at YouTube this is city prepping if
you're new to this channel my name is
Chris and on this channel we discuss
emergency preparedness I've had a lot of
people out of subscribe recently and
asked me hey you've got a big channel
that has a lot of videos but how do we
take everything that you've been talking
about and condense it down into a video
to really explain how do we prepare for
a pandemic
obviously the coronavirus says not at
the time of the recording of this video
been labeled as a pandemic
I'm sure within a few weeks that may
change so what I'm gonna try to do is
move you through the stages of emergency
preparedness in a way that can you can
make sense of it I'm not gonna try to
get into you know the weeds and a lot of
details I'm turning it I'm gonna try to
go very clear step-by-step instructions
on this so we're gonna move through
stages again three stages and Stage one
really deals with what you can do now
things like getting you know medicine
ready getting food and other toiletries
ready that if you have to stay in place
even the CDC is beginning to advise
people for example over 65 to stay in
place if they don't have to go out a
step two is gonna be when we really look
at potential long-term implications if
our infrastructure is impacted things
like your water supply electricity Stage
three is the stage that I don't really
like to talk about too much if I don't
have to but it is a reality that if
things spiral out of control to the
point where you know things like our law
enforcement or other people that you
know provide protection is out of the
place and things get really tough what
does that mean for you if you have to
take care of yourself and your family so
what we're gonna do in this video is
we're gonna jump right in I'm gonna go
through these stages if you have any
questions post those in the comments
section below so step number one and
this one I cannot emphasize enough is do
not panic a lot of people I'm getting
emails where people are panicking I'm
seeing people you know really freaked
out right now try stay as level head as
you can remember this is not gotten out
of control yet at the time they're
recording in this video I'm optimistic
that certain measures will be put in
place and I think a lot of us fall the
step so we're about to outline this
video I think it's gonna do good for all
of us but the first step is don't panic
don't make rash decisions stay calm I
know it's easier said and done right
step two is sanitation sanitation is one
of those super critical things that are
necessary in order to prevent you from
spring a disease or from you getting one
you can't say enough about washing your
hands we as a population are so used to
just moving on with our daily lives work
quick or if we don't have enough time to
do everything right but wash your hands
I cannot stress that enough if you're
out in public if you go somewhere avoid
touching things if possible don't press
buttons on elevators don't grab
handrails you use your knuckle where you
can give you know give this bumps
whatever it takes but if you do grab or
touch things and by the way you notice I
just touched my face that's another one
of the easiest ways to spread this you
have to be conscious of those things but
wash your hands and use hand sanitizer
where it possible step number three is
begin to prepare to store food what do I
mean by that on this channel we discuss
emergency preparedness and food is one
of those most critical things that if
something happens if you can't leave
your home if there's martial law
implemented if they ask you to stay away
from public areas imagine if you have to
stay in your house for weeks on end or
potentially months how would you have
enough food on hand so whenever you look
at food there's three primary things
that you have to consider when you look
at what you're gonna buy food is
basically broken down at a macro level
to your fats your protein and your
carbohydrates now I'm not going to go
into an exhaustive video talking about
food but if you can understand these
basic principles and follow them you'll
be ahead probably 95 percent of people
out there so let me go through a list of
different items that are non-perishable
that I would recommend you pick up as
soon as possible so here are the items
that you can pick up at most your local
stores a 20 pound bag of rice 20 pound
bag of beans 20 cans of fruit 20 cans of
vegetables 20 cans of meat things like
chicken two containers of peanut butter
two large containers of Tang or some
kind of water flavoring just to give you
a little variety two bags of flour a bag
of sugar a bag of salt a bag of oats a
gallon of olive oil now obviously
everybody's diet is different I'm not
gonna say these are just the only things
again obviously choose whatever it is
you know whatever your family eats but I
think if you have those you'll be in a
good position obviously for individuals
like myself coffee drinkers you know how
tea or coffee on hand I think that would
be valuable now as far as different
options is you know these are mills that
you obviously have to prepare or other
food that you have to you know cook and
combine there are a lot of other options
on the market
things like freeze-dried food MREs this
is where you get into something that
MREs you're not gonna really be eating a
lot of freeze dryers are pretty good
or rather freeze-dried food where
there's they've got a lot of great
options on the market a lot of mountain
house also I do have a freeze drying
machine you can actually buy these and
I've done several videos and of course
you can do things like soups
there's canned soup there's so many
different types of canned food on the
market again these are things if you eat
these and by the way I wouldn't
recommend you buy any food that you're
not going to use on a daily basis once
it's all passes I would hate for people
to go down and buy a lot of food that
they have to end up throwing away try to
find items that are part of your diet
that you're already using that's usually
the best route to go so the fourth thing
that we need to talk about preparing for
is getting over-the-counter medications
to handle things like flu and COFF these
are the things that you can pick up at
your store without any kind of a
prescription again if you have children
which we do we've got a lot of children
