will be very bad and kill 100s of thousands. Unfortunately, it's shaping up like a catastrophy that will lay waste to the older that are poor and uninsured or that have preexisting conditions and can't afford healthcare. I pray I'm very wrong, but I don't think I am.40 -
DancingMoosie wrote: »We just got some extra dry beans, rice, and gallon jugs of water. We aren't really afraid of the virus, but more of the panicked shoppers that might clear the shelves, lol.
Same for us. I'm not terribly concerned about the virus but of the surrounding panic that will cause empty store shelves and panic about people going out in public. We haven't bought anything yet, but we are going to stock up on things like oats, frozen fruits and veggies, frozen meat, boxed macaroni and cheese, and crackers. And probably flour and sugar so we can still make cookies
Flour for making bread is at the top of my list
I'm also going to buy canned tuna, peanut butter, rice, beans, shelf stable fruit, etc.
As for P&G products, they make my brand of toilet paper, so I'm definitely buying a big thing of that.5 -
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GaleHawkins wrote: »While is is mainly on the West coast today in the USA one article said it will be spreading the month of March and April to the rest of the country. Thankfully spring time is coming.
What does spring have to do with it?7 -
kshama2001 wrote: »cmriverside wrote: »I don't trust the aseptic milk.
P&G...what products do I buy of theirs?
Why are we panicking about Covid19? Isn't it just a little bit more virulent than a cold? Why are we panicking?*
*I looked at the WHO site about it, and I just am not feeling the fear about this...I'm more worried about people not vaccinating their kids against the flu to be honest. We've had zoonotic diseases forever...I don't think it's even possible to contain something like this now that people travel. I had a friend return from overseas and they wee encouraged to use hand sanitizer as they left the plane.
I'm not panicking, like the poster above, I'm prepping against panicked buyers that might clear the shelves
So far I haven't seen any sign of that, thankfully.
I went out with a friend on Friday who said she had stocked up on lots of things that day, which got me thinking about it. Worst case I have lots of grains and canned goods in my pantry anyway, so toilet paper would probably be the main thing that I should go out and buy just in case. That and cat food.3 -
,kshama2001 wrote: »
CALIFORNIA?!
Seriously though, I didn't realize people were panicking so much until I saw the news this morning that shelves were being emptied at Costcos all around!! LIke, what's going on?! WHY?!
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kshama2001 wrote: »
This is not to panic anyone or anything, but we've only in the past week gotten an effective COVID 19 test to all the states. I'm trying to remember the source. I think it was propublica. Also on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, if you're into that.
I'm not super worried about it, but then again, people come into work sick all the time to save their leave, and it's contagious before you show symptoms and it's probably airborne transmission so...
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I have bought a little more of the stuff we have on hand normally, which includes canned evaporated milk. We only use milk in cooking and coffee, and we never use it fast enough to get through a whole carton before it goes bad. Canned is much less wasteful for us. I actually prefer it undiluted in my coffee (doesn't dilute strong coffee taste). Dilute 1:1 for any other use. I buy Aldi's house brand, but there are many others. Besides that, I just topped off my stores of rice, beans, other pantry staples. I also bought a little extra bacon to put in the freezer. Because, bacon.
ETA: and coffee... usually buy what I need for a week but bought a little extra last week and will do so again this week. It will DEF get used and would make me very sad if we didn't have. Worth planning for the worst on that front.10 -
But...
Okay. I don't have TV and I don't look at the news.
Ya'll - WHY are people stripping grocery shelves? Are we being locked into our houses? Do they think it is going to blow over in a week? Are all the food supply chains being shut down by the government? I don't understand...you guys are kind of freaking me out but I don't really know why.
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p.s. I'm in WA. I guess if anyone I really *should* be panicky? What's with the State of Emergency because one already sick man died?
alllll righty. Time to get off the internet.12 -
cmriverside wrote: »p.s. I'm in WA. I guess if anyone I really *should* be panicky? What's with the State of Emergency because one already sick man died?
alllll righty. Time to get off the internet.
I do not approve of resource hoarding, and I have no more than I normally would have. In Wuhan they did shut people in their houses. They put speakers out on the streets saying people were confined to their houses.
It is fun to think about apocolypse scenarios, though. For some value of "fun."8 -
I'm in Washington state, pretty close to the confirmed cases and yes, I'm a tad worried. Not in a panic, but being cautious. I have little kids and have asthma myself so I don't want any of us catching ANYTHING that could land us in the hospital.
I'm wondering why is everyone stockpiling toilet paper?!?! That is selling out as quick as water around here!17
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