Survival and Disaster Prep

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Do not fear. Do not panic. That's our topic today. Do not fear. Do not panic. Talking about disaster preparation and survival issues. Survival preparation, whatever term you want to use, of course connected to the coronavirus panic that's happening now that the media is creating.

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Alright, a quick hi to everybody who's live. Hi, hello, hey, hey. We had our first, I would call it our first spring day today in Japan. Really nice day, very warm day.

It was great, so nice. That spring temperatures are here. I'm sure we'll get some cold weather again in the next few weeks. You know, it's up and down in the beginning of spring.

March and April can be kind of up and down. But still, overall feels like spring is coming. Or spring is just coming. arriving. So, wonderful. I had a long, long walk today outside.

It was great. Alright, let's talk about it. You know, this coronavirus thing, I suspect... I don't know what exactly is going on. Are they using it to crash the economy, to influence the election in the United States?

Maybe. Are they using it to crash economies and to... Maybe kill political opponents. Maybe. I don't know what it is. Is it a bioweapon that escaped? Who knows, okay, guys?

So we're just, I'm not going to focus too much on that because there's so many lies. There's so much conflicting, right, opposite information out there that I don't think you need to worry about it. I don't think you need to worry about it too much. But what I do think you should do, I think this is a great opportunity to practice general disaster preparation because that is something that really everybody, I think, should do.

I've lived in earthquake zones for the last, I don't know, 15 years or more. So... you know, it's always possible an earthquake could hit here in Japan, definitely. And then before that, I lived in San Francisco, another place where an earthquake can happen, could happen, a big one could happen anytime.

So it's just a very good idea to always be prepared, right? To always have a preparation just for some kind of disaster, right? And what that means is you have to be prepared that there will be no groceries, that the grocery stores will be empty or mostly empty, You have to be prepared that there will be no power, that the power will go off and be off for a while.

You have to be prepared that you might not have running water. The water might not work coming into your house. The water lines might get broken. You might have to be prepared for no gas, no propane, no gas coming in.

If you have a gas stove, for example, for cooking. So basically, you have to be prepared that all of these things disappear for a while. And no phones, too. No cell phones, no internet.

All that. I'll just give you an example of this. It could be only for a few days. It could be for a few weeks. It could be for several months that this happens.

So you've got to be prepared for this situation. It's just a smart thing to do. Everybody should do this. You should always do this at all times. Not just this coronavirus thing, but always have this preparation.

I'll give you, on the short end, a couple years ago we had a big typhoon, big hurricane basically, typhoon, hit Osaka. It hit us directly where we live and we lost power for, I think it was three days.

Two or three days. Three days, we'll say three days. We had no power. Now luckily we still had water. And gas, so that was okay. But we lost all our power, right?

So that means your refrigerator won't work if you lose power. So all the food in your refrigerator, you've got to eat it in like a couple days because it'll all go bad.

And that means no lights. All of these things. So you have to be prepared. Of course, you know, we were okay. It was no problem. A little inconvenient, but it wasn't a problem.

But you have to be prepared for this, right? What if this happens in the winter, in the middle of the winter, and there's no power, no heat of any kind? No water, no heat, right?

You could lose, as I said, water. This has happened. This happened to my family once when I was a kid. Like, I was in middle school. I remember... Big snowstorm hit where we lived, and all the pipes froze, and they broke, and so the water went out in the whole neighborhood, in the whole town.

All the running water was out, gone, for several days. It was at Christmastime, too. It kind of sucked. My grandparents and my aunt were visiting us, and we had no power.

I mean, no water during that time period. What do you do? How will you survive without water? Without running water coming into your home? Right? You get the idea.

What will you do? How will you survive this? So you've got to think about this. You've got to think about it and be prepared. As I was saying today to the supporting members, a good rule of thumb, if you look at what a lot of disaster preparation people, books, websites will tell you, is that you should be prepared for three months.

You should have enough food, water, or ability to get water to survive for three months and other things too, which we'll talk about. So you need to be able to survive for about three months without help, without groceries, without power, without running water, etc. Can you do that?

Could you do that right now, today? So just imagine today, right now, maybe because of this coronavirus thing, all the groceries become empty. and you can't go groceries, and maybe people get sick, and the power goes out, or something like that. The hospitals would certainly become full of people, even if it's just a panic, if it's not really that serious.

