I think we all learned a valuable lesson here...

[Beerus]

WE NEED TO STOCK UP ON MILLIONS OF ROLLS OF TOILET PAPER!!!!


But in all seriousness, we all need to have stock ready. Even though this virus isn't as bad as the media is claiming, it has closed a lot of businesses and a lot of people are out of work.

The best way to be prepared for something like this is to have at least 3 months worth of savings that will cover bills, food, and supplies. Most people live paycheck to paycheck which is bad. Also having a pantry with food that lasts a long time like rice, beans, canned items, and dried soups. Learning how to pickle fresh foods is a good idea. Many of these things last 2 to 4 years. Water is a big one. If the water supply ever stopped for some reason or became contaminated, having water stocked up is a good idea. There are cheap 1$ gallons out there. Just buying a few a week will add up. If you keep them in a cool, dry place they will last a few years. Some overlooked things people tend not to think about are vitamins, hydrogen peroxide, rubbing alcohol, matches, batteries, first aid kits, and so on.

I think having a three month supply at all times is ideal. While I was not prepared, I still always overbuy stuff like cat food, cat litter, and pantry items like pasta and sauce so I can go without buying food for awhile if I had to. With how easily people panic in these situations, they end up becoming more scary than the virus itself. It isn't a bad idea to have a gun on hand if it is legal to own one where you live.

So I think we all learned a lesson... The only people that were probably prepared for this were those nuts waiting on the zombie apocalypse. lol

Do you plan on doing anything to be better prepared in the future?

 

[LividJay]

From a nurse who works at John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland:

Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand...

It has to do with RNA sequencing.... I.e. genetics.

Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year... you get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.

Novel viruses can come from animals.... the WHO tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then it’s a problem, Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it off.

Now.... sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, thats what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s gonna be..

H1N1 was deadly....but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. It’s RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.

Fast forward.

Now, here comes this Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”

This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity). Took off like a rocket. And this was because, Humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.

And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs..

That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of influenza.... this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater...And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L....which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.

We really have no tools in our shed, with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.

Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, till the Sweating Sickness that plagued his time had passed...(honestly...I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation...

And let me end by saying....right now it’s hitting older folks harder... but this genome is so slippery...if it mutates again (and it will). Who is to say, what it will do next.

Be smart folks... acting like you’re unafraid is so not sexy right now.

#flattenthecurve. Stay home folks... and share this to those that just are not catching on.

 

[Beerus]

From a nurse who works at John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland:

So what I gather is, this virus could go all super saiyan on us if the right (or wrong) person catches it?

 

[LividJay]

So what I gather is, this virus could go all super saiyan on us if the right (or wrong) person catches it?

This isn't even it's final form.

 

[Beerus]

This isn't even it's final form.

That needs to be a meme!

 

[Beerus]

good enough lol

 

[India Actual]

tbh until we get a vaccine or you get it then there's nothing we can do except self-isolate to protect ourselves. H1N1 eventually became part of our normal flu cycle so now we're good friends but THIS F'N GUY RIGHT HERE! No one even invited him to the party!

 

[Beerus]

tbh until we get a vaccine or you get it then there's nothing we can do except self-isolate to protect ourselves. H1N1 eventually became part of our normal flu cycle so now we're good friends but THIS F'N GUY RIGHT HERE! No one even invited him to the party!

I had that one, it suuuuucked. I actually went to the ER I felt so bad and the doctor was like "eh, nothing you can do now but wait it out" lol I drank so much orange juice, water and took vitamin C on top of that, felt 100% in like 3 days. Normally if I take in that amount of vitamin C I have a Majin Puu episode and it didn't happen so my body used it.

 

[Punkhead]

I thought the lesson was that Fallout lied and that TP is the currency to use instead of Bottle Caps

 

[LividJay]

I thought the lesson was that Fallout lied and that TP is the currency to use instead of Bottle Caps

You could lose your entire fortune with a heavy downpour.

 

[Punkhead]

You could lose your entire fortune with a heavy downpour.

The way it has been where I live at this is very true