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Comment on Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Wow what a cheap and pointless policy.
Notice how it doesn’t actually involve the government doing anything other than setting up the website and then tells you that it’s your responsibility.
They’re supposed to run the administration of the country, they’re the ones that are supposed to supply the emergency supplies when needed, what’s the pointing government if they don’t do that.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
PeteBauxigeg@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I don’t really see how it’s pointless? The average person probably underestimated the risk of the UK being dragged into a conflict in this decade or the next and thus also the risk they’d need to prepare for that, so it’s probably helpful to bring how much people think they need to prep in line with how much they should prep, could save some lives.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
If the UK gets dragged into a conflict it’s going to last more than 3 days though isn’t it.
loobkoob@kbin.social 1 month ago
I believe the thinking is that three days is (hopefully) enough time for whatever issues to be resolved, or for you to look for other sources of supplies. You're not expected to stockpile enough to live on for months!
PeteBauxigeg@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Well I don’t think that’s a given and I also don’t think that if that was the case it’d then follow that this policy is silly but I see and agree with the general points you’re making
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 month ago
I think that ‘resilience in depth’ is a reasonable idea. The NHS exists, but I still have a first aid kit at home.
In practice, I think it will be difficult fir a household to store 3 days drinking water.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I can store 3 days worth of water but that rather assumes I have only to do it for myself. It for a large firmly would take up more space than most people have access to. You also can’t keep bottled water for very long because the plastic eventually contaminates the water. So your best bet would be to buy a water filter and keep that full and regularly refreshed, but you’re still not going to have enough water for 3 days for four people.
towerful@programming.dev 1 month ago
120 litres (4 people, 10 litres per person per day, 3 days) of water is also 120kg. Pretty unwieldy.
Bathtubs are 160 litres. So, it’s essentially storing an extra bathtub.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 month ago
Indeed. To be honest, I’d probably fall back on the old idea of filling the bath right up if the shit looked like it was about to hit the fan.
FatLegTed@feddit.uk 1 month ago
We have a shower :-(