I am running out of things to do and, embarrassingly, don’t know where to even start when it comes to buying illegal needle drugs. So, rationally, I decided to watch several episodes of Doomsday Preppers on Netflix because it seems topical and maybe I’d pick up a useful tidbit here and there. Nope and nope.
First, not one of them prepped for a pandemic of any kind, and certainly not one where the solution is “just stick to yourselves for a few months.” No. They prepared for, among other things, a shift in the earth’s poles, a “global super earthquake,” which, number one, isn’t how earthquakes ****ing work and, number two, this guy lived in the seismic hotspot known as Tennessee. One was also preparing for the literal Rapture from the book of Revelations. Lots of people in rural areas armed to the teeth worried about terrorism, which I thought was ironic.
Second, not one useful tidbit. Nobody seemed to worry about passing the time during the 5 years period after the disaster for which they prepped enough fuel, water and shelf after shelf of dried grains and canned goods. Take a cue from your kids they are all bored as ****. Also, nobody stockpiled toiletpaper or otherwise made preparations for wiping their ass. Everyone had tons of ammo, nobody had basic sanitation covered. Sure, get prepared for marauding raiders hellbent on looting your ****ty, barely functional subsistence farm in the middle of nowhere, but pay zero mind to nature inevitably calling.
One guy called his heavily-defended compound (i.e, a house and 2 sheds) “the Alamo.” I guess nobody told him that everyone died at the Alamo.