This article shows - at least to me - that if these times come to America - preppers will be no better off than people like me. You can’t hide foodstuffs from evil people determined to find it and steal it.
Those people didn't have access to food to store from the beginning of that era. We have plenty of food in this country right now to store whatever we want. No one will know what you have if you don't tell anyone and don't have it out in the open.
If you store nothing, then you have nothing if a natural disaster happens like hurricane, storm, tornado, earthquake, ice storm, loss of power for whatever reason, loss of water if it gets contaminated for whatever reason or is turned off for some reason. It makes sense to have supplies and food/water.
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago
I have a copy of the movie THE GOOD EARTH. It still amazes me how the starving people swarmed the house of one family when everyone thought they had FOOD there.
There will not be a need for the US Government to ration food or to act to cut off food supplies. They have control of the medical services industry and our physical beings. All that they will need to do is withhold drugs or procedures from an “uncompliant pleeb” to show as an example to the masses and the sheep will herd right up.
Don’t get too frightened, this time it will be a humane death tho!
It is also hard to hide the fact that you aren’t losing weight as fast as everyone else.