Hat Tip to Old Sarge for the heads up.
The cartoon I posted in Post 14 and the comments in post 15 demonstrate why I just cannot bring myself to open the subject of preps and defense with neighbors and acquaintances with whom we are friendly but not close. We know them to say hello to but have no idea about them, their attitudes, deeper loyalties, etc.
I know that in a SHTF catastrophe a group stands a better chance than a lone individual or a small family of 2 or 3. However we have no close friends among our neighbors or nearby with whom we can team and share confidential information.
I don't want to share prepper and defense info and make plans with a neighbor who is just a casual acquaintance only to find that he is not self reliant or has greater loyalty to an extended family or group that will show up on D-Day with no supplies but plenty of hungry kids and enough manpower to take what they want.
For that reason we keep our own confidences and plan on going it alone as long as possible. I figure that when the time comes people will show their true colors and we will decide who can be trusted, who is worth teaming with, and who is not.
Lots of wisdom in your post.
Every plan made for these events will become obsolete the second after it occurs.
That is the only thing we can be sure about.
Going it alone will be ok for some amount of time. Then maybe people will be sent to help you or you will be sent to help someone. I assume there is a plan that will hold up and it’s only his plan that we need to follow.