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Ask HN: How will you prepare for a Covid-like disease in the future?

2 points by tarunupaday ↗ HN
Imagine you have approximately 90 day warning that a disease with similar (or even slightly more dangerous) characteristics than Covid has started spreading in a far away part of world - as far away as Wuhan is from San Francisco.

Knowing what we know about Covid and civilization’s response to it - what will you do to protect yourself and your loved ones?

Some options: * move to an island? different country or jurisdiction? Which one? * move to a country house with food? Meds? Guns? Something else? * continue doing what you do? For it was not so bad?

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PaulHoule
I live in that country house. (Boy I am glad we got the wood stove up and running!)

It didn't stop me from getting Omicron less than 45 days after it was discovered. On the other hand, for me the effects of Omicron were less unpleasant than the Moderna vaccine even if they lasted a little longer.

I was working at home at the time. My wife had it before me, our guess is that she got it from a rider at our horse barn (a socially distant activity.)

My employer has some of the strictest measures against COVID-19 such as vaccine mandates, sending us home in the first phase of the pandemic, required masks, lots of testing, etc. The surrounding community was one of the most successful in containing COVID-19 in the US but on campus we had a even lower test positivity rate than the surrounding community (especially for faculty and staff) up until Omicron. Then this happened

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20211215/cornell-university-...

A stockpile of food and meds is a good idea. Unless you plan on hunting the gun is more useful as a suicide method than anything else.

lakotasapa
Some questions too irresistible. :)

I was thinking about this and came up with some thoughts:

  - Have as much $$ as possible both in virtual (equity & crypto) and gold.
  - Off grid as much as possible water, sewage and elec
  - Grow own food; hydroponics, chickens, meal worms ... ?
  - stock up on non-perishables with long shelve life
  - live close to friends/family
  - good medical kit for all kinds including anti-bac and anti-viral
  - EV cars w/portable generators and a hybrid
  - Multiple internet, SpaceLink, hardline, cellular in parallel
  - servers at home to scrape daily of news and interests
  - home automation / defense
  - get a glock
  - Watch more dystopian movies and learn
  - walkie talkies to all who need to be in touch.  Even out of state once they get closer
  - get a HAM / shortwave radio for all your close family/friends
  - fireproof safe of all your info
:) my short list. Also applicable to an event of an Earthquake.