To late to start preparing...

 

Certainly not!

 

It is never to late to get going with your preparations, we may be weeks, months or even years away from needing to use our preps but if you wait to the last few days, hours or minutes you may be in for a BIG surprise.

As we get closer to the Human Bird Flu becoming a reality it is possibly going to be harder or more expensive to get what you might want.

So what do you think you are likely to encounter when the H5N1 virus becomes a Human to Human problem.

 

Start with the basics, food and drink.

What about other household and personal things, the things you use every day, week or month!

So what do you use everyday...

Gas?

Electricity?

Toilet paper?

Toothpaste?

Soap?

Shampoo?

It is amasing how much "stuff" we take for granted will be on the shelves at the supermarket every day or the fuel we burn to cook our food, to keep us warm and to give us light.

 

When the pandemic strikes all of the above may not be there for you, so what are you going to do?

Why should all these things suddenly not be there anymore?

Well lets try and give you some answers...

Influenza on its own is usually bad enough, but when it goes pandemic it is hundreds times worse. The government are predicting that it may affect 25% of the population, in figures that is somewhere in the region of 16 million people, all those who are ill will probably need to be cared for by one other person, so that takes out another 25% of the population so now there are 32 million people at home, so to start with it is possible that a huge swath of the workers in the country will not be at work.

Who are these people:

Teachers, so schools could be shut for the duration, kids will be kept at home, so even if you are well you may have to stay at home to care for the children.

Drivers, so there is a shortage of drivers that deliver things to places, such as petrol and diesel, we all remember the fuel blockades a few years back and how we struggled to get fuel for the cars. But it doesn't just affect us, what about the lorries that deliver food to the supermarkets? these places have enough food for just a few days in their store rooms and on the shelves, so if there are no deliveries there will be empty shelves.

 

To be continued...