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Joseph Pred

Founder, Mutual Aid Risk & Safety

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As an Emergency and Risk Manager with over twenty years experience, you could say I’m a disaster geek. That’s because for me each phase of the disaster planning cycle is very important, be it preparing, mitigating, responding, or recovery. While everyone can connect with the exciting aspects of responding to an emergency of the sirens blaring, running bravely into the danger zone variety, few realize that what makes such heroics possible starts with the parts that might actually seem as quite boring. Planning, checklists, training and logistics are all invisible when large incidents happen and you see people coming to the rescue, but that’s honestly what gets you to the finish line. Without this essential planning, your chances of making it even past the starting line are slim. While nothing can truly stop the devastation of a pandemic, what you do in advance can make the inevitable recovery period much easier for you and your family. After all, this is going to be stressful enough as it is without also having to buy supplies, figure out

all the details, and learn how to keep yourself safe in the middle of a pandemic.

When first presented with the idea of collaborating with Tim I didn’t hesitate and instantly said I was on board with co-authoring this book with him. From my Emergency and Risk Management experience you might wonder how an expert in primitive technology and outdoorsurvival swould mesh with my first responder perspective. But actually, Tim’s knowledge and experience is the perfect counterbalance. While I’ve seen plenty of emergency preparedness books written either by a survival pro or an emergency responder, each has their own unique angle on how to survive disasters, and never had I seen one that combined both perspectives into one volume. Based on Tim’s previous writing I knew we would bring a point of view to this

book that would complement each other’s strengths.

It wasn’t until the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic that I realizedthe lack of disaster preparedness books specifically focused on infectious disease. While most disasters are regional in scale, pandemics are global and include an avalanche of information

from the media and the internet. It’s easy to get overwhelmed.

Reading this handbook will give you the skills to plan and the

confidence to be resilient enough to survive future pandemics.