The “Bug-Out Bag” is one of the supidest obsessions in recent memory because it presumes some breakdown in essential services so severe that you aren’t safe unless you flee to somewhere else yet there mysteriously is some information service still in operation through which you can deterime where this magical safe haven is.
Unless you live in a coastal region prone to hurricanes, someplace with a credible risk of wildfires, or in a floodplain (et al), the whole idea of the bug-out bag is pure machismo fantasy.
The toilet paper shortage during the Cononapanic proves Americans are a bunch of panicky wusses. If there were a real large-scale emergency, by the time word reaches you, the gas stations would all be dry (meaning what was in your tank that morning is all that you’re gonna get) and there would be traffic jams on every road to anywhere. Followed by aggression-fueled collisions and random gunplay.
When what you should have been preared to do was shelter in place, with your full prepper’s pantry and water supply, and your ready rack full of AR-15s.
But if you insist on bugging out, please let me know so I can ransack your home after you leave to further fortify mine.
In 2020, in Covid, I had a “ready rack” with toilet paper and paper towels enough to last me into July. Because Costco and a largish house with lots of storage.
By that time, the supply chain had started to adjust to the greater need for residential TP, and the lesser need for commercial (office building toilet, restaurant toilet, school/institutional toilet) TP. So I could buy to replace.
I have moved. I still have lots of storage. I continue to choose to use some of it for appropriate shelter in place goods and gear.
You need to learn more from the prepper threads, your thinking is shallow.