Doomsday Prep For Non-Paranoid People

[DrHenley]

What do you call a prepper who doesn't want to be called a prepper?
Looks like the masses are starting to wake up...
https://lifehacker.com/doomsday-prep-for-non-paranoid-people-1793870107
Some holes in her preps, but a move in the right direction...

 

[Brent S]

What do you call a prepper who doesn't want to be called a prepper?
Looks like the masses are starting to wake up...
https://lifehacker.com/doomsday-prep-for-non-paranoid-people-1793870107
Some holes in her preps, but a move in the right direction...

I loved the bit about chocolate! I wish more people would wake up...

 

[Kevin L]

Thank you for pointing out this article.

My girlfriend is concerned that I'm paranoid. She's an RN, and should really know better...but she hasn't seen what I've seen as a medic.

Andrew was--for me--my big epiphany.

I lost a lot of faith in humanity when I worked down there with the Red Cross.

 

[Maverick]

Prepping is just common sense and equal opportunity for both the paranoid and non-paranoid and I'm ok if one want's to be called a prepper or not. In the end labels doesn't mean anything.

Good article!

 

[jontte]

nice,but I felt a little bit uneasy about no gun,even I have one (perhaps ) and if you have kids,you need to protect them.

 

[Brent S]

nice,but I felt a little bit uneasy about no gun,even I have one (perhaps ) and if you have kids,you need to protect them.

Water, food, shelter, SECURITY. Basic prepping rules.

 

[lonewolf]

whats paranoid about being prepared??

 

[Brent S]

whats paranoid about being prepared??

What, didn’t you know anyone that hoards food and ammo is an evil person?

 

[lonewolf]

don't know about the ammo but storing food used to be called common sense.

 

[Brent S]

To me, having some ammo to defend what you have worked hard for and to keep your family safe is common sense as well. If shtf I’m willing to bet that most cops would not show up and would take care of their families first, at least for a time.

 

[lonewolf]

we don't even see police here now never mind post SHTF.

 

[Brent S]

we don't even see police here now never mind post SHTF.

Lol. I understand, I bet if you were in a rich development then there would be more police presence.

 

[Brent S]

we don't even see police here now never mind post SHTF.

You are allowed a shotgun for hunting birds aren’t you?

 

[lonewolf]

You are allowed a shotgun for hunting birds aren’t you?

if we want to go through all the licencing procedures and the homes visit, yes, I don't.
i'll stick to my air rifles...for hunting small game.

 

[Brent S]

if we want to go through all the licencing procedures and the homes visit, yes, I don't.
i'll stick to my air rifles...for hunting small game.

With no police presence I might reconsider that decision. Right now things are fairly stable and civil, but if anything happens to change that it can become ugly quickly.

 

[lonewolf]

country people around here are known to sort out there own problems, the head of a family of burglars was hung out of an upstairs window by one leg and told to leave the area, the family left that same day without picking up any of their stuff and were never seen again.
i'm not too concerned about outside influence, we are far enough away from urban settlements, and several hundreds of miles away from any big city.
we have been classified by a doctor no less as "on the edge of everything and in the middle of nowhere".

 

[Psalm7]

I personally know several other Preppers and none of Them are paranoid . Anyone I know that I would consider paranoid do not have enough sense to be a Prepper .

 

[Brent S]

Honestly for me the prepping is what keeps me from being paranoid. Knowing I can handle just about anything Mother Nature can throw at me is a secure feeling. I’m also smart enough to know that no one can be prepared for everything, and that’s where knowledge comes in. Being able to prepare food and filter water without electricity and make a shelter from little to nothing brings a peaceful confidence.

 

[lonewolf]

I've been called paranoid by people who only prep for short term events( that's if they prep at all) because I concentrate on long term events not minor ones, water off a ducks back as far as I am concerned, i'm not liable to meet any of these people post long term SHTF because they wont be around.

 

[prepspa]

whats paranoid about being prepared??

I agree

 

[tmttactical]

I like being a paranoid prepper, it motivates me.

 

[LiveTrap]

23% of deaths this year in the U.S. will be due to heart attacks and strokes. I'm a lot more paranoid about that than I am any of the prepper scenarios. The nearest emergency room is four minutes away, and a world class hospital is about nine minutes away. Great healthcare is more likely to save my life and my wife's life than a stockpile of food. But yes, a person can have it both ways with some careful planning. Rice and beans, are cheap.

 

[jontte]

yup and let's hope we don't need those preps fro shtf !
very likely we do,but hope not..

 

[tmttactical]

Prepping is like living close to those hospitals. You hope you never need them but good to know they are there. Prepping supplies fall into that same category. Nice to have them but hope you never need them.

 

[lonewolf]

23% of deaths this year in the U.S. will be due to heart attacks and strokes. I'm a lot more paranoid about that than I am any of the prepper scenarios. The nearest emergency room is four minutes away, and a world class hospital is about nine minutes away. Great healthcare is more likely to save my life and my wife's life than a stockpile of food. But yes, a person can have it both ways with some careful planning. Rice and beans, are cheap.

nearest emergency room to me is 25-30 miles away, about 1 hours travel in a car on our roads, in an emergency they call out the air ambulance(helicopter).

 

[Brent S]

nearest emergency room to me is 25-30 miles away, about 1 hours travel in a car on our roads, in an emergency they call out the air ambulance(helicopter).

Here you need to prep to pay for that air ambulance as it can be 50,000 dollars.....

 

[lonewolf]

ours is a charity, it runs on donations and any funding it can get.
all UK health needs are free at the point of need. paid for by general taxation.

 

[BillMasen]

I'm not paranoid, I KNOW they are out to get me !

 

[jontte]

we used to have a very big right to express us here in my neck of woods,but now our ombudsman stated,that it would be prudent to start deleting old FB post if they contain something that could be rasist,offensive to some minority,offensive to someone,so that one might not be prosecuted in the future if it's labeld illegal ---> re-writing history to suit those in powers at present... 1984 here we come

 

[tmttactical]

ours is a charity, it runs on donations and any funding it can get.
all UK health needs are free at the point of need. paid for by general taxation.

Not free, paid by tax payers. Just not billable. Here, if you are out in the boondocks, then you should carry "Life Flight" insurance. Cheap and readily available. The only thing "Free"in life is the air we breath and that is only because the government has not figured out a way to tax it.