A few of the limited people I know who didn't take the vax and also believed this is a culling have stopped trying to prepare for the future in any way. Early on, during the vax rollout, they were fully motivated to stock up on food and other prepper items that would help survive a collapse. I've spent the last two years acquiring rural land, making a huge garden, and stocking up on lots of food storage.
I talked to both of these individuals recently, and they had both kind of given up on trying to survive a possible collapse. The said they just couldn't keep watching forums like this and seeing the inexorable march of the NWO. It was driving them into deep depressions. They had lost all of the fire they had in our previous conversations. Oddly, they both claimed that they thought everything would work out fine. Both of them had become super religious as well.
I don't know if they had jumped on the Q bandwagon and were "trusting the plan", or if, when faced with insurmountable odds, they turned to religion as the only escape from this nightmare.
Whatever the source for their newfound optimism, I was curious if a lot of other people were reaching burnout levels as well. I am in a higher paying career than either of them, which allowed me to spend more money on prepping than they could. Is their burnout tied to their inability to feasibly prepare for collapse?
I left an open invitation for them to join me when the shit hits the fan, because going solo isn't going to work.
I think those of us in a more fortuitous position to prepare for the collapse need to help our like-minded neighbors and friends whereever we can. We will need each other to weather this storm so when you are buying bulk food storage, get more than you need for your family if you have the means.
I hope all of this prepping has just been a waste of money, and that some miracle appears to save our sorry asses. Maybe they have the right idea with expecting everything to work out. We make our own universes, so I've heard.
Thanks for your post.
I have prepped to a degree that I can. I live in a large metropolitan city (downtown) and my circumstances are limited.
I looked into buying remote country property, but I didn't want to be all alone in the boonies. That is frightening enough. Living in a high rise, there are multiple levels of security one has to get through to just stand in front of my door.
To your idea of helping less fortunate preppers, i have through about creating groups (LLCs) of preppers with limited resources. These groups can use their combined resources to buy property and build bunkers. Groups can be created using personality testing, so as to ward off conflict.
What are your planning efforts?
I have slightly given up and accepted God's plan. I try every day to let go and let God do his work. That it is NOT all up to me to fix.
You live in a target rich environment. This means one only has to get through those (super easy) layers of perceived security one time and they've got all of you. Not to mention, it takes an entire grocery store just to feed your building for a couple days. That's the worst possible scenario imaginable to be in, real talk. If you're not gonna move, get at least 3 months of food and a very powerful gun to protect yourself with; something that would be powerful enough to defend against a group of 8 large meth-fueled men busting into your apartment with machetes to chop you up, because that's what's coming, eventually.
Don't want to be alone? Move to a suburb; suburbs are safer than super rural, as long as they aren't within bike riding distance to the big city or to any large African neighborhoods.
I am concerned about that. I have at least a year of provisions and a couple of offensive weapons, although I am considering more. I am considering buying some sort of door reinforcement as well, I have even considered electrifying it. I have a solar generator, plus the building has its own generator and secured underground parking. There is only one way into my unit, unless you can climb 20+ stories.
Part of me would like to move, I work remotely, to a place in the country. I almost bought an acre with a little house on it. The holdback was being in the boonies all by myself. As a woman that did not seem very safe. The idea someone can just walk right up to my front door is very frightening.
Sorry suburbs seem like they would be target rich. Everyone is out there, not in the city center. There very few highrises in downtown and clearly not near the same level residents and access.
I am hoping that those raving bands of meth addicts with machetes will take the easy pickings in the burbs and completely forget about the residents downtown. Also, I expect most residents in my building will bug out too, only be stuck on a freeway somewhere.
Let's hope it does not come to that, but I am prepared to do what it takes to protect myself.
That's good man, do whatever you can to be prepped AF. Hopefully none of this hardcore level SHTF (civil war, long term blackout, etc.) really happens in our lives, but I promise you will never have a feeling of regret about being overly prepared (from experience, since I've been at it for over a decade and it's never been needed yet). It's easy to go overboard, but it sounds like you've got your mind right about it.
Also, I ain't gonna lie, moving to the boonies from a social and easily walkable situation is really tough on the psyche.