{"id":105406,"date":"2020-04-15T01:03:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T08:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/expert-disaster-preppers-explain-how-to-ride-out-the-coronavirus-pandemic"},"modified":"2020-04-15T01:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T08:03:10","slug":"expert-disaster-preppers-explain-how-to-ride-out-the-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/expert-disaster-preppers-explain-how-to-ride-out-the-coronavirus-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"Expert Disaster Preppers Explain How to Ride Out the Coronavirus Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/expert-disaster-preppers-explain-how-to-ride-out-the-coronavirus-pandemic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For guidance in this time of uncertainty, we spoke with five expert preppers about what they\u2019re doing to ride out the pandemic, how they\u2019ll be ready for whatever comes next\u2014and how you can be too.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Long lines outside grocery stores. Aisles stripped of canned food, toilet paper, and hand sanitizer. A fast-moving pandemic disease that, as of last week, was infecting more than <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/map.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/map.html\">30,000 people every day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just a month ago, such a situation was unimaginable for most of us. But for disaster preppers, it\u2019s precisely the scenario they\u2019re determined to be ready for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m from a very old Appalachian family. Even before the word \u2018prepper\u2019 was a term, we were always putting back stuff and being ready in case we couldn\u2019t go to the store,\u201d says Samantha Biggers, who hardly fits the stereotype seen in TV shows like <em>Doomsday Preppers<\/em>. Biggers is a tattooed, 36-year-old farmer in North Carolina who brews her own beer and shears her own sheep. That\u2019s a far cry from a wild-eyed paramilitary man living off-grid in a bunker designed to weather an EMP blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For guidance in this time of uncertainty, we spoke with five expert preppers about what they\u2019re doing to ride out the pandemic, how they\u2019ll be ready for whatever comes next\u2014and how you can be too. Long lines outside grocery stores. Aisles stripped of canned food, toilet paper, and hand sanitizer. A fast-moving pandemic disease that, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}