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byBarnBytes

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Updated 5 years ago

Pandemic Survival Fails

As an avid fan of shows like 'The Walking Dead', 'Hunger Games', 'Night of the comet', books such as 'I am legend', 'The passage' anything with Bear Grylls and other survival themed media, I am thoroughly disgruntled to find myself struggling with purchasing certain basic items in times of crisis. I really thought I'd have this in the bag, having come up with whole strategies of survival in bad time scenarios such as the Covid-19 pandemic. But the realities are that I, just like everyone else, everywhere worldwide, can't get these simple items.

Toilet roll

One of my main plans should an apocalyptic drama unfold, was to re-locate my family and live near to the biggest toilet roll factory available so that I would have an everlasting supply and could use to trade for crossbows, boot laces and whatever else we would need to survive. I find myself having done nothing towards my Toilet roll factory plan and am now stuck at home teaching my own children fractions, split definitives and joining Face Time lessons from teachers with nothing to do as the schools are closed.

As it turns out the toilet paper is one of the most sought after items this year. So forget my Amazon Prime purchase of 20 x FFP1 Portwest respirator masks that I got a month ago when there were only Covid-19 cases in China, no one wants or needs them here in the UK. I'm reading online that people have been hoarding toilet rolls for years and organised gangs stealing them to sell at an extortionate rate. Australia had been completely wiped out of rolls and as soon as the UK folk found out we went on our own toilet roll buying frenzies. As it turns out, by pure luck a pallet was delivered to Auldi whilst I was there and found myself pushing and shoving to the pallet with the infected to get my two pack allocation! Where did I go wrong? With all the previous knowledge and plans I still ended up there fighting over the toilet roll.

Hand Sanitiser

OK so as a man I have to admit that my approach to hand washing at home wasn't ever top priority. I chuckle quietly to myself when Sarah roasts my son about washing his hands after going to the bathroom. Tyler literally lied point-blank to her face about washing his hands the other day, I had to step in and back her up but knew what a hypocrite I was being and totally reinforced by the death glare of a 10-year-old. I have a job where washing my hands is imperative, working in the restaurant of our pub, checking hygiene and cleanliness standards and helping to cook food during busy times. Washing hands becomes second nature at work but, I have never, ever washed my hands as much as I have in the last three week's. My hands are so sore from all the washing I'm going to have to resort to using some hand lotion (the next item I'll not be able to find!)

So here again I have failed. The panicked peoples have brought all the hand sanitisers week's ago, but I was too busy at work and didn't get round to it and now this stuff in now literally impossible to find. Secretly I had been thinking that buying these products was not in keeping with the great excitement of preparing for The Pandemic and eventual lock down. Right then, I thought to myself, I'll make my own. I got a great recipe online and I found myself at the Tesco pharmacy being told 'no sir, we don't sell rubbing alcohol or Aloe vera gel but you could try online ?! I walked off with my tail between my legs but was quickly distracted by some prepacked beetroot on special offer which had a shelf life lasting till June I excitedly placed them into my trolley and on checkout was told I couldn't have more than two?

Medicine

This has been done to death in most of the media I love, there's always some reccy to the local ransacked pharmacy to get medication for some ailment or affliction. Cut to scenes of empty shelves, random bottles of pills left mostly spilled out. It feels just like that this week scrabbling around different pharmacies trying to find Capol ..number one pain relief for children here in the UK, Paracetamol..because woe betide anyone uses ibuprofen, people that use this are dying from Covid-19 according to last week's news which was then quickly blasted as fake news. None the less, after leaving the Tesco pharmacy with tail between legs I happened upon a shelf of All in One, Flu tablets ... awesome, I grabbed 3 packs because I didn't want to be greedy, but along with the beetroot all but one were confiscated at the checkout.

Lockdown

Our outside lives are in lockdown now as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson announced that everything is to shut and we should stay at home. I have been put into a Furlong contract on 80% pay and If I'm being honest have no idea what's going to happen. My survival skills have truly been thwarted and the fact I can't get hold of a simple items makes me a failure to myself and my family. I know now is that I'd be awful in the event of an apocalypse, However; On the back of this failure, I've realised that some products become like gold dust in different situations. If I can recognise these products in enough time It would give me the upper hand and be very useful in my Wealthy Affiliate adventure.

Myself and my family are alive and well, we have a place to live, a small amount of toilet roll, plenty of food and we will sail through these uncharted waters of jobless homeschooling and arrive at new shores as a stronger, smarter and hopefully richer family.

Have a productive lockdown,

Jason.