01-29-2020, 01:18 PM
"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."
I don't disagree with you. What I meant was more like, if one is completely lacking in specific knowledge, skills, abilities, and the "stuff" to use them, and suddenly becomes aware that TSHTF in a week or whatever, it's too late. The best they can hope for is to get to the stores before everybody else. I was on Maui after Lane (or whatever the storm was called) caused their barge to be a few days late and ALL the fresh food/dairy section at Safeway had bare shelves and there were big empty spaces in the regular shelves. This wasn't even panic buying, it was mostly just because we live in a "just in time" economy and strong winds delayed the barges.
I don't disagree with you. What I meant was more like, if one is completely lacking in specific knowledge, skills, abilities, and the "stuff" to use them, and suddenly becomes aware that TSHTF in a week or whatever, it's too late. The best they can hope for is to get to the stores before everybody else. I was on Maui after Lane (or whatever the storm was called) caused their barge to be a few days late and ALL the fresh food/dairy section at Safeway had bare shelves and there were big empty spaces in the regular shelves. This wasn't even panic buying, it was mostly just because we live in a "just in time" economy and strong winds delayed the barges.