And a bit of Personal Responsibility Too!

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  1. Kurmugeon

    Kurmugeon Well-Known Member

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    If you survive this thang, will your personal household ever be without a stock of 100+ N95 facemasks again?

    And a bit of long term storage food, and some vitamins.

    In the future, will you shake hands, or bow?

    Will you watch the news for first, early news reports of foreign nation epidemics?

    Will you TRUST hospitals and their staff to always be looking out for your best interests, and upholding the Hippocratic Oath,… or will part of your mind always be on the lookout for medical staff with death wishes for select patents based on their radical politics?

    Will you ever TRUST anyone in the MSM, or of Leftie Politics again?

    How has your life forever changed, because of the abuse by the left of the Corona Crisis?

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    I think the majority of Americans were caught with their pants down on preparedness. I think this will become an obsession and stores will have a difficult time staying stocked with certain items.
    I think this will give rise to most Americans obsessing over what they'll accept as news. The Obama years raised a lot of suspicions over MSM reporting. I think anyone that still trusts it are rather dim.
    All of our lives are undeniably changed but good times often lulls us into complacency, this crisis is relatively new and only weeks ago life in the US was looking pretty good.
    I think we all see our homes in a different light now and that beyond it's normal comforts, it is our personal fortress. I can see something akin to building bomb shelters becoming popular and the industries that have sprung up around the prepper thing expanding. Let's just hope that we've learned something from the hoarders and prepare in a rational way.
     
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    I will continue to trust the MSM far more than I trust the compulsive lying egotistical moron currently occupying the White House.
     
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    So you will willfully continue in a state of irate delusion based on little more than hate of the other? How sad.

    How will it change my life? Not a damn bit. Once this crap is in the rear view mirror I will go right back to doing as I have always done. I will be damned if I let a fear of a pusilanomous little bug dictate how I live my life.
     
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    As one who has long held a healthy stock of N95 masks on hand, have always kept a good supply of food, and am at the stage in life where I don't depend on a work-a-day income, so far, I have been enjoying the stay at home orders. I've ordered a pile of electronic parts, with plans of playing, as I did when I first got into electronics. Who knows, this virus crises, without all the distractions, may result in a new, profitable product. Or at least I'll have fun trying. So I'm optimistic.


    The world has been moving towards what is to come, for a long time. One can buy and sell on-line, and never have to leave one's home. There were even services that picked up and delivered fast food from just about every fast food joint, for a couple of years now.

    Due to concerns over air pollution and other airborne toxins, the wearing of face masks in public has been increasing over the past decade. That the masks also prevent disease is sure to increase their use. And gloves too. But this is a growing trend that is just being accelerated by Covid19

    Seems to me that there is a new market opening up for designer face masks.
     
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    confront a democrat politician, ask them if they know what "personal responsibility" means, then watch the glaze fall over their face, their jaw drops open and nothing comes out.
     
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    Now, now you know they think personal responsibility means you have to pay all the taxes their cheese eatin' little brains can come up with
     
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    If everyone just stuck to their normal shopping habits there wouldn’t have been any shortages. But most people are self-centered selfish a holes which is why we are in this predicament.
     
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    I live in S. Florida. We already have 2+ weeks of food and water stocked away. We’ve got a generator with 15 gallons of gas. We’ve got appliances that also run on gas. We bought N95 masks back in Feb before the **** started hitting the fan, because we thought we’d be flying to our nephews Bar Mitzvah in March. :) That changed fast. Been hesitating about getting a full house generator but think we may pull the trigger once economy seems to be recovering.

    Floridians are usually prepared.

    I certainly will NEVER trust the MSM again until they start showing some semblance of journalistic integrity and balance.
     
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    It doesn't help though when much of our leadership is holding a fire sale on panic buttons. Panic makes people behave in irrational ways.
     
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    That's something that's pretty standard in the northeast with the winters being unpredictable. We have something that delivers everything the power company does and a 500 gallon tank of LP to run it
    It was middle of the road but they come much larger, ours ran around $4000 dollars, worth every penny. We had an ice storm some years back that left some folks without power for six weeks.
     
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    I'm at a loss to figure out what the OP is talking about. I was following for the first half, but then things...take a turn. Not sure what liberals or the media have to do with the virus. COVID-19 doesn't care about your politics....
     
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    Meh...everyone is responsible for their own decisions. If anyone panicked it’s on them and no one else. I saw the same leadership as everyone else and I didn’t panic and act irrational.
     
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    I didn't say the panicy folks aren't culpable as well, but anyone with half a brain knows that there are panicky folks on this country, and spooking them especially for purely political reasons is unconscionable.

    Hell Everytime the weatherman predicts snow you can't find bread or snow at the store the next day and in this part of the world it's very rare that there's enough snow the next day to get up a good snowball fight.
     
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    Lol...Hey, nobody's stopping you from palling around with your buds and catching the virus. I hear that some right wingers are having 'china virus' beer parties where they all hang out together and spit at each other as a show of reactionary defiance.
     
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    You think people purposely spooked people for political reasons? Sorry, I don’t but into that sort of conspiracy theory. People CHOOSE to be self-centered a holes. End of story.
     
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    My life will go on as usual when this is over. In my neck of the woods, we are normally prepared for anything, generators, a supply of food, etc.

    I have never trusted the MSM or liberals, so that remains the same too. I believe in God and have faith that everything will be ok.
     
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    There is no conspiracy theory involved. CNN et al have been non stop playing the we're all gonna die and Donald Trump's fault for nearly 6 weeks now. If you think that wasn't almost entirely political you're kidding yourself.
     
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    I think another thing I will attempt to do better, is keeping a stock of common, OTC medications, like Ibuprofen or acetaminophen and Vick's vapor rub, and saline nasal spray, and alcohol gel on hand cleaner.

    With the world population as large as it is, and the degree of travel, we can expect more of these outbreaks.

    People need to be able to Shelter in place, on a moments notice.
     
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    That sounds allot like salacious hearsay.

    But, sometimes we have video:

    ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNMdg4morQs



    I have not left my house except to get my wife who was very ill, tested for Corona, in 31 days.
     
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    Are you sure you’re just not projecting your times spent in a San Francisco bath house?
     
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    No they haven’t. Your claim is exaggerated nonsense
     
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    Like hell. Your counter is bilious nonsense.
     
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    By all means prove your claim about CNN
     
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    What do you think 'et al' means?
     

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