Invest in the market?

Take a 'trip of a lifetime'?

Change jobs?

Personally I've always considered myself a wanna-be prepper. I've got a couple months worth of food/water/gas/batteries that I rotate out; so other than the fact that my cigar lounge is closed, this pandemic has been barely an inconvenience to me personally.

That said - assuming we get some sense of normalcy back (and I'm not all that convinced of that right now), I will get better educated on growing/canning food and a more reliable way to purify water if necessary. These masks all the hospitals are trying to get their hands on; and some paper maps...cannot depend that Google will always be there. I'm not going to become obsessed, but if the power grid goes down....watch out.

I've observed over the past weeks what panicked people will do in a grocery store with limited supply or what an ignorant population of youths will do when the rules become a barrier to their enjoyment. Personally I find both groups equally dangerous.

I can sit on my back patio and shoot rabbits and squirrels all day long. In the safe I've got well over a thousand rounds of 9mm and probably 5x that in .223, but seriously....if it comes to 'that'...well that's a whole level of insanity I just don't even want to get into or think about right now.

At the end of the day, you will never again hear me utter the phrase, "well that can never happen".

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
I will get better educated on growing/canning food and a more reliable way to purify water if necessary.

Canning acidic stuff is pretty easy, you just need jars and a big pot. Anything non-acidic (including most meat stuff) requires pressure canning so it gets hot enough to kill botulism spores. There are a lot of good resources out there, but don't take shortcuts.

It's not a living-in-the-wilderness-forever solution, but I think the Berkey water filters, while expensive, are the best thing going for drinking water filtration on the weeks-or-months time scale.

They are gravity filters - they look like a big commercial coffee dispenser, and you put dirty water in the top reservoir and it drips through one or more filters into a clean reservoir in the bottom with a tap. No pumping or anything like a camping filter.

They come in different sizes that hold different amounts of water and can use different numbers of replaceable filter elements (for faster purification). Each filter is rated for 3,000 gallons. From what I can tell, they are excellent filters that filter out darn near everything.

They're pretty expensive, though, and even though the parts kind of nest inside each other they're pretty big.

https://www.berkeyfilters.com/

I became a lot more self-reliant when I lived in Alaska where it was possible to have an earthquake large enough to shutdown the airports and all ports. It actually happened March 27, 1964, in the form of the Great M9.2 Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami which made response 3 weeks. Living with that reality made me into someone who preps for a 3 to 4 week event.

I've had my own small, organic garden for several years now (Canada and Texas), but I just eat it fresh or freeze it. I need to learn to can, and implement my plan to expand the garden.

I'm digging the no handshaking thing. I'm contemplating keeping that up.

I'm hoping work opens up for more home officing after this. I'd love to home office Mondays and Fridays.

Book a super affordable trip to China or Japan, maybe both.

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Post Corona - What will you do different?

Not a darn thing.

I doubt I'll do much differently, I was a compulsive hand washer to begin with.

So far I've survived heart attacks and the Big C and I'm chronologically 60, so I guess I'm "at risk," but for whatever reason I was more rocked by 9/11 than this. That was pure evil, as opposed to an arbitrary and mutant act of nature like this.

I'm not worried about afterword, my wife has planned me a Lifetime Alaska trip for June 1st. I'm worried about that! If we were to stay home, not a worry.

On a trip, I am completely vulnerable, makes me feel like all I have prepared for is naught.

I work too much and don’t spend enough time out of the house with my wife and kids. Being in high tech it is pretty much 24x7. Going to slow that down and enjoy my family more.

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Originally posted by wreckdiver:
I'm not worried about afterword, my wife has planned me a Lifetime Alaska trip for June 1st. I'm worried about that! If we were to stay home, not a worry.

On a trip, I am completely vulnerable, makes me feel like all I have prepared for is naught.

We had a family trip for May 31st on Princess Cruises in Alaska - we have cancelled. Sucks but even if allowed, a cruise ship is a lousy place to be quarantined.

ALL YOUR TP ARE BELONG TO US!

On a serious note I will be taking the little ones to Disney and doing an 8 day cruise to the Caribbean.

Assuming that some degree of normalcy returns, I don't expect to do anything differently. I do have a trip to Alaska in the works this August (hope it doesn't get cancelled) and the Church Choir is planning a singing tour of Italy next summer (hopefully things will be under control there by then).

flashguy

I can't think of anything to do different.

Do I look a lemming?

Depends. Overall I would say nothing. The only thing would be short term fun/travel and stuff I buy.

I will likely end up missing some work and not getting paid so that will be my major effect. I will be able to pay my bills and all but losing a paycheck for anything more than a couple of weeks will have a major effect for a while. I will have to consider what I do for fun and travel if I have to dip into my oh shit found too much.

Other than that I don't see changing anything and that will likely be short term.

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Originally posted by wreckdiver:
I'm not worried about afterword, my wife has planned me a Lifetime Alaska trip for June 1st. I'm worried about that! If we were to stay home, not a worry.

On a trip, I am completely vulnerable, makes me feel like all I have prepared for is naught.

I hope you get to go. Did AK last year and it may have been the best trip I've done.

If you can't go it will be there next year and the stuff you want to see isn't going anywhere.

I won’t be changing one damned thing. Still have yet to see 60,000,000 U.S. cases, nor do I think there will be. Just sayin’...

I plan to buy a tractor trailer load of TP and sell it for $5/roll to every moron hoarder in Central Florida, then use the profits for hookers and beer (not into drugs).

Not much. I'll go back to working out at my gym. I expect that'll be about it.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Do I look a lemming?

Well, you are sorta hairy and compact....

Nada.