[Old Sarge]

Those who don’t believe still prepare. But our numbers are waning.

Not so much that our numbers are waning, but the ranks of the zombies are exponentially growing...

[Kartographer]

I have posted this many times:

You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become their ‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.

I guess for some it is easier for them to be a 'serf' rather than the doing the work to stay a Freeman.