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To: OldWarBaby; ransomnote; Steven W.; greeneyes; TEXOKIE; txhurl; saywhatagain; Swordmaker; ptsal; ...
90 Days of Prep I forgot to discuss a YUGE reason to have 90 days worth of food on hand. It's not just for natural disasters or supply chain shutdown. It's for economic reasons. If we reach a point where it takes a wheelbarrow of cash to buy a loaf of bread, you'll be forced to deplete your life savings just to buy food. But not if you have a big stockpile of food on hand. I have long believed that we won't turn the corner with the Q plan until the economy crashes. The patriots may be able to prevent DS-caused weather disasters, but they will not IMO prevent an economic crash. I believe (again, JMO) that a crash is part of the Q plan. A painful but necessary part. The patriots are doing all they can to help us prepare, to help us minimize the pain. But we need to do our part by stocking up on food. We're already (IMO) seeing the early stages of this. When Trump was President, eggs were $1/doz. Now they are $5. A can of soup was $1. Now it's $3 ($2.50 on sale). Not everything has doubled or gone up this drastically, but everything I can think of is AT LEAST 25% higher than it was just 3 years ago. EVERYTHING. At least everything that I buy. How much more of this level of inflation can people tolerate? Some people can cut back on gasoline when the price goes up, but no one can cut back on food. Some people buy 90 day survival packages sold by various prepper companies. I have no opinion on which of those are good. They are probably all a good hedge. But they can be expensive. Not everyone can afford that. My advice is to stock up on food whenever you see a sale on non-perishables. Think about what you could survive on if you had to. Canned foods especially. (I have a full freezer, but that won't help me if there is no electricity.) Dried foods, pasta, rice. Powdered milk. Don't forget things like soap, shampoo, laundry detergent, toothpaste, etc. And especially don't forget about meds. That might be the hardest for a lot of people. I know people who take various meds daily and they tell me their insurance won't let them refill the prescription until they are down to a one week supply. Then they can only get 30 days worth. If I'm right and we end up needing to live off of our stockpiled food, you'll thank me. (Actually you won't because you'll have forgotten. Haha. You'll be congratulating yourself on your foresight. Yay!) If I'm wrong, the worst outcome will be that you have a stockpile of food built up which you can eat at some point anyway. So when is this all going to hit the fan? IDK. I've been prepping since the early days of Q. It's been something that I've just incorporated into my lifestyle so much that I forgot to mention it when discussing prep. Honestly, I'm getting tired of tripping over those extra cans of stuff I have stockpiled. I really want this to all be over so I can cut back a little. But for now, I don't know how big a supply I'll need or how many friends and neighbors I might have to help out. For now, I'm waiting and praying. God bless you all. WWG1WGA NCSWIC
1,977 posted on 11/20/2023 4:32:59 AM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: generally; ransomnote; bitt; Jane Long

ABOUT THAT CCP BIOLAB IN CALIFORNIA: The more is revealed about that biolap being run in a “unoccupied” warehouse in Reedley, California, the more startling it becomes that this thing was unknown to the feds. Consider these facts compiled by Leslie Eastman on Legal Insurrection:

The illegal biolab was run by a PRC citizen who is a wanted fugitive from Canada with a $330 million Canadian dollar judgment against him for stealing American intellectual property.
This PRC citizen was a top official at a PRC-state-controlled company and had links to military-civil fusion entities.
The illegal biolab received millions of dollars in unexplained payments from PRC banks while running the illegal biolab.
The illegal biolab contained thousands of samples of labeled, unlabeled, and encoded potential pathogens, including HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and Covid.
The illegal biolab also contained a freezer labeled “Ebola,” which contained unlabeled, sealed silver bags consistent with how the lab stored high risk biological materials. Ebola is a Select Agent with a lethality rate between 25-90%.
The biolab contained nearly a thousand transgenic mice, genetically engineered to mimic the human immune system. Lab workers said that the mice were designed “to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.”
After local officials who discovered the lab sought help from the CDC and others, the CDC refused to test any of the samples.
Consider that this biolab would still be operating had not a local government code enforcer not been curious about a hose sticking out of the warehouse. Which prompts a question: When is somebody at CDC, the FBI and the DOJ going to be fired for all of this?

