Prepping?

[Group9]

Originally Posted by Lake-Effect

But since you asked... I'd finish my time machine and go back a couple of decades, and try to stop a few western democracies from screwing with Venezuela, so that they have a better shot at forming a more stable government.

Well, as long as you have a rational and realistic plan. With critical thinking skills like that, you'll be fine.

[Lake-Effect]

Originally Posted by Group9

Well, as long as you have a rational and realistic plan. With critical thinking skills like that, you'll be fine.

It was an improbable scenario, so I provided a like answer. Seriously, do you think extreme 'prepping' would seriously mitigate the turmoil that Venezuela has been going through?

[newhaul]

Originally Posted by Lake-Effect

It was an improbable scenario, so I provided a like answer. Seriously, do you think extreme 'prepping' would seriously mitigate the turmoil that Venezuela has been going through?

it is not an impossible scenario . People are actually living it in many places on the planet.
it would go a long way towards mitigating the worst of the effects for my immediate family yes.

( those that forget the past are doomed to repeat it.)

[Lake-Effect]

Originally Posted by newhaul

it is not an impossible scenario . People are actually living it in many places on the planet.
it would go a long way towards mitigating the worst of the effects for my immediate family yes.

Sketch it out for us. You're a Mormon in Caracas, you and your family have a year's stockpile... start from there:

[Robert Tilbury]

Originally Posted by sandy stone

You truly think this is a serious global threat? Seems more likely the planet is getting hotter, not colder. But then, who really knows?

We all plan for the future in our own way, best of luck to you and your family.

Agree 100% sandy ,
We have had the hottest summer in Sydney for 50 years ,,

Also didn't one of the looney politicians in the USA say the poler cap would met by now ,,,, I think its larger ?
I could be wrong ....

Anyhow there is money in global warming so it will just keep going ,,, Its autumn here
32c sunny we are off sailing the sunny south coast of Jervis bay ( 80nm south of Sydney ,,,

here is a link ,,,, enjoy



https://www.google.com.au/destinatio...pm%3D/m/0184rt

[Group9]

Originally Posted by Lake-Effect

It was an improbable scenario, so I provided a like answer. Seriously, do you think extreme 'prepping' would seriously mitigate the turmoil that Venezuela has been going through?

There is nothing wrong with hoping that bad things don't happen. But, don' t try and call that a plan.

[Seabeau]

Originally Posted by Lake-Effect

Kind of a tortured hypothetical. In their failing economy, how would any average non-crooked person amass a stash of food etc? If you were more middle class or better, you've probably bought yourself on out of there already.

But since you asked... I'd finish my time machine and go back a couple of decades, and try to stop a few western democracies from screwing with Venezuela, so that they have a better shot at forming a more stable government.

Your turn. What would you do?

That's really funny, considering how Venezuela didn't need any real help destabilizing their own government. Socialism always works great until you run out of other people's money.

[newhaul]

Originally Posted by Lake-Effect

Sketch it out for us. You're a Mormon in Caracas, you and your family have a year's stockpile... start from there:

that's actually quite easy . We have a rather large presence in Caracas.
https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/facts...ntry/venezuela
About 170,000 members with another 4 million throughout south America.
Your turn and keep it real ( in other words something you can actually do now.)

[Lake-Effect]

Originally Posted by newhaul

that's actually quite easy . We have a rather large presence in Caracas.
https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/facts...ntry/venezuela
About 170,000 members with another 4 million throughout south America.

Don't look now, but I think you've just agreed with me - that real prepping isn't the food and weapons you saved in your basement, but the relationships you have, the group(s) you belong to, the connections you've made. The Church of the LDS is a pretty good organization to be part of in a time of crisis. And they're pretty helpful to others too, in my experience.

[newhaul]

Originally Posted by Lake-Effect

Don't look now, but I think you've just agreed with me - that real prepping isn't the food and weapons you saved in your basement, but the relationships you have, the group(s) you belong to, the connections you've made. The Church of the LDS is a pretty good organization to be part of in a time of crisis. And they're pretty helpful to others too, in my experience.

you have to be able to take care of yourself and your own family before you can even think of helping anyone else . There are many who don't plan and expect you to give to everything to them your family be damned. There in like the rub and need to defend yourselves.

[akprb]

Ok, I’m the OP so I’ll step back in here.

We (humans) are tribal by nature. As cruisers are we a tribe? I’d say yes.

If times got tough would we behave as such? I’d say yes.

Good community to belong to :-) Relationships do matter, especially then.

[Lake-Effect]

Originally Posted by akprb

Ok, I’m the OP so I’ll step back in here.

We (humans) are tribal by nature. As cruisers are we a tribe? I’d say yes.

If times got tough would we behave as such? I’d say yes.

Good community to belong to :-) Relationships do matter, especially then.

Thank you. Tribal is kind of a dirty word these days, but i get where you're going with it.

I've agreed (several times) that it's more than sensible to make preparations to be able to independently ride out disruptions, crises, etc. But that will only be a piece of what ultimately leads to survival of something really catastrophic. A basement full of guns and MREs will never be enough.

I hope you're right about the cruisers 'pull-together' thing... it would be an extension of the human capacity to cooperate. (I also worry about a new world made mainly of old white boat owners... . Eh, not today's problem)

Is it unreasonable to also suggest that if some people spent less time thinking up and preparing for SHTF scenarios, and more time trying to keep S away from the F, that they might worry less about the apocalypse?

Originally Posted by newhaul

you have to be able to take care of yourself and your own family before you can even think of helping anyone else . There are many who don't plan and expect you to give to everything to them your family be damned.

And there are people who participate in their society, belong to or support aid organizations, and don't spend ridiculous amounts of time thinking up implausible civilization-ending scenarios. That's prevention.

You already know that 1 year cache or not, your protection and survival will mainly come from your church membership and working together with them, not your stockpile.

/ it's Sunday Sermon over; go catch a nice brunch somewhere

[GordMay]

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... The last US factory making penicillin closed in 2004, he found. Only 10 percent of the generic drugs used in this country are made here. Four-fifths of the active ingredients in American pharmaceuticals come from somewhere else, mostly India and China. If anything disrupted delivery of a critically needed drug—a process line collapsing in a factory, a typhoon fouling the path of container ships—supplies would run short, the manufacturer would be far out of US jurisdiction, and there would be no domestic alternative ...”

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[newhaul]

Originally Posted by Lake-Effect

/ it's Sunday Sermon over; go catch a nice brunch somewhere

that would be nice but after services today I am instead building a new high tunnel greenhouse so I can grow more food for my family.
It is a proven fact that when food supplies get low for extended periods people ( when desperate to feed their own ) do desperate things.

[chris95040]

Originally Posted by newhaul

that would be nice but after services today I am instead building a new high tunnel greenhouse so I can grow more food for my family.

It is a proven fact that when food supplies get low for extended periods people ( when desperate to feed their own ) do desperate things.

Did you manufacture that greenhouse on your property? What will you do when a storm destroys it?

Nuts, now theres no one to make a new one. Too bad you spent all your efforts hoarding ephemeral toys rather than maintaining a functioning society.