champ 💫

Here’s “the question” this morning. Let’s pretend there is a yuge emp pulse. Straight on. Fries basically everything digital and unhardened. I think we all understand that would be a near extinction level event. How many of you *really* want to survive in the post-emp world? Because I’m unconvinced I’d want to live like that indefinitely. Post EMP we could conceivably rebuild. Maybe worth holding on for a while to see how things went. But if the event is a highly fatal respiratory virus and it’s all practical and functional wasteland. I’m not sure I’d want to live like that. I’m not suggesting suicide nor anything worse. But if it’s going to be look out for and fight roving marauders to defend a split can of beans and corn. Idk. I’d probably be ok when the pneumonia took me out. Plus being cold. I hate being cold. Grid down sounds like a lot of being cold. I promise I know how to put together an indefinite survival set up. I’ve forgotten more on this topic than most of you will ever read and accumulate. Part of the reason I even moved where I did had these thoughts in mind. The likely natural disasters, the kind of people, the wind pattern as it relates to known nuclear missile ranges and cities that could or would take a direct strike, availability of freely flowing water, growing seasons. Etc etc etc. But at the end of your day. My life is better not overly worrying about something that could happen possibly tomorrow, next week, next month, in a decade or never at all during my lifetime. Frame the worry and paranoia correctly and you’ll see that it’s not that helpful and it creates cognitive barriers to seeing the world right through confirmation bias that feeds back to your worry and paranoia. None of this is an argument not to have 3 days of water or supplies. In the abstract. Three days isn’t enough for anything outside of a post-storm electrical outage or similar. You can now get into navel gazing about how much supply. 2 weeks. 30 days. 3 months. A year! ??? Procuring it. Storing it. Pruning it as needed. Gaze at the navel further about the calories and macros. What you’re going to do for fruit, veggies, fiber. Etc. Will it matter. And when would it matter. Etc. One of the things you never see talked about much is what you’d need to do for sanitation and where everyone does their excretion of normal bodily waste. It can’t be in the house. This is just one more issue that needs a lot more good thought that you might think at first blush. Planning to “bug” out? To where? The bug out bag and your local forest will KILL you (and likely your kids). Well most of you. There are hardcases that can exist like that. Solo. Chances are if you think you are that guy, you are not. But maybe. Be honest with yourself. Who’s going to keep the watch. You were planning to sleep, right? Theres a lot to consider. Have a few supplies in case of a regular enough occuring storm (or earthquake) related halt in just on time deliveries and local utilities. But I don’t think going deep into the prepper rabbit hole is actually realistically helpful or productive. Spend more time in TODAY with the people and activities you I’ve and less planning of possible shootouts at 4 way stops.