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Episode-2622- What to Do About CoVid-19 Right Now

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Today’s show has no typical intro segments, I am designing it to allow you to help those who are mostly or totally unprepared for this.  As I have said a lot lately, if you follow our basic guidelines is 30-60 days of minimum preparedness for food, essentials and finances you should be in really good shape right now.

Yet not everyone is prepared, in fact clearly they are not and in some areas it is worse than others.  Today’s show is really for those who are totally freaked out, designed to say, you can do these things and take control, but I think it will help everyone get things into perspective.  Please share this one folks, I think it can help a lot of people.

Special Note – For those new to the show the bullet points below are my talking points only, I generally present with less notes but don’t want to leave anything out here.  I ask you to resist the urge to just scan the notes and think, yea I know that.  If someone shared this with you please take the time to listen to the audio, it can really help you get though the next few weeks and it may in fact save lives.

Join Me Today as We Discuss…

Five Basics to Keep in Mind at all Times

  • The social distancing advice is right, it sucks but it is right.
  • Sanitation is critical when you go out act like a solider, don’t touch your face.
  • However be a “grey man” don’t start shit, stay away from people
  • Go out early, don’t shop around the 1st, 15th or any time money is being sent out
  • Despite the hysteria most cases are mild to moderate and self resolve, you still don’t want to add to the problem

 

What do do at home right now…

  • Set up a schedule and keep to it, not strict but keep it
  • Inventory your food and supplies, know what you have before buying what you don’t need
  • Calculate how long you can go with what you have, so you can make smart supply run decisions
  • Do not watch wall to wall CoVid TV
  • Schedule “movie” or fun TV time
  • Schedule family/friend contact times, facetime, etc.
  • Create “work” for kids, use “me too” leverage
  • Have outside time, sorry stay away from friends and neighbors though
  • Create fun projects, if you are not working do them with your kids
  • Enjoy each other, make the best of things
  • Teach kids about the right amount of TP and happy birthday hand washing
  • If you have the space designate everyone as “private area” then can go to and have respected

 

More Specific to Kids….

  • Schedule, structure and command make them feel like you have control, they need that
  • Be honest that things are serious, but keep them upbeat, “we are going to be okay”
  • Really minimize “CoVid TV” around them
  • Yes it is effort to teach them a task, but once they can do it, you don’t have to
  • Trust me a lot of stuff they say they don’t want to do, they will enjoy if you make them do it

 

Things I noticed on a supply run….

  • Hit stores early, during the week, bad weather is kind of good in this case
  • Stay the hell away from high population area stores if you can
  • Many people are buying the “easy” food, buy whole foods, whole cuts, etc.
  • This multiple meals with one item, whole chickens, large meat cuts, etc.
  • Think waste elimination, buy things you can use fresh but easily store as well
  • If you can get high volume easy button foods by all means do it
  • Consider intel gathering whenever you go out, notice parking lots and times of day, days of week
  • Don’t post your intel good or bad on social media, it isn’t everyone for themselves but one post can really ruin things
  • Some other things to think about buying, potatoes, veg that freezes well, surprisingly junk foods, canned meat if you are limited on freezer space.
  • If you can order curb side pick up, get it delivered, etc. do that, keep minimum contact with delivery people.
  • If there is any way possible leave kids at home when shopping

 

Food Management in the Home…

  • Cook large meat cuts, break down to meal sizes and freeze to save space
  • Make soups from left overs, store in bags and freeze
  • Of course can if you know how and have the tools, may be an okay time to learn
  • Finish all left overs before cooking the next thing or at least package into portions for future use

 

Financial Prep…

  • Inventory your total available liquid cash reserves, calculate how long they can take you
  • Then prioritize other capital reserves in order going into them
  • Cut non essential spending
  • See if your lender is offering loan deferrals, you can always make it up if you want to. Highly likely there will be many programs for mortgages and car loans like this.
  • Talk to your employer about the potential of strategic lay off, or cutting hours, or anything they can do for you
  • FYI Tax Day just Got Moved to July 15th

 

Nutrition and Immune System…

  • I keep saying it but a good multi vitamin, supplement additional vitamin C, use Quecertin, possibly Zinc
  • Minimize any bad habits, drinking, smoking, etc. anything that hurts lung health, cardio health, liver health, etc.
  • Dr. Berg seems to feel a low sugar intake is beneficial here, this video is very recent judge it for yourself
  • Get exercise, inside, out side I don’t care, get your heart rate up, create endorphins
  • Not a terrible time for intermittent fasting (2 meals a day) really stretches food, again minimize waste

 

The importance of therapy awareness

  • Many treatments are available and are or soon will be available via compassionate use
  • Choloquine and Zinc Packs are working, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise
  • Choloquine is being made in the millions of doses right now, your doctor can prescribe it if you need it
  • We have plenty of data as to what not using it looks like, we don’t need a “control group” we have a massive one
  • There is no question it works, the only questions are really how well, and what is the best way to use it
  • The press is on a witch hunt here, trust me they are going to look really bad in the end for it
  • I don’t know a lot about the other therapies yet but plan to know more for you on them by Monday

 

Resources for today’s show…

 

Quercitin Information I have Reviewed

 

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Episode-2622- What to Do About CoVid-19 Right Now — 18 Comments

  1. Listening to this PodCast (from when shows were recorded during commuter hours lol) raised my awareness, in-general, and had an absolute and positive impact on my current situation.

    If you are minimally prepared take a good listen.

