If you may be caring for others who are sick, and have to wear protective gear, you might consider materials to create a "decontamination chamber" and a "clean room" where you can let down your guard a little.

Plastic, stapler and duct tape to create a pair of doors. A place to take off dirty clothes and put on clean ones. A shower or at least a tap and spray hose. I like a couple of trigger spray bottles with a drop of dish soap and a dash of bleach to wash down everything from door handles to rubber gloves and shoes.

Inside the clean room, radio, TV, phone, internet, where you can gather information and contact family without upsetting your charges.

Do not discount the physical and psychological value of such a space. You can't help others swim if you're drowning yourself.

P.S., After I got hit with a norovirus a couple of years ago, the only thing I could look at and keep down, as I rose slowly from the almost-dead, was chicken cup-a-soup. Hydration, salts, and a few light calories -- perfect.