Shortages

[pkveazey]

Well, I expected shortages but I didn't expect the Idiot Population to notice it so fast. I'm begining to see Facebook posts about how some folks can't find their favorite items. These are the same morons who refuse to Prep. Just how much do you have to rub people faces in the problem before they wake up. They sure know how to complain but they don't seem to know how to prepare. There are two groups of people who plan to survive. FIRST: The Government plans to survive and they don't give a damn if anybody else survives. SECOND: Preppers plan to survive by becoming self sufficient. The rest of the population thinks that the Government will take care of them. Just how stupid do you have to be to believe the Government gives a damn about the general population? With all the Cell Phone Zombies walking around and thinking their money is safe, I can't believe that at some point they might just wonder about how all their money can be frozen with one keystroke from Big Brother. I'm already seeing You Tube posts about bank account being set up to be frozen.

[Felix]

Best start crooning the "Cattle Call".
https://youtu.be/-JX50rZae2M?t=31
I really think the herd might be getting restless.

[Nemo]

But all I need is

Nemo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGGIFfp9gs0&ab_channel=Mauriciobatistadequeiroz

[Sir John Honeybucket]

If the history of the Twentieth Century taught us anything , it?s that those who bet their lives on government largesse , generally end-up face down in a ditch which the government forced them to Dig. 

[pkveazey]

I am seeing more and more shortages and thought that it would not affect me. However, I think when the SHTF and there is nothing available, I actually am concerned about where I'm going to get supplies. I have a ton of electronics and other physical stuff and even a rather strong supply of food but I don't think this is going to be short lived and I wonder what I'm going to do when my supplies get low. Since I'm out in the rural Farm country, I suppose I'll be able to get some things to eat even if I don't like them. Oh, so you say you like Chitterlings and Pigs feet and Chicken necks. Well, at least the population will be dropping because of all the dumbassses who refused to prepare.

[Felix]

Some prepping appears to assume a baseline for longevity of scarcity and disruption.
"A Canticle for Liebowitz" illustrates how a very long baseline still brings one back to starting points, given the fullness of time (many centuries in this case).
For practical purposes, I propose that prepping needs to assume a return to pre-industrial life for the duration of any prepper's lifetime.   IOWs, the baseline of scarcity and disruption might well be generational.   Not just a rough patch in the lives of people prepping today.
Already we are, for all practical purposes, reverting to a form of feudalism.  Perhaps another Dark Age as well.
Yes, stock our abbeys well.   And play the long game.

[Sir John Honeybucket]

Low tech gardens, quality hand tools fpr working wood (iron?) and the soil, independent heating and cooking 'fire', fishing on The Bay and oh by-the-way; HEALTH is essential. Sounds like we might want to be Amish with ham radios and maybe rifles and the will to use them to defend our homesteads.

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