bittersourspicy

Complete overkill. YAGNI. A month or two of food and medicine is just about all you'll need. Dude is acting like he's going to be homeless, society will evaporate, and be scrounging for water from mud puddles like some episode of The Walking Dead. I live in Paradise and deal with fires, black bears, drug-addict trespassers, insurance companies and power outages. This story's level of insanity is a waste of money and unrealistic. I have a SHTF bag, but it's only for when I don't know where I'll end up.. and haven't needed it yet. And, a lot of that prepper stuff is junk: I tried a Survivor Filter Pro and it fouls the filter into uselessness with any brackishness or sediment; it's totally worthless.

And you can still go out if you:

- wear indirect vented goggles (eye protection)

- an N95 mask (disregard the CDC manipulative lies)

- use 70% hand sanitizer, 1% bleach, or 0.5% hydrogen peroxide per WHO for cleaning surfaces

- wash your hands thoroughly for 20+ seconds, and nails too

- decontaminate/remove yourself, your clothing and PPE outdoors before entering your or someone's home.. removing clothing straight into a washing machine without entering living areas is a good idea

Also, the latest is that SARS-CoV-2 can survive up to 9 days on fomites (objects), so surfaces will stay contaminated for sometime.

I have diagnosed OSA but an older unit I tried (Respironics REMstar Pro w/ humidifier) about 15 years ago, I couldn't keep from ripping the mask off. :'(

Also, my insurance is awful so they won't send me to specialist to get a proper CPAP. And I have high-blood pressure, tachycardia, depression, anxiety, and sleep like sh!t.

Anyhow before I whine anymore about personal problems, how's your day?

Seems like sensationalizing the fearful responses of people who are already disconnected from reality and normal people. If you have the cash to throw around, I guess you'd pick the best unless you got to be rich by being super cheap.

If you were in the thick of a pandemic and had to go out: indirect vent ski goggles + anti-fog compound, a tight-fitting N95 NIOSH mask that has enough surface area to not get too humid, soap-&-water hand washing, 70% hand sanitizer, and surface sanitization seems good enough for nearly every pathogen.

Even before this, there's a coffee shop I goto sometimes where they never clean anything but they always have a giant container of hand sanitizer; the trick is about 8 pumps of that on a bunch of napkins and wipe down the table, seats and seat backs. (I'm OCD.)

There's a recent HN article that describes how E-64d & Camostat prevent the two known pathways that lead to infection. So, that would be a prophylactic of yet unknown safety, dosage and duration, not a vaccine and not a cure.

camostat mesylate + E-64d

Camostat

CAS: 59721-29-8

Approvals: Japan

$0.10/mg in bulk (2 week lead time), or $1.25/mg in-stock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camostat

https://www.adooq.com/camostat-mesylate.html

https://www.medkoo.com/products/11665

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E-64d

CAS: 88321-09-9

LD50 in rats: >100000 mg/kg

$12.5/mg in-stock

https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/sigma/e8640

https://www.apexbt.com/e-64d.html

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Obviously: untested, unknown dosage and not FDA approved. It would need a little DMSO to dissolve both.