Still, tons of people are going to go to the hospital panicking, which means they're going to be overwhelmed. The staff is going to be too busy to see people. How long could you survive right now without food, running water,

Power. So you have to look. How much food do you have actually right now in your home? Do you have any water in your home? Do you have a way to get clean water if you can't get it from the pipes?

So you've got to think about these things. You've got to think about these things. Let's talk about it. I'm going to give you some advice now. First of all, I'm going to give you a website.

A book, actually. There's this guy. He was actually on a TV show on the Discovery Channel. A little bit interesting guy. But I think his books are very good about survival.

His name is Corey Lundin. I think it was called Dual Survival. And he's the guy that always would go around barefoot. And he studied Native American, meaning American Indian techniques and things.

I don't know. The barefoot thing always seemed weird for me. Like maybe he was doing it for TV or maybe not. But But anyway, the point is that the guy has some very good ideas, and he's got two books about survival.

So it's Cody Lundin.com. Cody, I'm sorry, Cody Lundin. C-O-D-Y-L-U-N-D-I-N. C-O-D-Y, Cody, his first name. Lundin, L-U-N-D-I-N.com. Cody Lundin.com. Anyway, I want to show you his books.

The first one I recommend, this is probably the best one for something like coronavirus. It's basically surviving in your home, right? If you live in a city, if you live in the country, whatever. It's not outdoor survival.

Outdoor survival is actually much harder, right? Outdoor survival is you're driving in the mountains and your car breaks and a big snowstorm comes. Can you survive that for a week, two weeks, right? Until someone finds you.

That's hard. That's very tough. That's a lot harder. This first book is about surviving disasters while you're in your home. Right? At home. Which is easier.

And it's called When All Hell Breaks Loose is the name of the book. I recommend this book. You can get it as an e-book on Amazon. When All Hell Breaks Loose.

And then the rest of the title. Stuff you need to survive when disaster strikes. So it's about surviving disasters. So for example, one of the examples he mentions is the hurricane that happened in America several years ago called Katrina.

Remember it hit New Orleans. And a lot of people died in that. A lot of people died because they weren't ready. They had no disaster preparation. They were also stupid.

They stayed there. They were told they should probably leave and they didn't. But anyway... When All Hell Breaks Loose by Cody Lundin. It's really good.

It's pretty extreme. I mean, this guy is teaching you how to survive months and months and months with no food, no groceries, nothing. Some things in there are very extreme.

But still, overall, he's got a lot of great advice about things you should always have in your home to survive in these situations. And I don't think you need to do the most extreme things. Probably not. But...

Kind of the basic information in the book is really good, very solid, and got lots of good advice. And this will take away the fear, because if you read a book like this, and you buy some supplies, and you have enough to survive for three months or more, then you don't get worried about these kind of things. It's not a big deal. You don't fear it.

So, Cody Lundin. He also has a book about... Surviving Outdoors, which is called 98.6 Degrees, The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive by Cody Lundin. And this is about surviving in the wilderness.

So that's about learning how to make fire and survive when you don't have much. That's harder. I wouldn't worry about that right now. Anyway, so that's Cody Lundin.

So some basic points I mentioned. I'm just going to go very quickly. I talked about some of this today earlier with the supporting members, but some things to think about. What do you need to live?

Number one. First thing, of course, you need air, obviously. But number two, you need water, right? You'll die of dehydration before you starve to death.

Water's more important than food. Far more important. You can fast. You can fast for many days. If you're a little overweight, you can fast for weeks and still be alive.

If you're fat, you could probably fast for a few months and still live. Okay? So, food's less important. What's very, very, very important is water. You can only go...

Maybe a week after a week, you're going to be in bad shape if you have no water. Some people might die earlier than that. You have to be able to get water. What happens?

The water breaks. You can't get water in your home. How would you get water? You have to go out somewhere in your town and find some water. Maybe there's a pond.

Maybe there's a little stream. But the problem is it's probably dirty. It probably has bacteria. It's probably going to make you sick. It might have chemicals in it.

So first you need to know where can you get water. You have to walk over there and get it. And then you have to make sure it's clean. It's safe to drink.

