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Preppers Are Quite Prepared to Enjoy Some Vindication

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I did a very minimal prep a few weeks before the lock downs started, mostly things we already use and things the kids like. Helped that first few weeks when people were panic buying.

Definitely need to do more thinking on different scenarios (shelter in place, get out of town, etc).

I think if I lived in California I’d have a bug out bag. Everyone expects to need to run out on the street during an earthquake at some point, and it could be your building that collapses.

Aren't these the same folks out protesting that they can't go get their haircut?

No, I doubt there's much overlap.

Yes, at least in Austin. The protest were led by Alex Jones who pushes prepper gear and related lifestyle products yet they broke after 4 weeks.

To cook up a connection to the two concepts (prepping and reopening cities), apply "distrust of government" and season with "individual liberties"

Surely you don't really think the protests were about haircuts?

Perhaps you do... There have been other examples of people being utterly out-of-touch with the plight of the little people. Marie Antoinette, they say, was confused about why people were protesting about bread shortages when there was so much cake to eat.

You've fallen for republican propaganda.

Republican?!

Trump is the dumbass that encouraged shutdowns in the first place.

Is everything in your worldview filtered through US partisanship? This idiotic overreaction transcends poltics and has been worldwide. It will be in the history books next to Salem Witch Trials, Tulip Mania, and other popular delusions.

Republican as in anti-monarchy, not the US party.

Ha. Of course. My apologies.

The article is about affluent "Silicon Valley"-type preppers -- did you read it?

You seem to be confusing that concept with some kind of straw(wo)man meme you found elsewhere.

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