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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by cactus2093 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:54PM (#22429280)
I'm wondering how realistic a water or power shutoff is, those seem like much bigger concerns for a hurricane or earthquake. For covid-19 it seems like the municipal authorities will be able to keep at least the handful of people working that are required to keep the grids up (even if just about everyone gets infected, it sounds like ~80% of cases only have minor symptoms).

Restaurants shutting down and grocery stores running low on food seems like a more likely scenario.

Regardless, I've now stocked up on 2 weeks of water and about the same of food. Which is a good idea anyway for earthquake preparedness, but something I'd never gotten around to actually doing. So I'm feeling a good balance of prepared but not too stressed about it.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by sampsonitify on Thursday February 27, 2020 @02:56AM (#22431501)
> 2 weeks of water and about the same of food

Everyone keeps saying that, but what does it mean? What food did you buy, and how much water? I can't get a handle on how much that is. I'm not panicing, at all, I just want to have enough when everyone ELSE panics.

I also hate the thought of boredom, so I'm trying every canned fish I can to see what I like, so I at least have some variety and flavour for those two weeks.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by lm28469 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:55AM (#22432500)
> Everyone keeps saying that, but what does it mean?

It's not rocket science. Take what you eat in a day and multiply it by 14. Go for non perishable things of course (pasta, rice, lentils, canned fruits etc.)

I mean, realistically speaking you could probably go two weeks with <1k cal a day without much trouble.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by brador on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:14AM (#22432312)
Water - 1.5 litres for each day.

Food - 2000 calories per day for every male, 1500 for every female.

And buy a water filter and gas burner/camping stove.

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