So you need some different systems to... purify the water. And you can buy, I mentioned today to members that you can get a very small little camping water filter. I like one by, it's called Sawyer, S-A-W-Y-E-R.

The Sawyer filter is very small, this little water filter, but it takes out most bacteria, most things that will make you sick. Maybe a few chemicals, but mostly it takes out bacteria. That's the main problem.

Another way, a simple way to make the water drinkable is you can get little purification tablets. You can get a bottle, and they're basically little tablets of chlorine or iodine, and they also will kill bacteria.

And then finally, the third way to purify water is just to boil it for a few minutes, and that will kill all the bacteria that will make you sick. To take out chemicals, if you live in a city and you're worried about chemicals in the water, you know, if it's really dirty, then you'll need some kind of charcoal filter. You'll have to pour it in. You can buy for your home.

So anyway, you just got to think about this. How would you make your water clean? Water is the most important thing. That's number one. Okay, then after, once you have water, what do you need next?

Next, I would say, would be staying warm. Staying warm. How do you stay warm? If it's cold, right? So I just recommend sleeping bags. Get some sleeping bags.

Have sleeping bags or, you know, like in Japan we have big heavy futons, but also sleeping bags. Just in case you had to walk, you had to like leave your home and go somewhere to be rescued. Then, you know, you could carry some light sleeping bags with you and you'd be able to stay warm and be able to survive. I also like a tarp.

I mentioned this tarp. It's kind of like a tent, a tent, but no walls and no floor. Again, why do you need that in a disaster? If you're in your home, no problem.

But if there's an earthquake and it's not safe to stay in your home, you might have to walk and you might have to leave. So if you have a tarp, you could kind of camp outdoors and stay dry. So if it's raining, it'll stay dry. You stay warm.

If you have a sleeping bag, you can camp and then you'll be safe and you can walk and get out and survive. Okay, next food. You need to have enough food. I mentioned how much food should you have?

at least a week, at least one week of food, and probably three months, I would say. If you look at this coronavirus stuff, you're getting these reports in China, they're locking people in their apartments for a month or two months, right?

What if you have no food? You're going to starve to death. So you need to have enough food to survive for, I think, three months is a good thing to do.

And you don't need to have... You know, it doesn't need to be luxury. You just have a huge bag of rice, a big bag of dried beans, some canned food, maybe some protein powder, you know, like a protein shake that people bodybuilders use. Maybe just, you know, a few things like that, but enough for three months for your whole family.

And then finally, you need a way to cook that stuff. If you're using rice, beans, other things that need to be cooked, you'll need a stove. And remember, the power might be out. There might be no gas.

So how would you cook it? Again, you can use some kind of camping stove. There are different kinds of camping stoves. Some use what's called white gas.

Some use propane. They come in these little canisters. But what I recommend is an alcohol stove. Because, for a few reasons. Number one, I'll show you on the video if you're watching.

One of the ones I have. Number one is they're tiny. This is an alcohol stove. You can cook with this. It's very, very small. You can see it fits in my hand.

One hand. I can hold it. Very light. If we had to leave our apartment and walk and go somewhere to get to safety, I could put this in a backpack. Easily.

It burns alcohol. Just normal. Alcohol, like drinking alcohol you could use, such as Everclear. You know, it's kind of like almost, it's like 90% alcohol.

If you can get 100%, that's the best. But you can buy like 90%. So you just pour it in there, pour it inside, and then you'll light it, and then it'll create like a little burner that'll come up. And then you just put something on top of it, like a little pot for cooking, and then you cook it.

You can boil water just to make the water clean. You can cook something. Very nice. Very small. Not expensive. Alcohol stove. And then, of course, you want fuel, so you want alcohol.

The great thing about alcohol, you know, you can drink it. You can use it for... It disinfects, like if you've got a cut on your hand, for example, or you cut on your body.

You can just pour some alcohol on it, clean it so it won't get infected. Alcohol has great uses. And then, of course, you use it as fuel. So you might have a few liters of alcohol to use for your stove for cooking.

And that's it. And then you'd be set. That would be enough for cooking up your food. You could easily survive, like I said, for three months with no groceries.

All right. Let me put this away. One second. All right. And then finally, probably just some first aid. I think first aid would be important to have. You want to have a first aid kit in case someone gets sick.

