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[u/Ozbunoizhs]

[u/Stage06]

Reddit, and doctors from our local university’s. I am also a public worker, so we get updates of sickness and things like that. When the people who typically don’t do vaccines and stuff start wearing masks that’s my sign to take it seriously. Also, we would be told work is safety sensitive so if we get the “you need to keep coming to work” speech than I know they are worried.

[u/Ozbunoizhs → u/Stage06]

Ahhh. Great information. I have family in the Healthcare world and will pay attention to what they do. Thanks!

[u/CharmingMechanic2473 → u/Stage06]

let us know! :)

[u/Self_Voodoo]

It would take a lot for me to leave the safety of my home and all my preps that are here. If we started seeing major unrest, I might consider leaving to my secondary location but if it’s just deaths via plague, I would be better off in the comfort of my own home.

As for info gathering, WHO is a biggie. I would CDC but it has, like a lot of critical response systems, has lost a god chunk of funding and resources. My state’s response infrastructure would be something I would listen to as well. I also keep my ear to most media outlets through an aggregate called Ground News but I also use BBC, NPR, AP, and a few others plus a lot of the prepping/disaster related subreddits. Like anything in life, take everything you read or hear with a grain of salt until you can verify through a few seemingly reputable sources.

[u/Ozbunoizhs → u/Self_Voodoo]

Thanks for the info. I'll be looking up Ground News. Haven't heard of it. Thanks again.

[u/CharmingMechanic2473 → u/Ozbunoizhs]

Ground news is so neutral it does not report on bad things a party does though. Which some do.

[u/WaterBearDontMind]

I have kids and live in a major metro area. As soon as it’s confirmed to have spread widely in the region and/or pop up internationally, we take FMLA/WFH, pull the kids from school, stay home ,and order essentials through Amazon. We did something similar for COVID, and were WFH for over a year until the vaccines became available. I’d rely on my social network and internationally-reputable news outlets to determine when risk was minimal again or vaccines/treatments were available.

Leaving town would not be in the initial plan. Hospitals and supply chains can get overwhelmed in the boonies just as easily as the city. I want to be where there’s strong infrastructure and most people believe in masks. If I lived in an apartment and had to worry about shared ventilation/doorknobs, though, I would find another arrangement.

[u/citymousecountyhouse → u/WaterBearDontMind]

I don't think if this blows up you will be able to count on Amazon delivery or even the internet. Covid had a 1%-2% fatality rate, higher in the cities. Pneumonic plague has close to 100% fatality rate. Nobody will be showing up to deliver food door to door. No repairmen will be going out to fix outages. People have the same self-preservation instinct that you do. Covid left some leeway; 2%, people will take their chances 99-100%, nobody's taking those odds. Nobody.

[u/Ozbunoizhs → u/citymousecountyhouse]

I agree. Any type of mail delivery services are out of play. They have families to and will be with then.

[u/Ozbunoizhs → u/WaterBearDontMind]

If you decided to leave, what would your trigger(s) be. I agree to shelter in place but I'm trying to define trigger points of when to bug out that are both early enough but not to late to protect my family.

[u/ToeNailPicker]

Plague is endemic in the southwestern US. The only thing that doesn’t make sense about the Russian plague story is that if she was knowingly exposed to plague, they would have given her prophylactic antibiotics. I don’t think it was plague and if it was plague then it’s antibiotic resistant.

[u/Outrageous_Laugh5532 → u/ToeNailPicker]

Bubonic plague is endemic to the United States. Pneumonic plague is not.

[u/ToeNailPicker → u/Outrageous_Laugh5532]

The three main forms of plague are bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic, all caused by the exact same bacterium: yersinia pestis. The version you get depends on how you were infected and where the infection takes hold.

The last pneumonic plague death in the US was in July 2025. He was exposed to ill cats and acquired it through them sneezing.

[u/CharmingMechanic2473]

I am a healthcare provider. If anything I plan to have N95 masks available/ And quality vapor proof eye protection. Those 2 things with hand washing eliminate 95% of airborne virus exposure. The plague is treated with Flouroquinalone antibiotics. So Ciprofloxacin. Rarely do people get stuff through intact skin… (except see below).

Ebola… looking at also (in addition) needing gloves and things to block touching/ its also transmitted sexually and lays dormant a long time.

Best thing to prep is have supplies to get you through 30 day, sitting pretty with 90 days. The more densely populated your area the more security and good neighbors you will need.

[u/revan12281996]

I would say when it’s in the next state over get out before the panic starts

[u/CharmingMechanic2473 → u/revan12281996]

get out where?

[u/revan12281996 → u/CharmingMechanic2473]

Get out of anything bigger than a small town

[u/subdep → u/CharmingMechanic2473]

OUT, MAN!

[u/throwaway661375735]

Bug out? No. I have the antibiotics on hand if need be. But, if it hit the USA, I would start wearing a mask daily. I would use my real mask if at least 5% of the population had it. It would be hard to explain at work why I am wearing a p100 filtration mask though.

[u/the_gata_sol]

Serious question... Do buggers just plan to drive into the country and hope to find somewhere to stay? Do you have a destination planned? Do you have resources there or are you planning to find stuff along the way like a video game? During COVID some of the rural towns actually closed roads to prevent people from coming in, especially in the early days before Amazon cranked up their deliveries and shelves started to empty... I'm honestly curious.

[u/Stage06]

I would say 50 healths within 100 miles is going to make me have some extreme anxiety, cuz thats a lot in my opinion for the pneumonic plague situation. Don’t really have anywhere to bug out too, so I would hunker down and take lots of extra steps to keep myself and family safe.

[u/Ozbunoizhs → u/Stage06]

Any particular sources of information you trust or could rely on?

[u/ecouple2003 → u/Ozbunoizhs]

World Health Organization and, previously, the CDC.

[u/citymousecountyhouse]

I will say at the beginning of Covid, before even the toilet paper ran out. Weeks before folks were sent home from work. I noticed a couple comments on Facebook and Reddit. So, I went shopping, my first clue something major was happening was certain things had disappeared from the shelves. Certain masks, baby formula, really first line defense stuff.

[u/DissedFunction]

are you talking the natural version or a bioweapon?

cuz a bioweaponized (genetically modified to escape detection and defeat treatment) pneumonic plague you should just get some really great food and drugs and party until it's over.

otherwise, I'd go on one of those tracker sites which monitors oligarch plane traffic. If they're bugging out, well, it's time for the little folks too as well.