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Comment by chasd00 | Hacker News Reader

self preservation is at the root of prepping and is an inherited instinct. However, these days, prepping has been integrated into the social media sales process to the point it has more in common with fashion than instinct or reactionary behavior IMO. I can't think of a single source i would trust for information regarding preparing for large scale disasters, it's all ads.

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Maybe you should trust information from FEMA for instance? Or just the Department of Homeland Security in general? While there is certainly an aspect of consumerism in some prepper communities the actually serious people tend to default to advice given by actual authorities that deal with disasters in the real world. Serious preppers tend to focus more on rotating their potable water supplies and making sure the backup batteries are charged than buying whatever tacticool new PDW is being marketed on instagram

https://www.ready.gov/ Is the most obvious resource and has a whole bunch of valuable information.

Hmm, FEMA. That’s the heck of a job brownie team, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_government_re...

Ahh yes two decades ago there was some issues. This clearly makes any disaster preparedness advice from this organization totally useless. You know what while we are at it we should all reject libraries, freeways, the park service, and the postal service as I am sure at some point all these institutions had a clear and public failure and that obviously totally invalidates anything else they do.

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