...I was addressing natural disasters.
Man made disasters are another thing...they can last a lifetime...and they are the ones that the "preppers" are addressing IMO.
I am too old and too tired and too lazy, I suppose, to prep for what a lot of people anticipate....which is a total breakdown of society.
I will have to admit that I have not been successful in convincing my adult children the urgency of being prepared for chaos and what will happen when hungry, low info people come looking for food....but that is my failure.
I know whatcha mean in convincing youth, of anything actually. Most of us seem to have gone through that stage, although generally not in combination with the events of these times. So that is not a failure. Hopefully they will not need to learn the hard way. Age—I am in later years as well, although we am prepping, and if something doesn’t happen “soon”, I’ll be “operating” a lazyboy rocker instead of a Ghille suit. ;-)