By Daisy Luther About a month ago, I began working with Cat Ellis to put together a guide to help people prepare for the possibility of a coronavirus pandemic and potential quarantines. We published our book, The Wuhan Coronavirus Survival Manual: How to Prepare for Pandemics and Quarantines (nCoV-2019, Covid-19 […]
By Daisy Luther With the Covid-19 virus popping up across the country, people who are preppers are adding a few last-minute things to their stockpiles. Those who aren’t preppers are starting from scratch to get what they think they might need to handle a potential quarantine at home. While most […]
By Graywolf I previously wrote about how to survive a winter storm at home in case your power goes out, which has some great overall information in it to help you prepare, but I realized I’d missed something important and thought I should address it in its own post – […]
By Daisy Luther In an interesting coincidence, the CDC has issued an advisory on the use of an Ebola rapid diagnostic test only 3 days before the announcement of a new FDA-approved Ebola vaccine with a “100% effectiveness” rate. The health advisory The CDC has issued a health advisory for […]
By Daisy Luther What would you do if you were out at a tourist attraction or traveling, and suddenly, it looked like things were about to go sideways? For this exercise, we’re going to pretend that for some reason, we don’t have our emergency gear with us. Maybe it’s in […]
By Daisy Luther If you turn to pre-packaged salads for a healthy meal on the go, you may want to find another quick and healthy meal. As well, if you make the salads yourself, you may want to eschew romaine lettuce. (Again.) Nearly 100,000 POUNDS of salads have been recalled […]
By Daisy Luther In a world where idiotic Tweets are de rigueur, one this week has stood out as the most ignorant and hateful of them all. Jackson Kernion, a graduate student and philosophy instructor decided to enlighten the rest of us by sharing his lofty view of the citizens […]
By Daisy Luther Prepping is a lifestyle, but it shouldn’t take over your life to the exclusion of all else. Things are pretty stressful in the world today, and a lot of people in the preparedness niche, myself included, are urging others to get prepared. This has been an eventful […]
By Daisy Luther This recall is a beast of epic proportions. You may have thought the recent apple recall was crazy but wait until you see the massive scope of this one. More than one hundred vegetable products have been recalled by Mann Packing Company because they may be contaminated […]
By Daisy Luther I’ve written often about how we shouldn’t let fear get in the way of us living the lives we want to lead, and that includes visiting the places we’ve always dreamed about going to see. Currently, I’m on an extended research trip to Europe and wanted to […]