CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic

Re:CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look ... by lurquer on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @06:19PM (#22418605)

I wonder if all the beans and rice I bought in preparation for Y2K are still good?

There's one thing prepper fantasies have in common... the impending doom never comes. It's fun to think about. But, real honestly, if the survivors at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were able to get by in the days after their tragedy, I bet I could figure something out on an ad-hoc basis.

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Re:CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look ... by dekhn on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @07:10PM (#22418961)

If you want to take this seriously you should be rotating all canned goods every few years. You're basically trading off the tiny cost of canned goods with a small risk of getting a disease from bad food (well-stored cans should be fine for 5 years, any bulging cans should be discarded), which isn't normally a huge problem, but during emergencies, could be.

If you look at history, a lot of wars were won or lost based on how well a city prepared for a sustained siege.

in the case of hiroshima, water pumps were restored 4 days after the bombing, but of course the story is more involved (http://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/?p=47988)

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