I recommend having a bunch of vitamin D, K, and C. Vitamin D3, vitamin K2, and vitamin C. These three are great for your immune system against keeping you strong, against bacteria, viruses, anything like that. So in case, you know, the hospitals are too full, you can't then you want to be able to keep your body strong by yourself. So all three of them are quite cheap.

You can buy just a huge bag of vitamin C online. There's bulk, B-U-L-K, just large bags. You can buy big bottles of large doses of vitamin D, and same with vitamin K, K2 specifically.

And these will all keep you nice and strong against viruses and bacteria. Oh, finally, maybe a light. I mentioned this before. You probably want a light because at night, if there's no power, you need to find things.

So it's also good to have some way of having light. So I use these little headlamps, which you can see if you're watching on video. I like these little tiny ones.

This is from a company called Petzl, P-E-T-Z-L. It's an L-E-D. I like the L-E-D. This is a headlamp. You can see there's a string that goes around my head, holds it on my head so I can use both my hands.

If there was no light, I could use this. It's super light, super tiny, very small. And the LEDs, the batteries last a very long time. The battery for this probably lasted five years.

I just recently changed it. So that's a long time. Now, I wasn't using it very much. So you probably want to have some backup batteries too, just in case.

And that is it. All right, let's go to the comments and questions now. If any of you have questions or comments about, again, about just general preparation disaster. It's just good.

This is what's called anti-fragile. I have a VIP lesson about this. And it's just a matter of just being prepared, right? Usually, probably the worst will not happen.

Probably a disaster will not happen to you or your family. But if one does happen, and they do happen, and we know they happen all around the world, you know, every year,

you want to be prepared. Because if you're not prepared, you could die. Your family members could die. It could be a really, really horrible, bad thing.

But if you're prepared, it's not such a problem. If you're prepared, you'll be okay. So that's what I'm saying. Do not fear. Do not panic. Just be prepared.

Instead of getting all worried about all the crazy stuff in the news, it doesn't matter what it is, what they're talking about. They're always trying to make us afraid, afraid, afraid all the time. Don't be afraid. Don't panic.

Just be prepared. Be prepared always for anything. And then you don't need to fear. You can just relax. Alright, let's get into our comments and questions live.

Okay. Alaman Ali says, how many days can a young person survive without food or drinking water? Well, it really depends. It's hard to say. Okay. First of all, let's talk about water because water is the one that's shortest.

I don't know exactly. Like I did a three day dry fast. So no water, no food for three days. I was okay, but I started getting tired. I was starting to feel kind of weak.

Um, How long could I go? I don't know. I'm not trying to kill myself. Cole Robinson, the snake diet guy, I think he did a seven-day. He did a seven-day dry fast.

So he did seven days of fasting with no water and no food. So he survived seven days, and he didn't die. This is one moment when being a little fat is actually good.

If you're more fat, you can survive longer. even without water, because your body can create water from fat, actually. Your body can break and use the fat in your body, obviously for food, for energy, and it also can use your fat to make water. There's water in your fat.

So if you're kind of fat, if you're kind of heavy, if you're overweight, you can actually survive longer. If you're really, really thin, right? You can see your abs, right? You almost have no fat.

Then you cannot survive as long. It's a shorter number of days for food and for water. For water, a week, I would say, is probably the most. After that, I think a lot of people will be in bad shape, maybe die.

Again, it depends on the temperature. It depends on a lot of things, but let's say about a week. And that's if you're just laying around doing nothing.

Now, food is less of a problem. I don't know. I could easily go a week without food and be fine. That really does depend on how fat you are. If you're very, very, very thin...

Normally that's good and healthy, right? But in this case, for survival, it actually helps to have fat. If you're a fat person, you could survive months without eating.

So I can't really give you a... I think almost anybody can go at least a few weeks without eating and be okay. But if you're very, very, very thin already with no fat, then you have a shorter time you could survive without food.

Still, overall, it's best not to be fat, okay? But, yeah, I mean, that's why we have fat. It's one of the main reasons we have fat, you know, to keep warm. But, you know, this is why animals get fatter before the winter because they know in the winter they'll have very little food and they need to survive the whole winter.

