01-28-2020, 03:36 PM
terracore - Preppers [...] It's a lifestyle, not a living situation.
I would quibble slightly with the implied meaning here. You don't have to kill, clean, and cook your meat over an open fire started by hand every day to know how to do so as needed. That said, you never really know if all your preparations can be fully depended on until you try. Always good to have options even if you don't need them 99.994% of the time. (In over 15,000 days, I've never once had to rely only on my skills and the natural environment to survive, even when intentionally separating oneself from civilization in the back country).
Overall, I was just curious as to whether all this hang-wringing over Wuhan was just indulging in apocalypse porn or actually prompting some tangible action, even if that's just increased hand-washing.
I would quibble slightly with the implied meaning here. You don't have to kill, clean, and cook your meat over an open fire started by hand every day to know how to do so as needed. That said, you never really know if all your preparations can be fully depended on until you try. Always good to have options even if you don't need them 99.994% of the time. (In over 15,000 days, I've never once had to rely only on my skills and the natural environment to survive, even when intentionally separating oneself from civilization in the back country).
Overall, I was just curious as to whether all this hang-wringing over Wuhan was just indulging in apocalypse porn or actually prompting some tangible action, even if that's just increased hand-washing.