meds again things like ibuprofen for
kids we've got you know different types
of cough syrup for the children you know
just to help them sleep through the
night if they get really really sick you
know throat spray I mean things that you
wouldn't normally think and associate
with a major pandemic imagine if you
again had to stay in place you know
having ibuprofen and having ways to
actually you know help contain or rather
help deal with relieving the pain in the
situation nasal spray again we have
these for our kids pepto-bismol
impregnably stocking up on a lot of this
anti diarrheal medicine mode Emad things
like you know again cough syrup or
brother I think this is actually not
cough syrup but I'm sorry cold and flu
relief you know mitigating the pain I
mean I could go on and on ibuprofen
advil these different things that you
can get to help drop your temperature
help deal with the pain you know throat
la juices these you know different pain
relief a lot of its going to come down
to actually controlling the pain
and trying you know again things like
Pedialyte you want to look into picking
up that things that will help whenever
we especially I know we just talked
about food but you might want to look
into getting crackers getting chicken
noodle soup getting bananas well I
haven't seen people make a rush for this
yet at the store here locally whenever
this if it does hit your community
you're gonna see people clean these
items out at your local store now the
fifth item that I would say you probably
want to begin to stock up on have handy
are things which I would probably call
the three T's is towels disposable
towels toilet paper and I did not bring
a toothbrush down but a toothbrush now
imagine if you again how to say in your
house for a long period of time not
being able to get out you would
obviously want to have one of those
three things and maybe a 40 is
toothpaste so these are again are
non-perishable items that you're gonna
use eventually so it's best that you go
ahead and probably store up a little
extra another item that you might want
to consider is a bidet I know that
sounds funny in American culture
especially we're not usually using those
but I ordered one today because if I was
in a situation where I couldn't get out
for a long time and we ran out of toilet
paper
today is a perfectly hi Jenica option
and a lot of countries use around the
world on point number six will talk
about personal protection equipment or
PPE you'll see most people are wearing
things like this here in 95 respirator
masks these are obviously hard to come
by now and they're pretty much cleared
out at the stores I know there's been a
request from the government for people
to stop buying these so that medical
practitioners will have these you see a
lot of people wearing things like the
surgical masks those are really only
good if you're sick and you don't want
to cough now obviously depending on what
your budget is and how much you want to
spend and what you think things will
eventually turn out to be I do carry my
own personal mask I have some for myself
and my wife we have some for our
children and again you can attach these
to your typical 40 millimeter filters
I'll put a link to all this personal
gear that I have the area that we live
in we have a lot of fires and so I get a
lot of these in case we do have to
evacuate and we need to build a properly
arrest breed so the other item is a
hazmat suit I know this is extreme
overkill that people are gonna look at
and say why would ever get anything like
this some type of coveralls you can get
them obviously a lot cheaper if you got
to go out in public you have to ask
yourself how much exposure do you want
to give yourself if you had to come back
and clean off before you re entered your
house things like gloves I'm actually
ordering some North B 1-3-1 gloves that
are gonna be coming soon having a lot of
disposable gloves on hand we also have
those here in our home again well some
of this may be really advanced and it's
not cheap depending on your budget you
might want to look at it but I think at
a minimum if you can find in 95 you're
doing pretty well so let's talk about in
point number seven are finances the
markets re being rocked by the
coronavirus we don't really know how
this is going to play on the US and what
its gonna do to our markets but you do
need to have a budget in place that if
you have to stay at home and if the
market you know goes into recession or
other things happen that you have your
finances in line I would encourage you
if you don't probably at least if you
can have a thousand dollars on hand I
know that's not easy for a lot of people
should you know there be in shoes with
the infrastructure ATMs things like that
which we'll talk about in stage two but
at a bare minimum what I would do is I
would encourage you to put together a
budget that's a bare-bones budget what
you would absolutely have to pay things
like your water bill your rent your
mortgage health insurance put that those
put those items down the prioritize
because if things get a little difficult
you might have to reduce your finances
to adjust the essentials and point
number eight let's talk about social
distancing one of the easiest ways that
this spreads obviously is when there's
large crowds together people are either
coughing or breathing and they may be
shutting the virus and they don't even
know it there may come a point here
pretty soon where people will have to
self isolate whether it's voluntary or
involuntary one of the things you may
choose to do at this time is avoid going
into large crowds whether that's
religious events going to the mall going
to sporting events there's so many
places obviously where you have the
potential to come in contact with a
large amount of people that may be
asymptomatic and may not be showing that
they're sick you may have to consider
strongly whether if it spreads to your
community whether getting out is really
worth the risk so now let's talk about
stage two if we are at stage two we're
really talking about our infrastructure
having issues things like our water
supply things like electricity our
the healthcare system what if these
systems which are manned by people go
down and they begin to have problems
it's really gonna be on you to take care
of yourself so let's talk about a few
