Since the 27th of January, Sydney woman Dianne Regan has been slowly stockpiling supplies from her local supermarket.
She lives in a household of seven people, including her 23-year-old daughter who is a severe asthmatic. Dianne also lives with her mum, 83, who suffers from Alzheimer’s Dementia.
After hearing about the millions of people in lockdown in Wuhan, China, due to coronavirus, Dianne decided she would take precautionary measures in case the epidemic arrives on our shores.
The 50-year-old insists she is not a ‘doomsday prepper’. But she does have enough supplies to last her entire household for six weeks.
“I started out first with medication… my mum is on 10 tablets a day. So the first thing I did was make sure I got enough of that,” she tells Mamamia.
“Then I got cleaning stuff, some gloves, disinfectants, all the things we would need in our house.
“I just keep adding things,” Dianne admits, before adding she thought she was “crazy” herself at first.
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Don't let anyone shame you into not being prepared for possible isolation of communities. Unlike China which is an authoritarian regime that enacted military tactics to combat the virus, we will be relying on "self-isolation" and the good nature of people to not infect others. Forgive me if I don't trust people with my health when most people only care about themselves. If I get sick I plan to stay at home and not go supermarket shopping. Apart from fresh fruit and veg I always have enough food for a month.
Well, I caught it. I'm bleeding through my eye-balls, skin hot enough to cook an egg and coughing like a 9 year coal miner from a Dickens story.
But at least I have my triple ply, super absorbent, organically sourced toilet paper to ease me through these tough times. It was a close call man - I almost had to use the emergency reserve stash of two ply