Re:Disaster prepping is mainstream again
by tomjen3 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @04:48PM
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Sweden wants you to prep, they sent a letter to every household in the country.
I prepped for Covid in late February or early March, I was pessimistic in my assumptions, but not by much.
Prepping is important, but you also have to be reasonable when you plan, and you have to be aware of what you can't adapt for (e.g I realized that I had to assume water would still be available, because I couldn't store 14+ days of water in my apartment).
Most of the people who are normally labeled preppers don't have a reasonable assumption of what they prep for. So they try to prepare for the end of the world, not because it is realistically going to happen, but because they need to control things.
I prepped for Covid in late February or early March, I was pessimistic in my assumptions, but not by much.
Prepping is important, but you also have to be reasonable when you plan, and you have to be aware of what you can't adapt for (e.g I realized that I had to assume water would still be available, because I couldn't store 14+ days of water in my apartment).
Most of the people who are normally labeled preppers don't have a reasonable assumption of what they prep for. So they try to prepare for the end of the world, not because it is realistically going to happen, but because they need to control things.