Please consider your pets

[Laurasea]

I urge everyone to get two weeks or a months supply of your parrots and other pets food as extra back up to what you normally have.
If the CDC would do the same thing and lock down towns this must be a very serious virus.

The CDC is working with state and local health departments "to ready our public health workforce to respond to local cases and the possibility this outbreak could become a pandemic," she said, adding that the U.S. may need to institute stringent quarantine measures such as those currently in place in China where schools are closed to contain the spread.

Other countries who've had a big jump in cases are doing this, the same way China did , to stop the spread if the virus.

So take the worry off, and have some extra feed on hand incase if any disruption..

 

[Scott]

A great idea, Laura. Just ordered another 25lb bag of Harrison's for the birds and will go to Costco next day or so for another bag of dog food!

 

[Laurasea]

The time is definitely now, to get your pet supplies.

US officials have now confirmed 34 of novel coronavirus in the country, according to an announcement Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

These include 21 cases among repatriated individuals, as well as 13 US cases.

Edit: another case under home quarantined is positive, more will follow CDC said.
Right now we are at 35

 

[GaleriaGila]

Scary, scary, scary. Take care, everybody, everywhere.

 

[Flboy]

If my front door locked, I would be good for at least 2 months! Easily!

 

[bug_n_flock]

Have already contacted our hay people to get more. Lots, lots more. Local feed shop we have been buying out of feed and will be placing special orders. Today bought 250lbs dog food and 200 lbs cat food. We still need more, but each trip to the shop puts us in a better situation.



Be careful. Each of you are important. Everyone is. Scary stuff.

 

[Jasmine333]

Thanks for the heads-up for pet food and livestock feed. I feel very concerned for the thousands of stray and wild animals that could be prone to this virus, as well as humans. We can help protect our domestic animals, wear masks, have hospitals, but they don't have anything. This world needs a miracle and we need it fast.

 

[Noahs_Birds]

I'm guessing Australia is in a better position ATM, I have heard nothing on this here......
Cheers
Noah Till

 

[SailBoat]

FYI: (non-farm supplies) Remember to place dry food stock in the freezer to kill off any moth larva or like bugs (minimum two weeks, better at four weeks or longer). Assure that you date your packaging and rotate as you use it.

 

[Noahs_Birds]

If you put some Bay leaves in a jar with holes in it in the seed package, it will keep away coddling moth in the food and works very well
Cheers
Noah Till

 

[Betrisher]

I don't think the Oz press is building it up quite as much as the US press is. We've had seventeen deaths (2% of those diagnosed) with a much higher recovery rate. I don't know the figures for the US, but I s'pose it must be much higher, hence the fuss. Then again, the US' population is multiples of ours. Whatever.

The UN site describes coronavirus as 'of much less significance than SARS'. Therefore, I'm not concerned. Best of luck to those who are, though.

 

[charmedbyekkie]

Not even pet owners in Singapore are hoarding.

In fact, we had a recently leaked audio from our Trade and Industry Minister when he spoke behind closed doors to some business leaders, arranged by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, regarding this hoarding behaviour:

Video highlights: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=search&v=2891741354216170
Quick written summary: https://mustsharenews.com/chan-chun-sing-dialogue-leaked/
Full transcript: https://www.mothership.sg/2020/02/chan-chun-sing-leaked-transcript/

 

[LaManuka]

I don't think the Oz press is building it up quite as much as the US press is. We've had seventeen deaths (2% of those diagnosed) with a much higher recovery rate. I don't know the figures for the US, but I s'pose it must be much higher, hence the fuss. Then again, the US' population is multiples of ours. Whatever.

The UN site describes coronavirus as 'of much less significance than SARS'. Therefore, I'm not concerned. Best of luck to those who are, though.

I believe we’ve had about 12 “cases” of Coronavirus in Australia, not deaths (thank goodness!!) Ours were from people either from Wuhan who were with a tour group on the Gold Coast, all of whom are now recovered, and the rest recently evacuated from the Diamond Princess now quarantined on the outskirts of Darwin. Seems to my very modest powers of observation that unless you’re elderly and/or a chain smoker or have a similarly compromised respiratory system your chances of recovery are fairly good. Yet more reason to give up smoking!

 

[Betrisher]

Yes! Seventeen *cases* (and lifted to twenty-two as of this afternoon). I think twenty-two out of twenty-five million is not too dire. I wonder how many cases have been recorded out of three-hundred-and-thirty million in the US? On ABC radio this morning, they announced that people who have recovered from the virus are currently being released from hospital to go home. No one seems worried.

 

[Noahs_Birds]

I'm not really worried at all as others may be shocked by, just another thing the world goes loopy over in my opinion and will disappear as quick as it started
Yes people have died, yes it is infectious but it's just a version of the flu with more media appearance to me
Cheers
Noah Till

 

[Laurasea]

I'm not hording, I'm doing as I would do for a hurricane having back up..

