Posted on 03/14/2024 11:43:57 AM PDT by bitt
Doomsday prepping was once a concept people believed was reserved for conspiracy theorists and paranoid uncles, but fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is leading more and more Americans to plan ahead in the event of a future catastrophe.
Amid a recovering supply chain, two brewing conflicts involving nuclear powers, hackers bent on compromising electric infrastructure, the possibility of solar flares and concerns about engineered bioweapons, Nelson said it is not unrealistic to look at the world today and say: How prepared am I to take care of my family?”
“Americans have this Armageddon-type thing where they think that there’s a secret space shuttle waiting to go get that meteor. You know, there’s always an answer somewhere. Somebody’s hidden something underground. And we’re good, right? We like to believe that our big government has got a solution for everything.”
But the truth, according to Nelson, is that while there are plans, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for any one-size problem, and the government cannot reasonably have a plan that accounts for everything.
Nelson calculated that if a freezer goes out, people will only have that food for three days. If the power goes out, Americans are now reduced to five days of food in their homes. A local suburban or urban area will also have about two weeks of food and has generators if the power goes out, but when people are dependent on storefronts, they will quickly be emptied out.
“In the event of even a temporary supply chain collapse, most homes are within two weeks of being entirely dependent on handouts from a government entity or non-government organization,” Nelson said.
“Anybody who doesn’t have 3 to 6 months of basic staples and food within your home, and the ability to grow a garden. Then what’s your plan? I mean,
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“everything you need to know”
All in a short article with few specifics. LOL.
Selco is the real deal, the real SHTF guy who lived thru Bosnia civil war
How I survived a year of SHTF in 90’s Bosnia
How long would it take for you to become so degraded that you would murder your neighbors for food, would that be days or a week or two, and if you ran out of food within that short a period wouldn’t you be like everyone else who isn’t prepared and have driven to a government center/shelter by then?
In a real emergency where the stores run out of food, our neighborhoods would empty as most drove to the government centers.
People are not going to sit at home with their wives and kids for months staring at the walls waiting until that special moment when they all turn into rampaging animals/Rambos indifferent to killing and being killed.
Realistic scenario: the minute you step out of your well supplied house with your kitted out Daniel Defense AR15, 6 spare mages, and your 1911 on your hip, Bubba from the trailer park down the street, who has been sitting behind the neighbors playhouse for hours waiting for you to come out, pops you with the last shell he has for his break barrel shotgun.
Without water…? Water is pumped through pipes. Pumps need electricity.
yep. it’s gonna be a bloody mess.
fortunately i will be leading my militia to the capitol and taking over the commissary there.
we gotta eat.
You must not have read my post.
At the beginning of the pandemic it was clear that was a State Health Department thing. I recall very clearly a meeting with my “people” and there were quite a few of them leaning back in their chairs and staring at the ceiling knowing what a mess it was going to be. We laughed at the thought of the Health Department nuts struggling to dig out their plan and try to put it in action.
Locally it became a boondoggle to spend money on pretty much whatever they wanted. I had seen that in the EM world right after 9/11. Lots of grant money flowed through the system.
The short answer to your question is that there WAS a plan and it had to do with limiting exposure to viruses like small pox or pneumonic plague. I don’t think the health department in our area ever found their binder.
I think it is pretty clear that the virus was not the "disaster". The government reaction to the virus was the "disaster". They should have had a plan for dealing with that. Maybe sheriffs telling the federal and state regulators to "F" off should have been part of the plan.
If you can’t defend it,
you don’t own it.
No. They won't.
Because all of those things are very easy to make or grow.
Sugar can be made from sugar beets with a grater, pot and cloth bag, tobacco can be grown in the warmer areas and booze is so easy to make a caveman can and could do it.
Caffeine is going to be the thing people crave and will find hard to get.
Not many plants with Caffeine in areas that are not sub tropical.
Whatever.
Your personal protection is ALWAYs your responsibility. I guess that should have been my primary point. Just say, “No” still works.
I agree. The mundane, day to day emergencies are the ones that people need to prepare for. They are the ones that are likely to happen to them and they are the ones that people can actually come up with a reasonable plan to deal with.
If there is going to be a mass-effect disaster impacting millions of people, it is nearly 100% certain to be caused by the government and not an act of God.
I sure disagree with you on that, you seem to be thinking of some post-apocalyptic world where new businesses create and sell tobacco, alcohol, and sugar products and get them to markets that the public goes to.
For emergencies, cigarettes, real booze in bottles, sugar, and instant coffee would all be great trade items.
We learned that during COVID. City folk with money and houses in the country or down the shore headed for the hills and wiped out the local grocery stores.
Sure. Then the only question is - just whose doomsday will it be. I'm betting it'll be yours.
i read your post.
I looked at your posting history, being childish is your normal state, I hope you don’t always troll the prepper threads.
“BIDEN IS ACTUALLY TRYING TO BAN HOME GARDENS”
That mindset began several years ago. Also, they were trying to make it illegal in CA (I think) to collect and store rain water.
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