So they kind of get bigger and fatter to survive without food for the winter, right? That's the natural way. Yeah, like this is a great idea. Tanishka White says, in my family, we have a prepared backpack with all the vital stuff because there's been a war five years in my area.

Any amount of forces can come back in our city. Exactly. It could also be war. It could be terrorism. It could be artificial disasters like that also.

And this is a good idea, by the way, what Tanishka said, is that When you gather all this stuff, you know, your food, your water, everything you're going to need, it's a very good idea to put it all together. It's a super good idea to put it in backpack, a backpack or backpacks, right? If you need more than one, if you have like a bigger family.

Because then you can just grab it. and leave if you need to. Like if you suddenly needed to leave, let's say, I don't know, like in Japan, you live on the coast and a tsunami is coming and you hear the alarm and you only have like 10, 15 minutes. You've got to run.

There's no time to look around and find stuff. Well, if you just, if it's all already organized in one backpack, you just grab it and run out the door, right?

Same thing. If there's like, like she said, there's They've had war in her area. So if you know, oh, there's an attack coming, we've got to get out of here, you just grab your backpack and you go.

Everybody just leaves. You can leave immediately. You've got everything you need. People call this a bug-out bag. You'll see on survival video websites and people who focus on this kind of topic, they call it a bug-out bag.

It's kind of slang. Yeah, like Funda says, we have earthquakes, a lot of earthquakes here in the east part of Turkey. Right. So Japan, we have earthquakes here and tsunamis.

Where I live, it's both could happen. This is a possible tsunami zone. It's close enough to the ocean that a tsunami could hit here. And we also are definitely in an earthquake zone.

Zoo PR says, yeah, in Australia, most people worry about toilet tissue. You know, you can stock up on toilet tissue as well. Yeah, it's one of the things you could stock up on that if you want.

Okay, let's see. Yeah, like Bertalan. I tend to think Bertalan's correct here. Media's exaggerating the coronavirus. People who got the virus only 2% died.

80% don't even know they got it. Yeah, see, this is the problem, right? The numbers are all nonsense. All the numbers are nonsense because there might be actually a huge number of people have it

Right, many more because it's only the number that they test. The numbers we see in the media, that's the number of people they test. They're not testing most people. Like in America, almost nobody's tested.

They could have huge numbers of people have it and they don't even realize they have it. They just have a normal cold or it feels like they have a normal cold or flu. It's no big deal. They get better.

They don't even realize they had it. So I tend to think it's probably correct. I think it's actually less than 2% dead. 2% dead would be actually a very high number.

A 2% death rate is actually quite high, but I doubt it's that high. I think it's much, much, much, much lower than that. But all these governments are lying and all the media is lying, so it's really hard to know what is really happening. All I know is that the official story is a lie.

What the truth is, I can't say. Yeah, I mean, it says Japan is more prepared in case of earthquake than many countries. Definitely. And the population, not only the government.

Yes, people here are all kind of trained to be prepared. They all know that an earthquake can hit. So most people, they're much more prepared for disasters. That's correct.

So nobody's panicking here about the coronavirus. They're just wearing masks. A lot of them. Okay, let's see. Yeah, here's a good, now see, this is something I think is great.

Farhad says, here in Iran, schools are closed. Yes! In Japan, too. Teachers looking for online tools for teaching. Please explain about software using for this show, other equipment needed for this purpose.

See, this is one of the great things. This might help to break the schools. I hope it damages the schools. Maybe students will realize. Maybe parents will realize.

We don't need these schools, right? We can just learn at home. I think it's great. It might help online education. I don't know. For technology, this software, it's just YouTube Live.

You can just stream on YouTube. I mean, that's the easiest. I am using some software, but you don't have to use it. You can just use the software on... Because the software depends on what kind of computer you have.

So I'm not going to give you specific software advice because it depends if you have, you know, if you're Apple or Windows or whatever. But it doesn't matter. You can just do it straight from YouTube, inside of YouTube. You can just stream.

You can do it on YouTube. You can stream on Facebook and do your classes on Facebook streaming live. You could do it on, I don't know, you could create a WhatsApp group and stream your class on WhatsApp. Any social media that does video, or you don't even have to stream.