Via Instapindit, original source is

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/11/fbi-and-cdc-slammed-for-dropping-the-ball-on-illegal-california-biolab-run-by-chinese/


1,981 posted on 11/20/2023 5:27:30 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: generally

This is an ongoing thread that people may be interested in, it’s been on for years and I get pings.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4182898/posts

All Things Prepping, Simple Living, Back to the Basics [Survival Today, an on going thread]
CottonBall


2,003 posted on 11/20/2023 7:52:34 AM PST by little jeremiah (Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming)
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To: ransomnote; Steven W.; greeneyes; TEXOKIE; txhurl; saywhatagain; Swordmaker; ptsal; defconw; ...
Reposting. Sorry for the wall of words in previous post.

90 Days of Prep

I forgot to discuss a YUGE reason to have 90 days worth of food on hand. It's not just for natural disasters or supply chain shutdown. It's for economic reasons.

If we reach a point where it takes a wheelbarrow of cash to buy a loaf of bread, you'll be forced to deplete your life savings just to buy food. But not if you have a big stockpile of food on hand.

I have long believed that we won't turn the corner with the Q plan until the economy crashes. The patriots may be able to prevent DS-caused weather disasters, but they will not IMO prevent an economic crash. I believe (again, JMO) that a crash is part of the Q plan. A painful but necessary part. The patriots are doing all they can to help us prepare, to help us minimize the pain. But we need to do our part by stocking up on food.

We're already (IMO) seeing the early stages of this. When Trump was President, eggs were $1/doz. Now they are $5. A can of soup was $1. Now it's $3 ($2.50 on sale). Not everything has doubled or gone up this drastically, but everything I can think of is AT LEAST 25% higher than it was just 3 years ago. EVERYTHING. At least everything that I buy.

How much more of this level of inflation can people tolerate? Some people can cut back on gasoline when the price goes up, but no one can cut back on food.

Some people buy 90 day survival packages sold by various prepper companies. I have no opinion on which of those are good. They are probably all a good hedge. But they can be expensive. Not everyone can afford that. My advice is to stock up on food whenever you see a sale on non-perishables. Think about what you could survive on if you had to. Canned foods especially. (I have a full freezer, but that won't help me if there is no electricity.) Dried foods, pasta, rice. Powdered milk. Don't forget things like soap, shampoo, laundry detergent, toothpaste, TP, etc.

And especially don't forget about meds. That might be the hardest for a lot of people. I know people who take various meds daily and they tell me their insurance won't let them refill the prescription until they are down to a one week supply. Then they can only get 30 days worth.

If I'm right and we end up needing to live off of our stockpiled food, you'll thank me. (Actually you won't because you'll have forgotten. Haha. You'll be congratulating yourself on your foresight. Yay!)

If I'm wrong, the worst outcome will be that you have a stockpile of food built up which you can eat at some point anyway.

So when is this all going to hit the fan? IDK. I've been prepping since the early days of Q. It's been something that I've just incorporated into my lifestyle so much that I forgot to mention it when discussing prep. Honestly, I'm getting tired of tripping over those extra cans of stuff I have stockpiled. I really want this to all be over so I can cut back a little. But for now, I don't know how big a supply I'll need or how many friends and neighbors I might have to help out.

For now, I'm waiting and praying.

God bless you all.

WWG1WGA

NCSWIC

2,010 posted on 11/20/2023 8:26:40 AM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: generally

Prep stuff: Good job listing the sorts of things one should keep extras of. Here at the farm we’ve formalized that a bit. We keep a clipboard where, as we think of them, we list the things we really, really might need if things got weird. Then, if it’s on that list we buy extras when we see them.

Then the next thing is protecting the stuff. Don’t be bashful about buying Costco bins to keep the varmits and humidity away from all of it. Then keep track of your own use history to help keep the stash in balance.


2,039 posted on 11/20/2023 12:31:32 PM PST by OldWarBaby
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