No body wants to admit to themselves what is happening, they don’t want to talk about it till it is too late.
If the Dentist is around I can try to get him and recruit him into my camp early on....otherwise the guy isn’t going to stay there because the initial thinking of people who don’t know how to live in the country will be to flee to the city. Wrong headed as I know it would be from the descriptions and stories of my grand parents during the Great Depression.
I replied before reading that you had a good size group. With a group that size, you could have each person learn some skill to deal with emergency situations, like dental and medical.