Who else has been watching "Prepper" videos lately?

[ThoughtCriminal]

To be honest, it's not really new for me. I live in an isolated mountain community, and getting cut off from basic supplies and losing power has always been a real thing here.

In the past, the "Prepper Community" seemed to be dominated by right-wingers, convinced that FEMA and U.N. shock troops were gathering in the next county getting ready to swoop in and take their guns. That aside, there is some good advise out there for food preservation and and what supplies you might need when SHTF.

But I find myself starting to stock up a little more on each trip into town now. I fully expect food shortages and problems with the electrical grid along with the possibility of hyper-stagflation.

[cadoman]

1. prepper communities might have the only abortion and vaccine services available for a while

It's hilarious the right was always so afraid of government overreach and here cheato (the leader they elected) is about to incarnate into what they always feared.

What a zany world we live in.

[Runningdawg]

5. Where on earth did you get that idea? 90% of them don't believe in any kind of intervention, only gods will.

[Scrivener7]

2. I became much calmer after I made a reasonable plan to bug out if I need to. It's not prepping.

(Preppers skeeve me. So much religion, so many guns, so much "The second coming of Jesus, the Prince of Peace, is right around the corner! And he's going to annihilate EVERYONE!!" )

But I get your drift.

Once I made a plan, I felt as if I had a little more control and I could sleep again at night.

[sunflowerseed]

3. IMO it's logical

Some of us may have to run.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. I'm watching home makeover videos.

[Woodwizard]

6. Been doing it for 30+ years in the Catskills

The power would usually go out a full week at some point for the first 20 or so years got a 4 kw generator in 2010 to run our pump freezer and fridge. 40 minutes generator time every 4 hours or so kept everything good.

Have a solar array with batteries to run the lights and internet. The last 5 years we have not had long outages.

Dry food, rice beans ect along with shelf stable goods we always have we can easily be here a month with what we have.

There are no close stores so it's a way of life.

[Runningdawg]

7. I was born in to a prepping family in 1960.

Prep, I do, its a great idea, but avoid prepping GROUPS like the plague.
They are taught to kill and take what they want from ANYONE not in their group.
I didn't have any vaccines until I did it myself at 18. I have no teeth. My mouth is too damaged for dentures. My teeth were knocked out by any number of people or pulled out by someone at church. Never heard of antibiotics until I was an adult. Castor oil, horse liniment, alum, ground charcoal...Ive swallowed them all.
You want prepper health care? Well there it is.

[Aristus]

8. Nope.

If I need survival information, I know a lot of ways of accessing it without having to watch some 400-lbs fuckwit in camo gear and a douchebeard talk about how the lizard people are going to get us unless we have paleo meat sticks and an arsenal of assault rifles.

[NewHendoLib]

9. Nope - never have, never will. Just another type of

Cult IMHO

[Kaleva]

10. The problem with prepping is deciding how many to include in your circle

I'm not going to telling the 1O grandkids "Sucks to be you!" or refuse aid to neighbors in need.

From what I gather, almost all preppers only include their immediate nuclear family. Elderly parents, uncles, aunts, adult siblings, adult kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews and so on are not mentioned so I imagine they are excluded. Friends and neighbors are also out .