I can’t read all that. My attention span is too short today. But I read the title.
Here’s my thoughts...
non preppers will make not just their own lives miserable. they will make your life miserable too. Think about it. The ideal is if everyone is a prepper, then the disaster is not a disaster. The disaster is what happens when non preppers become desperate and do desperate things.
and that is the cliffs notes version of your article.
In my business, telecom, VPN, MPLS, etc, my clients and discuss “disaster Planning”.
We change that mindset by working through a series of excercises and they come out with a new perspective.
That is “Disaster Planning” generally mean just in case something might happen.
We change that to “Contingency Plans” and thing actually do happen. Best plans fail in your plan A and since your plan B is rarely used it needs to be scheduled so you can see what the process of operating in that environment looks like and what is the chaos that ensues and then, how to revert back to regular operations when possible.
So with that in mind, I have contingency plans in place and test every piece of equipment and food stores.
One test I performed last year was to take condensed milk and dilute it with water to get regular milk.
It worked and now condensed milk is part of our preparing what will be an eventuality.
I shudder to think what would happen if I didn’t have so much of everything.
two weeks a fellow gashed his finger about an inch long. It was bleeding profusely. No problem. I asked if wanted to burn with Styptic or wash out a gel.
He know styptic would work but it would burn like a **(&^. He opted for Celox and voila, the bleeding stopped.
Pretty cool and he rinsed it out a few days later.
When the NP show up at my door, they will see me with a plastic bag with 2 cups of rice and a bottle of water in one hand and a 9mm cartridge in the other. I'll tell them that today they get the bag. Tomorrow they get the 9mm.
Cold? Perhaps. But it will be the only way....IF things get reaaly bad.