When The US Hospitals Won’t Be Able To Cope With Coronavirus: How To Set Up A Home Quarantine Room

In major cities like Beijing and Shanghai, many people have to stand in line in the wee hours of the morning to secure appointments with doctors. When they do get an appointment, patients get only a couple of minutes with a doctor. The Chinese government is relying on a medical system that is overburdened and overwhelmed even in normal times. Chinese people are fleeing the country despite the lockdown measures that have been taken.

Eleven Italian towns were on lockdown due to coronavirus on Sunday night as three deaths (and one more this morning) were attributed to the disease following a dramatic surge in cases. The virus is spreading all around the world and there are no signs of a cure yet.

When the H1N1 flu began spreading a decade ago, U.S. hospitals were flooded with patients. The pandemic, which was declared over in 2010, left nearly 275,000 hospitalized, as health officials fretted whether they would have enough beds, enough medical supplies, or enough protective gear. With all that in mind, you can see the importance of having a quarantine room at home.

How to create a quarantine room at home.
Preparing for a pandemic includes the topic of quarantine to
help you manage contagion, particularly if you don’t have a
a medical diagnosis of illness but you want to protect others. Your
survival may depend on your prepping knowledge and survival
skills on how to set up a home quarantine:

• If a pandemic situation approaches your community, then
  your survival will depend on whether you have the foresight
  to restrict movement people who seem healthy, but who
  may have been exposed to a communicable disease
  elsewhere.
  

• Moreover, during a pandemic, you may be required to set up
  a quarantine room or tent to isolate the sick and care for
  them under a mandatory home quarantine imposed by the U.
  S. Military or government entity.
  

There’s much to know about setting up a home quarantine and
what to do to prepare. Below is everything you need to know on
how to construct an isolation room to help you manage contagion
like Avian flu, Coronavirus, Ebola, SARS, Swine flu or another
pandemic…

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How to set up a Quarantine Room
Learn how to isolate individuals and how to use personal
protective equipment properly. Get started by getting your
quarantine supplies in order.

Here are the steps to setting up your quarantine:

Step one: pick a room or other location.
In setting up a quarantine room, your primary goal is in isolating
individuals who have a contagious disease from people who are
not sick — though technically a quarantine separates people who
were exposed to someone who is sick and it restricts their
the movement to see if they also become sick. In terms of prepping,
the main purpose of setting up a quarantine, or sick ward, is to
prevent deadly germs, parasites, diseases or plagues from
infecting and killing the rest of your group. Keeping people in
isolation can save lives.

Get started on your project by designating a location for your
quarantine area, so that you DO NOT share any household items
with the people you put into isolation. Your room should have
everything needed to live for a specified time.

The location of your quarantine room or camp is important.
Ideally, a slightly off-premise cabin or Recreational Vehicle is an
the ideal solution for quarantine, as is a garage. If the quarantine
the area is a room is in your home, make sure to have fast access
from the entryway to the room as with a back door as you risk
exposure to your family or group the moment a quarantined
person enters your home.

Designate an area for quarantine:

• Room: Pick a room with easy access from a point of entry
  that does not have heavy traffic from others in your
  household. Within the room, you’ll use plastic drop cloths at
  the entrance to help provide a barrier between the individual
  in quarantine and other members of your family or group.

• Garage: A garage might get cold at night, but you can make
  accommodations for comfort such as using a space heater.

• Recreational vehicle: An R.V., camper, tent trailer or van is
  an ideal place to keep the contagion from getting into your home.

Tent: Setting up a makeshift tent inside your home is
another excellent place to help quarantine individuals to
minimize contagion if you have no other options.

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Get the necessary materials to contain the room:

• Drop cloths, duct tape: No matter where you set up your
  quarantine, you’ll want to get plastic drop cloths to help you
  limit the contagion. You’ll need enough drop cloth to cover
  the access to the room in curtain layers. Hang two layers at
  the entrance. One to enter the room, and then hang another
  curtain barrier with three feet of space between trap
  contagion. You may also like to cover the windows to keep
  the contagion from spreading or use a containment zipper at
  the entrance of your quarantine room. You’ll need basic
  supplies to set up your room within a quarantine room using
  drop cloths and securing them in place with duct tape.
  Remember duct tape has infinite survival uses!
  

• Basic contagion supplies: Supplies to help you limit the
  contagion within your quarantine room include:
  

• Antiviral tissues. Antiviral tissues help limit the
  contagion with a moisture-activated layer that kills
  99.9% of Cold & Flu Viruses. Having Kleenex on hand is
  a comfort, but having antiviral facial tissues is mostly
  important for reducing exposure to others.
  

