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Re:Doomsday Prepping: Reactionary Behavior or Inherited Inst... by doe_eyes on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:20PM (#40900166)
There are tens of millions of people who practice emergency preparedness. There is only a tiny handful of people with private bunkers, and it's overwhelmingly just rich folks who treat it as an offbeat hobby or a status symbol - like a wine cellar or a collection of luxury cars.

I get that it's fascinating, but the "bunker prepper" argument has no place in a good-faith discussion of emergency preparedness.

[Edit: added "private" to address some irrelevant rebukes below.]

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Re:Doomsday Prepping: Reactionary Behavior or Inherited Inst... by hollerith on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:37PM (#40900285)
During the Cold War, Switzerland maintained fallout shelters for its entire population (plus an extra 25%). If you owned a house, the government would periodically inspect the fallout shelter and verify that it was stocked with food and water. Cities had large, communal shelters.

Finland and Sweden were also big on fallout shelters.

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Re:Doomsday Prepping: Reactionary Behavior or Inherited Inst... by bboygravity on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:33PM (#40900252)
"There is only a tiny handful of people with bunkers"

uhm? Ever heard of Zwitserland?

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Re:Doomsday Prepping: Reactionary Behavior or Inherited Inst... by gambiting on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:49PM (#40900359)
Switzerland total population is just over 8 million - so about 0.1% of total. I think "tiny handful" is correct.
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Re:Doomsday Prepping: Reactionary Behavior or Inherited Inst... by slater on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:53PM (#40900375)
Not sure if I'm interpreting your response correctly, but every house and apartment bloc in Switzerland has a bunker.
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