Preppers’ PING!
1) Lights go out
2) Cell phone dead
3) Battery-powered emergency lights dead (exit lights)
4) Car won’t start
Time to abandon normalacy bias...
I’m late to the party...is there room for another on your prepper ping list?
I’m reading Thomas Sowell’s “Economic Facts and Fallacies”. Businesses and factories moving out of the inner cities is blamed for their decline. He brought up how the moving of factories and businesses from the inner cities happened AFTER the 1960s riots, not before. Businesses don’t shut down a thriving factory or business unless you don’t have a choice, economically.
He brings up the point that the societal decline happened BEFORE the riots, allowing the riots to take place. Areas with an intact social fabric didn’t riot. Those that had already frayed fell apart with the riots, forcing the major employers to leave.
Not everywhere will riot. But those that do will become slums as Chicago’s and LA’s inner cities have.
And as Thomas Sowell points out, moving government dependents to the suburbs increases crime and lowers test scores - you can take the family from the ghetto, but that doesn’t take the ghetto out of the family.
Pick a place to live that doesn’t have a frayed social fabric nor prone to accepting a lot of them (Section 8, for example).