If you don't want to do live, you could just record it. It's on a camera. and then upload it to a website or YouTube or, you know, BitChute, any of these video channels. So, yeah, it's really simple, actually.

It doesn't require any kind of great technology. Yeah, like Priscilla Candido says, it's important to be prepared, as you said, but no need to be afraid. H1N1 didn't happen after all the panic. It's also a very dangerous disease.

Indeed, don't panic. Don't panic. Don't fear. Just be prepared. Okay. Yeah, I tend to think Vladimir Medvedev is also right. They don't want us to notice other problems.

It's all manipulation. I definitely think that's what's going on. I think this is a distraction. I think it's a few things. Number one, I think they're trying to collapse the global economy.

I think they're trying to bring down the economy. for evil reasons. I don't know why. We'll see what they try to do. After the economy drops, what will they try to do?

But that's one thing I think they're trying to do, and then maybe there's other things happening that they're trying to distract from. I don't know. It sucks, but...

Yeah, and see, then there's the other side of it, like Vladislav says. In Russia, official statistics say only seven people have it, but the actual number is thousands. Right, but they've only tested, right? So, how many people have it that have not been tested?

How many people have it and don't realize they have it? In fact, they had it, they thought it was just a normal cold, it's already recovered, and they'll never know that they actually had it.

Right? So, who knows? Could be Thousands, it could be already millions could have gotten it and be over it. It's an unrelated question, but I'll answer it.

What do you think about traveling when you're 16 years old? Yeah, you can do it. Just be careful. Be careful. Be confident. Do your research where you're going and, you know, be careful about safety and crime, that kind of thing.

But I think it'll be great. Good luck to you. Yeah, this sounds like Italians. I live in Italy. Roberto says, I'm a chef. Schools are closed, but people are eating out in restaurants altogether.

And they're traveling. So you can see, I think, you know, most people are not panicking. I think somehow people know. Okay. Yeah, like, here's another example.

Varasov says, when I was in the 10th grade, we didn't go to school for a month because of frost, negative 30 degrees Celsius. Yikes. Negative 30. It was very nice, I remember.

Then it was difficult to get used to school again. Yeah, I know. Like, I'm sure all the kids are celebrating this corona thing because, wow, how lucky they are to get school canceled.

I would have loved it when I was a kid if they canceled school for a month. Wow, that would be great. So, lucky kids. The kids are lucky. The kids should have a big party.

Thank you, coronavirus. Yeah, like Alamin Ali said, this is the case. I heard a lot of different interpretations about the coronavirus. Now I'm a bit confused about the virus as one media explains it one way and another a completely different way.

This is how you know it's a lie, right? Because they're lying, they're lying, they're lying. And there's, it's all, you know, they're lying, they're exaggerating, they're doing it for political reasons. Some groups are making it sound horrible, like we're all going to die.

Everyone's going to die! And then other groups, oh, nothing's wrong, don't worry about it. So it's, you know, there's something, something strange is going on with this. It's not just a normal, you know, it's not just some kind of disease.

I don't, I don't trust the media. I know they're lying. That's all I know. Now, what's really happening, I don't know. Right? It's pretty impossible to really know what's happening with it at the moment.

Right? Just know they're lying. So just be prepared, okay? Basic preparation is what you have to do. It's all you can do anyway. You know, it's the same like an earthquake.

You can, you know, there's no need to just be terrified all the time that an earthquake might happen. Or a giant fire. Like in California, they have fires that come and they burn up whole huge areas. Even whole towns get burned up by fires.

Forest fires and other fires. Tsunami, right? I lived in Thailand during the huge tsunami. The Asian tsunami. So, I mean, no one expected that, right?

Yeah, so these things happen. And again, like, you know, economic disasters. All kinds of things are possible. So just be prepared. Have a basic preparation and a basic plan.

And you're going to be all right. Just, you don't have to, don't panic, don't fear. Yeah, I think Elena is correct. If we turn off the TV, don't look at Facebook, I'm sure the coronavirus will disappear.

It'll disappear from your mind. Right? I mean, do you know anybody who has it? Do you know anyone who's died from it? If not, then just relax. Okay, relax.

Just be prepared. That's all. No need to panic. Yeah, Noel says the media is more dangerous than the coronavirus. I agree. I agree. Hmm. Let's see. Priscilla recommending a book.

