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This is an excellent topic!
I live with 76 year old immunocompromised significant other and I am 53 years old with a childhood of allergy/asthma. We take pandemic precautionary measures:

MASK:

We chose to wear masks.

We enjoy  staying at home

We avoid maskless people for our own safety and theirs as well.

if we have to seek medical treatment() We call medical institute in advance communicating our preference they wear masks.

I wear mask anyway while outside just to stay sharp and for possible occasional encounter with uneducated maskless(I avoid all encounters with maskless passerby’s I have a no trespassing sign inside a car on the edge of my property and tree stumps strategically placed in yard to discourage people from parking on my property) … I have worn mask outside my door for four and a half years with great health and success in all daily activities and worn mask in strenuously athletic activities as well.

OUTDOOR MASKING WAY OF LIFE: When I am outdoors I never socialize or “play” .. I chose to do something that requires a mask anyway. ThIs deters the maskless in my opinion. (Also, in my opinion I find the freshest air is through the filter of my mask.. people drink water through filters , people protect car engine s with filters .. in today’s sick and polluted environment why not breathe through a filter .. why take chances when you can be in the safe side and simply mask? )

Since  I always I couple masking with being outdoors I do activities which are mask friendly.. for example lawn mowing is great with mask because I don’t breathe in allergens while mowing… my mask is a good thing and I associate it with pleasant activities ..I do things that require masking anyway another example ;  outside the window, We have a big bird feeder on back deck with birds, chipmunks  , squirrels, it’s messy because of all the animals so we might as well mask and wash our hands when we go outside to take care of bird feeder. I figure why should I risk being maskless around a place where all sorts of animals visit and shed, graze upon, scat on etc. ..for fun here's a music video where I sing "I put a s Spell on you" which consists of many creatures at our bird feeder . I wear my mask around all creatures great and small..here's footage of my backyard habitat for animals only:


Masked Man's Wild Life Habitat"I Put A Spell On You" video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Snc22tuIUIseLLW2LEE9GhelSlGM6nNC/view

We order everything in bulk from places online ( like webstaurant) and I bring the shipments in my mask from the front door to my private back door with a wheelbarrow to the back of my house discreetly to unpackaged and clean before being going through back door( often I listen to music or stories through earbuds while cleaning stuff and throwing away packaging material).

This ordering stuff in bulk saves us ton of money and time  and we eat better all home cooked!. I’d have done this long before the pandemic began  had I had known the benefits of simply staying at home and ordering all goods.
For example Just one of the benefits of buying in bulk is that ya wind up eating homade which is the best for ya and the tastier than eating out... here's a video of me singing and of my loved one making a homemade pizza...just pictures of Diana baking Pizza while I sing Buddy Holly's.. I live like a king all because I buy in bulk and wear my mask!:
"Not Fade Away":
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tOyDoQ9lqFSGVhwCaz8z5AZpmqFM7Rwj/view

When you order your food and buy in bulk you can not only avoid the maskless people, therefore avoiding getting sick, you also eat well..it forces you to bake homemade food it's incredible you'll never eat out again
.this masked way of life and buying in bulk will take all the rambling out of you as seen IN THIS VIDEO:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13DuRt6ASaw_r0fgBxHV9i_vBMMj7HEwQ/view

We also have a person deliver local farmers market vegetables to our front door. We pay them by baking fresh bakery goods and leaving them in a cooler for them to pickup off the front porch.

We have worked with Telehealth online medical care with much success .

We have long-distant friends and family ( we share with one another with our very voices via telephone or we share our meaningful written words or thoughts online with one another even sharing our pictures of videos with one another sharing our love of life. I chose to space myself out from maskless family and friends strategically as if we were perfectly planted as of garden … if one plants things too close together those things will suffocate and die in a garden. I plan my garden out and space like plants out far enough from another so they will survive.

It helps to have a partner who is of like mind when it comes to pandemic survival and precautions and protective measures

It is helpful to have good writing skills, and being good on phone and with online correspondence so that you can find and online support system and get things done remotely instead of in person.

It might be helpful for others to remember when adopting any new  difficult lifestyle or set of new skills to simply understand and have faith in  the nature of habit.. once one one gets into the habit of anything it gets easier and is preferable. Habits feel good and once one is in the habit of doing anything it feels natural.

I live a far better life of quality and luxury  now living in this masked way of life because of strategies  aforementioned not to mention I have avoided the social pitfalls such as any airborne diseases  for  four four and a half straight and that’s nothing to sneeze at. I dare say I have adapted to the pandemic and the numerous challenges our time is facing and actually am better off and more healthy now than in pre-pandemic  days . I’m the happiest I have ever been in life thus far.

I hope my masked way of life and stratagems inspire and helps others in their pursuit of happiness as it has helped mine.

We just got a cat from humane society .. a friend who agreed to wear a mask brought the cat to us and we will bake a cake for our masked friend as a reward. We are actually masking for the new cat who is getting used to his new room for 10 days. Ironically or not the new cat is naturally quarantined himself as he is shy and comes out for food and water and night when we aren’t around. This is natural for the cat to self isolate for several days .. lol.. this animal is smart and so we mask for the cat when we enter the cats room for 10 days .. it’s a “purfect” system!

Insofar as masking in public, I too would like to hear how others fit in or what other do to help themselves. I do find it uncomfortable and consider it to be dangerous to be in public especially if people are sick and don’t know it. I personally find it better to simply perfect my own little spot in life rather than venture too far from the nest.

These are hard and trying times for many people right now so please share any  experience and strategies for coping socially while assuming protective or rather defensive health measures.

For exercise:  my significant other and I often dance in the living room in front of the TV set which might have other dancers dancing…  that’s what I am just about to do….
Have a great day!

I’ll be dancing with my loved one now..
Have a great day!
The Masked Man! 

I suppose that there is considerable overlap for what would be considered "traditional survivalism" with this topic in that they both involve a heightened amount of self-reliance above and beyond that of a typical citizen.

** Having adequate food & non-food supplies to survive distribution disruption caused by any number of events is an obvious goal. Every family is different; Every person is different and so even a generalized list of what supplies may be needed may not be entirely effective.

** Having the means to maintain your property through non-motorized means would well be another obvious goal. Having a bicycle (perhaps even a "storage bicycle" or simply a bicycle plus a bicycle trailer) for emergency transportation needs. A snow shovel instead of a snow blower (obviously only useful for colder climates)... And so forth.

** Having a non-Internet means for long-distance communication (HAM radio, perhaps? Meshtastic?) in the event of conventional communication options being unavailable.