There are things all of us can do to fight back.
For some reason, I started reading about Covid-19 before it had a name, and became convinced we’d have a fight with it, by early-to-mid February.
I bought a bunch of supplements like garlic tablets and a multi-vitamin, and have been doing them for about 45 days. I’ve been hand cutting saplings and tree limbs in my yard and farm for a month, with a bow saw and hand ax for exercise.
I turned my central heat down; medical folks think the drying of air in winter makes our respiratory system susceptible to viruses. Cooler temps suppress infectious disease on surfaces, too.
I wear long-johns to bed, and now feel comfortable in the mid-fifties.
If you are worried about the economic/political impact, and can afford to, do things that keep money circulating, while avoiding crowds. Gas is damn cheap: pack the family in the car/truck, and see a part of the state you haven’t visited. Stay in your car, with drive-thru meals, and support the economy by burning our surplus fuel, and shop at any drive-through Mom-and-Pop spots you can find. (All until they ask us not to drive, unnecessarily).
Do things you have never done at home. Raise a “Victory Garden” in your back yard, as folks did by the millions in WWII. You don’t have to be a farm kid or have a big yard to do a 30 by 30 plot. Don’t know how to plant beans and corn? Google it as you go. Get exercise by hand-spading your plot, or borrow the neighbor’s tiller.
If you smoke, it’s as good a time to quit as ever (and I was reared with a tobacco knife and spear in my dark-stained-hands).
Feel shut in? Meet and talk to neighbors: buy a steer calf from a local farmer/yards and do a neighborhood split of the meat for your freezers, dividing the cost of the calf and processing. You can do all hamburger, with the steaks ground up, for the best damn burgers you will ever grill out this summer. Don’t know how to buy a calf for slaughter; call any Bluegrass Stockyards (or Producers, etc.) and they can give you phone numbers of farmers and slaughter houses.
Talk to your closest neighbors and friends, and combine resources: some might have a stash of meds/food/ammo etc., that could come in handy if things get real bad.
And keep a sense of humor.
We’ll all get through this, and years from now will tell our young ones that we can remember a time when we had to limit ourselves to 10 sheets of toilet paper everytime we wiped our ***!
For some reason, I started reading about Covid-19 before it had a name, and became convinced we’d have a fight with it, by early-to-mid February.
I bought a bunch of supplements like garlic tablets and a multi-vitamin, and have been doing them for about 45 days. I’ve been hand cutting saplings and tree limbs in my yard and farm for a month, with a bow saw and hand ax for exercise.
I turned my central heat down; medical folks think the drying of air in winter makes our respiratory system susceptible to viruses. Cooler temps suppress infectious disease on surfaces, too.
I wear long-johns to bed, and now feel comfortable in the mid-fifties.
If you are worried about the economic/political impact, and can afford to, do things that keep money circulating, while avoiding crowds. Gas is damn cheap: pack the family in the car/truck, and see a part of the state you haven’t visited. Stay in your car, with drive-thru meals, and support the economy by burning our surplus fuel, and shop at any drive-through Mom-and-Pop spots you can find. (All until they ask us not to drive, unnecessarily).
Do things you have never done at home. Raise a “Victory Garden” in your back yard, as folks did by the millions in WWII. You don’t have to be a farm kid or have a big yard to do a 30 by 30 plot. Don’t know how to plant beans and corn? Google it as you go. Get exercise by hand-spading your plot, or borrow the neighbor’s tiller.
If you smoke, it’s as good a time to quit as ever (and I was reared with a tobacco knife and spear in my dark-stained-hands).
Feel shut in? Meet and talk to neighbors: buy a steer calf from a local farmer/yards and do a neighborhood split of the meat for your freezers, dividing the cost of the calf and processing. You can do all hamburger, with the steaks ground up, for the best damn burgers you will ever grill out this summer. Don’t know how to buy a calf for slaughter; call any Bluegrass Stockyards (or Producers, etc.) and they can give you phone numbers of farmers and slaughter houses.
Talk to your closest neighbors and friends, and combine resources: some might have a stash of meds/food/ammo etc., that could come in handy if things get real bad.
And keep a sense of humor.
We’ll all get through this, and years from now will tell our young ones that we can remember a time when we had to limit ourselves to 10 sheets of toilet paper everytime we wiped our ***!
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