Posted on 12/19/2011 6:55:25 PM PST by Kartographer
Picture the scene: It’s the end of January 2012 and already it is clear the year to come will make that which has just passed seem something of a picnic. The last strains of Auld Lang Syne had barely faded before Greece defaulted on its debts. Over the next few weeks, Italy and Spain will follow. Across Britain and the Continent, bank after bank goes down, a domino effect exacerbated by panicking customers desperately withdrawing their savings. Where three years ago the giants of High Street banking were seen as too big too fail, now they are too big and too many for any Government to save. Panic ensues. Within hours, the cashpoints are empty of money and the supermarket shelves stripped bare.
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Imagine being required to buy all your water from the cartel, and different cartels "owning" different sections of Interstate highway.
Lol - Ok, your home is off the list! ; )
We used to go through the whole hurricane routine each year in South Florida. Once we had 3 years in a row where we lost power for 10+ days. It was "great training" on rationing power and ensuring we had the proper supplies. By the time Wilma hit and got us for nearly 2 weeks with no power, we had learned to live quite comfortably, including a family movie each night, air conditioning rationed to 3 periods a day, hot coffee and cold milk in the AM and lots of time on the patio.
Preparation isn't just for the SHTF situations, sometimes life just happens...
Cheers!
that’s my situation. Extra food? Right.
Oh my, wow. That’s certainly something the average person doesn’t think about. Withdrawal from ADs can be debilitating, to say the least, even frightening. Someone very close to me went through it; even with tapering down, it was a weeks-long process that was no fun to watch. Big Pharma won’t even call it withdrawal; it’s “discontinuation syndrome” and all of it is downplayed to drs and patients alike so they get more people on them, roughtly 10% of the entire US population and counting.
And not just ADs - abrupt withdrawal from psychotropics used to treat serious mental illness will be MUCH worse. And those anti-anxiety meds - benzos. Hey, and not only that - withdrawal in general as it sweeps the general populace. Withdrawal from caffiene, from sugar, from alcohol, from tobacco, from drugs legal and illegal, from TV, from video games, from normal life, for Petes sake.
Gee, what a happy train of thought that is.
I was on some several years ago. Getting off of them was a nightmare. I hated the effects of them, and getting off was something out of “lost weekend.”.
If someone I loved was on them, I would be sure to have 90 days worth, and a pill cutter on hand. Slowly weaning yourself is certainly not advised with professional input, and it is no picnic.
I don’t trust myself to get started on this topic, I could rant for an hour. My close person was my husband, and he wasn’t told a single thing about withdrawal. In fact the ADs themselves caused enough problems (perscribed for anxiety and made it worse) that he wanted to get off them, so I started reading about them in general and the more I read, the more horrified I got. We took our concerns to his psych (he’d been referred to a psych by his GP because he had adverse reactions to the first AD and it freaked the GP out) and were treated like little children, told that withdrawal was a myth, stop meddling in his efforts to treat, there’s no way my husband’s anxiety was worsened by the drugs even though the inserts that come with them list them as possible side effects (he told us that the drug companies put them in there for liability purposes, not because they’re an actual concern!), said he’d been on the board during development for one of them - can you say conflict of interest? My husband said he wanted to get off them anyway and the psych said, just take a half dose for a week, you’ll be fine. Not!
OK, must stop typing before I get too incensed. :)
you can buy individual Morgan or Peace silver dollars (cull) at pretty reasonable prices on some of the pm sites.
We try to buy about 5-6 a month, depending on the price of silver.
http://www.apmex.com/Product/180/default.aspx
We try to cover as many bases as we can afford and pm’s are one of them. Cigs and booze will obviously be in high demand.
I am extremely lucky in that I have one cosin who is a psychiatrist and another who is married to a pain management Dr. Free, but really good advice. And the docs I worked with we’re very open and up front-—and willing to work with whatever directions I wanted to take.
When I hear storie such as yours, I thank God for the help I have available.
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