Stay sane or plan for the apocalypse?

I’m on the edge, Beginning to think I should buy a massive chest freezer and hunker down. (I’ve done no panic buying to date, herd mentality is setting in).In all seriousness, this is getting serious....

How the Fock are you planning to keep sane in the next few weeks....

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SnowyMuckish wrote: »

I’m on the edge, Beginning to think I should buy a massive chest freezer and hunker down. (I’ve done no panic buying to date, herd mentality is setting in).In all seriousness, this is getting serious....

How the Fock are you planning to keep sane in the next few weeks....

Staying off boards would help..

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

SnowyMuckish wrote: »

I’m on the edge, Beginning to think I should buy a massive chest freezer and hunker down. (I’ve done no panic buying to date, herd mentality is setting in).In all seriousness, this is getting serious....

How the Fock are you planning to keep sane in the next few weeks....

Two weeks?! Hah! Amateur!

Binge watching Doomsday Preppers on Netflix....

touts

SnowyMuckish wrote: »

I’m on the edge, Beginning to think I should buy a massive chest freezer and hunker down. (I’ve done no panic buying to date, herd mentality is setting in).In all seriousness, this is getting serious....

How the Fock are you planning to keep sane in the next few weeks....

Too late. You're as good as dead already.

Wayne Jarvis

Planning for apocalypses is how I stay sane.

BlackEdelweiss

No point buying a chest freezer, society only breaks down when the water and ESB go down. The newbies are buying dried pasta, packet soup and frozen food, all no good to you if the **** his the fan.
You have to think about the long game!

SnowyMuckish

SnowyMuckish wrote: »

I’m on the edge, Beginning to think I should buy a massive chest freezer and hunker down. (I’ve done no panic buying to date, herd mentality is setting in).In all seriousness, this is getting serious....

How the Fock are you planning to keep sane in the next few weeks....

Set up a GoFundMe. on Facebook.


Yesterday.
Instead of crying out here on boards.

An Ri rua

BlackEdelweiss wrote: »

No point buying a chest freezer, society only breaks down when the water and ESB go down. The newbies are buying dried pasta, packet soup and frozen food, all no good to you if the **** his the fan.
You have to think about the long game!

Not a'tall. Get yourself a rocket stove. Water? In Ireland right now?

Sorry about that

Keep busy, that's the main thing. Maybe volunteer at a local community group, no wait, that's no good. Go and visit an elderly neighbour, no, actually don't do that. Offer to take your nieces and nephews off for the day, oh no, you can't do that either.
Just basically keep busy.

Ubbquittious

No one expects the national grid to go down or the mains water to stop working Might be a few isolated outages and take longer to repair than usual. Food also unlikely to run out. Main thing to prepare for would be avoiding cabin fever id say

Motherof123

SnowyMuckish wrote: »

I’m on the edge, Beginning to think I should buy a massive chest freezer and hunker down. (I’ve done no panic buying to date, herd mentality is setting in).In all seriousness, this is getting serious....

How the Fock are you planning to keep sane in the next few weeks....

Yeah the initial reaction is should I go and bulk buy before it's all gone! But the shops are all fine and stocked up.
Stay busy at home do some gardening or anything to
Pass the time away. De clutter.
I have kids so I can't do anything different if anything I'm busier they have no school so it's a long day entertaining feeding cleaning and cleaning after them. And trying to get them to do something productive indoors as it's raining and they can't really go out

branie2

Staying sane

Harry Palmr

Learn a craft or other useful discipline, fill your time with something practical - paint the house, paint the garden walls/fences, take up dog walking.

Atlantic Dawn

October is when I see normality being restored, it's going to be a messy journey until then. I see martial law, rations, control of movement within the country all coming.

cj maxx

Apocalypse here, Dettol wipes and bottles at the ready and even a bottle of vodka on hand as hand cleaner.
It may never be used but it's here. And no I didn't panic buy, well I did on the vodka!

fryup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2SVIrXAyzA

Conall Cernach

Are those iodine tablets any addition now?

Purple Mountain

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

October is when I see normality being restored, it's going to be a messy journey until then. I see martial law, rations, control of movement within the country all coming.

