proudfootz wrote:

Spearthrower wrote:

aufbahrung wrote:my worry is a isolated island would be like that cruise ship and suffer a explosion of cases. Safety is probably a city or town isolated by a farming landscape where the locals instantly put outsiders on the road out of town....sort of island, not a true island where there's no means of escape if it goes lame.

You're worrying about a hypothetical that really isn't attached to reality. You're not going to go and hop off to some island just to hide from a virus.

In the unlikely scenario where you find yourself in an infected area, the best thing you can do is stay indoors so that you don't come into contact with any pathogens. Stock up on dried fruits, canned goods, frozen vegetables and wait it out. All the comfort of your own home, and as safe from viruses as is possible to achieve.

I live on the West Coast of the USA. People are already flooding my local grocery stocking up on food in anticipation of COVID-19.

Just an anecdotal experience, but one data point.

aufbahrung wrote:I'm assuming the science will not achieve a breakthrough before society goes into meltdown, meaning a long slow adaption and population bottleneck of unknown size and scope. Social answers are best, learn a lot from the black death including how to survive...and how the most ordered communities crumbled whilst the more lax ones thrived. Feudalism and its ordered social structure gave way to the enlightenment, free movement and trade and artisans.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 152736.htm

aufbahrung wrote:I'm assuming the science will not achieve a breakthrough before society goes into meltdown,...

Thommo wrote:Assuming? You're talking about a disease that's comparably fatal to flu, but vastly less widespread.

Phase 3: Small clusters of human beings have contracted the virus in one community. There is potential for the spread of the virus if others outside that community come into contact with those humans who are infected. At this point, the illness may be epidemic in that community, but it is not pandemic.

Svartalf wrote:I'm not sure, I'm not familiar with our health service's protocols, but from what I understand from the news, stage 2, the current one, is that the germ is circulating in the country to a degree, and stage 3 is that it's widespread.

The_Piper wrote:... the sanitizers are past their expiration dates. ...

Agi Hammerthief wrote:

The_Piper wrote:... the sanitizers are past their expiration dates. ...

they should do just fine, unless you plan to drink them