“I imagine most (if not all) “preppers†will not make it when it hits.”
As opposed to which group that you think will survive? Those with no preps??
That’s about as intelligent as claiming Jeb who cannot seem to fill a nursing home with interested voters will win the election against Trump who fills stadiums.
What do you imagine a world in which TSHTF is like?
Me, I say when the farms stop producing, when your local grocery stores have nothing, when trucking & transportation is halted completely, when the grid goes down, when the water stops pumping, when hospitals and EMS’s run out of supplies and begin to start using the parking lot as operating space, when maraudering gangs declare open warfare on everybody and begin burning homes down, when whole invading armies coming invading killing everybody on site with prejudice, when these armies (or our own) begin to use biological and chemical warfare on everybody.
Not many people could survive those circumstances. The smell of decomposing bodies (not to mention their decay contaminating everything) alone would be enough to drive out even the most stubborn prepper. Again MHO.
Matthew 24:21-22 describes a holocaust not seen ever, or that anything comparable will happen remotely close to it’s destruction. If Christ doesn’t intervene when He will, nobody would survive.
He only says “the elect” will survive. That can be defined in several ways. But how they survive is thru Supernatural means, not on their own accord.
I never advocated zero prepping. I just think there’s a fine line between absurd quantities of food & supplies that will eventually expire and be useless and the idiot who has nothing but 3 days worth of food in his pantry.
I would say those who form armies with logistics components and set out to take their country back. Even throwing themselves into war, they will generally last longer than those who build little supply depots.
This memoir is pretty honest about how an unsupplied army forages.