As I posted on another thread, last week Anderson Cooper had a show about prepping.
He asked the audience for a show of hands of those who had a three day supply of water, food, and needed meds.
Realize this was an audience of about 60 people, no doubt mostly middle class soccer mom types.
My jaw dropped. Not more than about four hands went up.
I live in a section of 61 townhouses and we have a gate with a code to get in. Most of the people are retired.
Three hurricanes have come through here since 2003. Why don't these people have preps all the time? They don't. They rush out to the grocery and grab bottles of water and cold cuts and bread and eat cold sandwiches the days power is off. This last time power was off for five days. They have no way to cook or heat food or make coffee. Based on that, they probably had one flashlight.
I can't save all of them so none of them know what I have. I was cool and had hot food and coffee and light and working phone and working TV even though power was off.
I just don't get the mind of people who have nothing as your comments indicate those people didn't, except for 4 people who had three days of food.
People are trusting others for what they need to live - to live, actually keep on living. I trust me more than someone else.