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Were the Doomsday Preppers Right?
Posted on 4/6/21 at 7:50 pm
Posted on 4/6/21 at 7:50 pm
Interesting read.
Psychology Today
Its not too long of a read, but this bit I found intriguing:
"Concerns over the availability of resources is another story. At the beginning of the pandemic, many stores ran out of essential supplies. Further, during the Texas freeze, supply chains broke down such that many grocery store shelves were empty by the end of the week. Therefore, while concerns about human nature are probably overly cynical, concerns about the availability of resources in post-apocalyptic scenarios may be warranted."
Psychology Today
Its not too long of a read, but this bit I found intriguing:
"Concerns over the availability of resources is another story. At the beginning of the pandemic, many stores ran out of essential supplies. Further, during the Texas freeze, supply chains broke down such that many grocery store shelves were empty by the end of the week. Therefore, while concerns about human nature are probably overly cynical, concerns about the availability of resources in post-apocalyptic scenarios may be warranted."
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Posted on 4/6/21 at 8:05 pm to Trumansfangs
A self fulfilling prophecy. Supplies were only hard to come by because of those assholes.
Posted on 4/7/21 at 1:49 pm to Trumansfangs
Right about what? That's such a broad question
They are absolutely right about the speed at which grocery stores will run out of food if the supply chain stops. A week in a big city and shelves and local warehouses will be empty. Then what are a million plus people going to do to eat? If it's just one city or a region we can conceivably do something about it, but if the supply chain stopped everywhere, you're living in a zombie movie, and quickly.
That's where Doomsday preppers sort of run into their wall. Is something THAT BAD every going to happen? If something THAT BAD ever happens, will a pile of food and a gun with 100 rounds in your basement be enough to keep you alive when there's 300 million people in the country going hungry and probably willing to kill for food?
Learning how to homestead is actually very useful so doing that isn't any kind of waste of time or anything but these people that that are actually planning for the world to end are playacting mostly and their plans won't really amount to anything if shite really his the fan.
They are absolutely right about the speed at which grocery stores will run out of food if the supply chain stops. A week in a big city and shelves and local warehouses will be empty. Then what are a million plus people going to do to eat? If it's just one city or a region we can conceivably do something about it, but if the supply chain stopped everywhere, you're living in a zombie movie, and quickly.
That's where Doomsday preppers sort of run into their wall. Is something THAT BAD every going to happen? If something THAT BAD ever happens, will a pile of food and a gun with 100 rounds in your basement be enough to keep you alive when there's 300 million people in the country going hungry and probably willing to kill for food?
Learning how to homestead is actually very useful so doing that isn't any kind of waste of time or anything but these people that that are actually planning for the world to end are playacting mostly and their plans won't really amount to anything if shite really his the fan.
Posted on 4/7/21 at 6:54 pm to Trumansfangs
You should always have some resources in reserve for whatever disaster might strike.
Posted on 4/7/21 at 9:30 pm to Trumansfangs
Test run. . . and now everyone's TP ready.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 10:29 am to Trumansfangs
Covid is a light-weight pandemic and the Texas Freeze was short-lived. I don’t think either approach the level of apocalypse. An asteroid hit, EMP, nuclear war or novel bird flu pandemic wound destroy social fabrics world wide for a very long time. Recovery would see an altogether different human population emerge.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 3:04 pm to Kentucker
Kentucker <- Always the right answers !
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