TIERS OF IMPORTANCE: May vary slightly based on your specific living conditions and locales:
LEVEL 1: Grains, dried noodles, pasta, rice, flour, other grain products. Essential medications.
LEVEL 2: Canned and bottled goods. Canned condiments, fish, sauces, etc.,
LEVEL 3: Household sanitary and hygienic supplies.
NOBODY should be living ANYWHERE in the world without the minimum of at least several months to a year's worth of these supplies stocked, properly rotated if need be, and stored in conditions essential for long term preservation. It is of course, not a big deal for people who live on large properties and farms. However, even in the TINIEST of dwellings in large urban areas, stocking up to several months to a year's worth of essentials is still possible. I've helped MANY urban residents set up their stocks before and there is no reason why anybody should be living day to day in terms of essentials.
Collapsible plastic storage totes and file cabinets are available for incredibly cheap prices in most dollar stores. Some are quite large, with compartments and drawers on both ends for easy access. Others are also stackable, allowing you to place up to 3-4 identical totes on top of each other up to an average adult human height safely. Even in the tiniest of urban apartments, there is PLENTY of space to set up at least 2-3 of such storage stacks. First, clean up all and any shit you are not using or is not relevant to your living situation. It doesn't hurt to embrace some minimalism. Your life and health and the lives and health of your loved ones are at stake here so if you cannot make some lifestyle changes in order to ensure your long term well being, you are either a dumbass or a piece of shit. Set aside a room corner and hallway/walkway niche, as many as you reasonably need and use these, providing that the assembled racks will be out of the way and not present a safety hazard to children, pets, etc. Once situated in corners, you will be surprised at just how translucent and stackable plastic storage can practically blend into ANYWHERE and not affect it's atmosphere or appearance one bit, not to mention incredibly spacious and efficient.
The nightmare presented in this thread can happen ANYWHERE, because incompetent and tyrannical policies know NO discrimination based on any culture or country, as events in Australia and even right here in the USA have shown. If the time comes that you find yourself needing to panic buy because a supply chain disaster or lockdown is coming, you are already FUCKED. If you still harbor even a remote specter of pathetic self-soothing that "it's okay, in the end the government will find a way to help us", you are DOUBLEPLUS FUCKED. If the past two years still has not shaken you out of any complacency that you may have harbored prior to 2020, you are also beyond saving.
Also, know the basics surrounding anything that you may need or rely upon in daily usage. For example, 8oz butane cartridges used in tabletop stoves are almost EXCLUSIVELY made in South Korea. So if you are a restaurant owner or anyone else who use a considerable quantity of 8oz cartridges on a normal basis, what does that mean if there is a major issue with shipping lines looming ahead? Figure it out, it ain't rocket science.
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The oldest city in Chinese history, with over 4,500 years of records as the imperial capital for numerous dynasties as well as a central hub on the Silk Road trade route, faces a draconian and unprecedented lockdown as COVID-19 came back with a vengeance:
Xi'an residents are required to submit to mass testing as positive cases are taken into quarantine facilities. This has become less about the actual illness but an attempt by the Chinese government to save face as it desperately tries to show the world that only they had been able to "end" the epidemic. As a result of the sudden measures, residents were not even left with a contingency plan for continued sustenance as the lockdown shows no signs of lifting.
CHAOS, CONFUSION, AND INCOMPETENCE AS XI'AN CONTINUES DRACONIAN LOCKDOWN IN THE WAKE OF THE LARGEST OUTBREAK OF COVID SINCE WUHAN 2020: As China prepares to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, it's drastic and wholly incompetent "zero COVID" policies plunge cities into chaos as residents scramble to find resources to sustain themselves. Xi'an, a prefecture level city containing over twice the population of metropolitan New York, was placed into a state of total lockdown almost 2.5 weeks ago as thousands of COVID cases threaten to challenge China's reputation of having "conquered the epidemic" in the previous year.
Initially, residents were allowed to leave their apartments for 2 hours a day to purchase essentials. However, this was expanded into a total lockdown where no one is allowed to exit their homes except during rounds of mass testing.
Residents took to social media to report critical shortages of food as groceries ran out. In response, soldiers from the regional People's Liberation Army garrisons were called in to assist in bringing resupply caches to homes, but so far, residents have still been reporting the deliveries as shoddy, uncoordinated, and not exactly reliable.
Any drivers caught on the roads faced stiff fines.
At least 2 unborn babies have died due to their mothers being denied entry into hospitals due to stringent "zero COVID" policies which require all patients and staff to present a negative COVID test. One mother was forced to wait outside pending her test result even as her condition progressed rapidly downward. When she began bleeding down her legs and staff finally wheeled her into surgery, it was too late to save the infant. The second infant died under similar circumstances.
Thousands of people who had tested positive for COVID or have been determined to be close contacts of positive cases had been told to leave their homes and taken by buses to quarantine facilities. Quarantined individuals have posted on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, that the facilities were "cold", and sometimes "lacked even basic necessities and food".
LEVEL 1: Grains, dried noodles, pasta, rice, flour, other grain products. Essential medications.
