08:05 – The morning paper reports that North Carolina has its first possible Ebola case. An unnamed man arrived from Liberia at Newark Airport, traveled by bus to Durham, NC on Saturday, and on Sunday self-reported to the CDC that he was running a fever. He’s now in an isolation ward at Duke University Hospital, awaiting test results. If the results are negative, he’ll remain in isolation for 72 hours because it’s possible for someone who is infected with Ebola and symptomatic to still test negative.
I’ve gotten several emails from readers asking if there’s a decent prepping book out there that they can use to get started before I finish writing my prepping book. I’ve looked at a bunch of them, and the only one I’ve seen so far that I can recommend as a decent introduction for beginning preppers is Lisa Bedford’s Survival Mom.
Yeah, there are some errors in Bedford’s book. (You don’t, for example, need to chlorinate water after you’ve boiled it, at least if you intend to use it immediately.) And it’s pretty obvious when Bedford is writing about things with which she has little experience, such as firearms. But overall Survival Mom is a decent introduction to the subject. You can probably read it over the course of an evening or two, and it’ll give you lots of good ideas for getting started.