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Last week I received from a client a pallet with another 90 days of dehydrated food for four (Mountain House), N95 masks x 300, hospital booties and 2 empty 55 gal barrels for water. Next Tuesday I am getting audited on my disaster plans by a different group (backup power, succession planning, isolation plans for staff i.e. work-from-home options, etc. etc.). I am also basically being forced to put all our source code into escrow. They joke they are worried we will win the Powerball and decide to retire and leave them high and dry. We never had a whiff of this with SARS.
I am planning my life as if this will NOT hit -- the family is still going diving in Mexico soon -- but I am prepared for the worst. When it doesn't hit I'll open up a Mountain House store.
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Hmmmmmmmmm..........it occured to me that I could do the same thing, take the family to the mountains. But then reality struck home.
1. My occupation and my wife's (nurse) occupation do not allow a run for the hill strategy.
2. Many on this board are employed in public service so they too are ruled out.
3. Our military is ruled out.
4. Those dependent upon a steady income are ruled out.
What it boils down to is a very small percentage of the population would be able to close up shop and head for the hills to wait it out.
I enjoyed reading your posts and do not feel it was anything more than an informed and educated sharing of "insider" information.
So you have successfully peaked my concern.
I think for me personally I will treat it like the West Nile ( in which several people of my work were infected) take the maximum precautions allowed and limited by my life.