Are you doing anything to prepare for a second wave?

[Emlou07]

Historically we are going to get one. Seeing pictures of places rammed is scary.

So if so, what are you doing to prepare? If only to make another potential lockdown a bit easier.

I've been picking up a couple of extra tins a week and some UHT milk. I've also put some bits aside for the kids to keep them entertained.

I bought both SR and Plain flour yesterday. In fairness this is nothing to do with a second wave but the first time I have seen them in our local shops since all this fiasco began.

@Worriedaboutthefuture1

If leaving pointless passive aggressive comments on a forum does it for you, I won't judge!

Though there are probably better ways to spend your time.. Like preparing for a second wave

Enjoy the

The message actually being portrayed is “you should be doing something. You should be panicking, if you don’t do something then you are at increased risk of running out.”

And it’s these kinds of threads which do provoke panic buying because they’re essentially encouraging it by saying that food etc will run out.

Why can people just not get on and do their own thing? Why do they need to find an audience to run their lives by?

Good grief. OP has only started a conversational thread like dozens of others. She’s not pounding the streets sobbing into a loudspeaker and tearing at her clothes.

Why the gross overreaction?

Shielding my DH is not over for us for, well, I don’t know. He will die if he gets it.

I’m restocking because people are being idiots round here. Beaches packed, it stinks of piss as loos aren’t open. Lovely. Second wave here we come. ☹️

Have you not learnt from last time that it’s attitudes like this that cause the shortages!!! Don’t panic buy!

@AlternativePerspective - It's a forum? To discuss things?

@lilgreen NO ONE SAID ANYTHING ABOUT PANIC BUYING!

@ArriettyJones Thank you!

I suppose that would just be too pleasant and empathetic a thought process for you to contaminate your murky brain with?

I have huge empathy for the people terrified by reading the kind of misinformation spread on threads like these, thus my post.

If your personal circumstances mean you need to prepare to stay indoors more then I sympathise. However you could buy extra with that in mind, without fear mongering and encouraging healthy people with no edge-case requirements to do the same.

I have to say I’m astounded at the number of people who apparently can’t tell the difference between a well stocked pantry and panic buying.

Two completely opposite phenomena.

Is it a pose?

YW @Emlou07

Jesus christ. At what point did I suggest panic buying?

Preparing and panic buying are two completely different things.

Preparing is sensible, regardless of your opinion.

Panic buying is selfish and dangerous for those who cannot prepare.

Woolly hats and pandemic pantries ....

I am wondering if some people on this thread have anxiety issues in general.

Why can people just not get on and do their own thing? Why do they need to find an audience to run their lives by?

Exactly!

On February I read the messages on here and I did stock up. I had three weeks worth of food in and it was really handy at the start when we were shielding but couldn't get a delivery slot.
We're on the vulnerable list now and managing easily to get slots so I don't think I will need.to stock up again. We've managed with fortnightly supermarket deliveries topped up with milkman, deli and greengrocer deliveries. The shops local.to us have been fantastic so I don't think it is necessary to stockpile, hope not famous last words....

"But there's no need to prep OR panic buy really. I did neither and have always been able to get everything I need. That's assuming you can physically go to the shops of course as some people will be shielding"

Well this is it isn't it - it's not just prepping for food shortages it's ensuring you have enough food that if you become ill or are contacted to self isolate, you don't have to go out and risk infecting others. That is the whole point of the track and trace strategy we are being asked to follow (whatever you think of it and that's a whole differnts thread!)

Those that don't think they need to stockpile/prepare/stock up (whatever you want to call it) - do you have enough food not to go to the shops for two weeks if you get that call? If so, you're prepped - it's not hiding in a bunker filled with guns with tinfoil on your heads - it's being prepared.

If not, you're making life harder for yourself and potentially putting others at risk. As a shielded person I can tell you it's a fucking nightmare getting deliveries whether you are meant to get priority or not, and if cases start rising again it will be harder.

I understand some people may not have funds or room to do this - but we have a low income which is exactly why I have been buying a few things extra a week for years and rotating so we have a stock on. We have 20% of this low income so it's been a godsend for this and another good reason to do it. If DH has to isolate it will be two weeks on SSP - £95 a week. I can't feed my family on that so I have prepared.

I genuinely don't understand how being prepared for at least two weeks is A Bad Thing when surely it's actually the most sensible and responsible strategy if people might be suddenly running short of money or asked not to leave the house for two weeks.

The problem is that the perception of prepping is wrong, the problem is not the actual prepping. People misunderstand and believe the cliches. IMO

Op the only mid mistake you’ve made ie to start this thread in AIBU

You need to move over to preppers. Plenty of very sensible people there who prep, enjoy swapping prepping tips and don’t panic!

If you can afford to having a two week supply of food is only sensible. We are normally always well stocked but I didn't think about art and craft supplies for the kids and as they are young and a lot of their learning is through play. This was something I have now purchased. Dh applied to his work for an office chair and has been using that instead of a dining chair. We are unlikely to move in the next few years but similarly to a pp will be looking for a house with office space so I don't need to give up my dining room.

For a pp who said the only things that went short were pasta and loo roll, good for you. You should be able to realise though that some of us live in different parts of the country and experienced shortages of different things. I found it difficult to get passatta, tomato paste, plain and self raising flour, vanilla essence, extract as well as the above. Prices shot up for 10kg bags of rice as did meat at asian shops which impacted my household.

I have been prepping this time around, just one extra thing whenever I shop, toilet roll, uht milk, pasta and sauce, chicken for the freezer etc.l can’t help it after this lockdown.

Yes price increases are another good reason for prepping. We saved a bit by having stores

Everyone should be prepared for at least 2 weeks anyway as you could have to self isolate at anytime

Very good point. I had a bit of a Brexit stockpile so was reasonably well prepared and had loo roll etc but it's more difficult to stockpile this time as you can't just waltz into a supermarket and browse/think about what you might need.

Prepping is not the same as panic buying, people on this thread! They are polar opposites!

We have 20% of this low income so it's been a godsend for this and another good reason to do it.

This should say lost 20% of income due to furlough.

‘Historically we are going to get one’ - eh? Assuming you’re referring to Spanish flu, 100 years ago, it’s not comparable. There has been no second wave anywhere else in the world, not sure what makes people so certain we’ll get one. Possible, yes, but not probable.

It's almost funny the way those of us who believe the science are accused of scaremongering while the ignorance is bliss people seem to think they occupy the higher ground.

Surely this should be in the Preppers thread, where the permanently sub panicked gather together as a regular thing/hobby ?