• Adult diapers. With illness comes diarrheal concerns.
  Adult diapers can help prevent larger containment
  problems. Buying adult diapers online is easy and
  private. You can also buy women’s Discreet underwear
  for postpartum and incontinence.
  

• Biohazard bags. No quarantine room would be complete
  with a supply of biohazard bags. Remember, biohazard
  bags are not just garbage bags — they are thicker and
  more resistant to leakage. They’re also marked to
  identify the biohazards to warn others.
  

• Emesis bags to contain the vomit properly. In a pinch,
  you can use ziplock bags and double bag the contagion.
  With a wide mouth receptacle, the bag also can seal
  immediately following use.  
  

• NOTE: Emesis bags are also useful for cancer patients.
  Additionally, learn how to clean up vomit. A zip-lock bag is a
  poor man’s emesis bag, but you may find it a mess.
  

• Quarantine sign. Do you need a professional quarantine
  sign? No, but if you have a professional quarantine sign it
  punctuates the severity of the situation and could be helpful
  even if you don’t have any illness to deter others from
  coming your way.
  

Step two: Gather Personal Protective Equipment.
The topic of setting up a quarantine room is something rarely
discussed in prepper forums, though it did come up in some
prepper circles during the Ebola scare of 2014. Now we’re seeing
more of PPE, like the chemical coverall pictured right, because of
the emergence of the Coronavirus.

Personal Protective Equipment is a must. Don’t wait for the last
minute when the local stores won’t have any Nitrile gloves or N95
respirators available. Plan now by ordering online what you can.

Imagine you’re at home with someone who has the virus. You’re
quarantined with your loved one and you could get it too. You
need Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including:

• Chemical hazmat suits. Select a chemical suit that
  protects the entire body from contagion splashes and
  droplets. It will have a hood and provide a barrier from
  liquids.

• Disposable bouffant caps, pictured immediate right,
  wear these caps under hazmat suits.

• N95 respirators (disposable, one-time use only), these
  are the most important item for virus protection. N95,
  N99 or N100 masks are imperative for a pandemic
  the situation and they will always be in short supply during
  a pandemic.

• Goggles to cover the eyes entirely will prevent
  contagion from entering through droplets to the eyes.

• Nitrile gloves (Ebola requires two sets of gloves).

Step three: Set up a sanitation station.
Basic supplies for setting up a quarantine room need not be
expensive, but there are a few necessary items to have for
sanitation purposes. Keep your hands and home clean and
contagion free. Be on high alert in your bathrooms and kitchen
and follow these protocols.

For a quarantine, you’ll need to have a variety of sanitizing
agents on hand.

• Hand sanitizers. Select hand sanitizers that are alcohol-based. Gel-based hand sanitizers are not effective unless
  they contain certain essential oils. Germ-X hand sanitizers
  are alcohol-based.
  

• Employ the use of the best disinfectants. Disinfectants will
  help you get ready for the cold and flu season and will help
  you prepare for whatever outbreak or pandemic comes your
  way. The caveat is that you have to use disinfectants
  properly and know that all disinfectants are not created
  equally.

• Bleach is good to have on hand but last just six
  months.

• CaviCide pictured immediate right is a convenient,
  ready-to-use, intermediate-level surface disinfectant
  that is effective against TB, HBV, HCV, viruses
  (hydrophilic and lipophilic), bacteria (including MRSA
  and VRE) and fungi. It is safe for all areas of the facility
  including NICU, operating rooms, isolation rooms,
  patient care areas and laboratories. When used as
  directed, it will also effectively clean and
  decontaminate critical and semi-critical instrumentation.
  CaviCide is safe for use on non-porous surfaces. It is
  perfect for cleaning and decontamination of
  environmental and medical device surfaces. See also
  CaviCide disinfectant wipes.
  

• Food surfaces. Did you know your kitchen sink is dirtier than
  your toilet? For your home foodservice and any food contact
  surfaces, try Steramine Quaternizing tablets.
  

• Steramine tablets. One bottle of Steramine is enough to
  make 150 gallons of sanitizer. Commercial in strength
  Steramine also makes an economical household
  sanitizer that’s ideal also food contact surfaces. Most
  preppers aren’t aware of these odor-free, non-corrosive
  tablets. They do not irritate the skin and you can apply
  with a clean cloth or sponge. You can spray them on
  food processing equipment, sinks, countertops,
  cabinets, refrigerators, stovetops, cutting boards, and
  all other non-porous articles and surfaces. This
  economical sanitizing solution mixes with water and is
  a trusted brand in restaurants.
  

• Get extra Nitrile gloves for cleaning. Clean household
  surfaces daily, using disposable Nitrile gloves to minimize
  the spread of germs. Waste that has been in contact with
  the isolated person should be put in a plastic rubbish bag
  and tied – then tied up in a second bag.
  