things in this particular stage that we
want to look at and how your
responsibilities and what your
responsibilities is and how you can
begin to prepare that and we're gonna
jump in first to water now right in
front of me I've got a particular by the
way there's only like a few gallons or
maybe even half a gallon of water in
this one but I've got a ton of these in
my closets throughout the house these
hold typically five gallons and again
I'll post links to these if you wanna
check them out this is a Berkey try to
lift this up it's got a lot of water but
this is something that actually we've
had in our house for a prob about three
years it's just built there's all our
water these are on the pricey side but
you can filter out a lot with that
obviously it doesn't purify against
viruses but if the water infrastructure
were to go down and you had to begin to
take care of and get your own water
having a way to purify it will be
important I think everybody watching
this video at a minimum should have
something like this as this is a mini
Sawyer water filter I think these are
rated up to being able to filter a
hundred thousand gallons as long as
you're not sticking dirty water in it
and by dirty I mean a bunch of dirt and
stuff like that if you kind of
pre-filter it a gallon of water per
person per day is a bare minimum that's
not a lot honestly if you have five
people in your house well that's five
gallons of water that you want to store
if you're thinking about you know a
month which is thirty days you're
talking about 150 gallons in my garage I
have probably about 12 55-gallon barrels
of water I tend to prepare and store up
a lot of water because again water is
gonna be critical right behind food
let's talk about point number 10 which
is power production if the
infrastructure is in such a situation
again that people aren't showing up to
able you know to work in power begins to
be impacted if you see rolling blackouts
at power plants aren't able to function
again having the ability to produce your
own power is going to be really
important now I've got several different
kind of options that I show here things
that I reviewed on the channel really on
this side you've got gasoline products
that produce power and then on this side
you've got four different solar
generators that I've reviewed I'll post
links again in the description section
if you want
check these out now really what it comes
down to is this gas generators they have
their pros and cons they're very noisy
they produce fumes people know that
you're gonna be using it but again they
produce power on demand you can produce
usually way more power with these you
need a lot more Watts out of them you've
got options over there that are portable
something like this is not so portable
but surprisingly you can pick these up
at Harbor Freight for about 350 400 and
this is a 40 375 max output on your
wattage so it's a pretty good option
then over here on this side you've got
solar generators again I live in
Southern California flow Delta the blue
Eddy you get jakhary you've got solar
panels that you can hook up to this up
some of them up to five or six hundred
watts these are great if you're not
producing or needing a lot of power but
you need to run essentials like maybe a
small refrigerator an 18 cubic foot one
maybe things like a CPAP machine or you
need you know you have diabetes and you
need to keep things cold in a small
refrigerator so on one side you've got
things that are very small portable the
price point on these are typically
around about anywhere from 1,000 to
1,200 and on that side you know
depending on what type of generator
anywhere from 400 to 1200 so it really
comes down to your needs and how long do
you think you'll actually need to
produce power again these are renewable
they'll always produce power as long as
you have Sun these over here of course
require on fuel that has a finite amount
of fuel that you can store in your house
obviously for safety concerns not
putting hundreds and hundreds of gallons
of fuel in your garage so these are
options and again I'll post videos I'll
post links to all the videos that I've
done on these particular products if you
want to check them out if it just came
down to it you say hey I just need
something simple that can produce a lot
of power maybe something like a small
generator over there a gas generator but
if you're concerned about potential
long-term implications where the power
may be down for a long time I would
definitely strongly advise you look at
some of these options here are when you
talk about solar generators on point
number 11 let's talk about having
medical equipment and information on
hand if the hospitals are in such a
condition that you either can't go there
because they're overloaded or you don't
want to go there because they're
overloaded and it could be even more
dangerous to be in that environment
having the ability to take care of basic
medical issues at home will be important
there's so many different types
medical kits on the market some are
better than others this is just a simple
one that I have it's a portable little
kit that has some different custom
things I've added to it but make sure
you have things you know like your basic
band-aids and a septic cream gauzes
wraps a lot of these things you can just
pick up you know as long it just
separately on things like Amazon or at
your local Walmart I've got more
advanced you know wound care kits you
know for gunshots I mean obviously this
is kind of a higher or much higher level
of trauma but at a minimum I would
recommend if you're gonna do anything
advanced apart from your typical you
know these medical kits you can buy at
least have a tourniquet you may say why
in the world what I wouldn't have a
tourniquet well imagine if something
happened you're just at home so on you
know gets injured really bad breaks a
bone falls through a pane of glass
window who knows having the ability to
stop bleeding
if the ambulances aren't coming because
it can there's so many different types
of different types of tourniquets on the
market this one's a rat's tourniquet
this is your typical I believe cat
tourniquet having information knowledge
will be important too I've got several
these books here at my house this is the
survival of Medicine handbook by dr.
