About 10 years ago I had a period when I read some prepping literature, mainly fiction. Now that we live in a pandemic I'm amazed how far off the mark all the prepping novels were. Generally the premise of such a novel is some type of apocalypse. The bad thing strikes, humanity just takes it in the chin, and the valiant preppers have a field day saving themselves, and in some cases taking care of their communities. Reality turned out so different. If anything, my curiosity in the prepping literature went negative.