Wash station. Set up a washbasin with liquid soap and
water. Make sure you have trash bags, a portable toilet with
disposable bags, and toilet paper; and, of course, bleach.  

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Step four: Get an off-grid toilet.
Ensure your quarantine area has a toilet. Infected patients should
have a separate bathroom and toilet, and this can be as simple
as a camping toilet. The sick can’t do their business where
everyone else does or they will spread the contagion and you can
create a biohazard toilet or buy one. In addition to the sanitation
supplies listed above, you need to set up a commode.

Start with a five-gallon bucket for all your supplies. You can even
make an emergency toilet from a five-gallon bucket as a do-it-
yourself project.

• prepper toilet can be your bucket
  
• toilet paper
  
• hand sanitizer
  
• soap
  
• towelette wipes
  
• kitty litter to help contain the sewage
  

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Step five: Sanitize the patient.
An outdoor off-grid shower can help you keep clean, especially
when there’s a quarantine necessary for the bird flu.

• Clean the person in quarantine. Before bringing possibly
  infected individuals to your home or camp, the quarantined
  person must be scrubbed and rinsed. An ordinary garden
  hose will do the trick (along with a scrub brush and
  sanitizing solution, such as GoJo, pictured right). Be sure the
  quarantined person scrubs under fingernails and carefully
  bathes.
  

Step six: take care of laundry requirements.
Doing the laundry is an issue during a pandemic event. Don’t
necessarily assume that you’ll have time to do the laundry or
even want to, but have a plan in place for the following:

• Cleaning the laundry: You don’t want to mix laundry of the
  sick person with everyone else’s laundry. Have a simple
  method to wash the most basic items if you are able to
  salvage them. In the case of Ebola, for example, you will not
  bother sanitizing the laundry, but instead, you’ll need to
  dispose of the contagion as a biohazard, sometimes you may
  just have to burn the contagion.

• Burning the laundry? Your quarantine plan eventually will
  require a place to burn contaminated laundry. Anyone who
  ever read the Velveteen Rabbit as a child will remember that
  the little boy’s family burned his prized velveteen rabbit
  after he got deadly sick. It’s certainly one way to kill the
  contagion. We’ll watch to see what happens in China
  regarding Wuhan. Burning is not out of the question.
  

• Have a supply of adult diapers and extra underwear.
  Extra clothes are also important for people who may have
  soiled their clothing during the course of their stay in
  quarantine.
  

• Quarantine clothing of new arrivals in your home. As
  quarantined guests enter your facility, you must confiscate
  their possessions and place them in bio-safe bags for
  destruction or storage. The option of storage will be a
  difficult decision as the materials must be stowed away from
  the others until the germs have died.
  

Step seven. Stock a mini kitchen.
Get your freezer well-stocked with foods your family normally
eats, along with an extra supply of soups, and canned goods like
canned tuna, canned chicken.

Stock the preppers pantry with a variety of freeze-dried foods.
You’ll need a minimum of a month of food for each patient(s).

You’ll find a variety of freeze-dried emergency foods:

• Augason Farms freeze-dried foods
  
• Mountain House Emergency foods
  
• Wise Foods

Other good foods to consider stockpiling include:

• Food bars
  
• MREs (meals ready to eat)
  
• Electrolyte drinks

Step eight: Ensure you have all other supplies.
Be sure you’re ready.

• Medicines: Diarrheal medication and fever reducers, are of
  top importance for a quarantine room. See the complete list
  of prepper medicines to consider, including elderberry syrup
  and Oscillococcinum.
  

• Bloodborne Pathogen Bodily Spill Kit. Specifically designed
  to protect the user during biohazard clean-up, the
  Bloodborne Pathogen Bodily Spill Kit, pictured below is a 24-
  piece kit that includes a complete head-to-toe defense
  package for fluid pick-up necessities and to protect against
  bio-hazardous contaminants. This kit meets with federal
  OSHA recommendations and contains an ample supply of
  garment disposal and biohazard bags. Products are
  contained in a sturdy, reusable plastic case that can be
  easily carried or mounted on a wall.
  

• Biohazard bags. A biohazard bag provides a high-density
  isolation liner to provide maximum film strength for tough
  applications. They also feature star seal bottoms which
  allow equal weight distribution and leak resistance.
  Additionally, bags are red to indicate the use of infectious
  waste or hazardous waste to warn others. Don’t skimp and
  use ordinary trash bags.
  

Learning about Quarantines from the past:

• Ships from foreign lands. In the not so distant past, around
  the seventeenth century, ships required isolation for “forty
  days and forty nights” after the spread of the black plague. If
  after the allotted time, no one died or showed signs of
  disease, the crew was permitted to set foot on land.
  

