Posted on 02/26/2018 12:12:20 PM PST by CottonBall
I’ve been missing the vast amount of information on prepping, survival, camping, simple cooking, the old ways of doing just about everything – all the things nw_arizona_granny knew so much about and shared with us, along with numerous other posters with a vast array of skills and knowledge.
We have our various related-threads here, a recipe thread, a gardening thread, and even a prepper thread. They are all great and I don’t mean to take anything away from those and the hard work their owners put in.
But I was missing a place to talk about ALL those things, to get the camaraderie that we used to have on granny’s thread.
I learned how to can on those threads! The pressure canner was not my friend, I thought, but I bought one and stared at it for a month, intimidated. Then I read the directions for another month. But with the help and encouragement of posters on granny’s threads, I jumped in and now have my very own food storage room in the basement with lovely jars of shelf-stable meats, vegetables, and fruit. When we moved, I fashioned my food storage room – and insisted upon having a basement – from what I learned on her threads. Getting started gardening was from her threads. Making my own cleaning products….the list is endless.
So I thought I would take the chance and start another comprehensive prepper thread and see how it goes. I used to have granny’s ping list since I made one of the threads for her, but alas, with numerous computer changes, I cannot find it. So please pass this onto any posters you think might be interested.
We’ll just keep it running until..whenever. Granny created a new thread at 10,000 posts or so. I do like the idea of having ONE thread to go to – because often I cannot find or keep track of the weekly threads. I won’t be posting lots of recipes or tidbits myself – to any mods concerned about the size of this thread. I’d just like a place to chat, post questions, post ideas, make new prepping friends.
Here are granny’s threads, if anyone wants to peruse them:
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #1
I’ll look for it and make time for it. Thanks!
Did J Random FReeper post on these threads also?
No, he wasn’t on granny’s threads. I didn’t really get to know of him until granny passed away, and then I got on other prepping threads.
Wow, we’ve lost a of great Preppers.
The article:
As you know, coronavirus is front and center. Yesterday for the first time I had a guy refuse to shake my hand after a speech, citing coronavirus fears. I was taken aback. You mean people can't touch anymore?
I was scheduled to do a presentation at Google headquarters in April; that event was canceled yesterday, again citing fears of assembly due to the coronavirus.
Isn't it amazing what society chooses to panic about? We don't panic about 50,000 people being killed by drunk drivers. We don't panic about parents still feeding their kids Lucky Charms and Cheerios even in the face of rising diabetes. We don't see supermarkets unable to sell white sugar.
Fearing to assemble, to interact, to fellowship strikes at the core of functional society. In a time of extreme loneliness, this further isolates people. Suddenly every person--not just partisans--threatens our health. Paranoia isn't far behind.
Interestingly, all the experts are scrambling for a vaccine to solve it. Why don't we have a national effort to boost everyone's immune system? This might be a good time to start such a campaign.
An article is coming out perhaps next month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) comparing the nutrition of grass-finished beef to fake meat. I talked with one of the scientists in charge of the research yesterday. He said it'll be earth shaking. At the very time when people need to fortify themselves with better nutrition, they're fleeing the very sustenance that guarantees the most functional immunity and buying lab-grown junk.
In this panic, every other person on the planet becomes an enemy. That's a shame and has dire consequences. Here at Polyface we have lots of animals. A herd of 1,000 cows. A flock of 4,000 chickens (actually, several 1,000-bird flocks adding up to 4,000). When all of them are healthy but one dies, we know that one had a weakness. Sometimes it's even personality--a timid chicken does not get encouraged by her flock-mates. She gets picked on--hence, "the pecking order."
Immunological weakness shows its ugly head on the farm all the time. And it shows itself in society. I suggest that rather than fearing every other person on the planet, canceling fellowship, and huddling in hermit life until a vaccine is discovered, how about we commit ourselves as a society to eat and live more healthily so we have a collectively better immune system? How about being intentional in how we eat, recreate, entertain, and meditate? What you ponder says a lot about your outlook on life.
In the big scheme of things to fear, coronavirus doesn't have the numbers to scare. The effect is completely disproportional to the actual numbers. But when the media whips people into a frenzy with minute-by-minute paranoia pandering, people go wonky. I think the best cure for the coronavirus is to shut off the news. Perhaps we could say the best way to build your immune system with a positive outlook on life is to quit watching the news.
What are you doing to boost your immune system?
Thanks for posting this. I hadn’t really thought of it in tangible words before but a big part of prepping s to keep myself physically fit. I can have all the supplies and plans that I need, but if I am not up to the amount of work that a prepping lifestyle will require, I won’t make it long.
I live in the south now, lots and lots and lots of obese people here, lots of smokers. I wonder if anybody’s ever done studies on if more people died from the flue or other widespread diseases in certain Geographic locations due to their lifestyle habits.
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I’ve been following the corona virus threads and there has been a lot of discussion about prepping more for whatever the future holds.
What about starting a new thread in light of what we’re going through so people can talk about stuff like this and leave the virus thread to dealing with the medical and stats on the virus?
Great idea. I will do that and then ping the list. Hopefully tonight.
OK. When you do, I will post it on the corona virus thread so that those who want to discuss stuff like that can come here and ask questions.
Getting off track on those threads is easy cause it usually starts with a discussion about needing supplies or food, and then goes from there, but it really is distracting and hard to follow when the virus posts are mixed in with the gardening ones, which are mixed in with the prepping ones.
I see quite a few comments here and on other threads about prepping but no comments on your old Prepping thread since last March.
I guess people have forgotten about it.
Too bad because there were some good exchanges of ideas there.
Anyone not familiar with it can view the old posts at the link below.
"All Things Prepping, Simple Living, Back to the Basics [Survival Today, an on going thread]"
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3635476/posts
How Do You Prepare for a Revolution?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3922556/posts
This seems a good place to start in building up this thread again. And it seems Timely. Personally I don’t want to deal with what’s going on in the country anymore. I’m fine with digging a bunker in the forest and sitting there listening to the birds. Of course if that’s all I do I’m not likely to last very long.
So I need your help learning some prepping activities, basically starting from the beginning.
I don’t want simple living. I like the life we have — the one we’ve worked for over decades — and I resent the evildoers robbing that from us.
It’s time to start designing hardware.
Hardware?
What kind?
The nasty kind.
I don’t blame you. We had the best standard of living, and we’ll be reduced to the lowest common denominator, like socialism always does.
I read an article not that long ago about Norway or one of those Scandinavian countries. The one that’s supposed to be the happiest place on earth. The gist of the article was that people there are content because they don’t see anybody doing better than they are.
“This week’s topic is How Do You Prepare for a Revolution? at Post #1411
If you want off/on this list, just let me know.”
You are a genius!!! We need this topic right now!!!
Thank you....I love this thread!!
“I read an article not that long ago about Norway or one of those Scandinavian countries. The one that’s supposed to be the happiest place on earth. The gist of the article was that people there are content because they don’t see anybody doing better than they are.”
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I also read a story about
Norway or one of those
Scandinavian countries
that said they did not have much
in their homes cause they could
not afford to buy stuff. Taxes ya know.
I would like to be on the list please. Thank you.
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