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Tabitha111
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Posted: February 14 2021 at 8:44am |
by monotreme1000/ February 14, 2021 As Expected It's been about a year since the pandemic became apparent to most people. So, maybe it's time to take stock. Lessons Learned Our biggest failure in Flublogia was to underestimate the economic challenges inherent in a pandemic. CanadaSue had written a pandemic scenario that was in many respects on target. However, one of her action plans was to run up her credit card with last minute purchases with the expectation that the government wouldn't allow anyone to be evicted from their apartments. I don't think that would have turned out to be a good strategy in the current pandemic. The assumption that either we have no pandemic or we have an apocalyptic pandemic has turned out to be false. We did not do a good enough job at preparing for a dangerous pandemic but one in which most people would be expected to continue to pay their bills. The New World Predicting the future is a fool's game. I don't know whether our current vaccines will work against the new strains. I don't know whether there will be a new virus even worse than SARS-2. But as a Prepper, I want to be be prepared for these possibilities (and all other catastrophic events: Nuclear War; Grid Failure; Civil Unrest, etc.). So, how can we apply what we have learned to future plans? Stockpiling essential goods should continue, as possible. Look for a stable source of income not dependent on the service economy. Computer programming is one example. Live on a Hopestead. I'm giving an optimistic name to an old name on PFI_Forum - the Doomstead which itself was a play on the Farmstead. Have more children. This may sound like a strange prescription in the current year. Pretty much everything in the mass media is against having any children at all. Having a large family in the 21st century sounds almost pathological. However, I maintain that the anti-child propaganda is what is pathological, not large families. |
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