How to Survive a Pandemic: The Leading Prepper’s Guide to Surviving an Outbreak of Global Scale

By Beau Griffin

The Ultimate Guide to Surviving a Global Pandemic

How are you and your family going to make it through a global pandemic? Do you have the supplies, training, shelter options and protection to make it through healthy and safe?

With this book, the answer is yes.

In the wake of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that is still sweeping across the world, many of us are worrying what we will do to make sure we can survive it or any other pandemics that may follow it.

This isn’t the first global pandemic by far, but it’s giving us all an eye-opening experience of what havoc a deadly disease can wreak on our heavily connected global society.

You don’t need to wait for your government to call for a lockdown before you prepare. You can be ready long before the first signs of a pandemic begin to appear in your region, you can still prepare even if your area has already been hit, and you can keep yourself and your family safe for as long as it lasts.

Start preparing now

This book will show you how to adapt your home and life right now so that you are better prepared to make it through the lockdown. Make your preparations now – don’t wait for everyone else to panic before you stock up on supplies. And if they are already panicking? There are still steps you can take to prepare.

Make your plans

Your biggest challenge is going to be a safe shelter in which to hunker down until the pandemic passes and you are once again safe to come into contact with other people. This book will help you decide whether to shelter in place or seek a more remote shelter for the duration.

Prepare your survival shelter

This book will help you figure out exactly how prepared you need to be. Discover:

• What kinds of supplies you will need to ensure your health and safety

• How to make sure you never lose access to food and water

• How to stock your pantry with more than just edibles, but also concerns such as sanitation and medical supplies

Get the right gear

To make sure you are safe no matter how bad things get, this book will show you how to:

• Defend your shelter from unwanted intruders

• Protect yourself from attack

• Keep yourself fed and watered even once your supplies begin to run out.

Find out more about how a pandemic spreads

Using pandemics like COVID-19, Spanish flu and ebola as examples, this book will give you an insight into how a disease spreads around the globe, how it affects infrastructure and why an illness is a disaster for far more reasons than just the symptoms themselves.

Keep your loved ones safe, no matter the disaster

With the advice in this book, you will feel confident in making the right decisions for you and your family.

You will know:

• What resources are available around you and how best to make use of them

• How to figure out the best time to react to the news that the novel coronavirus has arrived in your region

• When to bug out or lock down to protect yourself from the spread.

Start preparing right now, before disaster hits!

Reading this book will give you all the information you need to prepare for the worst while hoping for the best.

Start your preparations right now. Pick up your copy today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: May 2, 2022

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Introduction

The world gets smaller every day, or so they say. We live in a time of world wide trade networks, instant bookings to go wherever you want across the planet, constants shipments across the ocean between one country’s businesses and another, interlinked systems between countries and continents. That’s very different to the situation even a couple of centuries ago.

In many ways, it’s wonderful. We can snack on fruits that come from far off places our great, great grandparents had never even heard of. We can visit landmarks halfway across the world just to see what they look like in person. We are more aware of world cultures and what makes us different and the same than we ever have been before, which has led to a time of relative peace.

But it comes at a cost – and if a pandemic hits, it’s a huge cost. Our supply chains are now incredibly complicated and intricate, and the percentage of providers has gone down dramatically.

Think back a few hundred years and each community would have been relatively self sufficient. A town or village would have grown its own grains and vegetables, reared its own livestock and processed its own dairy and eggs. There would have been a blacksmith and a tanner and a baker nearby – each community would have had the skills it required to create raw materials and turn them into the items people needed for everyday use.

Not many items were specialized. Mining, for example, would have taken place only in certain areas, and the proceeds of that industry would have been sold where it was needed. Aside from capital cities like London and Paris, each community was fairly small and each had what it needed to survive. If a disease hit, it had a much more difficult time escaping the community because there was so much less travel between towns.

Today, the situation is a lot different. The majority of the population now lives within large cities and there are far fewer small towns and communities. Those in the cities are not producing consumable items – that’s all down to the rural communities.

In fact, it is estimated that, at least in first world countries, not even two percent of us work in the fishing and agriculture industries. That’s just two people out of every hundred whose focus is on providing food for the other 98.

You can’t grow wheat in a city, either, and sometimes not even nearby. Food now travels hundreds of miles from producer to supplier – some items don’t even come in from the same continent. We take for granted that we can eat exotic ingredients produced in other parts of the world.

The same problem applies to energy. Unless you happen to have wind or solar power on your property, it’s possible that the power source you use every day is located hundreds of miles away – and the raw materials come from even further than that.

In some places, it even applies to water.

The world has become one huge machine of production and consumption, and it works pretty well for us at the moment. But what happens when a pandemic hits?

As the disease makes its way across the planet, more and more people are asked to self isolate or make the decision to stay away from others by not going to work or socializing in public places. That means factories are not producing boxes of cereal, miners are not pulling coal out of the earth, fruit pickers are leaving the apples on the trees, delivery drivers aren’t moving produce from the depot to the stores.

It isn’t long before we have a serious problem, because we’re missing more cogs in the wheel of this world wide machine every day. Slowly but surely, the raw materials stop being produced, there’s far fewer people to refine them into usable items – pasta sauces, boxes of strawberries, ice cream and so on – and there’s nobody to take the finished products to the store.

Gas stations won’t have fuel, nobody will be maintaining the electrical grid and supermarkets will see delivery after delivery fail to arrive. The world wide machine is crippled, and so is anyone who is unable to be self sufficient.

Unless you are lucky enough to live in a small town where you have farmers, livestock producers, mining capabilities