Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by reddog on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:54PM (#22429282)

FYI: You can get get a 50 lbs bag of pinto beans at Sams for $33 and a 50 lbs bag of rice for $17. They will keep as is at least a year and provide, respectively, 76,000 calories and 82,400 calories. Maybe 80 days worth of food for a single individual.

It would be a pretty monotonous diet but better than the alternative.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by sneak on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:25AM (#22431617)

Drinking water is frequently the bottleneck, as stable food stores are cheap and straightforward.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by Tepix on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:50AM (#22432474)

If you have drinkable tap water you should be ok.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by sneak on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:54PM (#22437740)

In this instance, a pandemic. There are many other scenarios where even if you have drinkable tap water under normal circumstances, disaster might render that useless.

I drink bottled/filtered only due to negative side effects (for me personally, most don’t have any) of drinking chlorinated water, so simply increasing my input buffer is really straightforward.

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