Is anyone watching Oprah about the bird flu?

**nodmicks** · 05-30-2006, 04:27 PM

I was not at all worried about this. Now after 22 min of Oprah I am beginning to be! I've got my paper to start taking notes on what to keep on hand.

So far........
approx 5 weeks food and meds.

**mom2matty** · 05-30-2006, 05:23 PM

I am watching it for the 2nd time and taping it so dh and I can watch it again later......he missed it the first time it was on! This scared me the first time I saw it, glad it is back on and hopefully more people will atleast seriously think about the potential of a pandemic happening!

**brenda67** · 05-30-2006, 05:43 PM

Is a repeat from the first one?

**PrairieRose** · 05-30-2006, 05:48 PM

Ok I watched a fair amount of it but for the most part I didn't hear any solutions. What did I miss?

**miss_thrifty** · 05-30-2006, 06:49 PM

No but i should of!!! maybe ill go online and see if its on her site!!

**QuilterMom** · 05-30-2006, 08:13 PM

If you can't find it on her site, there is an old thread in this forum from when the show originally aired. I posted the transcript from the site in the thread in hopes it would help anyone that missed the show.

**Renee-2kids** · 05-30-2006, 08:20 PM

Here is the tread Kim mentioned.
[ame="http://frugalvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67439"]Frugal Village Forums[/ame]

I had not seen Oprah the last time it aired, but had read the transcripts here. I was hoping there would be new information.

I think five weeks of food is a good START. JMHO

**canadian gardener** · 05-31-2006, 09:15 AM

Best things you can do are the practical things anyways that should become habitual.

Having an emergency pantry, enough to tide you over a rough patch. That makes sense whether it's bird flu, fires, hurricanes or flooding. Whatever natural disaster may come your way. Chances are you'll use it for something else but if there is a pandemic, avoiding stores and other public places may save your life.

Wash wash wash your hands.

Before eating, after using the washroom, whenever you get in from being out in public. When in doubt wash it out. Scrub for 30 seconds, singing the ABC song under your breath.

Teach your kids. They are the most likely people to contact germs and bring them home.

Give everyone their OWN handtowel. I don't bother with just dh and I but if I had kids, you can bet I'd assign each person their own colour and lots of each colour so I could change OFTEN.

Change the handtowels often.

I have a bunch of them, and it takes a lot to fill a load, so I change when it's wet, when it's looking a little worse for wear and whether it needs it or not every 24 hours. I get a little more use out of it as a bathmat, or as a cleaning cloth before it hits the wash.

Touching a contaminated object that someone else who has the flu touched, and then touching your face to scratch or rub your nose or eating something you handled with unwashed hands is THE COMMONEST WAY TO CATCH FLU, Rotavirus and colds. Bird flu would be the same.

The next couple of tips are common sense too.

Avoid close proximity with people who are obviously ill. You can't tell if that hacking couph is a smoker, an asthmatic or someone with an infectious disease so just avoid trouble and stay far away.

Pick a grocery cart that has been out in the wind and sun and rain, from the far side of the lot. Weather alone can wash off or kill off germs. You may also want to use a baby wipe to wipe the handle off. If your child sits in the seat, this goes double.

Try not to use the most handy door into the mall and touch it with your elbow or sleeve. Same goes for public washrooms. Turn the taps off with a paper towel, and open the door with it, flinging it at the trash as you leave.

**patches** · 06-01-2006, 03:32 AM

Goodness, I haven't even thought about bird flu in about a month! At least not until I came back to the site.

I'm more worried about illegal immigrants, and the NAIS.

But I did do something to help the situation.

I bought some rabbits for meat the other day! $5 each and they are as cute as can be. Hubby built some hutches.

I bought them from a drunken farmers daughter. The daughter was drunk not the farmer, LOL!

Anyway, I'll have rabbit.

I also plan on preserving some eggs just in case. IF they decide to wipe out poultry flocks of backyard growers then i'll have some in stock AND there is a report that you can actually varnish the eggs and remove the varnish two years later and still hatch out the eggs.

Getting ready.

Steph