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Setting Up A Sick Room in Your Home, by G.A. (RN)

…care– is very important in making a caregiver’s job both possible and easy. If you stock the supplies that I have listed below and made a plan, then you will be able to make a challenging situation doable. Let’s discuss choosing a room in your home that can function as a sick room. A bedroom furthest from the rest of the home’s rooms and occupants would be best. If it has an attached bathroom, your job will be much easier. It is always best not to have to transport contaminated body fluids (urine, feces, vomit, and blood) thru an uncontaminated area in order to dispose of them. If an attached bathroom is not available, then one as close as possible will do. I suggest removing all furniture except the bed, rolling table, shelves, or bureau, and a chair from the room in order to increase your working area and decrease…


Nursing an Infectious/Infected Patient Post-Collapse, by P.C., RN

…Nightingale focused on hygiene and organization of the ward.  These were essential areas that needed close attention.  For our purposes these will also be the focus of this article; to prepare ordinary folk with the skills to nurse a sick relative or loved one in their own home without benefit of advanced medical care or treatment.  It can be done. The Sick Room The first thing to concentrate on is the area in which a sick person is to be nursed.  If possible, the room should be separate from the remainder of the general living quarters; a separate bedroom or a ground floor family room or recreation room with a dedicated use of separate bathroom would be ideal.  These areas would be off limits to general household use and only those directly involved in nursing care would have access.  This prevents the cross-contamination of surfaces and materials through multiple use…


Transmission, Prevention, and Treatment of the Flu Virus, by JJE

…creating or distributing a vaccine for such a pandemic. We would be looking at a situation quite like the Spanish flu back in 1918, which was a worldwide pandemic that killed an estimated 50 million people. Our reliance on modern day medicine, vaccines, and antibiotics will be a pitfall once the SHTF and a worldwide pandemic strikes. So how can we prevent and treat those infected with a flu virus, without hospitalization or vaccination? Simple, we resort back to the tried and true basic care– taking proper contact and airborne precautions to minimize exposure. Keep the person with the flu in a separate room. This will help keep the other family members from getting the flu. Try to give the sick person their own room. If there are two sick people, they can share a room and share a bathroom. Do not let the sick person share cups, towels, linens,…


Some Thoughts About COVID-19, by The Novice

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…Why? Because I am not going to steal masks from work and as long as they are properly dried and sun kissed I feel comfortable that they are ready for more service. When dirty or damaged I throw them away. So Brian why is your skivvies not treated as Bio-Hazard? Toilet paper doesn’t do that great a job. Because we can wash and reuse them. Odd how basic sanitation like soap and water can prevent e-coli from our own daily fecal matter from making us sick. I’ve worked in the HOT Spot known as the Hospital for several decades. I’ve worked through AIDS, Avian Flu, H1N1, Ebola and now COVID19 as well as many VERY Serious Flu Seasons. I’ve kept my health and my family’s health intact by following some simple protocols during such sicknesses. #1 I wash my hands and DO NOT touch my eyes, nose or mouth. That’s…


Preparedness Notes for Monday — January 27, 2020

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…caregiver should also live separately from the rest of the family. Tough stuff, but necessary should this prove to be a very deadly virus. I would rather go to what most would consider extremes and be safe, rather than infect loved ones. We simply do not know what we are dealing with at this time. Tunnel Rabbit Part 2 The fan in the patient’s room needs to powerful enough to draw clean and warm air from the house into the patient’s room and exhaust to the outside of the patient’s room. We should be able to stand outside in front of the ‘sickroom’, or ideally the sickroom and room that houses the caregiver’s work station, wet a finger, and feel the direction of air flow. Lab’s use this method of ventilation. It is an important layer of protection, worth the effort. Box fans, or any number of fans should be…


COVID-19: My View From The Powerhouse

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…profile, most will be back to work sooner or later. Some will be home taking care of sick family as well, but we’ll have schedule coverage. Let’s look at the medium term. Suppose most of us have gotten sick or are still in the throes of illness. We have a skeleton crew that’s one third of our typical makeup. Barring any statistically improbable major breakdowns and factoring the engineered redundancy inherent to generators, most of them are still going, but we’re coming up on maintenance. That’s where things might get tricky. What does a hydroelectric generator need to run? Water Is Our Fuel Water is obviously the primary factor and is truly out of our control. Our “fuel” availability is based on seasonal snowpack, temperature, and environmental situations outside of our immediate control. Beyond manpower, oil and components come first to mind for me. I am electrician and not an…


The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods

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…for your dad and mom. Tunnel Rabbit I watched the video again, and still believe he is sick. Stress causes the immune system to become weak. He is very fatigued and becoming sick, or is sick with something. Listen carefully. Flem can be heard in the throat, and his speak has a nasal sound to it. They can suppress symptoms with drugs, and he has the finest doctors to keep him going. He has shown signs of stress for many weeks now, and is becoming weaker. This is the worst I’ve seen him. Notice that he is not wearing a tie, and has a different cap on, perhaps concealing disheveled hair? I am now even more concerned. This is about the President, not about me. Trump is in dire need of sleep, and is high vulnerable to any infection at this time. Tom in Oregon Here’s an interview with Mr….


