Guest Post by Ol’ Remus
These are your choices. They always were and they always will be.
Prepare when no one else is preparing.
Panic when everyone else is panicking.
Got food? Ammo? Meds? It’s too late now to prepare adequately for the pandemic much less the impending derailment of civilization itself. Preppers were calmly topping off their stashes in early January, at regular prices, in any quantity with lots-o’-choices. They saw the foreshadow of this emergency and acted appropriately. Prepping always looks crazy until the rug gets pulled. Paranoia is a survival tool, panic is not.
Systems are visibly collapsing. The stock market is out-crashing the 1929 debacle in both speed and depth. “No Admittance” signs are posted at hospitals and needed surgeries are being cancelled. Police aren’t responding to anything less then a murder in progress. Cities are opening the prison doors and chasing off the inmates. Food wholesalers were cleaned out in a fortnight and many can’t restock enough to matter. Others have stopped answering their phones.
Guns and ammo are selling at a record rate. Dealers say even anti-gun leftists are buying ’em. No one will say it, but it won’t take much scarcity for the perpetual EBT Diversity to go where the food and supplies are. It’s just there they’ll meet real resistance for the first time in their lives. The suburbs have learned their family freezers are worth more than social posing. Unlike the stock market, price discovery will be utterly reliable when it comes to fried chicken and a six pack.
Our Open Borders Diversities already clog the ER and get it all for free because you’re paying their bills. Activists will choose the most deserving victims and it won’t be the Deplorables. Compulsory charity can’t be any other way. Tribal loyalty or redemption will be served. Either way, traditional Americans are a problem to be solved and inaction leaves no fingerprints.
The CDC had one job. Virology. Other countries had reliable test kits ready to go, in sufficient quantity to be useful. The technology is decades old yet the “renowned” CDC managed to botch it. The CDC distributed excuses and promises. N95 masks? Ventilators? Um, no. Maybe eventually, their Top Men are working on it. Somehow they always have plenty of everything to “fight the epidemic of obesity and racism” but not enough to perform their mandate. The CDC is useless and incompetent, an 11 billion dollar scam, benefiting no one except otherwise unemployable social activists.
Meanwhile, Russia is shipping nine planeloads of medics and surplus equipment and supplies to Italy, including ventilators.
Natural News reports:
The battle for Los Angeles is lost. LA County announces no more testing for coronavirus, containment now impossible, 100,000+ may die in LA, prepare for chaos
The tipping point of containment has long since passed. That’s not even the goal anymore, and the number of infections being reported out of LA will no longer even come close to describing the real situation on the ground there…
Expect chaos. Expect looting and violence. It’s LA, after all, and the gangs are barely kept in check even during good times.
Over the top? Maybe. But would you be surprised if DC had plans to carpet bomb parts of major cities? Thought not. Reality has outrun our imagination.
I’m busy outfitting my SUV for extended trips, stuff like aggressive tires all around, another NATO gas can, tailored food and supplies. Trips to where? I don’t know. Fishing overnighters maybe, or a getaway if waves of desperados choose this particular hill to pull a Genghis Khan. Probably fishing, because they’d see right away y’gotta be nuts to live out here. I offer myself as evidence.
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Prepare now or end up like this guy!
I’ll never understand why the toilet paper and water dissapeared before the food and ammo.
Must be women.
women don’t prep.. they plan… see above…
They scheme
yup! They belong to the borg me thinks.
did you have permission to post that pic of …..”s wife?
she is kinda hot if stuck in quarantine…
a solid 6 rolls in my books!
Agreed.
I will be buying a shotgun and ammo on the sly when the Fed helicopter money arrives.
With regards to food, I checked out my local warehouse and noted even the expensive bags of aged Basmati rice were scavenged. Normally an 8lb. bag was going for $17US plus tax before the panic. Barely anyone would consider buying it.
Before the virus scare I told the wife it was a good idea to get some when no one was buying even when it was $4 at clearance prices. We bought the remaining 8 bags and no one pitched a fit then about us being rude “hoarders”.
Isn’t that amazing. Panic during a manufactured crisis makes people ignorant. In the future worse things are in store. I up and told the wife if folks are this ignorant now I might be compelled to kill a few of them later when they get extremely stupid. Sadly, she laughed it off and doesn’t believe me….
Ant,
Check the Basmati rice for tiny, I mean tiny rice weevils(?). If you notice a brownish color at the bottom of the bag you probably got them. Use a magnifying glass. I’m speaking from experience on 2 big bags purchased at different times and places. You can freeze the rice to kill them.
The side benefit is added protein.
“Over the top?”
Similar those who believe that “living for the day” means stroking your happiness button 24/7, “prepping” does not mean creating the illusion of excess around oneself, instead, it points towards getting your own act together so you can do what’s most important in any crisis, being in the position to help others in need.
The only way we really survive is by being able to put our own needs in perspective [because you have already discovered that they are few]. Why live in a 1980’s apocalyptic B movie when you can turn such challenging times into opportunity for doing what is best for all?
Calm down and see what you can do to help out. This is the U.S., nobody is going to be starving any time soon.
Here Here. I am now in the process of canning 28 jars of chicken soup for starters for when needy neighbors and friends come a-calling. The ones who thought I was crazy before this shit went down. I’ve even got apologies from some.
“I’m in & I have to give Richo an apology for all those years thinking he was crazy
about stocking up on items ( water, can goods , clothes, ammo ….etc.) & saying the stores are going to close down & the shit is going to hit the fan. You were right all the time & I’m sorry I called you a nut job behind your back.”
He can have some soup.
Last year I was appalled at how low our reserves had fallen, and began making an earnest effort to get everything in good shape. Watching this thing unfold in January was enough to get me motivated to top everything off. We’re in pretty good shape, and fortunately in Mohave County (AZ) no confirmed cases yet (lack of testing?) Just noticed that we only have two half rolls of duct tape. Plan on remedying that soon. Wash your hands! Be safe all…
“The CDC is useless and incompetent, an 11 billion dollar scam, benefiting no one except otherwise unemployable social activists.”
The end result of 5 decades or so of actively screwing white men out of both slots at the universities and jobs, in favor of less capable, less competent, diverse individuals.
So here’s the deal..
Just got off the phone with my financial adviser. Today is damage control day and the call was to console me in my losses. Keeping to the script and with me on board I allayed his fears. I’m just in it for the laughs anyways!
Having been reassured that there were no plans to go postal, we got down to the brass tacks. Him disabused by the presently deconstructed Ponzi scheme, he was of course in selling mode. Trying hard to not laugh out loud at farce, I gamely went along…
Quickly he proceeded to the great buying opportunities for those willing to wade with sharks and invest right NOW!…
(opportunities ovey!… hmmm.. hey where did I hear that one before…. thinking of a Farmer) .
The expert finance guy is now convinced that the bottom is firm and raring to go! He plans on going ballz deep into this mess. Going so far as telling me that he has borrowed One Hundred Grand to push all in..
He fancies himself Mr. Plow!
He is a better man than me..
I’m glad he’s taking one for team!