Unchained Preppers
General Category => Sustenance => Topic started by: Nemo on January 02, 2018, 10:47:20 PM
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for the future risks and prepping for it. Anyone believe that number?
Nemo
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-are-huge-numbers-of-americans-preparing-for-doomsday/ar-BBHNhW1 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-are-huge-numbers-of-americans-preparing-for-doomsday/ar-BBHNhW1)
Why are huge numbers of Americans preparing for doomsday?
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, By Gordon Dickson
4 hrs ago
FORT WORTH, Texas — It’s always good advice to hope for the best but prepare for the worst.
And Americans apparently are embracing the sentiment behind that old saying — big time.
Two-thirds of Americans (65.5 percent) have stockpiled materials to survive a natural or political disaster. That’s among the findings of a survey released last week by Finder.com, which tracks spending habits.
The report cites ongoing tensions between the United States and North Korea, as well as historically severe weather such as the hurricanes that devastated Houston, Puerto Rico and other coastal areas last year as among the reasons for the surging interest in “doomsday prepping.”
More than half of respondents said they had bought the supplies during the past month, spending up to $400.
The research comes about a year after the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that Gary Lynch, whose Rising S Co. south of Dallas manufactures steel bomb shelters, had experienced a 700 percent increase in orders.
And it’s not just Cold War survivors who are doomsday prepping.
According to the survey, while a larger portion of baby boomers and Generation Xers are more likely to “always” have survival supplies on hand, millennials are more likely to have bought materials during the past 12 months.
Finder.com’s survey was based on interviews with 2,000 Americans conducted by research provider Pureprofile in October
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Yep. The 65.5% are prepping and the other 34.5% think the government will take care of them. Hmmmmmmm...... I guess I'll miss them folks when they're gone.
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I'm not sure the FEMA or ARC recommended 3 days of hurricane stuffs is gonna help in a longer term problem, like DPRK (the article didn't specify what 'prepping' is).
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As for the rest - well I'm sure their neighbors who prepared will lend a hand if anything happens.
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No I don't believe that number. They think buying a gun because Donald Trump is President is prepping. I think Kbop :thumbsup: hit it on the head, Three days supply is not prepping.
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I am sure the threshhold for what the authors consider "prepping" is very low.
Also anyone who uses the artificial (and glibly diminutive) phrase "Doomsday Prepping" is pursing an agenda.
Having said all that.. society as a whole benefits the more people "prep" to what ever low level that may be.
Because it will make people like us perceived less as "extremists"
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I do not find that number credible. Using the standard of all stores and gas stations being closed/empty for 7 days or more.
That standard makes the number much more like 6.5%.
Nemo
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I agree gentlemen and Nemo.
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LOL sorry Nemo
Add to those comments the before Trump preppers who have stopped prepping.
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I agree gentlemen and Nemo.Show content
LOL sorry Nemo
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Nemo >:D