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Originally Posted by ET2SN
If you're in the same survival situation after three months, you'll want to be thinking of the least painful ways to check out.
This is reality. Not a movie, TV show, or paperback novel.  |
Prepping by a strategy of stockpiling consummable reserves obviously has timely limits for thr duration of how long you can live by this. From some point on you need to have learned and be capable to live off the land instead.
However, lets be realistic and not assuming the zombie apocalypse. I described it before: my worst concern is a power blackout of continental proportions and several days duration, maybe 7-10 days power put. A huge multiple-days blackout imo is a very realistic possibility in Europe now. It then would take several days to switch all those many individual "power islands" back to "on" one by one, the regions each of them being supplied by one powerplant. And after that several weeks to desinfect the water pipes and taps, and months to empty and clean and refill the water processing plants and sewage processing bassins. And then the time it woud need to restablish logistics and supply chains, Corona and shipping taught us some lessons there, didn't it.
In the end, the duration you can surivive by reserves-prepping is limited, it gets you so and so far and not further, it depends on your monetarian and space options.
Everybody should think of realistic desaster scenarios, but skipping the absurd scifi stuff. And then he should do in preparation what he can do in this place and space he lives in, with this money he has, and at this time of his life. More he cannot do. Skipping just one long summer holiday travel, and use that money for prepping up instead. That is a very good way to get started and already accomplish a lot.
BTW, insurrances will be of no use to yiou if dedsaster like thsi strike. An insurrance does not help you to survive. And maybe even does not help you after you have successfully survived by your own means and doing. And if no desaster strikes you - the money that the insurrance costs you still is gone then. Just saying, some food for thought there.
Just doing nothing to get prepared within the range of one's own individual possibilities, and taking it for granted that others or the state will take it upon them to come to one's rescue - that phlegmatism is unforgivable, and selfish, and dumb. The state will be limited to set priorities for allocating its limited - and waning - ressources. Individual fates and rescue operations for each and every "citizen" will not be put high on the list. It cannot be afforded.