People should always be prepared for disasters.
It’s just common sense.
Common sense is in much shorter supply than surgical masks. It is on the verge of extinction.
My progressive SIL thinks we are kooks for having supplies that would enable us to live for 3 weeks (we are prepared for more than that but keep our own counsel) without leaving the house. She buys all of their food 1 week at a time. If they don't go to the grocery store on Sunday, they have nothing to eat on Monday.
Seriously.
People in hurricane, fire, blizzard, earthquake, and tornado areas do this all the time.
People need to look at it as having a pantry. Something people in the 30s and 40s had as a matter of fact. Only the 50s suburban living paradigm made it “weird”.
Sadly when they go online they typically see two types.
Preppers too often like to “show off” online because they are often female and it is treated as a “lifestyle” to fish for “likes”.
Survivalists are far too many times creepy loons and wannabe army rangers. Both have a haughty self-righteousness to them, and frankly turns people off because they are fatalistic nihilists. Too intense.
As a result, people feel like douchebags even trying, and they just dont bother.
Yes you are right but not are only masks in short supply, so is common sense in the new America
People in Wuhan go out every two days for food because that all the supply they have