This is creeping destruction of the country. Notice how your life has changed, if it has, in the past seven years. How many freedoms have you lost? How much different do you managed your life now as opposed to then?
Do you have the same freedom of speech as you did seven years ago? Have you changed your buying habits and why if you have? Does your money now buy less than seven years ago? Are you saving more or less money for the future?
Are you content with life or worried about the future? What worries you about the future, if anything? Are you keeping closer tabs on your kids than seven years ago?
In my opinion, we are creeping, bit by bit, to ruination (the action or process of causing so much damage to something that it no longer exists or cannot be repaired.
Notice I didn't mention prepping - darn, I just did. Prepare as much as you can for living independently of public utilities and what's in the grocery store - just in case there is a major emergency. It is at this time of year I would make sure I was prepared for a hurricane, to do without power for several weeks. No power in the area means no gasoline, closed stores including drug stores, and possible loss of water in the faucet.
See my post 52. I think we basically agree on our situation.