Article – Are you prepared for the end of the world as you know it?

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Happy Paratus, guys..

In a startling coincidence, the local leftist fishwrapper has this:

There’s a line, though, that most of us don’t care to cross. It’s one thing to stock up on essentials ahead of a blizzard, but what about stashing a military-style backpack by the back door with enough dried food, medical supplies and handgun ammo to last weeks? That’s tinfoil hat territory, the kind of over-the-top survivalist prep reserved for those who have watched Red Dawn one too many times. I’m as big a fan of The Walking Dead as the next nerd, but the zombie apocalypse is pure fiction, no alien invasion is imminent, and I’m only about 60 percent sure we’re headed for a full government collapse. I need a bug-out bag full of waterproof matches and MREs like I need a hole in my right foot, right? At least that’s what the Southern Poverty Law Center would have me believe.

Havent read the article in its entirety yet, but I’m sure it will live down to the Independent’s usual standard of journalism.

9 thoughts on “Article – Are you prepared for the end of the world as you know it?”

  1. The next paragraph from the article is a rather unflattering quote from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Anytime someone uses a corrupt and oft-debunked organization like the SPLC as their authority, they pretty much lose 100% of their credibility.

    • The point is, Progressives are quite certain you aren’t qualified to make rational decisions for yourself. Just do what they say and no one will get hurt.

  3. It’s actually a good article. It introduces someone who thinks anyone who is prepared further than the Red Cross guidelines is a nut, to good, basic reasons to be more prepared. I especially like the quote from the owner of Bug Out Montana, Harry Lee: “…he found himself contemplating this question: If things went bad, would he be the person looking for help, or the person looking for someone to help?”

    I hope that gets more people planning to help themselves, at the very least.

    The article reminded me that I used to keep a backpack & sleeping bag in the car – I need to get them back in there.

  4. I read the full article, and it wasn’t as bad as I expected. The author is going in the right direction, anyway.

  5. “That’s tinfoil hat territory”
    No, it isn’t. It’s being self-reliant. So, I have cases of on-sale veggies cluttering my room. Big deal. We’ve had at least two incidents locally in the last year or so that required folks to GET OUT RIGHT NOW and it was days before they were allowed back home.

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