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You Know How Hard It Is NOT To Touch Your Face With Hands? Try It…

Randolph Jason

You Know How Hard It Is NOT To Touch Your Face With Hands? Try It… by Ken Jorgustin for Modern Survival Blog GNN Note – For the past several weeks I have become very aware of touching my face it is amazing how many times a day our hands are on our face. Equally amazing is how many times our face is touched in general. Now that you’re aware watch what happens. Within a few days you are going to be shocked. ****** Seriously. See how long you can go without…

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How to Prepare for a Coronavirus Quarantine

Randolph Jason

How to Prepare for a Coronavirus Quarantine by Daisy Luther for The Organic Prepper All over the world, people are in quarantine at their homes due to Covid19, a coronavirus that has infected tens of thousands. Some are in quarantine voluntarily – either they’ve recently returned from a place where the virus is widespread or they feel that social distancing is a good idea for them. Others are in mandatory quarantines enforced by local governments. Either way, the basics are the same. I’ve gotten lots of questions about preparing for…

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How to Build a 30-Day Emergency Food Supply…Fast

Randolph Jason

How to Build a 30-Day Emergency Food Supply…Fast By Daisy Luther for The Organic Prepper If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you may be feeling on edge.  You may feel as though time is running out for you to get your preparedness supplies and emergency food in order. You may be new to prepping, and feeling like there’s too much to accomplish.  It seems like everything, everywhere, is sold out. This feeling of urgency can make you feel hopeless and panicked, and that’s not productive. If you’re…

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How To Stop Procrastinating and Start Prepping

Randolph Jason

How To Stop Procrastinating and Start Prepping by M.D. Creekmore for MDCreekmore GNN Note – What we have done is simply add an extra item or two to our weekly shopping list. For example, if we needed toilet paper, since it will never, ever good bad unless it gets wet, we began adding an additional pack to the cart. Then we began looking more canned food items, meds / hygiene and everything else in our house. This started several years ago and has worked well for us. Not only does…

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Would We Still Have Power and Water If We Had a Massive Coronavirus Quarantine in the US?

Randolph Jason

Would We Still Have Power and Water If We Had a Massive Coronavirus Quarantine in the US? by Selco Begovic and Daisy Luther for The Organic Prepper Would We Still Have Power and Water If We Had a Massive Coronavirus Quarantine in the US? by Selco Begovic and Daisy Luther for The Organic Prepper How long do you think a pandemic quarantine could go on with power, running water, the internet, and trash pick-up continuing to run as normal? If Covid-19 (also known as the Wuhan coronavirus or nCoV-2019) were…

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How to Handle DOOM FATIGUE About the Coronavirus

Randolph Jason

How to Handle DOOM FATIGUE About the Coronavirus by Daisy Luther for The Organic Prepper If you’re like a lot of folks, you’re sick and tired of hearing about the coronavirus but at the same time, you’re glued to the news about it. Or maybe it’s a combination of the coronavirus, a global economy threatened by the possible pandemic, a potential war in the Middle East, and the assorted political nonsense we’re currently witnessing that has you saying, “No more!” There’s a loosely coined name for this. It’s called “doom…

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50 Survival Lessons from the Great Depression

Randolph Jason

50 Survival Lessons from the Great Depression by Charles Yor for Survival Sullivan The Great Depression conjures images a severe lack and economic devastation. Trains of ramshackle vehicles hauling entire families of migrant workers desperately trying to eke out a living. Entire blocks worth of businesses shuttered. Skyrocketing prices and plummeting wages. Bank’s closing. Falling demand creating a domino effect of failing commercial sectors. Construction stopped. Growth halted and backsliding. The Great Depression was nothing less than a worldwide catastrophe. Its effects were felt literally everywhere, from the shores of…

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What to Do with Refrigerated Foods After a Power Outage

Randolph Jason

What to Do with Refrigerated Foods After a Power Outage by aptprepper for Apartment Prepper Right before Christmas, some of my relatives lost electricity when the wind knocked out their neighborhood’s power lines. They spent a cold night at home and were worried they would lose all the holiday food in their fridge. A power outage can occur at any time – heavy thunderstorms, heat wave when the power grid is stretched thin, local electrical repairs, hurricanes, earthquakes etc. A lot of people wonder what to do with the food in the…

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What I Bought to Prep for a Wuhan Coronavirus Lockdown

Randolph Jason

What I Bought to Prep for a Wuhan Coronavirus Lockdown by Daisy Luther for The Organic Prepper GNN Note – The image above is wrong type of mask – it is for demonstration purposes. DO NOT get this type of mask for this situation. ****** Panic over the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China is becoming more widespread and people are frantically getting prepared in case this thing goes bad.  Things like N95 masks and other PPE are pretty much sold out in stores across the nation and also on…

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PPE for a Pandemic: A Guide to Personal Protective Equipment and Masks

Randolph Jason

PPE for a Pandemic: A Guide to Personal Protective Equipment and Masks by Cat Ellis for The Organic Prepper One of the problems with prepping for a pandemic is getting accurate information. When there’s a potential for a highly contagious and potentially deadly disease, people panic. Governments do what they can to minimize panic. This includes protective measures, like restricting travel. It can also mean controlling the release of information. We saw this with the West African Ebola outbreak, and we may be seeing it again with the Wuhan coronavirus. Daisy reported…

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