A slow motion apocalypse.
No, I feel this way. My wife and I got the Covid to start off the year. MIL broke her hip in January. FIL goes into in-house hospice in June. Dies in August. Half of the family lost their jobs. (Try getting a job at 58 and see how many people are interested). Constant media bombardment bashing Trump or inciting looting and burning of America. The list goes on and on.
Maybe you’re perfectly fine and you live on your back 40 and have been completely untouched by any of the above-mentioned crises.
Yes
Maybe your finances are just fine, you never got out much anyway,
No and yes
and you’ve still got 8 years’ worth of food socked away to supplement the things you grow.
Workin on it
Maybe you’re reading this as you spin goat hair into yarn from which you’ll make this year’s mittens.
Not
It was fun while selling our house to watch and listen to reactions to our storage room. At first mockery, then the inevitable “I know where I’m coming if...” Then the realization how bad a notion that is.
That’s the problem with this apocalypse. It’s been drawn out. It’s not a cataclysmic event (like I thought it would be). In many ways that is worse. Because then you are dealing with normalcy bias. And that is dangerous.
The initial lock-down was shocking because we have never done that before. But it has dragged on for so long (thanks, Dimocrats), making the populace begin to think that what we are experiencing is “the new normal” and that everything is fine. While it isn’t.
It feels to me like we are living in the Stranger Things “Upside Down”, where the end of the episode is coming up and the next shoe will drop. I want it to stop.
Ping!
Why would preppers be stressed out. Isn’t this what they planned for and expected?
I didn’t read it all. Got bored. Too much complaining and being surprised at having to adapt.
This is a picnic compare to the coming tribulation
Interesting article and comments at the end.
Some people commented that they feel uneasy, as if something is looming on the horizon.
Others are commenting on the upcoming elections and what’s going to happen with that, and they ALL feel the need to be prepped for whatever is coming.
So they are continuing to do so.
Don’t stop taking your vitamins.
Ping
This has been a stressful year with all that has gone on.
But on the bright side I got 3 new guns and every evening there are small herds of nice bucks feeding and making scrapes by my pond behind the house.
The new Winchester 350 Legend is printing 1/2” groups at 100 yds, and a couple of those bucks are going in the freezer in a few weeks.
Always be prepared for every eventuality.
Man made shortages caused by well, preppers.
Faith.
Preparing is good. Try to avoid taking bad news from places in other parts of the world too personally. Try to find more cheerful things to pay attention to: maybe a tech or hobby interest. And get outdoors as often as possible.
Never ran short of TP or hand sanitizer.
Down to our last pint of 70% isopropyl alcohol, though. Once the stocks return we need to store more away.
Saw where we needed to improve some food stocks, so that's a plus, too.
I’m tired of the drama, drama and more drama about everything. Savages raging and rioting over what mostly amounts to believing lies or just because they can. Apologists for everything under the sun including the sun coming up. And the never ending “most important election of our lives” that reruns every 4 years along with the always popular mail in ballots and impeachment on/off the table and immature self centered congresscritters not doing their jobs and their fighting over judicial nominees BEFORE they’re even announced.
But most of what I’m sick and tired of is the infighting over masks. FR fighting over little bits of cloth. It’s no wonder people are leaving.