Gilead in other words.

fryup

fryup wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2SVIrXAyzA

😂 you’re killing me, if the virus doesn’t get me first 😂

Westernyelp

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Gilead in other words.

Gilead have developed the most promising Therapeutic drug as it happens

if water, electric, groceries and internet stay up id happily keep goin forever

sanity, sher its a relative notion at best of times.

punisher5112

I have 2 generators, safely stashed in 2 locations, stand by car, beer and water just in case.....

I will have light, TV, and heat no matter what.....

Also have access to a farm so can go there away from a big city, shoot anything moving

PTH2009

Rumours of a lockdown starting tuesday and could last 6-12 months

fryup

Conall Cernach wrote: »

Are those iodine tablets any addition now?

Phone Joe Jacob

jim salter

PTH2009 wrote: »

Rumours of a lockdown starting tuesday and could last 6-12 months

scaremongeing......



...no way 6-12 months, more likely 18-36 months

punisher5112

PTH2009 wrote: »

Rumours of a lockdown starting tuesday and could last 6-12 months

Bull....

punisher5112

fryup wrote: »

Phone Joe Jacob

I'll do just that

PTH2009

When will Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise and the likes be coming in to save the day

airhead_eire

jim salter wrote: »

scaremongeing......



...no way 6-12 months, more likely 18-36 months

Absolutely !

Anyway, everyone should panic buy and leaving nothing for everybody else. We're all doomed.

Even the alien invasion is on hold now. Drat......

airhead_eire

PTH2009 wrote: »

When will Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise and the likes be coming in to save the day

They're stuck in Italy I hear.......

jim salter

punisher5112 wrote: »

I have 2 generators, safely stashed in 2 locations, stand by car, beer and water just in case.....

I will have light, TV, and heat no matter what.....

Also have access to a farm so can go there away from a big city, shoot anything moving

I have 6 generators safely stashed in 12 locations (yes, you heard me right).

Standby hovercraft or spaceship, alchol free beer and water too. The TV you got me on....

The end is nigh

:rolleyes:

airhead_eire

jim salter wrote: »

I have 6 generators safely stashed in 12 locations (yes, you heard me right).

Standby hovercraft or spaceship, alchol free beer and water too. The TV you got me on....

The end is nigh

:rolleyes:

Alcohol free ?? Jaysus man, the virus would be better than that......

punisher5112

jim salter wrote: »

I have 6 generators safely stashed in 12 locations (yes, you heard me right).

Standby hovercraft or spaceship, alchol free beer and water too. The TV you got me on....

The end is nigh

:rolleyes:

Yeah you are truly royaly fcuked

Eire Go Brach

SnowyMuckish wrote: »

I’m on the edge, Beginning to think I should buy a massive chest freezer and hunker down. (I’ve done no panic buying to date, herd mentality is setting in).In all seriousness, this is getting serious....

How the Fock are you planning to keep sane in the next few weeks....

You won’t get a chest freezer. Sold out everywhere.

punisher5112

Eire Go Brach wrote: »

You won’t get a chest freezer. Sold out everywhere.

That's for keeping the bodies cold

airhead_eire

A stash of Razzle magazines (or Mayfair) and bottle or two of Wild Turkey and it'll be grand. Kleenex might be hard to get though......

As serious as things are, it’s nice to have a bit of humor to take the edge off things, even if it’s just for a brief few moments, we can forget worry of our loved ones for a tiny fraction of time, hopefully we all keep safe, sláinte to after hours and #stay safe #stayathome #itillbefinedrinkwine

airhead_eire

SnowyMuckish wrote: »

As serious as things are, it’s nice to have a bit of humor to take the edge off things, even if it’s just for a brief few moments, we can forget worry of our loved ones for a tiny fraction of time, hopefully we all keep safe, sláinte to after hours and #stay safe #stayathomeb #itillbefinedrinkwine

If we lose our sense of humour then we are all truly lost !

RandomViewer

PTH2009 wrote: »

When will Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise and the likes be coming in to save the day

This is the low budget version, Vinny Jones and Sammo Hung are all that's acvailable

revelman

SnowyMuckish wrote: »

I’m on the edge, Beginning to think I should buy a massive chest freezer and hunker down. (I’ve done no panic buying to date, herd mentality is setting in).In all seriousness, this is getting serious....

