01. Slight Special Period
The primary goal of the new crown epidemic in recent years is not to buy a house or a car, but to live.
In special times, ordinary people should strive to keep themselves and their families alive and help others to survive within their abilities.
If the city you live in becomes a hard-hit area, how should you deal with it?
There can be no illusions at this time. Don’t expect hospitals, not even doctors and nurses. When you go to the hospital, you see thousands of people crowded outside. You see desperate and irrational patients swearing and beating doctors and nurses. They tore through the isolation gowns of the medical staff and yelling, «Everyone should die together.» You see Someone spit on the face of doctors and nurses.
At this time, the entire hospital was paralyzed. All doctors and nurses are not protected, more and more people are leaving their posts, and other departments in the hospital are closed.
If such extreme scenes really occur, you will not be able to go to the hospital if you are sick. If you have perforated appendicitis, perforated stomach ulcer, intestinal obstruction, cerebral haemorrhage, or other diseases that require hospital treatment, wait for death at home.
More other diseases are not treated, and the death toll is getting higher and higher. If the second terrible infectious disease appears at this time, the situation will be even more disastrous.
At that time, pregnant women could not go to the hospital to give birth, and countless women died due to dystocia or infection-this was very common in ancient times.
However, you have to know that even if the city was closed at the beginning of the epidemic, it was only a very mild special period.
With a safe house, water, and electricity, you can sit back and relax in bed. Even if the city is closed, you can go out to buy food twice a week and have the Internet.
In a slight special period, the government is still managing and the society is still in order. You will not be short of food, clothes, or masks, but you can go to the streets as little as possible.
How to do it in detail, maybe you have learned a lot in the past few weeks of practice. But I would like to add a few points.
First, you must be more insightful than others. When others have not felt the crisis, you should be sensitive in advance to find that the trouble is approaching. For example, before closing the city, I felt that I should make preparations and do the ideological work of my family in advance. At first, they thought I was too unreasonable and worried, but after a few days, they understood that I was right.
Once the news of the closure of the city comes out, the first thing is to have some masks in the nearby pharmacy in the morning.
The next day, I realized that goggles might also be snapped up. So ready to buy goggles. I bought a few in a medium-sized shopping mall. After all, goggles can be used repeatedly, and there is no need to reserve a lot.
I think masks may not be enough. At this time, the nearby pharmacies basically cannot buy regular N95 and medical-surgical masks. I bought a batch of cheap N90 dust masks, which are labour insurance products and labour insurance supplies often used by factory workers. Stores and hardware stores also often have stocks.
I think the disinfectant solution must be prepared, but bottled 84 disinfectant water, or alcohol, is too expensive, and it must be distressed for the elderly to use the large bucket of 84 disinfectants to wash the floor. So I bought some cheap disinfection solids: a pack of chlorine dioxide effervescent tablets, bought at the farm supply store, usually used for disinfection of fish ponds by fish farmers. This batch of disinfection tablets will arrive soon. The other is sodium hypochlorite solid, which is bought at each of the two stores for one kilogram.
I think protective clothing may be needed because it is difficult to predict the extent of the epidemic. Looking at the protective clothing online, I couldn’t find a company willing to ship before the Spring Festival. They all had to wait until the eighth day of the first lunar month. I thought it would have been requisitioned by the government at that time, so I didn’t place an order.
Another thing is to preserve food. I repeatedly told my family to store more food. They always think I’m too exaggerated and don’t understand. I still bought dozens of packets of instant noodles, a large box of ham, some fruits, three bags of rice, and a few packets of salt, enough for the whole family to eat for more than a month.
The subsequent developments proved that my predictions were correct. Soon, cities were closed in various places, and they could not go out or buy food casually. Masks and protective clothing and even first-line hospitals were in short supply. Local governments even seized and robbed masks from other provinces that passed through the province.
At least I have enough daily necessities at home to make my family feel safe.
In addition, there are some details to pay attention to when you come back from the outside, you need to wash your clothes. It’s best to prepare some easy-to-wash coats (rather than expensive clothes that need dry cleaning), and throw the washing machine every time you go home.
Pay special attention to the soles, which many experts will ignore. The soles can be soaked in a washbasin filled with disinfectant water to a depth of one centimetre. There is the possibility of others spitting anywhere outside, and all the saliva in the air will eventually fall to the ground and stick to the soles of your shoes. How could you contaminate the ground of your home with a virus?
In this mild emergency period, the mortality rate is very low, most people will not die, and it is not worth worrying too much.
But prepare carefully, be sensitive at all times, and predict situations that may get worse in the future. If you buy more supplies, the worst possibility is to hoard thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in excess supplies. Think of it this way: These tens of thousands of dollars are not enough to buy a one-square-meter house, but they bring peace of mind to the family. This is the most worthy investment.
Do not lightly believe in the promise of «controllable epidemic» and «adequate supplies», and do not lightly believe in the official spokesperson experts.
Even if Academician Zhong Nanshan’s words, you can’t believe them all. The last time he recommended Banlangen for SARS, this time his team prescribed Chinese medicine prescriptions. You have to understand that this is a placebo recommended by the kind-hearted Academician Zhong to the majority of the people.
To see some good movies, I recommend a few: «Infectious Diseases», «Chernobyl», «Foolish Man in Dangerous Building», «Busan Tour». You have to think about problems from an official standpoint, and it does not have the ability to take care of every specific person. As far as you and your family are concerned, safety depends on yourself.
To make yourself a reliable person, you have to master knowledge. It is very important to master common sense in a field in the fastest time. If you have common sense, you can distinguish lies and predict risks more accurately.
