My main thing is going to be calisthenics and prison-style burpees every day all day to get ripped, continue learning full stack development (mainly Angular and MongoDB), and maybe writing some short stories. Other than that, just video games.C-Mag wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 6:44 amIf the power goes down for an extended period of time shits gonna get Western in a hurry.Speaker to Animals wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 2:48 pmI still need to fill my freezer with some meat. I want to get extra paper towels and toilet paper. Probably more lysol, soap, and hand sanitizer.
Not self-reliant by any means, but I have a solid amount of time I can ride it out as long as I don't lose power and water.
I had been slowly building that emergency food supply over the course of five years, so I do have that going for me, and then about three months worth of dry goods I bought this month. Just need meat and the pray they keep the power on.
I was watching local videos coming out of Wuhan's lock down, and it occurred to me that we need to have entertainment squared away. Plenty of batteries for game controllers, etc. Those people are losing their minds in boredom. Probably a vital prep here is to have some projects set aside to work on so that you come out of lock down stronger than you went in rather than just surviving, which is the difference between antifragility and robustness, in the Taleb sense.
In hindsight, one antifragile investment strategy would have been to assume a pandemic would someday be very possible and to stake out positions in all the little biotech firms that develop vaccines for these things. Also invest in any manufacturing that produces necessary medical supplies in regions where most of those supplies are outsourced now. It's not a position that you take to make money each year, but one that will pay off big if the event you planned for occurs. Going forward, it might behoove folks to think about what other fat tail risks we could encounter to do something similar.
Entertainment is a smart thing. I think digital entertainment is good, but a lot of folks are going to need social interaction, either face to face or digital.
We have a bunch of analog entertainment. Old board games getting dusty on a back corner. Cards are great because you can play so many different games. Lately we've gotten some great enjoyment out of puzzles. It's a slow pace activity with good times to talk.
I am not really planning for power outages. I do not think it will come anywhere close to that. It’s just a time we need to stay at home for a month or two, only people in critical jobs going out. If the CCP can figure out how to keep Wuhan running under mandatory lock downs, so can we. Our culture is not nearly as intransigent and out of control as theirs, and our government — as bad as it is — not nearly as much of a shut show as the CCP.
