TIRED OF WORRYING?

QUARANTEENING IS FUTILE!

If this logic doesn't get me thrown of this board nothing will.

I'm tired of worrying. I'm tired of preparing.

I am taking the chicken by the horns. I am combating H5N1 head on. How you ask????

                                 THe Poultry Poop Party

I am waiting the first chicken coop that gets it. (U.S). I'm taking off all my cloths and wollow around for couple of hours. Then I am going to get in my car, go home and deal with the flu. (I will seal my house off as to not infect anyone else)

I may die,....... but thats ok,......... I am Buddhist (probably come back as Hong Kong chicken for this one).

WHOS WITH ME?

Sorry It's the pnemonia talking.

I'm going back bed. 

 

  

Muskrat

I totally know where your coming from I have two children too. They are both scared to death by this. My daughter is convienced she is going to die. She is 12. Last week she says "dad when i was younger I stole some legos do you think I will go to hell for that". She is now going to church twice a week. I don't know what to tell her. I don't lie to them because I feel it insults there intellegence. I don't tell them everything I know because I don't want to scare them. There children and it pains me so that they will have to deal with this. 

 I've seen bodies stacked like cords of wood. I don't ever want to see that again.It's scars you. It was always nice to come home(U.S.). Where I fell safe.  I am truly terrified about the possible out come of all this.

Thanks for you support!

SORRY IF I OFFEND ANY ONE LAUGHTER IS HOW I DEAL WITH PAIN

HANG IN THERE! SOME HOW WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS

NO GENIUS MY CHILD KNOWS HOW TO READ! I have done nothing to confirm her fears other than not commenting on the BF and having a full refrigrator.

Hi araywood!
I agree and think you need to inform the kids on some level- it's only responsible so they aren't blindsided by this. My husband disagrees with me on this. (He disagrees about this whole thing in general but thats a different story.) I tell my girls to be very careful at school and I am starting to instill in them to be aware, not fearful, but aware and cautious. They won't be surprised when we are eating canned food and cooped up in the house when it happens. This is reality and to sugar coat it is doing them a disservice. When they hear stuff on TV and read the newspapers, it's the right thing to do to answer their questions honestly with courage and with a plan!

I hear ya on this one.

Sometimes it feels like we're carrying the weight of the world on our shoulders, ja?  I felt it back during the hurricane Katrina coverage.  I lived in an area that was flooded (Indiana, 1991), many families lives and homes ruined due to a man-made accident.  Bureacratic bungling in the wake made the situaton worse by an order of magnitude, delayed cleanup and rebuilding by 5 months, during which time we were all paying the mortgage on ruined homes and paying rent on an apartment.  Government conveniently absolved themselves for responsibility or liability for the disaster.  So I was seeing it all played out again on an even larger scale.  There was only so much I could take, I had to declare a personal moratorium on Katrina news for a solid week.

My wife recently experienced Bird Flu burnout.  She has been great about prepping, and a leader in helping spread awareness to her friends and co-workers.  But she's tapped out, can't take it anymore... the constant stress of waiting for the next shoe to drop, each piece of news just one more thing to worry over... a kind of chinese water torture for her.  So she's taking a break.  I'm not discussing BF with her nor talking about the BF board here.  I know she'll take a breather, re-gather her strength and be up for more.  It doesn't make her "weak" in my book, just human.  Honestly if somebody can read the news and this board on a daily basis and it doesn't get to them at some point, I really wonder about them.  Maybe to some it's just an intellectual exercise, maybe some are so scarred and hardened that nothing much affects them anymore.

Araywood, I don't know that I agree about the chicken poop wallow, but I do agree that sometimes you just have to laugh.  It's one of the things that will help us keep our sanity.

As far as the kids go, I believe you're correct not to contradict them with false assurances.  Kids are smart, they know when they're being lied to. However, maybe a bit of guidance is called for.  Explain your preps to them, show them that even if the worst of the worst happened, they could sleep safe at home in their beds every night and there is plenty of food and water for months and months.  Acknowledge that the threat is real, but so is your response to it.  Let them know you will take care of them as best you can, and the rest is up to God.  And as I read recently in a post elewhere, don't forget to "prepare for nothing".  Leave room in your lives for some happiness and joy - spend time with the kids, do some fun things.  If BF hits and you can't do things later (like Disneyland) you'll be glad you went NOW.  And if BF doesn't hit?  You'll still be glad you went.  Assuming you already have a decent amount of preps laid in and it won't unduly strain the resources.