Letter on the Wuhan Virus, by ShepherdFarmerGeek

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…you take a breath. Wheatley Fisher Good read. Yes, I cried a bit at the end. And it’s actually still just the beginning. Tunnel Rabbit St Funogas, Good data, Great story, tear jerking ending. Excellent medical staff, yet many were sick. What happens if everyone is sick? And there is only a limited number of machines in the ICU. It is instructive that oxygen is key. Without it, the fatality rate would be much higher. This is only one small sample, and data set and outcomes from a fully functioning modern hospital. Much more is needed. As resources are expended, and personnel exhausted and sick, the quality of care is decreased. What would be the fatality rate of those who cannot access modern medicine? Will the virus mutate? If it is highly contagious as the doctor characterized, how can we expect what little modern medicine there is to be available…


When Do We Change Masks? – Part 1, by ShepherdFarmerGeek

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…you only used ONE mask to run multiple errands!! 10. Think long and hard about attending any meetings, going to ANY movies or restaurants or events. Even church. Hopefully your pastor will have implemented many of the measures I (and others!) suggested in connection with my previous article, “Church Pandemic Preparedness” (https://survivalblog.com/church-pandemic-preparedness-shepherdfarmergeek/#comment-202150 ) God does not “guarantee” you won’t get sick just because you’re doing something religious. Send your pastor (and other leaders as needed) a nice email (or call them) to explain. Then watch your church’s online sermon streaming. Or maybe a friend would videotape the sermon for you if your church doesn’t have the tech? It’s completely okay to miss a few services. You skip services when you’re sick, right? What could possibly be wrong skipping services so you don’t get sick? Download some favorite worship songs from YouTube and gather around your PC. Or copy the songs…


Stand Your Ground Against COVID-19, by Mark B.

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Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, and this is not medical advice, just information provide for educational purposes. What have you done to stop COVID-19 from sickening, permanently injuring, or killing your loved ones? This disease isn’t just like the flu, COVID-19 can leave the “recovered” with long-term debilitating physical, cognitive and psychiatric damage, sometimes even in people who only suffered mild symptoms. The current US toll from this disease is about 130,000 dead, with an 8% infection mortality rate. The elderly or those with common high-risk factors, like high blood pressure, diabetes, or a compromised immune system have suffered the most, but young and otherwise healthy people are dying or being handicapped for life. Most cases go untested, undetected and with mild or no symptoms; the CDC estimates there are 10 unrecorded cases for every known infection, so the US’s tested 1% infection rate may actually mean a 10%…


Infectious Disease Protection, by S.A.D.

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…first 41 cases cited in his Lancet citation had no idea there was such a thing as CoV (it hadn’t been named yet) so they were definitely very sick people, they weren’t rushing to the emergency room because they were afraid of coronavirus. So to have a mortality rate of 17% among really super sick people who felt crappy enough to go to the hospital is not surprising. That’s Mike’s calculated number, 17%. The Lancet number was 15%. Mike’s number is faulty because it is based on super-sick hospital cases, not on the total number of people who have CoV, which is an unknowable number. So, using Mike’s methodology, and his Flu numbers, if we do the percentage and calculate the death rate for Americans who get the flu and are hospitalized, 34,200 deaths divided by 490,600 hospitalizations, we come up with a death rate of 7.0%. The true death…


The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods:

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…back to save their child from the State while people here are kneeling before the State with their hand out for the next promised freebie. DcPratt Hugh, I appreciate the quality and civility of the discussion here. It demonstrates to me that there’s no single way a Christian need see this issue. Different premises and priorities get us to different places. In this case, a proposal to put more money towards healing the sick is an outcome I like, and this preference is rooted in my Christian upbringing. It seems like you see the core of the moral question as being whether or not the choice of helping sick people is freely taken. If I thought that was the highest value at stake, then I think we’d be on the same page. But I think the outcome of people getting sick, suffering more and dying earlier because they were born…


What To Do and Not Do When a Pandemic Starts- Part 2, by Scientist69

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…that . Tell me mr.anti vac people why we don’t have polio anymore?It’s gone , and is it coincidence that they developed a vaccine and people took it? The only organized group on earth besides the anti vacs people who oppose polio vaccinations are the Taliban. JimW I had to share a room in East Africa with a really sick guy a few months back and asked our Doc for some immune protection help. He gave me elderberry tablets and vitamin c’s and wished me luck. I didn’t get sick, not that this is science, science is inconvenient; but not getting sick is real convenient. I have York elderberries in my orchard, but voles set them back bad. Need more owls or coyotes I suppose. Anyone put elderberries north of chicken coops or near where they dump out livestock water? Maybe mine would have adapted to that better. Rose You…


When Do We Change Masks? – Part 2, by ShepherdFarmerGeek

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…can hope for is to be isolated and hope enough of the rest of us get it to develop herd immunity? I just can’t see that what is happening now in terms of trying to contain it will work. With stores shutting down, schools closing, the economy tanking, borders closed, I suspect many will just say this is ridiculous and we need to just accept that people will get sick and some will die. I dunno. And to reiterate a point i made yesterday, many of the younger people really don’t care. They don’t see it as a problem for them personally. They will not agree to refrain from socializing, working, going to school etc much longer. Was reading numerous online comments on the NYT from people suggesting that we have it wrong and it’s the elderly and sick that should self-isolate and the rest of us should just go…


Personal Hygiene in a Biowarfare World, by TruthFirst

…all. (Imagine your hands with paint on them. If you touched the faucet handles to wash the paint off, how will you turn the faucet off without getting the “paint” back on you again?) 10. After using a public restroom be aware that others have probably left the room without washing their hands, and the doorknob to exit is probably contaminated with their germs. After you’ve washed your hands and thoroughly dried them, keep the paper towels you used and use them to open the door (if it pulls toward you). If there are no towels use a facial tissue, piece of toilet paper, or the sleeve of your coat to grasp the handle, or use the knob but give yourself a generous dab of hand sanitizer (Purell is great) after you exit to sanitize your hands. Throw the paper towel away after you exit the restroom. 11. And while…