Article – Bird Flu Preppers

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-12-06-bird-flu-prepare_x.htm

For several weeks, Stewart has been assembling a supply of water and food, enough to last three to six months.

He is buying equipment, such as rain barrels to capture fresh water and Mylar bags to store bushels of barley and soybeans. His home is solar-powered, and he has a well. He keeps a few sheep that could provide food if necessary, and he is prepared to provide a safe refuge for his immediate family, his siblings and their families.

He says he has a “varmint gun” at the farm and plans to buy one or two more weapons because, like Woodson, he believes that if employees are too sick to go to work, grocery shelves will empty quickly, and there could be panic.

“I believe there’s going to be different classes of marauding people,” he says. “There will be gangs just looting, five or eight people in a gang. Depending on how long this lasts, there could be marauders who are former military. So there will be four male adults in this house who know how to use firearms.”

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“You don’t have to go to the extreme of being a survivalist and moving to Montana. There’s a middle ground.”

Hey! I resemble that remark!

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interesting article. I like how no matter how much food and water you have, what the media really wants is a soundbite about hwo youre armed and ready to repel boarders.

8 thoughts on “Article – Bird Flu Preppers”

  2. The only thing you have to do to get ready for (a pandemic similar to the one in) 1957, if that’s what’s coming, is hope the feds know what they’re doing.

    Ummm, yeah right.

    The `57 pandemic was bad enough (even with the feds involved almost 70,000 people died), but these days one just like it could be terrible. Just the combination of the hype leading up to “the bird flu crisis” coupled with the fedgov saying “don’t worry, we’ve got it under control” would probably be enough to cause at least a little unrest.

  3. The internist mentioned in the article is in my town (though apparently not on my insurance plan). I might just have to look him up.

  6. get a cold

    during the next fatal flu season. watch perfect strangers try to kill you as you try to obtain supplies.

    you may have to stay isolated for several months, as you go mad with cabin fever, but then you will survive while others die. sad truth is the damn bug can mutate, rendering effective treatments useless, despite the media propoganda telling you otherwise.

    and at best stockup for a year minimum, in case the supply infrastructure has gone to hell, permantly.

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