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by Bosworth
Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:39 am
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: WHO warns vaccinated travellers could still need to be quarantined
Replies: 26
Views: 3883

Re: WHO warns vaccinated travellers could still need to be quarantined

That's really bugging me. Maybe, the vaccines only suppress symptoms within the vaccinated ( the biggest symptom being death ) Giving carriers a false sense of security while they may go on to superspread and infect the non-vaccinated. Great for the NHS, for a while. BUT... Thinking about that is d...
by Bosworth
Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:32 am
Forum: Medical and Healthcare
Topic: WHO warns vaccinated travellers could still need to be quarantined
Replies: 26
Views: 3883

Re: WHO warns vaccinated travellers could still need to be quarantined

The virus will mutate. It’s what they do when their current channel of transmission is curtailed or other selective pressures are applied to their existence. We’ve seen it at least four times already, most recently with a new strain that seems to be much more transmissible. Imagine that! A virus tha...
by Bosworth
Mon Dec 28, 2020 12:44 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 7.
Replies: 1083
Views: 171741

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 7.

jansman wrote: Sun Dec 27, 2020 1:21 pm I too, like to have plenty of kindling chopped. During furlough, I filled the normal storage area,3 dustbins full,and many fertiliser sacks too. It’s not my favourite job if I am honest.
Hmm. Kindling is my weak spot. I only have about .5m3 of sticks. Need to fix that tomorrow.
by Bosworth
Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:52 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: What do you value most?
Replies: 43
Views: 6902

Re: What do you value most?

God. I’m almost ashamed to say that I am fairly comfortable with my stocks of food etc but twitchy about alcohol. Very first world of course but quality of life matters, particularly in a situation where it’s not the end of the world but you are hunkering down with some nervousness around supply cha...
by Bosworth
Sat Nov 14, 2020 11:28 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Unaccustomed As I Am To Whingeing (Honest!)...
Replies: 24
Views: 4696

Re: Unaccustomed As I Am To Whingeing (Honest!)...

I carry stocks of a large array of prescription medicines precisely for this reason. If I can’t get official UK-supplied versions I have my preps to fall back on. There are clearly risks with this approach but they can be mostly mitigated. My view is that if I need them in a hurry or can’t get hold ...
by Bosworth
Mon Oct 26, 2020 11:18 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Signal flares
Replies: 8
Views: 2054

Re: Signal flares

light fuse and place plastic bag full of something over charge for a bigger bang. I would strongly discourage anyone from doing this unless you've recieved training in the use of pyrotechnics. While serving in the RAF I saw a demonstration as to why this is a bad idea, a Sargeant set off a thunderf...
by Bosworth
Thu Oct 22, 2020 11:28 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 7.
Replies: 1083
Views: 171741

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 7.

Finally getting around to binning old stocks and replenishing. I got a bit of heat on here a while back for wastage. Quite right but my personal circumstances are complicated and I need to buy, file, store, forget. Lots of boxes of tinned/dried foods that are well beyond their date (8 years+) that n...
by Bosworth
Thu Oct 22, 2020 11:22 pm
Forum: New Members Start Here
Topic: What reasons do people have for prepping?
Replies: 9
Views: 1734

Re: What reasons do people have for prepping?

What a fabulous, bold, and honest opening gambit :) Hats off to you and such an inspiration! A very warm welcome from someone in an entirely different life arrangement :) I prep because I want to live for as long as I can, to look after those I love as best I can, and to insulate as many people as I...
by Bosworth
Sun Oct 18, 2020 8:16 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 7.
Replies: 1083
Views: 171741

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 7.

My wife hates it when I collect wood. Being based in a town it’s stuff from builders rather than deadfall but it’s free and it all burns. I’ve never bought logs in my life - most of my neighbours with fires do. I’ve even trained the kids to look out for ‘good wood’ in skips they see on the school ru...
by Bosworth
Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:26 pm
Forum: Finance
Topic: 2020 Potential Economic Collapse
Replies: 328
Views: 56964

Re: 2020 Potential Economic Collapse

Keeping stock, as I always have, poison is a major prep. Killing vermin is a constant battle. The only good rat/ mouse is a dead one. As for foxes, they all need exterminating. Until you have had your entire poultry stock killed by one, and your best buck rabbit too, you will never understand; and ...