Spring is in the air, and “stay home” and “shelter in place” orders are popping up all over the U.S. as unstoppable as dandelions. Other places like South Korea are taking different approaches. There’s no doubt all of these orders… Continue Reading
A little over a year ago, I wrote an article about movement restriction and social distancing for 3BY (you can read the whole article by clicking HERE). Epidemic (also known as pandemic when widespread) disease is one of the more… Continue Reading
“Social distancing” doesn’t mean staying home alone on a Saturday night. It means not being near other people. Quarantine is social distancing imposed on people who are not yet ill, but may be infected. Isolation is social distancing of those… Continue Reading
As I write, the COVID-19 coronavirus is epidemic in several places and threatening to go pandemic (a super-sized, worldwide epidemic). Stopping that would be great. Slowing it down would be very helpful too, as it would reduce pressure on medical… Continue Reading
At this writing, most of us are nowhere near anyone carrying COVID-19, the coronavirus currently spreading from its jump to humans in Wuhan, China. However, it’s generally expected (including by the CDC) to become pandemic; so that happy distance is… Continue Reading
As I write this, Jan 24 2020, we (the people of the world) are facing a burgeoning epidemic: respiratory disease caused by the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. My read on what’s currently known of this infection is reported in yesterday’s post, which… Continue Reading
There’s a new virus in town, and no one is happy about it. Could this be it? Could the recently emerged coronavirus from China be the source of the next great pandemic? Why are people worried about the new coronavirus?… Continue Reading
Pandemics get the headlines. Fair enough; it’s the pandemics often kill millions, potentially billions. But in a sense, pandemic, epidemic, and endemic diseases are equally bad. Why? As they say about all wars being the same size: Death comes one… Continue Reading
Something bad’s gone down. Your community is getting by, because Hey, you were prepared and knew how to do some things. But now people are getting sick. There’s no word from the outside on what it might be; so you’ll… Continue Reading
Cholera. Maybe it conjures up images of 1854 London with its poor neighborhoods wracked with death and disease. Only the beer-producers seemed immune. Or perhaps you remember just a few years back, how a cholera epidemic swept through Haiti on… Continue Reading
Epidemic (also known as pandemic) disease is one of the more likely larger-scale disasters we might have to deal with. One common aspect of such outbreaks is the erection of barriers to free movement during epidemics. How well do these… Continue Reading
If we trusted that The Government would always take care of us, we wouldn’t be preppers. Crises make such trust particularly problematic. Is the Official Word downplaying the problem to reduce panic? Is the Official Word exaggerating the problem in… Continue Reading
Pandemics happen. They’ve killed major percentages of the human population in the past and might again. How might communities respond to such a pandemic? One indicator is the epidemic response of communities who have been under the shadow of such… Continue Reading
The Ebola Scare: Spice did a nice post on pandemics. I’ve never been in a pandemic, so I suspect Murphy has one planned for my future. However, we did have an Ebola scare a couple years back, from which I… Continue Reading