Yep, and the wild game will last for a while, but everyone with any kind of a gun will have the same idea. It won’t be long until you’ll have to walk ten miles to come back with a squirrel or a crow for dinner. In other words, food for one when you may need food for four.
And anyone with a generator will be a target. If your house is the only one for miles around with lights on and hot food on the table; then your starving, freezing neighbors will leave their cold, dark homes and invite themselves into yours. At that point no one will take no for an answer.
So if you have a generator, you’d better conceal it the best you can so no one can hear it run, (put it underground somehow or build a stout, insulated shed with vents to run it, or better yet get a solar generator) and totally black out your house so no light leaks through the cracks to be visible from outside at night.
Any kind of widespread breakdown of civility that lasts more than a few days will bring serious trouble. It will just take a little longer to reach the hinterlands.
The old Y2K preppers had a hilarious and wonderful idea on how to keep the bad guys away if things get ugly....
Buy some red ribbon—a lot of it—and some spray paint.
Paint on the doors “Quarantine” and then put red ribbon all over the door areas and wherever else makes sense for the specific property.
Then if anyone actually approaches look as sickly as possible.
Lol.