Personal Preparedness

• Preparation Planning
  • Determining where to ride out the pandemic
  • Determining whom to ride out the pandemic with
  • Preparing For More than 3 months
  • Agreements
• Medical
  • Prevention
    includes personal hygiene, quarantine policies (see also the legal issues page), policies on closing public events and schools, workplaces, etc.
  • Treatment
  • Psychological Adjustments and Stress Management
• Pets
  • Pets
• Food
  • Supply Risks
  • Nutrition Planning
  • Sources (local, online, gardening)
  • Storage
  • Preparation/Recipes
  • Food Safety
• Water
  • Supply Risks
  • Collection
  • Purification
  • Storage
  • Use
• Energy
  • Supply Risks
  • Electricity(generation, storage)
  • Heat (Wood, Solar, Fuel)
  • Hot Water
  • Cooking
• Transportation
  • Automobile
  • Biking/Walking
• Safety
  • Assessment
  • State, Local, and Community Organizations
  • Neighborhood Safety
• Sanitation
  • Cleaning
  • Septic Matters
• Housing and Living Space
  • Shelters
• Preparedness Guides
  • Pandemic Preparedness Guides
    written by individuals as a guide to preparedness, these files run from 1 to 100 pages.
  • Emergency Preparedness Guides
    Information from the Red Cross and US Federal Emergency Management Agency

Q. What can I do right now?

For those who want to dive right in, here’s a link on the personal hygiene issues we need to master (practice now) to help prevent spread. Here is a link to sample letters to local government you can model to begin to raise awareness. For example, this is what King County in Washington State (US) is doing now in having the health department speak to businesses. National pandemic prevention plans can be found sorted geographically here (see Canada for examples of national and provincial planning). Check your own community and if there’s no plan, add one or start writing letters, including to your local paper. Use the Flu Wiki as a resource to educate yourself and others about the issues surrounding pandemic flu.

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