Personal Emergency Planning (Coronavirus – COVID-19 Edition) (Updated 3-2020)

What you’ll learn

Learn the basics of Emergency Management from a individual and family perspective
Get checklists for how to prepare for the different types of disasters
Get lists of what you should buy for the 4 different types of emergency kits
Get a collection of resources for how to keep up to date on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and how I’m thinking about it
You should consult your doctor before implementing anything from this course, which is for entertainment purposes only

Requirements

Familiarity with my long term planning system (in Mastering Planning) is recommended but not required
You should consult your doctor before implementing anything from this course, which is for entertainment purposes only

Description

Last year, in 2019, I got a request from a student in to create a course on how to deal with emergencies. This is an important part of long term planning, and I put it on my to do list of courses to create sometime in the future.

Then, in January 2020, I learned about the Coronavisus (now COVID-19) and decided that I should make this course my top priority.

But this course isn’t like my normal courses, where it’s the result of years of accumulated effort.

This course is a rushed-course designed to give you the information I found to be most useful over the last month (2020.02) when I researched the field of Emergency Management and it’s related fields on Crises, Disasters, etc.

I’ve collected the mental models, processes and ideas that I think are most valuable and put them into one place. I’ve also collected my favorite website, books, PDFs and other resources into one place so that you can check these out and do more learning for yourself, and keep up to date as things change.

The focus of this course is primarily on how to think about handling emergencies as an individual and as a leader in a family. I have not included much on COVID-19 itself because a lot of details are still uncertain or unknown, so I think it’s better that I point you to the best places for up to date information and then you can use those to learn about the disease itself.

-Timothy

Who this course is for:

Parents who want to prepare for an emergency
Anybody who wants to know how to think about emergencies
Entrepreneurs and business owners who want to understand how to prepare themselves for an emergency