You shouldn't give your kids false assurances, but neither should you always point out the worst case scenario.  We suspect bad times are around the corner, we have prepared for them, so live your life now.  Today is not different from the families that prepared for nuclear war in the 50's.  We can laugh at them, because we have the benefit of hindsight.  We can try to anticipate problems, and be ready for them, but do not let anticipating the problems become the problem.

Bravo!! 

 hi to all, i too remmenber the 50's 60's , we had drills up here in ct. my single mother tried to prepare in a housing prodject. we had only  a little tv, if your my age 51yrs, you remmenber, poor people had tv's the size of a camping tv, and got maybe 7 chanels,and newspapers, thats it for information. not like today.she  saved water in glass jars and what little food she put by, we where going to shelter in place in the pantry/hallway in back of the kitchen   with no door on it , the only thing she had going for her ,was the buildings were made of brick, and metal walls. people then would say to her if it happens we are coming to your place and laught at her. a welfare mother with 2 kids, now years later we now know how close we really came to the end of the world. i didn't prep for y2k, but i did prep after 911, but this i feel  is the long term get ready,if not this, then look around at world polictics  well thats another debate good luck roxy

WOW, ROXY... you got 7 channels!

LOL, we had 3 as I recall (and a UHF you could barely watch).

And yes, I'm 51, too.

Sometimes I really miss those old black & while TV's with the rabbit ear antennas, manual tuners, and tiny screens. NOT!

I remember my neighbor being sooo proud of his color tv upgrade. It was a piece of translucent colored plastic he taped over his black and white screen. Top 3rd was blue, Middle was red, and bottom was green.  Only really worked for long shots of Indians standing in a field, but it was something!

Ahh, those were the days.

Thanks for the memories, Roxy.

I'd completely forgotten about the old `tube testers' that used to be everywhere.    They used to be a fixture in grocery stores and hardware stores!

At the age of 10, I was the neighborhood TV & Radio repairman.  My dream was to open a TV repair shop (talk about shortsightedness!).  

Ended up fixing people instead.  Messier, but a lot more rewarding!

I believe it's actually healthy to keep your kids informed about what's going on & even involve them in prepping, etc .

In the "olden days", everybody in a household worked for the good of that household.

If dad broke his leg & couldn't do the farming for awhile, his children, Jim Bob & Mary Ellen, took over & worked like dogs until dad was up & well again.  The crops got in & life went on.

Was it hard for the kids?  You bet!  Did it make them stronger individuals in the long run?  You bet!

If TSHTF with regard to an influenza pandemic, a terrorism attack, natural disaster, etc., there is nothing I could do to better prepare my children, than to get them informed & involved NOW, before things happen.

I believe that, for the most part, we're raising a bunch of lazy, selfish, useless kids these days.  Sorry, but that's just my opinion.

My kids are adults now (18 & 21) but when they were young, they worked right along side me in our family's cleaning business.   They did not receive a paycheck, but they had everything they needed & a lot of what they wanted too. 

They learned to be responsible, active participants in the hsehold & when they got older, they were able to easily stand on their own two feet & make a way for themselves in this world.

At the age of 18, my youngest daughter owns her own business.  She has her own photography studio & gallary. 

My oldest daughter taught herself computer programming and web  design and, with her little baby son on her lap, is able to work from home.

I rec'd a lot of criticism from others who said that I was working my girls too hard & that it wasn't fair that they had to contribute to the good of the hsehold.   I look at their kids now,  & my kids now & I'm so happy I did things the way I did.

Just my 2 cents worth on this topic.

God help us all...
Peggy in MN

Yes, I remember the Cuban Crisis and my best friend who had a fallout shelter telling me that I couldn't go down when the bombs fell, I began to wake up about a lot of things...

I was raised on a fam and long ago learned to detest chickens, just plain filthy animals, I never like eating their flesh, but do enjoy eggs.  When I was older I raised  flocks of ducks and geese,  so I will pass on the chicken coop party.

Now speaking of kids, just this morning I had to get some supplies from the garage for my grand daughter, who followed me down, and just couldn't believe all the food, water, and supplies that were there.  I briefly discussed the many dangers of the modern world and that it is prudent to be prepared. 

I then had to tell  her (she's 13) that she must promise not to tell ANYONE about what she saw, for armed people could kill us for what we had.  She DID understand that!

For I told her I was preparing for her as well.  I for one can't give up or give into to fear or frustration, that little girl deserves a chance to live, and by all that I believe is holy, I am going to make that happen.