LEVEL 2: Canned and bottled goods. Canned condiments, fish, sauces, etc.,
LEVEL 3: Household sanitary and hygienic supplies.
NOBODY should be living ANYWHERE in the world without the minimum of at least several months to a year's worth of these supplies stocked, properly rotated if need be, and stored in conditions essential for long term preservation. It is of course, not a big deal for people who live on large properties and farms. However, even in the TINIEST of dwellings in large urban areas, stocking up to several months to a year's worth of essentials is still possible. I've helped MANY urban residents set up their stocks before and there is no reason why anybody should be living day to day in terms of essentials.
Collapsible plastic storage totes and file cabinets are available for incredibly cheap prices in most dollar stores. Some are quite large, with compartments and drawers on both ends for easy access. Others are also stackable, allowing you to place up to 3-4 identical totes on top of each other up to an average adult human height safely. Even in the tiniest of urban apartments, there is PLENTY of space to set up at least 2-3 of such storage stacks. First, clean up all and any shit you are not using or is not relevant to your living situation. It doesn't hurt to embrace some minimalism. Your life and health and the lives and health of your loved ones are at stake here so if you cannot make some lifestyle changes in order to ensure your long term well being, you are either a dumbass or a piece of shit. Set aside a room corner and hallway/walkway niche, as many as you reasonably need and use these, providing that the assembled racks will be out of the way and not present a safety hazard to children, pets, etc. Once situated in corners, you will be surprised at just how translucent and stackable plastic storage can practically blend into ANYWHERE and not affect it's atmosphere or appearance one bit, not to mention incredibly spacious and efficient.
The nightmare presented in this thread can happen ANYWHERE, because incompetent and tyrannical policies know NO discrimination based on any culture or country, as events in Australia and even right here in the USA have shown. If the time comes that you find yourself needing to panic buy because a supply chain disaster or lockdown is coming, you are already FUCKED. If you still harbor even a remote specter of pathetic self-soothing that "it's okay, in the end the government will find a way to help us", you are DOUBLEPLUS FUCKED. If the past two years still has not shaken you out of any complacency that you may have harbored prior to 2020, you are also beyond saving.
Also, know the basics surrounding anything that you may need or rely upon in daily usage. For example, 8oz butane cartridges used in tabletop stoves are almost EXCLUSIVELY made in South Korea. So if you are a restaurant owner or anyone else who use a considerable quantity of 8oz cartridges on a normal basis, what does that mean if there is a major issue with shipping lines looming ahead? Figure it out, it ain't rocket science.
Two unborn babies lost to delays as Xian counts Covid-19 costs
Eight-months pregnant woman waited outside a hospital for two hours as her Covid-19 test was invalid, while another mother-to-be had to have an abortion.
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Xian to end Covid-19 lockdown if it reaches ‘zero social transmission’
City could ease its measures once all new confirmed infections are linked to previously recorded cases, with no other local transmission, official says.
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The oldest city in Chinese history, with over 4,500 years of records as the imperial capital for numerous dynasties as well as a central hub on the Silk Road trade route, faces a draconian and unprecedented lockdown as COVID-19 came back with a vengeance:
Xi'an residents are required to submit to mass testing as positive cases are taken into quarantine facilities. This has become less about the actual illness but an attempt by the Chinese government to save face as it desperately tries to show the world that only they had been able to "end" the epidemic. As a result of the sudden measures, residents were not even left with a contingency plan for continued sustenance as the lockdown shows no signs of lifting.
CHAOS, CONFUSION, AND INCOMPETENCE AS XI'AN CONTINUES DRACONIAN LOCKDOWN IN THE WAKE OF THE LARGEST OUTBREAK OF COVID SINCE WUHAN 2020: As China prepares to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, it's drastic and wholly incompetent "zero COVID" policies plunge cities into chaos as residents scramble to find resources to sustain themselves. Xi'an, a prefecture level city containing over twice the population of metropolitan New York, was placed into a state of total lockdown almost 2.5 weeks ago as thousands of COVID cases threaten to challenge China's reputation of having "conquered the epidemic" in the previous year.
Initially, residents were allowed to leave their apartments for 2 hours a day to purchase essentials. However, this was expanded into a total lockdown where no one is allowed to exit their homes except during rounds of mass testing.
Residents took to social media to report critical shortages of food as groceries ran out. In response, soldiers from the regional People's Liberation Army garrisons were called in to assist in bringing resupply caches to homes, but so far, residents have still been reporting the deliveries as shoddy, uncoordinated, and not exactly reliable.
Any drivers caught on the roads faced stiff fines.
At least 2 unborn babies have died due to their mothers being denied entry into hospitals due to stringent "zero COVID" policies which require all patients and staff to present a negative COVID test. One mother was forced to wait outside pending her test result even as her condition progressed rapidly downward. When she began bleeding down her legs and staff finally wheeled her into surgery, it was too late to save the infant. The second infant died under similar circumstances.
Thousands of people who had tested positive for COVID or have been determined to be close contacts of positive cases had been told to leave their homes and taken by buses to quarantine facilities. Quarantined individuals have posted on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, that the facilities were "cold", and sometimes "lacked even basic necessities and food".
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