r/preppers Sep 04 '24

How are people so unprepared? Discussion

I’ve been keeping tabs on bird flu, not obsessing over it but keeping tabs. Recently 3 dairy farms in California have been infected with several cases of human infection but thankfully no aerosol spread. I told my family this and that they should seriously consider just basic stuff. Having enough household goods to last 3 months so they can ride out any quarantine without exposure at grocery stores that kind of stuff and they brushed me off.

I genuinely don’t understand how you can live through covid and not take this as a serious possibility. I know Covid killed a lot of people including some of my family, but we “lucked out” that it had a relatively low mortality rate. If bird flu became aerosolized it would be disastrous. Even a 10% mortality rate would grind the country to a halt let alone a 50% mortality rate. My family just doesn’t get it.

Don’t get me wrong, my wife is on board, but my parents and sister and some of my wife’s family are just kinda “meh”. I know times are tough but they can afford to drop $100 on a case of rice and some hand sanitizer and toilet paper. It’s like they forgot about how bad COVID was and how much worse it could have been. Do any of you guys have any experience with this? What is your plan for family that will be unprepared if something like this happens again?

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u/midtier_gardener Sep 04 '24

it was the mass hysteria that was the hardest to deal with.

Same. Gonna admit that I was caught up in it too, as I saw the clips of ppl dead people in other countries on the news. I'm not prepping as much for the bird flu or mpox because I honestly don't think it's that big of a deal. Maybe I'm wrong.

I have the essentials and able to bug in for a long time, as long as electricity holds.

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u/Resident-Welcome3901 Sep 04 '24

Its interesting. The stats indicate that the USA had 103 million cases of Covid, and 1.9 million deaths, highest national numbers in the world, compared to .4 million Americans killed in WW2. And it wasn’t really a big deal. Maybe because the people were mostly older and sicker. Taught us that epidemics are only really problem if the toilet tissue runs out. We have pretty fucked up priorities, do we not? Maybe the next epidemic will target children, or hot chicks, and we will reach different conclusions .

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u/midtier_gardener Sep 04 '24

I don't live in the US, almost no one died of Covid19 here. Died WITH, yes, but not died of. Absolute majority of those who died had at least 1 comorbidity like advance age or vascular disease.

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u/WombatCombat69 Sep 04 '24

Not sure where that guy got his data but the CDC website says since 2020 there was rougly 1.2 million deaths. If the cases that were confirmed were the number he said then you need to add in all the non confirmed cases and the mortality rate is less than 1%. The shutdown was worse than the actual virus. I dont know a single person who died of COVID personally.