Posted on 09/23/2020 6:39:57 PM PDT by blam
Dear Friends:
2020 has certainly been quite a year so far, and a defining one for the preparedness movement. No longer are our stockpiles of rice, beans, and hand sanitizer objects that make us strange. Our stashes of TP would make us the envy of the neighborhood if, of course, anybody knew we had it.
So many of the things and beliefs that made us figures of mockery in the past are now proving their value. We’re learning, with a mixture of relief and perhaps dismay, that we weren’t so crazy after all.
When the first lockdown began, we weren’t out there emptying the shelves in the frenzied throng (even though we’re the ones who got blamed for it.) We were watchful but for the most part, comfortable with our preparations. We understood before things went sideways that extended events can result in civil unrest, crime sprees, and chaos. We realized that we could be facing shortages.
And then time went on.
And on.
And on.
This has been a year in which so many things have occurred that proved preppers have things right that it’s positively exhausting. We’ve had a pandemic, civil unrest, food shortages, increases in crime, exorbitant unemployment, and we’re facing an economic collapse, or at the very least, an economic crisis.
And we’re tired.
Maybe everyone doesn’t feel this way. Maybe you’re perfectly fine and you live on your back 40 and have been completely untouched by any of the above-mentioned crises. Maybe your finances are just fine, you never got out much anyway, and you’ve still got 8 years’ worth of food socked away to supplement the things you grow. Maybe you’re reading this as you spin goat hair into yarn from which you’ll make this year’s mittens.
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Smartphones becoming a “thing” back in 2008 certainly triggered the disconnected human, I totally agree.
I still drive my small cars, though I’ve got a big one also. I have noticed that truck drivers are some of the worst cases of rage (not you of course) since they can easily win the squeeze moment and not lose.
I wish we could just get rid of those dang things (”smartphones”).
My betrayal was not brought about by friends.
It was FAMILY.
And that makes all the difference.
I will never again trust anyone. Ever.
The normalcy bias is out of control with people these days.
Sheep wearing masks everywhere. Especially kids. Just surreal.
As for the rest of the sheeple, well, they can’t say they weren’t warned or told.
Best of luck to them!
What is The Return?
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I see it in the people who assume
1) they will always have money
2) they can always order food
3) they can always buy food
These Democrat terrorists burning and rioting in the cities and the NWO gutting of America are doing tremendous damage. A good portion of which will be irreparable IMHO.
Add to your list of things normalcy bias keeps people believing they’ll have access to:
1) Medical Care/PCP/Dental/Optometry/Hospitals
2) Electricity
3) Water/Sewage
4) Gasoline for cars
5) Clothing
6) Fill in the blank...
Jobs, 401k’s, Cash, banks, everything.
The best preppers are those who can live off the land for about a day and then move 20 miles down to the next “camp”. Repeat that process daily - forever if you wish to survive. Stashing away stuff will save nobody in the real SHTF scenario.
Thankfully & Praise Jesus, we don’t have to worry about that.
I don’t know how people grow enough food to survive. They obviously did it in the 1800’s.
My little garden hardly produced anything. A few tomatoes this year and very few peppers.
But then, I don’t really have access to land of any significance.
We’ve been trying to do the reverse here in the burbs—using human male urine mixed with garlic snd cigarette ashes, or special-ordered coyote urine, to try to repel deer from eating our gardens, making tracks in the lawn when it is soggy, or leaving pyramid piles of poopie pellets where the kids like to play. “Rats with antlers”, we call them. (The deer, not the kids.)
Thanks.
I think a lot of the survivalist techniques and trades have been lost over the past 300 years or so. Especially in the west.
My family in Ohio had about 100 acres to raise and grow whatever they did in the early 1800’s.
I doubt that is enough to feed an entire family back then. I imagine there was a lot of trading back then. Bartering.
I’d have to have an acre or two (plus equipment) to grow enough potatoes, tomatoes, onions and peppers.
And then how to can them and dig a root cellar. The latter I think I can do. I’d have to learn a bit more about canning the 1930’s way.
I’m tired of tyranny.
I'm gonna be living large, growing my own food and having fun on ham radio again. I've been increasing my ammunition stocks when I find ammo (don't care how much it costs) and am set for a six month lock down with food, toiletries, etc.. all neatly packed and in the pantry I built in my current basement. I'll do the exact same thing in the new home when I move in November.
I admit, at first all this crap drove me nuts. Then I got ahold of myself, figured out what I needed to do and executed it. Being prepared is my sanity.
100 acres in the early 1800’s could support a medium sized family with some left over for sale. It would be a great deal of work with livestock and a big garden. Crop yields were low compared to today. Corn - 25 bushels per acre compared to 170 today.
Every year I have the same conversation with mr. mm.
After I harvest the garden, I say *It’s a good thing we don’t have to survive on what I grow.*
LOL! A stocking full of ‘taters for you! ;)
“I admit, at first all this crap drove me nuts. Then I got ahold of myself, figured out what I needed to do and executed it. Being prepared is my sanity.”
Amen to that! You’ll soon be living the dream! :)
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