Posted: 3/3/2009 3:57:21 PM EDT
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As things come apart, we all may be faced with who do we save and who Is thrown to the wolves question.
Are you ready for that? My Mother is older and has problems but I have to take care of her. My son is ready on his own and will do fine or stand and go down as a man. The ex and mother of my boys who thinks I am nuts for having thought about bad times gets left. The other son is a resident of the state and he will fare the best he can but most likely not make it. I bug out and go take care of those who are important and take Mom with me. |
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There are few that think like me and you. I talked to the only person I really know (my father) and he gets really upset on many levels when I want to help us prepair for the end.
For example. he seems to think that he wants to give food to his neighbors that are starving. On the other hand I am preparing to protect my food stash with extreme mother fucking prejudice. I've posted about this situation before. People here told me to social network and find like minded people. Yeah, good luck with that. Looks like I'm alone, and alot of sleepless nights are in my future if the s ever htf. Have you visited the survival forums? |
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It's not a question of being "cold" as much as having my priorities in order. My family comes before friends, friends before neighbors, neighbors before strangers. I don't have the same responsibilities to every person on earth - those responsibilities are pretty much an ordered hierarchy and departing from that hierarchy is not good, but actually immoral should it cause me to fail in my duties to those I have an actual responsibility to support and protect.
We had a discussion during the last extended power outage here - I told my friends that in SHTF, that they and their families were welcome to come by, but don't come empty handed. One said "but what if we have nothing?". I said "If you choose to completely ignore what I have been telling you the last 5 years, and still haven't 'gotten it' in these few small storms we've had, and still haven't stocked away anything for yourself so you can contribute to the group, you would be the worst kind of freeloader, would be stealing from my children, and would frankly not be someone I want to be friends with, and as a result not welcome. I don't think you are that kind of person, so skip McDonalds a few times and stock up on a few things. If disaster strikes and you LOSE all your preparations, that is one thing, but right now you are not doing your job, so don't expect me to do it for you." He took my point and started preparing. |
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I do disaster contingency planning for a living....most of my days are spent trying to figure out how to mitigate the effects of pandemics, earthquakes, civil unrest, terror attacks, etc.
I spend a good portion of my day reading through intelligence briefings so that I know what we should realistically be planning for and the rest of it reading articles on disaster medicine to figure out how best to provide public health in an enviroment which has entirely broken down. How cold am I? You have 50 cots.....100 body bags.....its 90 degrees outside....there is a regional power outage....you have no diesel for the generators past tomorrow...and you are expecting 1000+ corpses within the next 72 hours. How do you accomodate mass fatality in a manner that wont significantly contaminate your area and propagate further disease, preserve forensic evidence in the event that law enforcement wants the bodies later, and facilitate the plan with people who most likely have never seen a dead person up close except at a funeral. Well? The clock is ticking. |
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Quoted: It's not a question of being "cold" as much as having my priorities in order. My family comes before friends, friends before neighbors, neighbors before strangers. I don't have the same responsibilities to every person on earth - those responsibilities are pretty much an ordered hierarchy and departing from that hierarchy is not good, but actually immoral should it cause me to fail in my duties to those I have an actual responsibility to support and protect. We had a discussion during the last extended power outage here - I told my friends that in SHTF, that they and their families were welcome to come by, but don't come empty handed. One said "but what if we have nothing?". I said "If you choose to completely ignore what I have been telling you the last 5 years, and still haven't 'gotten it' in these few small storms we've had, and still haven't stocked away anything for yourself so you can contribute to the group, you would be the worst kind of freeloader, would be stealing from my children, and would frankly not be someone I want to be friends with, and as a result not welcome. I don't think you are that kind of person, so skip McDonalds a few times and stock up on a few things. If disaster strikes and you LOSE all your preparations, that is one thing, but right now you are not doing your job, so don't expect me to do it for you." He took my point and started preparing. This is what separates us from the libtards of the planet. MAX |