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Originally Posted by cockerpunk

prepping is a coping mechanism for not being in control of your life.

you can reject my actual personal experience with civilization melting down, that merely proves the above point even more.

i dont know what fiction you lived through with lockdown, but there was never a struggle to feed myself. not having the family sized cinnamon toast crunch available, and having to buy the slightly smaller size is not a reason to have 3 years of food stockpiled.

civilization will always exist. i learned this when civilization ended here. and what happened is that we reuilt a new civilization in less than a day. we organized our own emergency services, we created a new policing force because the police were useless. we protected ourselves and helped each other. it was shocking how fast it happened. and it was shocking how effective it was. we fought the police, and the nazis, and the fires they tried to start, all at the same time.

i get it. prepping makes one feel better about a world they cannot control. but its a lot of money for no real use. and again, i lived through civilization ending. the police, and other emergency services going down. even the food supply literally being stolen. and it wasn't prepping that did it, it wasn't guns, it wasn't having buckets of food or generators, it was building a new support system in hours with my friends and neighbors.

reject my advice if you want to. but i actually lived through it. and thats what i learned.

Asking seriously, Where was this and when?