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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 756129" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Dear Nandina</p><p></p><p>My quote thing isn't working again.</p><p></p><p>OK. I watch a lot of TV news such as CNN and MSNBC. I have heard over and over again this: 1 gallon a day per person for 14 days. For Coronavirus. They have repeated this so frequently that I feared to not do it. These are experts on national TV stations that are making this recommendation, not local. I have been hearing this for maybe 10 days. The other people who are buying all that water, I don't know how they came to that idea. This has been going on seriously for at least a week. It's not only social contagion. People are being told to get water. Now.</p><p></p><p>I was mystified. What did they think might happen? I joked about it to a friend.<em> Won't we still have pipes? How would Coronavirus affect the water supply? </em></p><p></p><p>It doesn't feel like a joking matter anymore. I even asked somebody in line at Costco today, who reiterated what my own deep fear was, which is what you say. Some sort of contamination.</p><p></p><p>I spoke to a girlfriend today and she says the gallon a day is what is routinely established for disaster preparedness of any sort: earthquake, etcetera. She thought it was no big deal.</p><p></p><p>But I don't know. I have also been hearing that this is a homeland security issue. And if you think about it, it fits.</p><p></p><p>If there was clear, consistent information, and the rationale for doing this or that, this would be easier to bear.</p><p></p><p>I spoke to two girlfriends today, friendships of 40 to 50 years. Both of them were cool as cucumbers. Neither was doing much of anything to prepare, beyond the water. One of them has a daughter with Type 1 Diabetes. The other has a chronic blood disease, and her husband is 88. Still, they're not concerned.</p><p></p><p>I need to stop posting about this, because I may be scaring people. Typically I don't get much worried about these things. I'm not sure why this time, but this has gotten to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 756129, member: 18958"] Dear Nandina My quote thing isn't working again. OK. I watch a lot of TV news such as CNN and MSNBC. I have heard over and over again this: 1 gallon a day per person for 14 days. For Coronavirus. They have repeated this so frequently that I feared to not do it. These are experts on national TV stations that are making this recommendation, not local. I have been hearing this for maybe 10 days. The other people who are buying all that water, I don't know how they came to that idea. This has been going on seriously for at least a week. It's not only social contagion. People are being told to get water. Now. I was mystified. What did they think might happen? I joked about it to a friend.[I] Won't we still have pipes? How would Coronavirus affect the water supply? [/I] It doesn't feel like a joking matter anymore. I even asked somebody in line at Costco today, who reiterated what my own deep fear was, which is what you say. Some sort of contamination. I spoke to a girlfriend today and she says the gallon a day is what is routinely established for disaster preparedness of any sort: earthquake, etcetera. She thought it was no big deal. But I don't know. I have also been hearing that this is a homeland security issue. And if you think about it, it fits. If there was clear, consistent information, and the rationale for doing this or that, this would be easier to bear. I spoke to two girlfriends today, friendships of 40 to 50 years. Both of them were cool as cucumbers. Neither was doing much of anything to prepare, beyond the water. One of them has a daughter with Type 1 Diabetes. The other has a chronic blood disease, and her husband is 88. Still, they're not concerned. I need to stop posting about this, because I may be scaring people. Typically I don't get much worried about these things. I'm not sure why this time, but this has gotten to me. [/QUOTE]
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