How the Fock are you planning to keep sane in the next few weeks....

It is easy to forget that for 99% of the history of humanity life was “nasty, brutish and short” as one famous thinker once put it. In a country like Ireland, we are lucky to be living in relative comfort with some of the longest life expectancies in history. That is not to say that life in Ireland is straightforward for everyone but as a general principle it holds true. So we tend to not to realise (at least until something truly bad happens in our lives) that human life is fragile.

Nonetheless we have access to far more scientific knowledge today than in the past. We will be able to develop treatment in the form of antivirals and ultimately a vaccine. We need to delay transmission of this virus as much as we can. Sensible precautions will save lives.

It is also worth thinking about the fact that the makeup of this virus is apparently similar to SARS from 2003. What was remarkable about the 2003 pandemic is that it basically burned out in July. There are a lot of unknowns about this particular strain of course. But I think we have reason to be optimistic that if we delay this for a few months we can get things under control. It is summer in the Southern Hemisphere but infections there tends to be associated with travel to those regions and then ensuing local transmission. There does not appear to be sustained community transmission in the Southern Hemisphere. This bodes well for the summer. I’m not a scientist but I think we have many reasons to be hopeful and not to despair. Here is the SARS graph:

RandomViewer

PTH2009 wrote: »

Rumours of a lockdown starting tuesday and could last 6-12 months

Irish lockdown will be interesting to see,

kieran.

PTH2009 wrote: »

Rumours of a lockdown starting tuesday and could last 6-12 months

It's been a long time since I smoked but I thinking a big bag of weed maybe neccesary to see us though......

Vita nova

SnowyMuckish wrote: »

I’m on the edge, Beginning to think I should buy a massive chest freezer and hunker down. (I’ve done no panic buying to date, herd mentality is setting in).In all seriousness, this is getting serious....

How the Fock are you planning to keep sane in the next few weeks....

A 15 to 30-day supply of nonperishable food at home is sensible. If you end up infected and fighting the virus at home you don't want to be going to the shops when you're at your most infectious or weakest.

As for keeping sane, I imagine it'll be an opportunity for a lot of people to catch up on reading, hobbies or DIY tasks.

begbysback

Ubbquittious wrote: »

No one expects the national grid to go down or the mains water to stop working Might be a few isolated outages and take longer to repair than usual. Food also unlikely to run out. Main thing to prepare for would be avoiding cabin fever id say

Stop talking sense man, theres people waiting their whole lives to have a proper doomsday panic, dont ruin it for them

CBear1993

What’s everyone’s thoughts on heading away for a few days now to escape this information overload.

But is it actually safe to go and stay in a hotel? Don’t know who’s stayed there in that room the night before you. Or who is in the hotel... ???

I’d love to head off to kerry Or Donegal and get out of Dublin but maybe that’s stupid and irresponsible heading to a hotel.

Snails pace

I've order 4k litres of diesel off a friend and bought a few cartridges as well. Here's to 2021

AndrewJRenko

SnowyMuckish wrote: »

I’m on the edge, Beginning to think I should buy a massive chest freezer and hunker down.

What do you plan to do with all the massive chests when they thaw out? I like a boob as much as the next man but the novelty will wear out fairly soon.

Plumbthedepths

Pretty much decided whatever sh*t happens I'll just roll with it. Had an awesome life got to do and experience some wild stuff and still here. Slightly annoyed that a virus might end it ,but hey ho.

ChikiChiki

Spanish
Guitar
Online Courses in IT

Basically everything I always wanted to do but procrastinated on.

**** it in crisis there is opportunity.

Also as per poster above, jaysus I've had some good times. We will see what happens.

Borgo

I didnt think it would get this bad but the hired Garda cars alone would make ye think that the **** is going to go down. Something just doesnt feel right. Good few countries in Europe are starting to close down now so why would we be any different?

PTH2009

think its time to sit back and put on a playlist of scrubs songs and to yourselve reflect on your whole life from the ups and downs and quielty fade away with a smile on your face and say 'everything i done in my life is what it is and at the end of the day it happend'

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