36 years in the scrap business in New York and I don't have to act. Survival, no one gets near me without a mask and social distancing. I researched pandemic survival and viruses long before there was a SARS-CoV-2. Along with the impact of nuclear fallout, chemical weapons, and so on, this is just the second worst scenario that I hoped never to face in my lifetime. I didn't just do the research, I learned about the behavior of viruses in school back in the fucking stone age when practical knowledge was still taught in schools. I also asked questions of actual medical professionals on the basics of dealing with infectious disease back when I was setting up my kit to deal with such a possibility. Back when people who thought like me were called survivalists, and it was treated like a dirty word and made fun of by the cultural and political mainstream. They weren't laughing too hard when they were sitting on the shitter with an old newspaper for toilet paper a few months back. I don't watch TV, I haven't had a working TV in three years and stopped watching network TV around the time shows like Dukes of Hazzard went off the air. I don't take medical advice from TV, politicians of any stripe, internet pundits . I took advantage of things like medical checkups to ask questions, say Doc, I saw that movie Outbreak last weekend..... Back then we were preparing to survive a Soviet attack, and the idea that they might use biological weapons against us. In my kit were Department of Defense pandemic survival kits designed to be used by non medical personnel in an area were there has been a disease outbreak. These are probably 30-35 years old, but are sealed in heavy plastic and are like new. Masks, hand wipes, and a short instruction sheet inside on the basics of hygiene in a pandemic situation. That was my special prep for pandemics, the rest was for global thermonuclear war since it was considered the most likely scenario by most of us at the time. I had things like bleach, and Lysol on hand because they are cleaners, not because I thought I would need them to purify surfaces against the virus. Toilet paper was on the survival basics list right after ammo, food and water The N95's I had on hand because we use them in high dust situations, or when using the grinder. I would buy them by the case, and had a bunch on hand when this struck. Me and my radiation meters all thought we would face The Bomb one day, and still may, but I never seriously thought the 1918 pandemic would happen again, and happen so fucking quickly.qz2026 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:30 pm Jim, the tough guy attitude doesn't work with me. And, I'm not likely to ever visit New York for any reason. Mysterious Babylon... I'd head for the hills myself. You just have no idea what you are talking about. Turn off the TV and do some honest research like you did with your milsurps. And, you again might learn something.
No level of protection is 100%, not even full environmental suits with self contained air supply, shit can happen. The more layers of protection you have the better your chance of avoiding the infection. Masks like the N95, gloves, hand sanitizer, and social distancing are the lowest level of protections, the most basic, and far from 100% effective. What they do is give you some chance of survival, and some chance of survival is still better than no chance at all. I did learn that staying away from people, and the places people have been recently, is the best way to avoid infection. It's not 100% possible to do that in the modern world, but I am doing the best I can. I wasn't born Superman so when I can get an edge on things I take it no matter how small an advantage it might be. I don't tell others what to wear or not to wear unless they are on my property to see me for whatever reason can't be handled over the fucking phone.
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