Originally Posted by
Taz Baby
The contents of this might be disturbing to some and sometimes seem harsh, but I hope it will open some minds up to thinking; I mean really thinking about what you can and are willing to do if the SHTF comes. This is some things that I and only I see and ask myself. I am going to write this as it comes to mind and it will not be in order.
Now we as preppers are getting what we think is ready for the unforeseen SHTF. No one really knows what is going to happen if anything does happen, but if it does, will you be ready? Now we get the most important things ready, like::: enough food, water, clothes, gas, medical supplies, working tools, etc.
Let’s start with food, how much is really needed? Depends on how many people you are feeding and how many meals a day you are going to eat. How much of it is eaten at meal time and then how long will that last? Most people are used to eating breakfast, lunch and dinner. People put a time limit on eating, like breakfast between 6 am to 8 am, lunch 11am to 2pm, and dinner 5pm to 8pm. Then there are some who have to eat at a certain time because of medicines they take. What are you going to do if you can’t eat at that time? And if you eat 3 meals a day then your food supply is going to go How Far? I have been eating mostly 1 meal a day for years, So now my body is use to only having very little food to survive on. But when my body needs more it tells me and I eat more times a day. For instants, I very seldom eat breakfast but come afternoon time I get hungry around 2pm to 4pm so I eat then. So by the time it is bedtime I am not hungry. Mostly I only fix small one thing meals. Like a pot of chili, or pasta salad, or just a Dagwood sandwich. But once a week or so, I will eat 1 to 3 different things. And only 1 serving spoon of each. This is what I eat not what I cook for DH. Am I healthy from doing this? Yes. Would the doctors think it is? No but I don’t go to doctors for anything. I have never been sick at all.
This will help me in the SHTF because I do not require a lot of food to function on. But what about you who are used to eating 3 full course meals a day? If you continue to do so will you have enough food?
food is a constant issue around here. With 2 teenaged food dispoal units, it seems like theres never enough. right now as far as storage wise, I think we are definitely sitting at a year plus for my family.
Water, everyone needs it for the body to function properly. Not tea, coffee or cokes or cool-aid or Red Bull.
Do you have an un-endless supply of water? Do you know how much water your body needs? Or are you going on water the heath officials say you need? And then how much do you need to store? Fine a place you can get water like a river or stream or if lucky a live spring and prep for making it safe to drink.
Multiple water storage here. I got those 5k water bladders from the military DRMO. Couple that with lakes and rivers in the immediate area, and I think we are GTG.
Clothes is easy to prep for because you really only need 6 outfits for each season per person and in different sizes. But shoes, jackets, gloves, hats, boots, socks those are a must have. You can do without underwear and bras.
Clothing preps, check
Gas or wood or what ever you are planning for heating, and electric. But then again you only need to be warm, dry and cool not cold. And people can and have lived without power tools, or appliances. So should you prep for the conveniences of this day and age or should you only prep for the stone age? Or somewhere in between?
We're prepped for the middle road. Relying on natural materials and minimal appliances.
Medical supplies is a long and hard list. You can never be really prepared for every medical need so you prep for what your family needs if they are taking medications. But those to might run out, then what? Try to think of all the scenarios that might happen and stock up on those. Peroxide, bleach, iodine, ointments of every kind, bandages, the list goes on and on.
Got a doctor and a couple of miltary medics on our team, I think we're good to go in this area as well.
Protection as in what and how are you going to protect your family? Guns, ammo, knives, ect. Bullets will run out, knives will get filed down to nothing from always sharpening them and then what?
GTG in this dept.
As you are prepping to stock up on everything that you can think of you might need, have you ever asked your self, if you are ready in your mind on living like that? How would you? IF you go camping that’s great but can you stand to live like that for the rest of your life?
If someone is seriously hurt and bleeding everywhere, parts of their body hanging out, can you help them or will you fold and throw up everywhere? Are you ready to kill someone? With all the hunting and time at the shooting range you have spent, can you face someone in the eye and shoot them dead?
Ive serviced friendly, and Ive had to target service bad guys before. Done it before, can do it again.
Now I am not doctor or have not had any medical training other than cpr and being a vet tech. But in my years I have seen and been around and helped people with all kinds of things wrong. I have seen my son 1,s brain hanging out when he had head trauma and didn’t fold, I have had to hold eyeballs and intestines in a person while someone was taking them to the hospital, I have had to grab body parts that have been torn off and ice them down to take to the hospital in case they could be put back on. I never winched or fainted or even lost my cool. But when it was all over that is when I broke down.
I can sew you up, set bones, help in any kind of surgery but I have no clue how to do the surgery on someone or some thing. So if someone had to rely on me to sew the nerves back I can’t but I can sew the arm on. I have common sense and street smarts and a level head most of the time. But do I think I can look someone in the eye and kill them? I should hope that my motherly protection instinct would kick in and I could. I have heard the horror stories and witnessed a few of the dreams people who have killed someone before have and I would not want that for the rest of my life.
Theres usually no time to look each other in the eyes. When you are facing down an opponent, its fast, furious, loud, and decisive. Theres a winner and a loser. Winner gets dreams and the loser dies. Which do you want to be? There is no glory in killing, its messy and stays with you haunting you, alot of times when you least expect it, but you are alive and thats all that counts.You deal with it, embrace it, and hope it goes away with time.
So how does someone go about truly getting prepared for the unforeseen SHTF? Getting your mind ready and not knowing if you can see the blood, guts and gore and the starving kids and there is nothing you can do or could you? Can you turn someone away that is hungry because you can not feed them? IF they eat you will not have enough for you. You have to go back to the primitive way of life to survive. Make your own weapons, booby tray your property; heal yourself without doctor’s help or medicines. Will you be able to hold a newborn baby and watch it bleed to death and the mother too because you did not know how or where to cut the cord? Or know what to do with the after birth? Can you do that? Or are you set up not to have to go that route? In my mind I know what I can do. I have lived the primitive way. And I can do it again. Do I want to now and at my age? Hell NO but I can if I have to. Can I help someone medically? If it is not to serious yes. I can stop the bleeding if it is not internal or a artery. No one will really know if they are ready until that time comes. I know I won’t be.
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