CNN doing a commercial for Ben Gleck’s food stockpile business?
” ...spend their lives... “ As though they people that are prepared do nothing other than this.
Ping list ping.
So I visited a relative I hadn’t seen in years back in early February. He lives a bit out in the boonies, at least by my suburban standards, in a very nice place he built on a small mountain. Nice views.
Last year, they had a big snow. Lost power for 18 days, took him 2 days to get off the mountain and decamp to a hotel. He’s currently about to put in a big generator, and he’s been researching freeze-dried food, likes Mountain House. Had a big spreadsheet of prices from Costco and Amazon for same, which I got a copy of.
Fast forward a month, and Costco has no Mountain House, and Amazon availability isn’t what it was, and prices have gone WAY up, which is the point to my story. Preppers were just ahead of the curve.
Any person with two brain cells knows to be at some level of “preparedness”. However, “preparedness” takes on its true meaning when necessary reserves and protections extend beyond two weeks, and additionally, when in the context of panic, chaos, diseases, economic downturn, etc., you know, the series events.
I’m sure CNN was able to find “preppers” in the Yellow Pages...
Can Liberals be Preppers?
I mentioned that I'm good-to-go for a couple of weeks, (and left it at that - I never go into detail about my preps).
It’s also great for buying up supplies to sell to the public at astronomical prices.
“Preppers” generally get a bad rap from the press, even though the government itself, through FEMA and other orgs, actually encourages folk to plan for bad times. Yeah, folk can go overboard with it, but it is definitely worse to be under prepared than over prepared, because the over prepared folk can help out others.
This is all overblown.
Still not seeing a real alarming scenario with this virus. Still looking like minor expected complications for more vulnerable demographics and death rate. And seems so flu-like that many more probably never reported it but simply got over it.
So, I’m not seeing any great vindication of preppers yet.
Ruger stock has dropped from $54 to $39 per share. If you can time the bottom, it’s beginning to look like a good investment.
“Expert” preppers don’t talk about their preps.
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“’Preppers’ have endured years of mockery.”
Not to their face they haven’t.
The Shelter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPtFIJLmrKs