Wuhan virus (coronavirus) arrives in the USA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s on your shopping list in case of quarantine? Besides canned food and peanut butter..

Coffee, Tea, Pancake mix, Flour, Sugar, Powdered milk, Rice, Quinoa, Pasta, Oatmeal, plus extra frozen vegetables, fruit, & meat in the freezer.

+1 to what pp lists, but also you may want to just buy the groceries you usually buy but just multiple weeks worth. With the exception of fresh veggies and fruits, most of the things we buy can last a long time in the fridge or freezer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s on your shopping list in case of quarantine? Besides canned food and peanut butter..

Coffee, Tea, Pancake mix, Flour, Sugar, Powdered milk, Rice, Quinoa, Pasta, Oatmeal, plus extra frozen vegetables, fruit, & meat in the freezer.

In severe quarantine, workers may not be able to get to power or water plants, so you could have severe disruptions.

So don’t count on frozen food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s on your shopping list in case of quarantine? Besides canned food and peanut butter..

Coffee, Tea, Pancake mix, Flour, Sugar, Powdered milk, Rice, Quinoa, Pasta, Oatmeal, plus extra frozen vegetables, fruit, & meat in the freezer.

In severe quarantine, workers may not be able to get to power or water plants, so you could have severe disruptions.

So don’t count on frozen food.

Or effective law enforcement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s on your shopping list in case of quarantine? Besides canned food and peanut butter..

Coffee, Tea, Pancake mix, Flour, Sugar, Powdered milk, Rice, Quinoa, Pasta, Oatmeal, plus extra frozen vegetables, fruit, & meat in the freezer.

In severe quarantine, workers may not be able to get to power or water plants, so you could have severe disruptions.

So don’t count on frozen food.

Or effective law enforcement.

Wuhan never lost power or water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s on your shopping list in case of quarantine? Besides canned food and peanut butter..

Coffee, Tea, Pancake mix, Flour, Sugar, Powdered milk, Rice, Quinoa, Pasta, Oatmeal, plus extra frozen vegetables, fruit, & meat in the freezer.

In severe quarantine, workers may not be able to get to power or water plants, so you could have severe disruptions.

So don’t count on frozen food.

Or effective law enforcement.

So we’ve gone from expecting a virus to expecting complete anarchy?
Can we start a new thread for the speculation and save this one for the actual news updates?

[Anonymous]

I would think essential workers would be exempted from the quarantine, like they are in China. You don't need to have every single person in quarantine to reduce transmission. If we don't have power, water, police or firefighters, the virus will be the least of our problems. Do you actually think our entire society will break down?

[Anonymous]

I could see some entrepreneur already gaming out how to keep kids prepping for TJ when area schools are closed — as they inevitably will be in a couple of months.

[Anonymous]

Has the pp who was trying to send masks to her parents near Wuhan updated recently? I wonder how her parents fared.

[Anonymous]

Will this force me to shop at Safeway??

Signed,
North Arlington

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s on your shopping list in case of quarantine? Besides canned food and peanut butter..

Coffee, Tea, Pancake mix, Flour, Sugar, Powdered milk, Rice, Quinoa, Pasta, Oatmeal, plus extra frozen vegetables, fruit, & meat in the freezer.

In severe quarantine, workers may not be able to get to power or water plants, so you could have severe disruptions.

So don’t count on frozen food.

Or effective law enforcement.

So we’ve gone from expecting a virus to expecting complete anarchy?
Can we start a new thread for the speculation and save this one for the actual news updates?

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Not anarchy. Just the possibility that law enforcement could be strained.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s on your shopping list in case of quarantine? Besides canned food and peanut butter..

Coffee, Tea, Pancake mix, Flour, Sugar, Powdered milk, Rice, Quinoa, Pasta, Oatmeal, plus extra frozen vegetables, fruit, & meat in the freezer.

+1 to what pp lists, but also you may want to just buy the groceries you usually buy but just multiple weeks worth. With the exception of fresh veggies and fruits, most of the things we buy can last a long time in the fridge or freezer.