bones and nurse Amy I actually spoke to
them before doing this video in the
section they did help with the OTC
section talking about different types of
flu medicines to have on hand point
number 12 is having cash on hand at the
moment most of us are used to going to
the ATM or using our credit card but
again remember that relies on the
electrical system working the
quote-unquote grid being up if there's a
run on banks or people can't get access
because electricity may be down as we
talked about in a second potential phase
of you know this illness getting out of
control
having the ability to have cash will be
important so let's talk about stage 3
stage 3 is when you're really begin to
look at a potential infrastructure
collapse a societal collapse martial law
is implemented the police are no longer
maybe active the military is taken over
or no one's around to provide protection
and it becomes the responsibility of you
and your household to take care of
yourselves so there's two things you
have to consider in this scenario number
one do you stay in place or do you leave
having a bug-out bag and this is
something I've done a lot of
I have a bag for every member of my
family that if we had to walk out the
door drive away or just walk from where
we are do we have enough gear on hand to
provide shelter food water different
little things like you know first-aid so
many considerations go into these bags
and it's beyond the scope of the video
to go into a lot of details but
everybody's got different needs and
having the ability to be mobile is
critical
now the second thing and this is
something that I don't talk about on
this channel a lot simply because
YouTube is kind of Hazzard
you know they do monetize and they do
other things whenever you bring up
firearms but having simple options like
a shotgun 12-gauge it's very effective I
also you know I'm a big proponent of
having you know a small pistol or
something that you can conceal if you
had to obviously follow your state laws
there another ar-15 is a popular
platform in America kind of the Holy
Trinity between those three and one of
the other things that I begin to
actually prepare for in stock up
personally is body armor I know a lot of
people may laugh and say well that's
pretty extreme but imagine an extreme
situation where society has really gone
to desperate measures
and it's up to you to take care of
yourself and your family I'm working
with this company they're RTS tactical
I've been trying out some of their gear
and testing it comparing it to other
companies like AR 500 the price point on
these are way below a lot of the other
ones I've seen under quality levels
amazing it's run by veterans if you want
to check them out a post links below but
what I try to do is prepare for every
contingency I really don't want I would
like to not believe that it could get to
that point where I would have to rely
again on you know defending myself but
again people can get desperate and
desperate times you have to have options
to make sure that you can take care of
yourself by no means am i advocating
being pro you know going out and hurting
someone but if someone breaks into your
house and they try to harm you or your
family it's gonna be up to you to take
care of yourself hopefully this video
gave you enough information to give you
the basics of what you can do to begin
to prepare now again a lot of people are
emailing me they're panicking they're
asking what do I do
again stay calm get food
get basic medical supplies
over-the-counter if you can you know
store up some water some of the basic
things that you need to put in place
should the infrastructure go down and
should it could really fall on you and
your family to take care of yourselves
should you be stuck in your house
whether you want to or not for a month
or six weeks you need to begin to
prepare and think about these things
we've never seen a time like this at
least in the short time that I've been
alive you know in 44 years I'm pretty
young right but I've never really seen
anything on this level obviously 9/11
was a huge impact for me but I've never
seen anything that's hitting the world
quite like this where people are
realizing that we're not bulletproof
even though we live in a modern time
things can happen that are out of our
control and to a point I'm looking at
this situation and I'm gonna do all I
can to protect myself and my family but
I do realize there's limitations we're
eventually gonna come in contact
probably with somebody eventually at one
time that may be ill and we may not know
it so I have to take a position I
encourage you to do so as well
stay calm do what you can to prepare
them hope for the best if you're of a
certain age you're over 65 then you
might want to consider it begin to
implement these steps now to self
isolate and not go out into public I
know this is a challenging time and this
is new to have to present these things
on my channel at this level I try to
prepare people as much as I can over the
last few years but I really my
optimistic in all of this that we'll do
all right
all of us will do our best and I think
we'll make it through but if you have
any concerns feel free to email me at
city prepping at gmail.com I'll do all I
can to answer you I'm getting a lot of
people emailing me but again stay
encouraged and be prepared as always be
safe out there
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