> As Hacker News is usually full of people that can provide good advice:

Be careful. Comment sections tend to attract overconfident armchair experts rather than professional advice. This is a forum where technology people congregate, not virologists.

You may get repeated advice about general prepper techniques, but in my experience the mainstream prepper types can be over focused on unlikely doomsday scenarios instead of more realistic extended economy-slowing scenarios.

> What should I personally do to prepare?

I suggest reading the linked article. This is exactly what the article is about.