I am an advocate of a certain theory of «reading is useless» because I oppose wasting time reading useless books. You’ve read a lot of literati and inscribed things, and you seem to be very thoughtful, but in fact, you can’t help at all at critical moments. All reading should be utilitarian-useful hard knowledge is essential.
02. Survival In A Severe Special Period
If there is a new change in the epidemic or the state of SHTF «Shit Hit The Fan» that is out of control across the country, it will be a very serious special period.
During this period, social order no longer exists. The government has been paralyzed. You call the police, but the police have no time to answer the call. You go to the hospital and find that it has become an empty building.
The food can be very stressful. If you are interested, you can search for Bosnia in Yugoslavia, such as the wars in Syria and Libya.
At this time, the main factor threatening your life is no longer the virus, but the human being. If you are on the street, you may be killed at any time. You are at home, and there may be gangs of bandits coming to rob. There is a high shortage of materials, and everyone needs to protect themselves.
At this time, megacities will be the first to become disaster zones. You will find that the water is gone, the electricity is gone, the Internet is gone, the food is gone, and the fire is gone. You can hardly find what you are looking for. And the crowded people around are robbing things, if they haven’t died, they will keep robbing them.
At that time, the money deposited in the bank was useless, because the bank was no longer open. Even cash is useless, it is just a piece of waste paper. Unless it is U.S. dollars and foreign currencies.
Those with more chance of survival are counties with hundreds of thousands of people, small towns with tens of thousands of people, and villages with thousands of people. Only by being close to the countryside can you hold on for longer. There is farmland to provide food, the ground to dig a well, and dirt and stones to build a defensive fortress in the village.
If you are from a city, you must work hard to find your own place in a village not far from your home. However, the village is a society of acquaintances, you will be squeezed out when you go, and they don’t like outsiders either. You better go back to where your parents or grandparents live. At this time, you can feel the benefits of family affection.
If you are a Christian, perhaps the church can become a powerful organization.
The best place to live is on the side of a mountain with a stream where traffic is inconvenient, and you can enter the mountain for refuge. It would be better if you still rely on the sea because there is one more way to escape from the sea to the islands and abroad. No matter how scarce the food is, you can always get food from the endless sea without starving to death.
It is almost impossible for a single person to live. You must find yourself in the organization. If you have a big family, it’s good. Organize quickly. Everyone must learn to fight. Especially if you have to live in the city, immediately organize the people around you to protect the community together.
Buy a gun if you can, and prepare as much ammunition as possible. It may be difficult to get guns now. In the event of turmoil, there will naturally be many guns available. If you can’t buy a gun, buy a spear if you can. It’s more useful than a knife. Even if you can’t buy it, you have to do it yourself.
If you don’t have a gun, you should at least make some composite bows, add some arrows with carbon fibre rods, and replace them with hunting heads that can kill people instead of useless shooting arrows.
You can also prepare a crossbow. Although the crossbow is not as accurate as of the compound bow, it is very useful at close range and can be used quickly.
For a novice to learn traditional bow and arrow, it takes about a month to practice effectively to shoot people 20 meters away. The compound bow only needs three days, and the crossbow only needs one morning.
The house needs a certain degree of protection. Anti-theft windows that can be easily split with a fire axe are useless. The windows in certain corners should be blocked with cement, sandbags, yellow mud, etc.
The trust between people is very low, and everyone encountered on the road may be very dangerous. If you are travelling to exchange supplies with others, it is best to travel in groups of a few people in the middle of the night. Keep a low profile in your daily routine and avoid being unobtrusive. Learning reference materials: monographs on academic materials about bandits and gangs, and training tutorials for underground parties and secret agents.
It is difficult to get news outside. The phone and the Internet have been disconnected for several months. It is very dangerous to go out to inquire about news. If you are not careful, you will die.
Radio is necessary, and radio is also needed. Prepare in advance, take an amateur radio license, and practice shortwave radio usage for a few years. Whether it is SSB, CW, or psk31, it may allow you to contact outside radio friends and get more news.
Remember one thing: At this time, whether it is Apple, Samsung, Huawei, or communications companies, they are unreliable. The most reliable ones are walkie-talkies and short-wave radios. If necessary, make a codebook of encrypted codes, each Chinese character corresponds to a number, and report the number on the walkie-talkie so that it will not be intercepted and ambushed and robbed.
If you have money, you can also prepare several satellite phones for contacting relatives and friends. Because of local disturbances, Eurostar, Maritime Satellite, and Iridium phones can still be used. In any war-torn area of international rescue, it is always the easiest to contact them where there is communication equipment.
Once a serious emergency may occur, whether it is Bosnia and Herzegovina, Uganda, or Rwanda, or even Urumqi during the Seventh Five-Year Plan period, you must be prepared. Generally speaking, these points are:
Food, tape, tools, garbage bags, antibiotics and common medicines, the more the better. As long as the place is big enough and the money is enough, a lot of it will be hoarded. You can prepare for a year or more. There are also lighters, you can store 10,000, then you can exchange a lot of things. Antibiotics do not take up space and can be hoarded. They are hard currencies that are more useful than gold.
Organize your relatives and friends and acquaintances around the community to form armed forces to protect your community. Leave the big cities as possible.
It must have a communication system that can still be used without the Internet and telecommunication network: shortwave radio, UHF/VHF walkie-talkie, satellite phone, micro-generator and fuel storage. Hand-cranked generators, photovoltaic cells, and large-capacity storage batteries are also needed.
More importantly, we must work hard to learn scientific and technological knowledge! Don’t read useless books, learn useful knowledge. Knowledge not only changes fate but also directly saves lives.