Buy things you would normally eat. If you hate milk, powdered milk is a waste.

What do you buy for snowstorms and hurricane prep?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
There’s just no point in panicking about it. Get your food, your meds, tampons/pads, TP and maybe some fun things for the kids in case it does
Italy was pretty sudden. Since the U.S. is doing essentially no testing it could be the same way here. All of a sudden there's a cluster of pneumonia and, boom, it's here.

It is in one area of Italy. Not the entire country. And Italy is much smaller than the US.
Could it all of a sudden boom in the DC area? Yes, but it isn’t going to happen to the whole country at once and it’s impossible to predict where it could start. I’m not sure why you are so hell bent on convincing everyone they need to hoard supplies. I’m guessing you’re the reason medical professionals can’t get face masks.

Keep things in perspective:
1. Italy is tinny comparing to USA. Italy is ~301 000 sq kilometers. California is ~403 000sq km.
So Italy is smaller then California!!!
2. Italy population ~ 62 million. More less. If you combined NY and CA you would get that many people.
3. Such a small area so densely populated calls for careful measures.
4. It is good prevention there but we just have different reality. Most people had flu shots, we have lots of outpatient facilities, we have telecommute systems in place, food delivery systems, and minimal public transportation and lots of people live in SFH unlike in Italy that it is mostly appt buildings. We are way less densely populated.
5. Kids do not contract this thing much, adults can switch to telecommute when needed to ride it out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A federal plan to house cruise ship passengers who tested positive for the coronavirus at a facility in Alabama was met with a resounding no thanks by state officials who may have forced authorities to shelve the idea.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/02/23/coronavirus-south-korea-president-orders-red-alert/4849614002/

As the OP of the travel thread on Rethinking Business travel, I got lots of snarky comments that I must have an untreated anxiety disorder or am paranoid for reconsidering travel to Alabama for three weeks of training in April. I wasn't particularly concerned with Alabama itself, just all the unknowns during a dynamic time. This kind of proves the point.

No, you are still overly anxious.

Is she?

https://nbc25news.com/news/local/325-people-in-michigan-being-monitored-for-coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR1eTy-6tWQbM-fvqMr8Tgl1bg0K65CxoahRfyWbfD3KWZyDEHVNAcyiaUA

Yes. You could get infected anywhere. DC is an international city with people coming and going everywhere. I watched a kid in Harris Teeter yesterday pick his nose and wipe it on the side of the redbox machine. Fixating on one place where you could get sick but otherwise going about your normal business is silly. If you aren't worried enough to start keeping your kids home from school, but fixate on travel, your anxiety is irrational.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s on your shopping list in case of quarantine? Besides canned food and peanut butter..

Coffee, Tea, Pancake mix, Flour, Sugar, Powdered milk, Rice, Quinoa, Pasta, Oatmeal, plus extra frozen vegetables, fruit, & meat in the freezer.

In severe quarantine, workers may not be able to get to power or water plants, so you could have severe disruptions.

So don’t count on frozen food.

Or effective law enforcement.

So we’ve gone from expecting a virus to expecting complete anarchy?
Can we start a new thread for the speculation and save this one for the actual news updates?

Or... you could start a new thread “Virus in the news” if that is all you care and that would be more accurate use since this thread is titled “Virus arrives in the US so all the international news and inks and stats are “technically” off topic, while discussing local preparedness and keeping emotions down focusing on facts, logic and keeping things in perspective might be just at home here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s on your shopping list in case of quarantine? Besides canned food and peanut butter..

Coffee, Tea, Pancake mix, Flour, Sugar, Powdered milk, Rice, Quinoa, Pasta, Oatmeal, plus extra frozen vegetables, fruit, & meat in the freezer.

+1 to what pp lists, but also you may want to just buy the groceries you usually buy but just multiple weeks worth. With the exception of fresh veggies and fruits, most of the things we buy can last a long time in the fridge or freezer.

Buy things you would normally eat. If you hate milk, powdered milk is a waste.

What do you buy for snowstorms and hurricane prep?

What is powered milk? You just add water to it? I’ve never seen this.