title: How to Prepare for a Pandemic: and Other Extended Disasters
author: William Stewart
description: William (Will) Stewart obtained his first degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology at Old Dominion University, including energy systems controls and solar engineering. He soon followed this by a degree in Computer Science. His professional accomplishments range from highly complex engineering tasks (i.e., International Space Station robotics, Joint Command and Control systems, Joint Strike Fighter, etc.) to sustainability projects such as residential solar photovoltaic design, passive solar design, and a myriad of small-scale agricultural and horticultural activities. Presently he works at an R&amp;D firm on advanced technology and concept exploration projects, and lives with his wife Ann and two children on a small sheep farm in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
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  FOREWORD
  
  
  
  
  
  Welcome to the fourth – and likely final – installment of Unreported Truths.
  
  
  If I had time, I would write more booklets: about flaws in PCR testing and how
  they have made the pandemic appear worse than it is; about the harm done by
  school closures and the way teachers’ unions have used Covid to hurt children;
  about the murky origins of the Sars-Cov-2 virus.
  
  
  But I don’t have time. I have a book called PANDEMIA to write, and it is due
  all-too-soon. And we seem to be leaving the crisis phase of the pandemic
  behind. The winter spike has come and gone in the United States and almost
  everywhere else. With luck, we will have no big spring or summer spike, and
  even the most panicked among us will begin to resume their lives.
  
  
  I started writing the Unreported Truths booklets last May. I wanted to speak
  out about the unfolding crisis I saw – a crisis created less by the pandemic
  than by our panicked response to it. They are simple and urgent, black and
  