• Typhoid Mary: Even with quarantine, a person can be
  asymptomatic and yet infect others. This was the case with
  Typhoid Mary, an immigrant named Mary Mallon from
  Cookstown Ireland who came to New York in 1900 and
  allegedly spread Typhoid Fever without herself being
  affected. Hired as a domestic cook (and later a laundress),
  she may have infected as many as 49 people, with three
  deaths resulting. She spent nearly three decades in isolation
  enforced by public health authorities at the time.
  

Learning about Quarantine from television and movies:

• Doomsday Preppers: Setting up a quarantine room or facility
  is rarely discussed on other prepper sites and forums. One
  episode of Doomsday Preppers featured a woman concerned
  about the Bird Flu and she illustrated her plans of quarantine
  using her son as an example.  In another episode of
  Doomsday preppers on pandemic prepping, a woman
  ensures hundreds in her area has the proper information and
  tools regarding pandemics.
  

• The Colony: In the movie, The Colony, illness was not
  tolerated. Anyone showing signs would face immediate
  quarantine and without improvement would have two
  options: walk into the blizzard or be shot. The option of
  “walk” was eventually removed as the condemned would
  eventually wander back to the colony and risk infecting
  others.

• Contagion: “No one is immune to fear:” such as a line in
  advertising for the movie Contagion, starring Matt Damon,
  Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, and Kate Winslet. The movie
  follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus.
  

Step ten: post your signage.
Have professional signage well before a collapse. A foreboding
sign, like the orange one posted top right, will tell everyone to
keep out. It could also come in handy in other scenarios where no
one is actually ill. Why would looters risk a deadly infection?
They will keep out of your fake quarantine zone when you have a
professional sign.

You can make your own quarantine sign, but it looks like the CDC
or a team of health professionals have visited your hone if you
post a real sign. Have fun with your prepping! Use this sign as
entertainment for your Halloween trick or treaters!

Step three: gather other necessary supplies.

• Wool blanket. Wool blankets are an excellent survival tool.
  If you’re setting up a tent as a quarantine room, be sure to
  include a w

Questions you may have about a quarantine.
Are you prepared if the quarantined person dies or otherwise
excretes fluids? There are lots to consider from having a biohazard kit
on hand to remove fluids and minimize possible exposure to others
as well as biohazard bags, emesis bags, and disinfectants. Get
ready by reading and asking questions.

How long should someone remain in quarantine?
In setting up a quarantine room or camp, survivors wait to see if
the new members become ill before exposing the potential hazard
to the other survivors. The length of time of quarantine depends
on the type of communicable disease.

Why set up a quarantine?
The purpose of setting up a quarantine is to isolate individuals who
have been granted access to a community or a home. After news of
a pandemic, all potential members of a community after a total
the collapse of society should be placed in quarantine to ward off
potential illnesses and to ensure they are not carrying diseases or
parasites that could spread to your group.

Diseases with fleas, rats, mosquitoes or other vectors as carriers:

• Avian Flu
  
• Coronavirus
  
• Dengue
  
• Ebola
  
• Enterovirus
  
• MERS
  
• Measles
  
• Plague
  
• Powassan
  
• Swine Flu  (H1N1)
  
• West Nile Virus
  
• Zika Virus
  

Are hospital quarantines effective?
The answer is surprising. Did you know that nearly half of the initial
infections of Coronavirus at one hospital in Wuhan, China appears to
have been spread within the hospital itself? This spread is called
“nosocomial transmission.” The word “Nosocomial” means “caught it
in the hospital.”

According to the medical journal JAMA, the spread of disease
appears to come from the procedure of bronchoscopy. In a
bronchoscopy, the physician inserts a tube into the patient’s lungs.
this apparently has resulted in many more infections than other
methods. It means healthcare workers are among the most
vulnerable to succumbing to the Coronavirus, but it’s complicated.
There are many factors including source, engineering, administrative
and personal controls. Healthcare workers must be diligent about
handwashing and respiratory hygiene, but they are the mercy of all
the other factors such as whether they are part of risky procedures,
cleaning methods and symptom assessment.

Will a quarantine include military intervention?
The U.S. Military is ensuring plans and procedures for “response,
isolation, quarantine, restriction of movement and community-based intervention” for pandemics. Certainly, the U.S. will have
combatant commands ready to assess the potential impact of a disease
like Coronavirus which is approaching pandemic levels. The U.S.
the military is poised to respond. Their goals are for developing proper
measures to contain the disease and to treat those possibly
exposed. This may include martial law.

Happy endings…
Having a preparedness plan in place to include quarantining will be
a valuable asset to your community for survival.

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