Posted on 10/17/2014 3:50:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s showtime for the Doomsday set. As the lethal virus crosses America’s doorstep, prep kits and gas masks are flying off shelves and fringe survivalists are going mainstream.
Jason Charles knows the exact moment he will lead his wife and five kids out of their Harlem home, pile into a car, and take off for the wilderness. It will be not long after Ebola reaches the population of New York City, hospitals overflow, and looting begins—when the first riots break out on the streets of Manhattan.
“Right now it isn’t bad, but if the first case happens in New York, you start hearing about hundreds or thousands of people getting sick and it shotguns through the city, then you want to start getting your plan together to leave,” says the 37-year-old fireman and dedicated prepper. When that happens, he says, “it’s a free fall, that’s the system breaking down.”
But the moment of evacuation is delicate. Skipping work, pulling the kids out of school—all of these decisions have lasting consequences. “If you leave too early, you look like an idiot; if you leave too late, you could be dead,” Charles says....
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I haven’t even let muggers take my stuff.
I prefer to have what I need and want as a starting point and reality, rather than to work through it all mentally and go from imagining that I have a rubber boat, all the way to it being taken from me, and deciding that it is useless to have a $100.00 rubber Kayak that mean people are going to take from me.
Real preppers don’t care what other people think. Good grief. This guy sounds like a moron.
Dear Travis,
bumping your comment. Thanks!
Nice. That appears to be an affiliate link. I didn’t think Freepers were allowed to advertise on FR.
There are situations where bugging out is a good idea. This is not one of them.
Bug in and stay there.
If you travel you are likely going to do one of two things, if you are infected you will be carrying it to a area that is clear or if you are clear you will be moving to an area that is infected.
STOPA
S – STOP T – THINK O – OBSERVE P – PLAN A – ACT
Stocking up on extra things is easier when you’re poor? Please explain that to us.
Being poor should have led you into the most natural parts of prepping.
The first thing you should do is ask what poor people of the world eat, they eat things like rice and beans and wheat, things that are cheap, and store well, and that you buy in bulk for huge savings.
Salt, beans, rice, a little oil, some wheat berries, are you having problems affording those items, or are you eating hamburger helper, Tuna and canned tomatoes, and macaroni and cheese, and other things that cost much more?
The problem with bugging in in an urban environment is that you basically have to be prepared to go Anne Frank and have a well concealed bug-in hole that the people who stay behind aren’t going to be able to find once they start starving and start getting really aggressive about finding food and water sources.
It’s like I told a Lib NYC friend of mine. Unless you aren’t there to begin with (my philosophy) chances range from decent to excellent that you’ll encounter people who don’t like you very much. Bug out on the earlier side of too late and, not being hungry yet, they may be nice enough to let you choose your own lamppost. Bug out on the later side of too late (or get caught while bugging-in) and you’re going to be a much tastier alternative to flame-broiled rat.
Hahahaha! You’re lecturing a disabled veteran shut-in on his poverty? I thought I’d seen it all here. Really. But then $#*+ like this pops up. Have you lectured the site owner, yet? He’s a disabled veteran, I believe. I’m sure there are others here, too. Did you ever think that that many carbs might not be the best thing for a diabetic heart patient and his wife who is similarly afflicted? And “poor people” here in this country sure as hell don’t eat a lot of rice, beans and wheat.
No one is lecturing you at all, about anything.
What are you raging about with disability?
Would you get yourself under control and try to stay focused on threads and our posts? Your diabetes, and special medical requirements and being obese and on disability wasn’t the topic, blurting out with all that as though me or anyone else here is supposed to be keeping a file on your medical status is bizarre.
You posted a question that was answered in post 87 in a thread on prepping, your outburst in rage and self pity, is just bizarre and unexplainable.
To: ansel12
Stocking up on extra things is easier when you’re poor? Please explain that to us.
86 posted on 10/17/2014, 12:25:09 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
Your schtick is getting tiresome, in addition to being bizarre and inexplicable. You do this crap on every thread. Advocating for a third world diet are you? Critiquing disabled veterans, too? Who does that?
Did you take classes in Internet argumentation and deflection or is it a gift?
Deflection?
My posts were on prepping and were focused, your post spun off into bizarro land and hostility.
You think that beans rice and wheat are not part of prepping?
Do you have something relevant to say about the thread or just some personal attacks that you want to make?
LOL at that for sure. Well played, sir.
I’m pointing out your posting habits, you wreck every thread you’re on.
Now, you’re advocating a third world diet and attacking disabled veterans, while wrecking the thread.
I’m sensing a trend, here.
Check the thread, it is you that jumped on the thread purely to carry on some personal attack.
Any prepper is puzzled at your apparent shock at the fact that to preppers, beans rice and wheat are the foundation of food stocks, and your ridiculous lie about attacking disabled vets.
Look at your posts, you jumped on the this thread on preparedness, to hijack it.
I’m not going to post on Daily Beast any more. It’s a waste of time. Your comment just goes into chronological order. Nobody will read them.
About two months ago, before Ebola came to Dallas, our car was T-boned and I was taken on a stretcher to our local hospital to check out my neck. There were three men EMTs with the ambulance and hospital emergency room workers did the usual checks on my condition and I was flat on my back for a good while before being taken upstairs for a cat scan of my neck.
Back in the first floor emergency room after the scan, FINALLY, a worker came in to take my medical information. Only then was I asked if I had been outside the country in the past several weeks. I WONDER IF THEIR QUESTIONING HAS CHANGED - are they waiting that long to ask patients where they have been?
SURELY, with the Dallas happening not that far from our hospital, both ambulance EMTs and hospital emergency room workers are ASKING THAT QUESTION IMMEDIATELY.
You must be my neighbor.
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