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I am particularly disturbed by emergent behaviors and life decisions that are now laid bare in this crisis. As a Bay Area resident, it is incumbent upon me to

by rsync 7y ago

I am particularly disturbed by emergent behaviors and life decisions that are now laid bare in this crisis. As a Bay Area resident, it is incumbent upon me to maintain, in perpetuity, several weeks of food and drinking water as well as various other life essentials. I owe this to my family and everyone in my community as we all live in a place where a tremendous natural disaster and accompanying social dis-integration could occur at any time. Of course I have had my suspicious ... Now we see that most residents of the Bay Area are barely prepared to make dinner tomorrow and have supplies on-hand for a day or two. They don't have contingency plans for the absence of water, electricity or gas and I suspect very few are certified and practiced in even basic CPR. Shame on you. There is going to be a day when even the grocery stores aren't open and the water isn't going to flow. Possibly for weeks. I plead with you to spend your quarantine time getting your shit together the way you've always been expected to.

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carapace 7y ago
Dude, you're just noticing this now? One of the single most terrifying facts about our modern space-age-a-go-go society is that there is only about three days of food in the pipeline. If the food stops flowing for more than a week the only thing to eat is our pets and then each other. That's some thin ice. - - - - But I'm speaking in generalities. This particular virus is unlikely to take down civilization. Remember how few people it takes to farm these days, eh? Something like 3 people out of 100 are enough to make bread. It's going to hurt but we will survive. However, this won't be the last virus. The underlying causes are the teeming numbers of humans going out into wild areas and getting exposed to new contagions, combined with our casual global travel and transport networks (this virus went international almost before we (globally) knew it existed.) We are going to have to reconfigure our civilization. - - - - "It may seem a ridiculous idea, but the only way to fight the plague is with decency." ~Camus
YeGoblynQueenne 7y ago
>> As a Bay Area resident, it is incumbent upon me to maintain, in perpetuity, several weeks of food and drinking water as well as various other life essentials. I owe this to my family and everyone in my community as we all live in a place where a tremendous natural disaster and accompanying social dis-integration could occur at any time. Sorry, but I'm missing the context to understand your comment. Can you explain? What is the tremendous natural disaster that compels you to maintain sevearl weeks of food and drinking water?
- chrisfinne 7y ago
  Earthquake

by rsync 7y ago

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carapace 7y ago

Dude, you're just noticing this now? One of the single most terrifying facts about our modern space-age-a-go-go society is that there is only about three days of food in the pipeline. If the food stops flowing for more than a week the only thing to eat is our pets and then each other. That's some thin ice. - - - - But I'm speaking in generalities. This particular virus is unlikely to take down civilization. Remember how few people it takes to farm these days, eh? Something like 3 people out of 100 are enough to make bread. It's going to hurt but we will survive. However, this won't be the last virus. The underlying causes are the teeming numbers of humans going out into wild areas and getting exposed to new contagions, combined with our casual global travel and transport networks (this virus went international almost before we (globally) knew it existed.) We are going to have to reconfigure our civilization. - - - - "It may seem a ridiculous idea, but the only way to fight the plague is with decency." ~Camus

YeGoblynQueenne 7y ago

>> As a Bay Area resident, it is incumbent upon me to maintain, in perpetuity, several weeks of food and drinking water as well as various other life essentials. I owe this to my family and everyone in my community as we all live in a place where a tremendous natural disaster and accompanying social dis-integration could occur at any time. Sorry, but I'm missing the context to understand your comment. Can you explain? What is the tremendous natural disaster that compels you to maintain sevearl weeks of food and drinking water?

chrisfinne 7y ago
Earthquake