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| MadScientist:
Prepping isn’t holding a few days food anyway. Covid actually showed us , communities and governments working together can be very successful, there were no food shortages , communities shared and supported the elderly , the frail or the sick. People willingly sacrificed certain personal freedoms and trusted reliable government information sources and medical experts. Huge public buy in , leading to a 98% vaccination take up. In a catastrophe, working together , sharing and helping gets everyone back on their feet faster. |
| Brumby:
Except when it comes to toilet paper. |
| Halcyon:
The only thing I "prep" for is redundant power and comms (internet). Even during the height of COVID in Australia, supply chains were still working and food was available in abundance in supermarkets, grocery stores etc... That being said, I'm fortunate enough to *not* live in the Sydney metropolitan area so others might have had a very different experience and panicked when their supplies of ready-meals ran out and they had no idea how to cook. I also keep spares of daily consumables on-hand, whether it be dish washing powder, baking paper, toilet paper, coffee beans etc... All that stuff I use all the time, I keep spares on-hand. If I dip into the spare stash, I replenish it with my normal shopping run. To me this isn't prepping, rather, common sense. |
| SmallCog:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on April 19, 2022, 08:48:44 am ---I also keep spares of daily consumables on-hand, whether it be dish washing powder, baking paper, toilet paper, coffee beans etc... All that stuff I use all the time, I keep spares on-hand. If I dip into the spare stash, I replenish it with my normal shopping run. To me this isn't prepping, rather, common sense. --- End quote --- I’ll fess up that I’m slightly prepared. I don’t consider myself a doomsday prepped however. We aren’t exactly swimming in cash, but don’t live week to week either. This led to us keeping an eye out for decent specials / good deals and buying in bulk. There’s no point doing this with items that will be wasted but if dish washing liquid is half price I’ll grab a few bottles. Same applies to tinned/dry/frozen food. It’s a habit we’ve had for a long time not new since Covid. You just need to know what’s a good price, how much you’ll use before it expires, and be careful to put longer dated stuff at the back of the shelf in the pantry. My daughter unfortunately brought Covid home from school recently and under our local laws as soon as she tested positive she and the rest of us were confined to our home for a week with mandatory tests to see if we’d caught it before being released. Since then my wife and I have gone positive, by the time we get out we won’t have left the house for 2 weeks. Having a well stocked pantry and freezer has meant that we haven’t had to ask anyone to bring us groceries. Having an orchard and veggie garden certainly helped too. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote from: MadScientist on April 18, 2022, 09:24:23 pm ---Covid actually showed us , communities and governments working together can be very successful, there were no food shortages , communities shared and supported the elderly , the frail or the sick. People willingly sacrificed certain personal freedoms and trusted reliable government information sources and medical experts. Huge public buy in , leading to a 98% vaccination take up. --- End quote --- This is an ironic joke, right? For a moment I thought it was serious :-DD |
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