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Mrs. Troutnut and I don’t think it is inevitable, and we don’t plan on getting it before they have a cure or vaccine. We live in the middle of nowhere and have practiced “social distancing” as a way of life for 30 years. No way will the virus leap out of a car on the highway, sprint 100 yards up our driveway, break into our home, and infect us. To get it, we have to do something pretty stupid, impulsive, selfish, and self-centered. And we don’t intend to do that in our mid sixties with other risk factors.
In our youth, we lived in the big city, and bought our groceries day by day, or week by week, so we understand that. But our rural life demanded better planning. We have lived through many natural disasters where we were stuck at home without services for several weeks. And the nearest Costco run is an all day trip in good weather. So we evolved. We didn’t need to hoard anything because we don’t make an all day trip to Costco to buy a weeks worth of stuff. And weather here makes that trip impossible much of the year.
It takes a long time to learn to be prepared all year long. We are amused at the amateurs trying to become overnight preppers. They have no clue. And most of what they buy will go to waste because they don’t know how to stretch it, store it, wrap it, or freeze it. They simply don’t have the knowledge, room, and/or equipment.
It doesn’t take a lot to get stocked up for a couple of weeks of being sick. Most people don’t want to eat very much when they have this. Most people have friends that would drop food on their porch in a worst case scenario.
We are actually amazed that all these folks weren’t caught flat footed long ago. Half the world wants to kill us. There have been many, many close calls in my lifetime that could have easily destroyed our food distribution or power grid. And this is the first time in my lifetime (almost 67 years) that I have actually seen store shelves empty. Amazing!
My 86 year old mother still lives in the big city. She is doing great! And she won’t get it either. Because she won’t even let in my sister. I amazon her everything she needs and she hasn’t had to go out once in 21 days.
This is a Darwin moment. A little chlorine in the gene pool. Its time to choose sides and make serious decisions about whether you want to get this or not. And what you are willing to endure to not get this. We will lose some friends over this, literally and figuratively. We hate watching our foolish friends behaving like nothing has changed. It is NOT inevitable that anyone will get this. It’s a simple choice. You can stay home for a long time perfectly healthy, or you can stay home for a long time deathly ill. Choose wisely.
In our youth, we lived in the big city, and bought our groceries day by day, or week by week, so we understand that. But our rural life demanded better planning. We have lived through many natural disasters where we were stuck at home without services for several weeks. And the nearest Costco run is an all day trip in good weather. So we evolved. We didn’t need to hoard anything because we don’t make an all day trip to Costco to buy a weeks worth of stuff. And weather here makes that trip impossible much of the year.
It takes a long time to learn to be prepared all year long. We are amused at the amateurs trying to become overnight preppers. They have no clue. And most of what they buy will go to waste because they don’t know how to stretch it, store it, wrap it, or freeze it. They simply don’t have the knowledge, room, and/or equipment.
It doesn’t take a lot to get stocked up for a couple of weeks of being sick. Most people don’t want to eat very much when they have this. Most people have friends that would drop food on their porch in a worst case scenario.
We are actually amazed that all these folks weren’t caught flat footed long ago. Half the world wants to kill us. There have been many, many close calls in my lifetime that could have easily destroyed our food distribution or power grid. And this is the first time in my lifetime (almost 67 years) that I have actually seen store shelves empty. Amazing!
My 86 year old mother still lives in the big city. She is doing great! And she won’t get it either. Because she won’t even let in my sister. I amazon her everything she needs and she hasn’t had to go out once in 21 days.
This is a Darwin moment. A little chlorine in the gene pool. Its time to choose sides and make serious decisions about whether you want to get this or not. And what you are willing to endure to not get this. We will lose some friends over this, literally and figuratively. We hate watching our foolish friends behaving like nothing has changed. It is NOT inevitable that anyone will get this. It’s a simple choice. You can stay home for a long time perfectly healthy, or you can stay home for a long time deathly ill. Choose wisely.