Have you read the book called White Noise by Don DeLeo? It's an amazing book. It talks about the bad power of media. It's great. I'll check it out. I have not read it, but it sounds very good.

Thank you. Yeah, see, like hot, he says, it's another possibility. I think coronavirus doesn't like hot weather. That's what Trump said. And he might have some information about that.

And this is flu, the flu in general. Is it hot weather? See, this is one theory, is the heat. But my theory is it's actually vitamin D. Because what happens when it gets hot?

People go outdoors. We get vitamin D from the sun, right? The sun on your skin. Your body creates vitamin D, which increases in your body. It makes your immune system strong.

So in the winter, people don't go outside as much, and they're covered in clothes. So vitamin D levels drop. Your immune system drops. That's why the flu every year.

They call it flu season. It's always the winter. So... You can just go, you know, if it's warm enough, go outside and get sun every day. Get that vitamin D up.

And if it's not warm enough, then just buy some vitamin D and K2 and take them together. Keep the vitamin D levels in your body high. Very good against viruses.

Oh, my birthday, Elena. Yeah, my birthday's coming up, March 23rd, and I'll be 52. Okay, a couple more, and then I'm going to go. Yeah, I only have time for a couple more.

I have to go take care of babies, as always. Hey, there's... Carol says, living in the countryside can be a big advantage in such times. You can grow your food.

You can even produce your own electricity. Some people are completely independent from the rest of the world. Indeed, I agree. The more you're out in the country, it does give you that.

It's for all different kinds of disasters and things, right? Exactly. You can grow your own food. You could get solar panels if you wanted to or have a generator.

This is called homesteading. A lot of people do it in America, where they completely leave the modern economy, more or less. They just grow their own food. They kind of make everything themselves in their own home, kind of living like people did 100 years ago.

And they're very independent and self-reliant. That's great. Good for them. Very good. How do we survive if you decide to stop effortless English? Well, I won't.

As long as I'm alive, we'll keep going. Now, Vladislav, your dad will turn 54. Nice. So we're very similar in age. All right, guys. I'm going to go. So again, the basic message.

Be prepared. Just be prepared in general. It's a good life thing to do. Just always be prepared. So then when all these things in the media try to scare you, maybe, you know, different disasters, different situations, you know, every four years there's a new virus, Ebola and SARS, and now it's the coronavirus.

And, you know, they're always in the news, always it's disasters, disasters, disasters all the time. So just be prepared. And do some research. I gave you some basic ideas, but you can get on video like YouTube or BitChute.

There are some great channels of people who are focused on outdoor survival and urban city survival. There are some great books. I mentioned Cody Lundin. His books are both very good.

There's a ton of information. I mean, there are people who are really serious about this. There are people who prepare. They have like one year they can survive with nothing.

They have one year of supply in their home. And as Carol said, there are people actually who can survive their whole life without the grocery store, without power, without anything. They're completely self-sufficient, we say. So anyway, the point is that a lot of these people, they have YouTube channels and podcasts and books.

So you can learn. I mean, you can go deep in this if you want to and read very deeply. Or the reason I recommend Cody Lundin's books, they're just for kind of everybody like you and me, just giving you the basic information. How do you survive?

The first thing is be prepared in the city, in your home. How do you survive for three months? If there's a disaster, if there's a quarantine, right? If they won't let you travel, if the grocery stores are empty for three months, how do you survive in your home?

And then if you get into it, if you do traveling, if you go hiking and camping, if you drive out in the wilderness sometimes, well, then you can also learn about wilderness survival. Like what happens if you get lost in the mountains?

Can you survive? Yes. How long could you live if you were lost in the mountains or in the desert or anywhere out in the wilderness? Could you live? How long could you survive until someone found you or you could get back to civilization?

So that's a different kind of survival. It's more difficult, but you can learn about that. It's very useful, too. I know a little bit about that because I used to do a lot of camping, but lots of books about that, too.

So anyway... Just read. Learn about it. See this as an opportunity to learn about health and taking care of your own health. Don't depend on doctors in the hospital.

See this as an opportunity to learn a little more about disaster preparation and maybe survival and to be prepared. And then do not fear. Do not fear. Do not fear.

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