This is a very infectious disease , and 20% and above of the people get this virus will be in the hospital for organ failure, respiratory failure, with 2% or more dying from it. That is 20 times more deadly than the flu. Italy is in the middle of a blow up of this. They have many people in critical care. This is a quote from the doctor

" The contagiousness of this virus is very strong and pretty virulent," said Lombardy's health chief, Giulio Gallera. " ( Virulent , means sever deadly)

2 out if every hundred die ( but first will be in hospital) 2-3 out of every hundred need critical Care, so you can have 5 out of every hundred are The hospital , you can see how hospital get overrun if you have a lot of people infected. My hospital only has room for 4 ICU cases, not set up for isolation.

We do not have community spread in us, but CDC is going to be announcing more cases in the home quarantined and from the Diamond cruise ship, that just reported another death today. And I do feel very safe right now. But worry about supplies chains being disrupted. And if like Italy and Korea , in one day they shut down town and business in one day, the day before no one knew they had a problem.

So I want to be prepared. I'm not worried about food for me, the community would I sure that. But for pets getting food in a sudden lockdown is going to be much more difficult. And parrots needs are more specific.

It's the two week incubation period, then at first symptom are so mild you may not know you are sick, it takes another 8 days for you to get really sick. The slow burn makes it difficult to track compared to other illness.
The H1N1, SARS, and MERS they could identify the sick right away, making it easy to contain. In Korea and Italy, and Iran, they had few or none known cases now 3 days later they are in the hundreds with people dying. In Singapore they did an amazing job of tracking all contacts, announced were all confirm cases had been, alerted the public and are able to contain.

Take the cruise ship cases as they stand now ( rember takes time for more to die) let's call it 600 cases, 3 have died, 36 are in the hospital in sever/ critical / condition. ( Not counting the ones returned to their countries) Now let's say that was doubled you had 1,200 infected, 6 dead, 72 in critical care, you can see how quickly that can over run a local hospital. Plus each need isolated, quarantined or the infection spreads and your doctor's or nurses are the ones in critical care or dying.....
Edit: a jump in Diamond cruise ship cases today
57 new cases (55 crew members and 2 passengers, of which 52 asymptomatic) and 1 new death (a man in his 80s) from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan.

Italy has jumped to 132 cases, 2 dead, 34 in critical condition...
They locked down 11 cities. Those people didn't see that coming. How many wre caught short on pet supplies?

 

[clark_conure]

The bright side is we know about it now and CDC is working on it, but then again several quarantines have been broken.

Now for a 15 to 50yo individuals your chances of death are slim with a few exceptions....like the first whistleblower (unless he was shot in the head), a lot of cases are even regarded as mild. But as a parrot owner realize a corona virus can jump species....so as a parrot owner....you can't afford to get sick.

If it hit near me....I'm taking vacation.....screw the company, in this economy if the dared to fire me I could get another job with my skills in like an hour.... I also have savings and enough food and water fr 90 days......... anything past that I figure I might want to go......

 

[SailBoat]

I have heard very little regarding this virus and the common slow down during Summer. Mostly guessing at this point...

One of the opportunities retirement provides is the ability to pull back and away from the Masses. And regarding the Masses, still seeing very little regarding their awakening to this threat... Likely in the coming weeks as the Major News Media awaken themselves to the realities of this Virus...

As you are 'stocking-up' think about what you are stocking-up on... If it will only last a week or so in its natural form, its the wrong form to stock-up on!

 

[Laurasea]

What you don't want to do is que up with hundreds of other people to get supplies.

I keep seeing this on TV, when outbreak happens or a city is quarantined. Everyone massing together to get supplies! Nuts! You are exposing yourself to hundreds of other possible infected people! You would be safer to just stay home.

Many if you have said you already kept extra pet food on hand. But for those of you like me who didn't. Please get one month back up on hand, then rotate that forward , when you buy new food next month. Seems smart to do until this thrrwat has passed. Heck I will be doing it from now on.
Frozen veggies are great to have on hand to for our FIDs. Peas, broccoli, butternut squash, peppers, Brussels sprouts , all are sold frozen, and excepted by my flock once thawed.

I don't want any of our birds suffering. I don't want to see a rush on stores bringing huge crowds together during an infectious outbreak.

 

[SailBoat]

Our buy point came up this week for a couple of our supply items, so while ordering, I asked if they have seen an uptick in purchasing... Was surprised by the response, 'Maybe a tiny bit' but nothing out of the ordinary!

There is a small comfort in riding just ahead of when the crazies unleash...

Now seeing updates every day as part of the evening News. When it splashes regularly on the Morning News, hold-on, the lines will form quickly.

FYI: Great comment regarding being in line with individuals that are sick with any number of common Winter illnesses, let alone this new thing...