Study Finds Rise In ‘Doomsday Prepping’ Due To Mainstream American ‘Culture Of Fear’

Study Finds ^ | August 10, 2019 | John Anderer

[familyop]

A violation of the Second Amendment might well lead to chaos by ushering in an enormous increase in the intensity and frequency of violence committed by Democrats after the election.

[MHGinTN]

No doubt a leftist study ... prudence is labeled fear. LOL they so predictable.

[Amberdawn]

Long before it was called ‘prepping’ my family stocked up on water, canned food, firewood and other items. We suffer, to this day, many electrical blackouts due to the high number of mature trees in the area. When you can’t flush a toilet, shower, or get water to cook, you tend to prepare. With the Democrap demonization of traditional American beliefs, whites, Christians, etc., and their environmental scare tactics, I’m hardly surprised that it’s spreading.

[SaveFerris]

Those darn conspiracy theorists!!!

[Equine1952]

Question, why is there a study by someone in England about prepping in America? Americans have been prepping for years. The pilgrims prepped for winter, citizens prepped for wars and depressions. I know people prepping for the SHTF event now. We always prepped. I hoard precious metals, you know lead, brass, and copper among other things. I even grow a garden and prep food. I think some of the English are wound a wee bit tight sometimes.

[dp0622]

No it’s true!!

I’ve amassed 12 cases of JD in the basement just waiting for the apocalypse .

Now I have to start buying the pretzels.

[PA Engineer]

I’ve amassed 12 cases of JD in the basement just waiting for the apocalypse .

Single barrel?

[PA Engineer]

According to Mills, these preppers believe that if the worse were to happen, the government’s response simply wouldn’t be adequate and many people would be left to fend for themselves.

Why would anyone think that?

[dp0622]

I didn’t have time to wait for them to let it sit in the second barrel!! What if nuclear war comes?!?

:)

[gnarledmaw]

I dont know, maybe its easy enough to fool present day English into believing such things but in the past in all of England and yet today in modern American rural settings “prepping” is entirely normal.

We have a huge pantry, most of us out here do, but we don't even normally think that having our own little personal store is unusual. When the family runs out of ketchup I dont want to pay double at a local store and have no intention of making a two hour trip to get some so to keep everyone happy there is a dozen bottles in the pantry along with a couple cases of green beans, a couple of kidney beans, a couple of lima beans, a couple of...well, you get the idea. Its cheap in town and I cant drive to get it if we were to just run out especially in the winter so you need to keep a lot of everything on hand.

If youre rural then theres a good chance that someone in the family is raising stock for slaughter and hunting and fishing. All of that years processing and harvesting needs to go somewhere much of it at almost the same time so you wind up with freezers or youll run out before next year.

At that point why wouldn't you keep extra cleaning supplies and a few medical supplies on hand.

Oops, now youre a prepper. You are in England anyway. It takes a bit more effort to be considered a “prepper” in America.

[gnarledmaw]

That’s good planning because it goes faster than people think. At one of my going away parties we went through 8 gallons of Jim Beam. What if a person had a party and then doomsday hit? You would be down to near nothing and have nothing to trade for extra toilet paper.

[magooey]

... doomsday preppers and their motivations, especially since up until now most were simply considered crazy or delusional.

So the whole federal government civil defense program, and all who participated in it during the Cold War, were "crazy or delusional"?

[MHGinTN]

Get the Snuder’s Butter Snaps ... BTW, what is JD?

[MHGinTN]

That would be the Snyder's Butter Snap Pretzels.

[Tailback]

My wife used to think I was slightly nuts because I insisted on having cases of bottled water and some canned food on hand.

Last summer the water supply had a blue/green algae bloom which contaminated the city water with cyanotoxin. You can’t get rid of the toxin with bleach, or boiling. Some people say that an activated charcoal filter would take it out. Anyways, we had plenty of water to cover drinking and cooking for over a month. The stores sold out of water in one day. It took about 3 days for them to ramp up the supply chain and get re stocked. Note that this was in the Summer without any other natural disaster.

The wife and I just chuckled at the panic going on. On about day three she looked at me seriously and said “I see now why you always made me stock water. Thank you”. She is now fully on board with me and actively discusses rotating out old stuff, ideas for easily stored food, etc....

On her suggestion we got a Brita filter system (activated charcoal) and multiple spare filter cartridges that we use now for filtering our tap water. She bought an extra one for her office at work. I also have had some .02 micron filter systems for a couple years but they wouldn’t have worked for the cyanotoxin.

[Tailback]

Jack Daniels? A German WWII survivor woman that posted on a prepper forum said the best things to have in large quantities are toilet paper, vodka, and canned food. The vodka is for bartering, disinfecting wounds, and purifying questionable water.

[dp0622]

Jack Daniels

Or if you go back in time, a sundae at Friendly’s called the Jim Dandy.

I worked there as a kid :)

Even then I wanted the Jack Daniels more.

[dp0622]

ROFLMAO!!!!

Now I gotta buy more.

And if I have a party, NONE of the doomsday stock gets touched! :)

[jmacusa]

I generally don't like the English. They tend to be very condescending of We The People of The United States. They think we're a bunch of unwordly, ignorant rubes running around with guns shooting each other. Of course that's never stopped them when they've needed us to bail their asses of of wars.