Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?
I&#x27;ve already been preparing as a hobby for the last 3 years,  not specifically for coronavirus, but here&#x27;s how I&#x27;m prepared for it:<p>- I work remotely, so I can hunker down at home and have my income totally unaffected.<p>- I&#x27;ve close to 6 months worth of food, and I&#x27;ve been buying more in the last month as the news continues.  I can give some tips on what I think is good inexpensive food to get in case anyone is interested.<p>- I&#x27;m fasting regularly, which will realistically extend my food supply.  Most people calculate their food supply by 3 meals a day plus snacks, but you can go days without eating.  Right now I&#x27;m closing in on 72 hours without food.  I&#x27;m perfectly fine.  You get used to it.  The key is getting your electrolytes and getting out of your sugar addiction.<p>- I have lots of water stored up, although that&#x27;s not going to be much of a problem with COVID-19.  Several filters meant to remove viruses, though I have a distiller so I would probably just use that if I was really that paranoid about my water, which I probably won&#x27;t be.<p>- My medicine cabinet has everything you can think of and more.  I have 2 first aid kits and a trauma kit.  I have what it takes to turn the entrance to my home into a decon chamber, if need be.  I have tons of bleach and disinfectants.<p>- I have full gas masks with filters, including adapters for 3M filters, which should be perfectly sufficient to remove droplets in the air.  I also have full tyvek suits in case there&#x27;s a worst case scenario but I have to leave my home.  I have lots of N95 masks, but obviously you can&#x27;t count on those for very much.  I certainly don&#x27;t have the belief that even the gas masks will prevent anything.  It&#x27;s just hedging my bets.<p>---<p>All that said, I am not paranoid.  I don&#x27;t even have anxiety over it.  Those things I mentioned would only come into play if things went extremely bad.  My life wouldn&#x27;t be very different if I had to stay indoors for months on end, so long as utilities continue to operate.  Even if the supply chain broke down, I would probably be better off staying indoors than trying to bug out to somewhere else.<p>One other thing I&#x27;m doing is trying to sell off a high value items I&#x27;ve been holding on to, but I&#x27;m selling them off now because the money could save me from strife if there&#x27;s widespread infection and my job totally falls apart.