I have been passing preparedness information along to people on this blog for more than ten years. I have been providing plans for disaster preparedness to families with members who are medically fragile since prior to about two thousand. A few of you have asked why the number of posts I have been posting here have diminished.
As early as the nineteen-nineties there were strong indications that hospitals, utility companies and governments were becoming overly focused on profits and less on their constituency. The individual or the individual family was becoming expendable. It was obvious, even then, that families needed to make plans to take care of their members themselves for periods of time. Even then, it made sense to skip a vacation that year to prepare for times without power, times where it might be difficult to buy food or medicine. "You're focusing on the poor", I was often told. No, actually, I was focusing on everyone who eats or who can become ill, which is everyone. I also reminded people that most people are just a few paychecks away from being "poor".
After I did the podcasts and published the book, our number of international readers increased, especially in Venezuela, and in France, and lately in the UK. I have tried to expand some of my posts to include brand names of items in those places.
The fact is, that in 2020, if you aren't concerned about inflation, gasoline and diesel prices, corruption in government, fraudulent elections, impending wars, corruption and agendas in health care, political unheaval, a deterioration in the standard and focus of education, then you aren't paying attention.
My advice is as it always has been. Buy your own home, in as rural an area as is practical or possible for your own family. Grow whatever food you can. Keep chickens for eggs if possible, Grow sprouts on the kitchen window year round. Adopt a dog as a sentry for your home. Organize your home and your documents. Make a family plan for sheltering in place and for family evacuation, and include your dog and other pets in those plans. Each family member should learn all they can about some aspect of rural life and elf sufficiency that they can. Educate yourself. If at all possible, you should homeschool your children. You will encounter the like-minded as you move through life. Focus on your nuclear family, but if you have extended family living in your area, keep an eye on them, and let them aid you when possible. Nurture your personal relationship with God and let your family see this. If you can find a nurturing church, then do so, but your own relationship with God is much more important than your relationship with a church that man has created to facilitate the same.
Learn to use the equipment you have. Make sure you have basic first aid skills and then expand upon them. Learn to consider buying some things used, before spending a great deal on a new one perhaps of questionable quality. Learn to safely own and use firearms. Make sure that they are stored in a manner that does not endanger your children or grandchildren. Make sure that the electronics, phones, internet devices you have, you own, and do not own you.
Be alert to the ever increasing number of scams which exist, which are focused on parting you from your money, or even transferring the title of your home without your knowledge.
Protect your children, in all the manners which this date and time requires.
Read what you can. There are ten plus years of posts here on various aspects of this subject. This would be a great place to start. At this point, I understand and accept that I have done my best, but that people who aren't awake now, are never going to be.
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