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Wow what a cheap and pointless policy.
Notice how it doesn't actually involve the government doing anything other than setting up the website and then tells you that it's your responsibility.
They're supposed to run the administration of the country, they're the ones that are supposed to supply the emergency supplies when needed, what's the pointing government if they don't do that.
I think that ‘resilience in depth’ is a reasonable idea. The NHS exists, but I still have a first aid kit at home.
In practice, I think it will be difficult fir a household to store 3 days drinking water.
I can store 3 days worth of water but that rather assumes I have only to do it for myself. It for a large firmly would take up more space than most people have access to. You also can't keep bottled water for very long because the plastic eventually contaminates the water. So your best bet would be to buy a water filter and keep that full and regularly refreshed, but you're still not going to have enough water for 3 days for four people.
120 litres (4 people, 10 litres per person per day, 3 days) of water is also 120kg. Pretty unwieldy.
Bathtubs are 160 litres. So, it's essentially storing an extra bathtub.
Indeed. To be honest, I’d probably fall back on the old idea of filling the bath right up if the shit looked like it was about to hit the fan.
We have a shower :-(
Hopefully the plughole is clogged with hair
The point of the government is to make the rich richer at the expense of everybody else. According to the Gospel of St. Margaret.
I don't really see how it's pointless? The average person probably underestimated the risk of the UK being dragged into a conflict in this decade or the next and thus also the risk they'd need to prepare for that, so it's probably helpful to bring how much people think they need to prep in line with how much they should prep, could save some lives.
If the UK gets dragged into a conflict it's going to last more than 3 days though isn't it.
I believe the thinking is that three days is (hopefully) enough time for whatever issues to be resolved, or for you to look for other sources of supplies. You're not expected to stockpile enough to live on for months!
Well I don't think that's a given and I also don't think that if that was the case it'd then follow that this policy is silly but I see and agree with the general points you're making
40 per cent of people do not have three days’ supplies of non-perishable food and water.
How are they suppose to pay for it? Food bank usage is only going up, how is having three days of emergency food on stand by a realistic prospect for some households?
Generally you don't buy this all in one go. The idea is to buy one or two extra things per week and build the stockpile slowly.
Millions of people are already having to skip meals because they don't make enough to feed themselves everyday, where is this money for one or two extra items suppose to come from?
And also to rotate through it.
Use the emergency food in regular cooking, and replace it. This avoids things going off.
Perhaps you're just supposed to wait until this apparently impending disaster, and then raid your local food bank. Perhaps we should consider them off-site storage.
The German government has told people to stockpile sausages and cheese
...to be prepared for a Wurst-Käse scenario
Fünf Euro in die Wortwitzkasse, bitte.
Next up: How you can protect your Anderson Shelter from unprepared neighbours stealing your tomato soup.
Followed by the totally unrelated article.
Converting you garden shelter into an XL bully kennel.
I honestly don't hate this policy. Keeping at least 3 days supplies with rotation is just common sense, right?
If something knocked the power/water out for a couple of days, every person with something in store is one less person the authorities have to worry about, until things either stabilise or get worse.
It's in bad taste when food bank usage is so high and the policy puts the responsibility onto people and the government is doing nothing. I agree with the general advice, but read the room.
We've been here before, haven't we?
While he is taking a break from YouTube, perhaps Tom Scott can put together a sequel.
We'll probably see a run on bog roll again 😏
I'm bullish on bog roll
americas been doing that since 9/11 and every time there is something else like katrina they push the advertising a bit but its usually in the corner of some dusty website and hard to say if anyone does it. I don't but we buy enough stuff that we could get buy for months I think if we get less picky about what we eat. we usually have a certain amount of rice and lentils and canned goods laying around. water is tough as ugh. those plastic bottles.
Noah's castle, baby!