That's the point. In many respects, community life is just a polite facade.

I think both sides of this thread agree that most of us (in the US at least) don’t have a robust community in the “community resilience” sense.

The only disagreement I think is in the definition of community. We could either say that community is just, like, our extended circle of acquaintances; we’ve all got one and it isn’t very robust against disasters. Or we could say that a resilient community is some deeper thing on which people can lean in a disaster, but which needs to be carefully tended to, and most of us lack.

The latter is, I think, what the original poster meant.

Yes, that was what I was going for. If you consider your community to be only the likeminded, cooperative people you know and associate with and rely on for help, then of course "your community" is great. I was talking about the greater community: the full population of your town, neighborhood and/or surrounding neighborhoods, and I'd estimate (depending on where in the country) a good 50% showed their counterproductive, selfish, belligerent side during COVID. Since we collectively haven't learned anything from our mistakes, I would expect the same behavior during the next disaster.

I think it is not just a matter of what you consider your community. The comment was suggesting building that community of reliable and likeminded people. It takes work, it is part of the “prep.” I certainly haven’t done it. But of course the suggestion must be to build the good type of community.

I see. I thought you were refuting the advice that having community is a major factor in resiliency - you were actually saying, "lol good luck having community in the modern world." Which... yeah : /

that's the parents point though