Stocking the cupboards in the event of a pandemic in the USA

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain powdered milk? Is it for drinking - just add water?

- not a prepper but need lattes to survive

My mom used to buy this in the 1980s because, she claimed, she didn't want us to drink milk from "Chernobyl" cows. But really, she was just CHEAP. Yes. You mix it like Koolaid. Its nasty.

Its probably more for adding to baked goods or upping the caloric content of other foods rather than drinking...

I vaguely recall tv ads in the 60s for carnation powdered milk as in drinking it. My parents went thru a stretch where they bought it in bulk and would mix it half and half with regular milk so it would taste better, has a kind of cooked milk flavor otherwise. I've used it to make homemade hot cocoa/chocolate milk mix, once on a long train trip to the west coast where I was too broke to buy food on the train for myself and my 5 yo.

My mom went on a powered milk/budget kick in the 1970s, it was awful! We also had a goat for a while, maybe that's an option?

We also occasionally had to drink powdered milk and had a goat in the 70s. His name was Merlin. I have no idea what my parents were thinking.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone worried about water but does t want to stockpile water in their home, just buy a Sawyer Water Filtration System. It makes water drinkable even if it’s full of disease and bugs...and even poop. It’s like the life straw but makes a bag of potable water. No need to get an entire stockpile of water.

Okay so if I’m quarantined at home with no running water, I do a rain dance?

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone worried about water but does t want to stockpile water in their home, just buy a Sawyer Water Filtration System. It makes water drinkable even if it’s full of disease and bugs...and even poop. It’s like the life straw but makes a bag of potable water. No need to get an entire stockpile of water.

Okay so if I’m quarantined at home with no running water, I do a rain dance?

Go down to the creek and get a bucket of water. They’re filtration systems made for hikers to get potable water anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone worried about water but does t want to stockpile water in their home, just buy a Sawyer Water Filtration System. It makes water drinkable even if it’s full of disease and bugs...and even poop. It’s like the life straw but makes a bag of potable water. No need to get an entire stockpile of water.

Okay so if I’m quarantined at home with no running water, I do a rain dance?

Go down to the creek and get a bucket of water. They’re filtration systems made for hikers to get potable water anywhere.

Seems easier to stockpile water.

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I was at Costco today and the number of people there buying incredible amounts of food was mind boggling. I go to Costco about every 10 days and I've never seen likes like this outside of Thanksgiving. While it could be that everyone else just ate themselves out of house and home, too, it seemed weird. Even the older folks who usually buy three items had full carts.

Water was very popular. So were toilet paper and paper towels. And then snack foods like chips and cookies. I did see one guy with three items -- three HUGE packs of kitty litter.

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Anonymous wrote:I am delaying the purchase of frozen vegetables. We eat fresh vegetables because I hate canned and frozen. I don’t want to stock up, then end up throwing it out if we don’t get an outbreak here.

I did stock up on meats, paper products and personal care items. I need to go to the pharmacy and refill some things.

We don’t buy bottled water, and I don’t plan to start now.

You can always get some frozen veggies and then use them in soup or a casserole where they are well cooked. When you use them, buy a few more.

I have to say that frozen veggies have gotten a lot better since we were kids. Still hate canned, tho.

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I was at the grocery store (Giant) at 7:30am today and there were lots of folks shopping. It’s usually very empty at that hour!

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone worried about water but does t want to stockpile water in their home, just buy a Sawyer Water Filtration System. It makes water drinkable even if it’s full of disease and bugs...and even poop. It’s like the life straw but makes a bag of potable water. No need to get an entire stockpile of water.

Okay so if I’m quarantined at home with no running water, I do a rain dance?

Go down to the creek and get a bucket of water. They’re filtration systems made for hikers to get potable water anywhere.

Seems easier to stockpile water.

Sure but you’re afraid of water outage, what happens if you’re out of water longer than you are prepared for? You have no filtration system. You can come up with what if’s all day long.

Here’s what I expect to happen: water and power will be fine. Illness related items will run out. Things that bring fever down. Tissues. Cold medicine. That sort of thing. This isn’t a war, we aren’t having our power plants bombed. Yes people can be sick but enough cases are mild that we will have folks keeping utilities running. The problem will come with a run on cold related stuff. This is because we have literally no one with immunity. The difference between this and all other human disease is that some humans have had other diseases so that slows the spread. With Covid-19 literally no one has had it so the entire population can get it. That’s why, for example the Korean psychiatric hospital has nearly every patient infected. Every human on Earth (with rare exceptions of random mutations that make some immune) can get it. I’m more concerned about my kids wiping their nose raw without soft tissues and having no Motrin - that sort of thing.

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Anonymous wrote:You want to stock up now, before panic buying hits.

+1. I’ve done a bit. No need to go crazy or anything, but picking up a few extra non-perishable items each trip to the grocery store seems sensible to me at this point. It can always go to the food bank if this all blows over and it turns out I have accumulated too much.

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This title made me laugh. Of course the most obese nation in the world is worried about running out of food.

The bigger issue is what will all of the Starbucks addicts do? God forbid they should have to drink regular coffee at home.

Nespresso at home. Ordered lots all set.

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Water, cans of food, dry goods like cereal.

No need to run out today! This is just something to keep in mind if coronavirus cases in your state start to spike. It might never happen, so relax for now.

- microbiologist.

How would coronavirus affect water supplies?

You don’t see it everyday... microbiologist expert on pantry stocking and emergency preparedness. Is it something they teach them, otherwise why is he she signing like it makes her his advice more valuable then anybody else here? Just curious whats the nest post will be on signed by them? Fashion? Lawn?... trust me, don’t buy blue shirts, signed microbiologist.

Is i see them talking virus, bacteria then you got my attention, but every other area, your guess as good as my cat’s.

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This title made me laugh. Of course the most obese nation in the world is worried about running out of food.

The bigger issue is what will all of the Starbucks addicts do? God forbid they should have to drink regular coffee at home.

Nespresso at home. Ordered lots all set.

Is this you George Cluny?

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In Wuhan, they are letting one person per household out once a week to get food. So maybe calm down?

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What would a quarantine in the US look like? I can’t imagine anything totally shutting down like China.

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Anonymous wrote:What would a quarantine in the US look like? I can’t imagine anything totally shutting down like China.

Mostly because, unlike China, Americans would not obey a lockdown, and the government would not enforce it ruthlessly.

Which is why proportionally, more Americans will die when it breaks out here.