Zombie Squad

I'm afraid to even imagine why you should drip some rubbish into your eyes? Infection with COVID through the eyes will not occur, there is not such a mucous membrane as in the nasopharynx. But to damage vision is quite likely. In the same way, I see no point in rinsing the nose and washing off the ...

... And PVP-I is still $22 a gallon at Amazon. ^^^^ --- Good data. ---- ^^^^ Since this requires only a 1% solution you can buy 8 ounces of 10% solution and get 80 ounces of solution for $5.20 to try it out. You should have a decent supply this on hand in your FAK anyway for would treatment. https:...

Results of a clinical trial of 606 COVID positive patients treated with PVP-I just released. Effect of 1% Povidone Iodine Mouthwash/Gargle, Nasal and Eye Drop in COVID-19 patient , January 2021. ABSTRACT: Background : The sudden onset of COVID-19 began in late 2019 caused by a novel coronavirus (SAR...

Hope the new forum software doesn't restrict access for TOR users altogether. I get a captcha at the www.zsforums.com currently with some TOR exit node IPs. "We have noticed an unusual activity from your IP 195.176.3.23 and blocked access to this website. Please confirm that you are not a robot" Wou...

Nobody got any preparedness stuff for Christmas? Or got any stuff done over the holidays so far? :shock: We exchanged Amazon gift cards with family this year instead of presents. Zero sum game for the adults, give $100 and get $100 back, but seemed better than just skipping any gift exchange at all....

Maybe we need a "Infrastructure attacks + Monkeywrenching in 2020/2021" thread to consolidate this type of activity in a single place? Unlike the the recent train derailments and the Nashville AT&T explosion this one wasn't particularly destructive nor life threating, but I expect to see many more e...

I've heard good things about "Bearcat" Uniden scanners, but have no experience with this... Aren't police channels digitized, encrypted and inaccessible to the public? As NT2C said, it depends on the department. You have digital, encryption, and "trunking." All of which make it more difficult to fo...

I used to play an ASCII D&D video game and if you've ever opened a door to a room with 20 orcs in it, you'd know the best strategy was to back out the doorway slightly because the orcs could only come thru one at a time. One time I had a dead cockatrice, a monster that if you look at it, it turns y...

I regret not having this installed when we had our home built, but it was cost prohibitive with the other upgrades I also wanted. After living in the home a few years I got a quote on having a similar product called ShatterGARD installed, but I wanted the film attached to the window frame not just o...

Expensive month in preparedness. New tires for the truck, the old stock tires never were very good in the snow and not much tread left, probably had a couple thousand more miles I might have got out of them, but wasn't risking another winter with them. Propane refilled, good for another 3-4 months n...

Maybe the OPSEC/privacy stuff deserves it's own thread? Probably is one, but I'm too lazy to look. But, if looking for OPSEC/privacy in today's world I'd recommend Michael Bazzell's website and book. The latest edition of his book is available at Amazon, I picked up an older edition (free) at his we...

Several stores in my area are giving away turkeys if you buy $100 worth of groceries. Freezer space is harder to find than any meat products right now. Recently I've bought chicken for $1.69 a pound, steak and bacon for $2.99, and whole wild caught salmon for $3.99 (you had to buy the whole fish). ...

Mouth wash versus Covid, update #413 Still waiting for the results of more clinical trials , a few more are complete now but no results yet. Wasn't going to post any more in vitro study results or expert opinion/letters to the editor about it (some pro, some con) until more human trial results were ...

Not much election specific here, but since fire (natural or manmade) is the greatest concern the smoke/CO detector batteries were replaced and the fire extinguishers checked last Sunday. We restocked paper goods that had been depleted during the lockdown, and without realizing it had gotten critical...

Not like I'm qualified to have an opinion, but here it is anyway. Chapter 54, Wounds, of the free Primary Surgery Vol 2 book taught me a lot. https://www.ghdonline.org/surgery/discussion/primary-surgery-trauma-volume-2-2/ A laceration on the cheek you kiss should be handled differently than a lacera...

Cutting your attenuation with some better coax might help. It'd double your costs though, at a minimum. How are you switching between antennas? Didn't even bother looking at the LMR grades, that's what I'd like, but the cost puts it in the "after I win the lotto" category :) Have a Daiwa CS-201 swi...

Ordered 65' of marine grade RG-8x coax, with Amazon prime points only cost me $25. Going to try getting a different vertical antenna installed before winter (and the election) for 10m/11m/freeband listening, have a semi-homebrewed vertical whip at about 30' now which I'm not impressed with, going to...

If a mob is trying to burn my place down, my friends places only need to be intact and quiet to suddenly be far better than mine. And if the world is in a state that mobs are burning houses down with any regularity, most of my friends will be grateful to host another shooter that also cooks and cle...

Why would we experience positive resilience? Most people aren't enjoying this, even if it's not having a particular negative impact. We're just not being as adversely effected, because we view this less as a world-ending insoluble problem and more something else to overcome. It's why we're preppers...

Interesting study, Horror fans and morbidly curious individuals are more psychologically resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic At first I was surprised that "prepper genre fans" didn't also exhibit higher positive resilience scores on average, but wondering now if that might just be a consequence o...

Acquired a couple more big rocks/small boulders to line the sides of the driveway. Our dirt driveway is about 100 yards long with 60 yards of that through woods, the rocks are for decoration (not all that uncommon around here) now but have the added function of blocking car/truck access if rolled in...

Where do you get the fluids, tubing, & caths? Amazon for the flush syringes, shopmedvet for the tubing, start kits, and the caths (think the caths were in their "soon-to-expire" sale items - they might want a license for them otherwise), and the fluids I always have to shop around for each order. I...

My (cheap) vacuum sealer died some years back and never replaced it. That said, the "procedure kit" that gets the most use here is this one. https://i.postimg.cc/MpvZ6Sd7/splinter-kit.jpg Each FAK gets one, and after band-aids and Liquid Skin (for dog paws, mostly) it's probably the most used item i...

Okay, I wasn't aware that FCC had ruled differently on the stun and kill functions then they reportedly had previously, or maybe I was misinformed from the start. It's been too many years now to remember where I got the info from but it was part of a discussion about the encryption (scramble) funct...