MurphyGuy
It just needs a bigger hammer
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I can tell you this.. when covid hit and the mad rush to buy toilet paper happened, my wife and I just kind of laughed at it all. We keep somewhere between 400 and 600 rolls of it at all times. We have prepped so well (at least I think so), that we see the benefits of it in daily life even though nothing serious has happened. About a month ago, my legs got covered in poison ivy (oak? sumac?), and I broke out on Friday night at around 6pm.. on a 3 day weekend.. No doctor to call for the steroids.. So we broke into our stash of medical supplies in the freezer and pulled out a pack of prednisone (sp?) and I started taking it. Instant relief within 6 hours. The following Tuesday, I contacted the doctor and got a replacement prescription pack, then contacted him 5 days later and asked for one more.. LOL. So not only did I replace my original stash, I added an extra pack.Sounds like you are prepared, and have your act together, along with some in your group who can help train the neighbors who need it if needed.
I sure hope I am just paranoid, and everything will be unicorns and lolipops in the future, but alas, I think thats a pipe dream. The writing is on the wall, and we are on borrowed time, at least here in the US, and maybe all of EU. No way to pay back the debt, an economic system in forced collapse(to bring in CBDC), and a whole generation of college educated marxists and snowflakes.
We've been pulling this routine with everything we're ever prescribed. We have quite the stock pile of meds now.
I look at it very differently. Our world is undergoing a paradigm shift due to the information age and society is still learning how to handle it. Seriously, I think the younger generation sees these things as being far more threatening than they actually are. That's part of the reason I poke fun at some of the members.. These are just simple growing pains of any advancing civilization. Mix in the normal government mistakes, sprinkle in a few crooked politicians, a few dumb ones, and top it off with some disasters and international strife, and you get a perfect mix that makes it look like there's a big storm on the horizon.Millions are invading at the behest of leftist governments( thats in the UN manifesto by the way), explosion of drug addicted homeless, the decimation of the middle class, the demoralization of the military, a media and politics that do nothing but divide and foster hate, the government moving to a censored police state, with the blessing of half of the numbed or ignorant population.
Thats why I laugh at "Climate Change". The "state" pushes that fear to deflect from the elephant in the room, which is the loss of western culture as we knew it, in favor of a "one world government", and centralized economic and energy system totally controlled by the few.
Damn I wish I was ignorant of all that, but its so clear to anyone who just turns off the news and studies whats really happening.
The world is based on capitalism so the one with the money makes the rules.. It's always been that way, I think it will always remain that way until such time as we switch our capitalistic nature from one focused on the monetary to one that is focused on intellect or accomplishement.
That probably won't happen any time soon.. but eventually, if we don't nuke ourselves or get hit with a GRB or something else, we might get there...
Did you know the 338 Lapua ammo is more expensive than the 50 ?? WTF is up with that?So yeah, its gotta be a big boat, with a water maker, solar, compass, charts, and fishing gear. I figure the US will not be safe, so maybe the galapagos islands, gran canaria, or hopefully somewhere off the coast of South America. I have the 338 Lapua ( Not a Barrett, but almost as effective) for anyone in a speed boat wanting to get close to steal, and the kids will all have 308's or 6.5's for long range, or shotguns for close in.
Gotta be a steel hull also, although most above the waterline shots won't matter much, and water itself stops just about everything in a couple feet.
I keep thinking about John Ringo's "Black Tide Rising" series of books, which are an awesome listen on Audible.
The boat seems problematic to me, but like I said, I don't know much about ocean sailing. About 80% of the prepping I've done can be used in normal life or later exchanged at a higher value. Not sure how that would work with a boat... For example, toilet paper doesn't go bad, the 50-70 tubes of toothpaste don't go bad, and an AR15 of a quality brand is only going to go up in value.
Heck, the Federal Lake City 5.56 ammo I bought at 25 cents/round is now 47 cents, and was as high as $1.75 at one time in 2020. Even the solar has completely eliminated our power bill and having to wear out the generator when storms knock out power for a week at a time.
I knew some of my preps were losers, but I still bought them. Thermal and Night Vision get better and cheaper as time marches on, as do security cameras and other technology related stuff. I probably have about $30k into things that are losers.. but if something happens and I don't have them, then its a problem.
I don't think anything is going to happen the way most preppers think.. Most envision a nuclear war (actually possible at this point), super volcano, or some other type of disaster that shuts the lights off over-night and plunges society into darkness. I don't think its going to go down that way, instead of going out with a bang, I think its going to be more like dying from cancer in a slow painful wimper.
More localized natural disasters, more power outages, more forest fires, more supply shortages due to one stupid thing or another, and a lot more violent protests now that social media has put them into hyper drive. I suspect the USA is slowly fostering a extremist demographic that utilizes the ignorance and/or youth of their target audience to push whatever destabilizing message they need. Like the abortion clinic bombings of the past, or the idiots burning their own communities, I think we're going to see those types of events come back.. except this time it will be against the gov like the Oklahoma Murrah building.
Maybe I'm wrong, I don't own a crystal ball.. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.