How To Set Up A Quarantine

For keeping up spirits, I keep a good sized stash of treats: chocolates, hard candies, etc, plus specific comfort foods for each family member. When you're feeling down, sometimes you just need a bit of a splurge. For me it's pasta with red sauce, for my wife it's mac and cheese.

To alleviate boredom, I've got a layered approach. If power and Internet stay on, then we've got Internet games, Netflix, etc. When the Internet drops but power is still on, I have a large collection of video games, DVD movies and TV shows. After power is gone, we still have all our books, board games, card games, dice games, etc. I even have a stash of toys for the pets that don't require power. Something they haven't been using for years might break up their day too...we just have cats, so I have catnip infused toys, fake mice with rattles in them and small plastic balls that make noise when rolling. Just in case the laser pointers run out of batteries...I'd rather they play with that than jump on me when I'm not entertaining them.

Getting back to human preps, at our local warehouse club they sell a 10-pack of card decks in both regular and "easy to read" versions. For short money you're ready to play lots of different card games and still have enough to let folks try building houses of cards or whatever...I got two of the 10 packs, one for our use, one for bartering. And whenever I'm at a store I'll check out the clearance section and if I see a board game (non-electronic) that I don't already have then I'll grab it and add it to the collection. Sure, I may never play some of them, but if we're stuck inside for 6 months or longer I may be looking for something new...or worst case my wife or other relatives sell it at a yard sale after I'm gone.

I came across this on Happy Preppers, may be helpful to you if hit with the Chinese virus or any other pandemic:

https://www.happypreppers.com/quarantine.html