First off, I hope everyone is staying safe and well. These are incredible times we are experiencing and the future is incredibly uncertain. It is very easy to get swept up in all the negativity while watching the news, feel fear – and wallow in all causing severe anxiety. While facing problems and issues head-on is always a good idea, stop and take a look around. There are lots of beautiful and wonderful things in this world to enjoy while at the same time paying attention and preparing for the future.
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Is anyone stepping up their preps based on…well, everything that has been happening in 2020? I can’t fathom this not being a HUGE wakeup call for those on the fence about preparedness and for those of us that are preparedness like-minded, stepping it up should be occurring.
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There are a lot of reasons to not like Facebook. The reality is there is not another social media platform that has the same reach. Well, there will NEVER be another platform – especially one that celebrates freedom of speech – if we do not make the move and open an account when one comes around.
MeWe is such a platform. It is a high quality, non-censoring, and privacy-loving platform. They don’t sell your information nor do they track or allow other companies to track everything you do like Facebook does.
I’ll be starting a 1776PatrioUSA.com Survival & Preparedness Group there as well.
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Consider if the grid went down tomorrow morning at 9:00am. How much do you know? How much do you wish you had done? Information is incredibly important. I’ve written at length about digital preparedness libraries and for myself – I’m stepping up my game. I recently picked up a 4TB hard drive and I’m backing up my backups. I’m searching for more books and magazines and guides to download. I’ve started downloading YouTube videos that could be useful later. Grid down doesn’t mean digital free. Solar is cheaper than ever and with modern technology accessing this information is simple and easy.
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A little 2020 humor……
John, the wife is not questioning my decisions like she used to. Freezer ordered in April will be here on July, 11, hoprfully. Starting to buy some products from my insurance company that represents farmers country wide.
I believe now is the time to prepare, big time. The world is literally falling apart. America is looking like the beginning of an apocalypse novel, or movie.
When I tell my wife about the news, daily, sometime she thinks I am making it up.
Hard to come up with new ways to prep for me since it has been my lifestyle all of my adult life. I have been hauling in more wood chip mulch to my back yard. I’ve hauled in about 150 cu yards in the last three years so anywhere you dig a hole to plant is now fertile. I set up two new arbors made from cattle panels and fence stakes which are planted with yard long beans and cucumbers for one of them and true yams and Malabar spinach on the other. It will be fun to watch the plants grow all over them.
We have bumped up things a bit and made decisions based on coming financial hardships for the country. When vendors say they will stop shipping to zones of duress and riots, I have heard the term “food dessert” more than once to reflect the availability of basics in those areas. I understand where business is coming from, but it will exacerbate the unrest problem.
Make no mistake, whatever the genesis of the riots, the movement has been co-opted and weaponized as a lightning rod for the lefts platform. 8 funerals (more than any head of state that died in recent history), a boxed American flag given that is at best stolen valor, are clear indicators that the world in the US is under attack. We are in the process of flipping the racial meme in the us to something the opposite of what is perceived., not what was real. Protect yourselves.. and pay attention to situational awareness. gray is a good thing.. In the case of many, it means avoid notice. And of course we have a group that wants to ban Trump rallies fro COVID19 when many times that have rioted and gone to funerals. A very clear indication of bias toward one ideology. And the there is the pandering of a party to one group to further inflame the unrest. Lets talk financial 25%+ unemployment coming on 90 days.. know what happens at 90- days in the US ? Default and eviction.. How do we thing that will play out.
Food, and the ability to produce food are something that will be important. This is much easier in the southeast where I live than other areas, due to a mild temperate climate. I can work from home so my bills will be met longer than some.
I woudl be concerned about some fixed incomes though. We injected 8.6 trillion un-backed dollars into the economy. That bill will come due eventually.
When government starts paying out more than is coming is AND they can’t print new money.. any government subsidy, whether VA, Snap, WIC, and SS can be cut or eliminated.
I pray you have a group of friends, and that you have a surplus in store. Not everyone is able to Bug Out.. in fact most can’t. Reach out to people of like mind and sell you skills and abilities. The left is OUT.. doing bad things, but organized and out. The right not so much and that is my biggest worry.
Well that went dark quickly didn’t it.. sorry.. Obviously it has me concerned.
Stay well friends.. and prepare deliberately, and pray it isn’t necessary.. we can always donate and they will need it. We recently provided 300 lbs of food to a family hit hard by this.
Stay safe
GG58
Yep, I had planned on cutting back on the size of the garden this year. But I didn’t. As I write this, the pressure canner is perking along with the first batch of green beans from the garden. I estimate with this first “picking” I should put up close to 35 quarts. I still have 3 more rows to pick. Hadn’t planned on planting potatoes. But, I did. Lotta work in that. Corn, tomatoes (we process both) and then the peppers and egg plants. That makes up the spring planting. I’ll still plant a fall crop and I am currently looking at follow on plantings for the ground I just opened up as I pulled the green beans out.
I have 6 or 7 large oaks that came down with the tornado’s a few weeks back. They will more than fill my wood shed.
Things I need to address: a solar system and a hand pump for the well.