7 Life-Threatening Scenarios You May Face When Escaping a Pandemic Outbreak

The possibility that one day some sort of virus or disease could potentially wipe out a huge chunk of the population is, admittedly, far-fetched. That being said, history has a bad habit of repeating itself. Throughout the last several hundred years there have been several pandemic level outbreaks of deadly viruses that have decimated large areas of the world.

Obviously, major advancements in modern medicine, outbreak prevention and containment procedures have made this threat highly unlikely to ever fully reach a level that would be anything like what you see on the movies. That being said, the threat absolutely is real and is worth preparing for; because even if this type of threat is highly unlikely, preparing for something as disastrous as a pandemic will mean that you are even more prepared for disaster scenarios that are much less catastrophic.

Today we’re going to look at the top 7 threats that you could potentially face when escaping and surviving a wide-spread pandemic scenario and what you can do to make sure you don’t become one it’s many victims.

Beware of the infected!  

If a wide-spread, deadly pandemic were to ever strike, your best bet for staying alive is going to be staying indoors and having literally zero interaction with anyone outside the home until the virus has burned itself out. Typically this can last anywhere from 30-90 days.

That being said, a pandemic on this kind of scale would have to result from some sort of highly mutated virus that has not only never been encountered before, but would have to be so resilient, communicable and deadly that even our advances in modern medicine could not contain it. With something like this, all bets are off and there really is no telling how long it would take for something like this to burn itself out.

If a situation was to arise where you would need to be outside, either to procure resources or to get to another location, stay away from anyone that is not in your group. Even someone with no outward symptoms could be an early carrier of the virus and could wipe out your entire group within days of contact. Also, if you do have to travel outside, be sure to wear some sort of breathing protection like a facemask (or even better) a filtered gasmask. It won’t completely protect you from infection, but something is better than nothing.

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