    And Jack, I hope you sleep slightly better knowing four people under my roof, who literally don’t know your name, are safe as a direct result of what I learned from you.

    This information saves lives.

  3. I live here in Eastern WV in the DC metro area. People here never eat healthy. And within the first week everyone suddenly became veggie eaters. All the fresh veg were gone. Couldn’t even buy a bag of potatoes anywhere. I can assure you a lot of these people are going to have rotten food on their hands when this passes. They just don’t know what do do with most of it.

    I eat WFPB and this is really hammering my food. Fortunately when I first heard about the virus getting out of control in China I was able to ramp up my stores of pastas, sauces, dried beans, and rices (stuff I eat all the time anyway). Also engaged in copy-canning to a larger degree. I feel pretty good about where my wife and I are at this time. Just wish I had bought more flour. Better believe when this is over I’m buying a manual grain mill and a metric shit-ton of wheat berries! Lol

  4. Here are links to a good video and docs which explain that Quercetin shares a mechanism of action (MOA) with anti-viral drugs, and the connection with zinc.

    They are zinc ionophores, which helps transport zinc into your cells.  It’s the zinc that is known to inhibit some viruses.

    What I don’t understand is why the video focuses on Querectin more than EGCG (green tea extract) when EGCE seems to be more effective, less expensive, and in-stock everywhere.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE4_LsftNKM&feature=youtu.be

    https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Zinc-ionophore-activity-of-quercetin-and-from-Hepa-Dabbagh-Bazarbachi-Clergeaud/9f28bfa5ebf0466f697cb9c820220366fc149c0f

     

  5. Amazing show Jack.  I’ve been listening to you since 2010 and because of that, my household was ready.

  6. I looked you up about a month age here and after several days you had a small piece on the virus, you didn’t seem to think it was very serious.(If I recall correctly) Several others C. Martinson, Canadian prepper and others stated this was going to be huge, Were you listening to trump or what? That being said it takes some personal mental reasoning to choose “the sky is falling” or “this ain’t sh**t” I suppose if a fellow lives on a secluded ranch with everything in place he is ready for just about anything. Many don’t/can’t  At work everybody thought it was a joke for weeks, I kept my mouth shut for the most part, now they are scrambling for toilet paper!

    • I was wrong. It is that simple, I never thought it would get this bad. That said being prepped to go 30-60 days is what we have always taught and it is what we continue to teach.

      • I took this quite seriously from the start (partly because of what we’d seen in our travel through Korea and into Mongolia late January), and even with that I didn’t think it would get this bad this quickly. In the US I thought there would be a number of hot-spots in lockdown, but not to the scale we’re seeing. Same with the market crash and epic interventions we’ve seen, which seems to have some systemic issues in the financial system at play now. But yeah, guessing wrong about this didn’t really make a difference in the end given we already had preps and some cash on hand.

        On a side note, while I suspect the people in power ARE scared to some degree, it’s hard not to see all the “never let a crisis go to waste” power-grabbing in the works. The fact that all this money is being thrown around and the elected officials are working together more than fighting with each other is causing my sphincter to pucker up. In recent decades at least, whenever we’ve seen this much bipartisan movement behind something I know the public in general is about to get screwed hard. “Going long on lube futures…”

      • We had our third confirmed case two days ago.  Prince Edward Island is small, only 155,000 but we are the guy out running the guy out running the bear.   I work in I.T for the Dept. of Health and we are moving fast.  We have moved all our mental health patients out of one facility and are now designating it as a Pandemic facility.  As for me, I haven’t been to a store in three weeks.  My supplies are always topped up.  I am pissed that there is no Silver or Gold to be found anywhere.  My local dealer closed shop until he gets supply from Kitco.  Most of the online bullion dealers in Canada are experiencing 4-12 week delays.  This is going to kill our tourism industry.  We get about 200k cruise ship visitors between April and October, plus many Americans come up here in the summer, including my buddy from Boston who was going to bring up his new Whaler…

  7. You’re wrong about SD.  No I won’t explain  my time trying to explain why.

  8. Out of curiousity, I wonder how the Asian grocery stores are doing as far as customer traffic & business. If ignorant chowderheads are staying away from the local Asian supermarkets, seems to me that such a place might be not only a really good place to stock up but also a way to help a local business get through this time of hardship (and idiocy).

    On a related note, my sister-in-law has anxiety about going out in public because she’s Asian and wants to wears a mask when going out (mostly because a household member is in a higher risk category). I told her to shop more at the local H-Mart (Korean grocer) because Asians are a little more likely to see “mask=cautious & considerate” instead of getting scared, triggered, or hostile.

    The phrase on the shirt I’m wearing pretty much sums up my sentiments right now: “I used to be a people person… then people ruined it.”

    • There really isn’t a good one near me which sucks, if there was I would let you know.

  9. “Choloquine and Zinc Packs are working, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise”

    Do you mean chloroquine and Z-packs? AKA Zithromax? Please confirm.

    • I mean both!

      Some are using it with zinc early on, they are using it with a z-pack when more advanced for secondary infections.

  10. Thank you Jack.

    I’ve been listening since 2009.  And taking your advice. Laughing at the rats in Walmart scurrying for a scrap of toilet paper. My family is set up to live for a long time thanks to you.  Not a perfect prepper, but I got the bases covered. In a couple years when we run out of tp, well figure that out. Thank you brother. California expat. Hardcore Texan now, thanks to you.

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