I can skin a buck, run a trotline. But no, they will be screwed and will be at your gate pilfering and searching for food.

There was a temporary power outage in Los Angeles a couple of years ago and you should have seen the meltdown from all the instagram snowflakes.

People are addicted to living in a virtual world and reality is a bl+ch.

Highly doubtful.

It would not be pretty for certain things, but we already are seeing this. You can't find new cars. I've been looking for shoes for a couple of months and can't find the kind I want in my size (9 wide or EE, too common apparently). I think we're handling those kinds of shortages OK. But, run out of daily staples, and things could get ugly. Still, it seems unlikely that we will see much of this in the US, because we will have rising prices rather than rationing. If Congress gets involved and tries to set maximum prices, then get ready for Soviet era lines.

I am not a prepper by any stretch of the imagination....but I have a **** ton of ammo, food and places to go to get away from people and harvest meat if it actually came to that. Which I really don't want it to, becuase frankly I enjoy the luxury of AC and crapping on a toilet versus squatting in the woods.

No.

twk said:

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It would not be pretty for certain things, but we already are seeing this. You can't find new cars. I've been looking for shoes for a couple of months and can't find the kind I want in my size (9 wide or EE, too common apparently).

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I know that feel, bro. Size 16 clown shoes here.

I'd go so far as to say that if someone merely took out the internet in a fashion where it was unknown if it could be rebuilt, you'd see chaos forming.

The major cities would burn in short order.

When a "pandemic" hit, they ran to the store and fought over toilet paper.... what do you think?

Shoefly! said:

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I can skin a buck, run a trotline. But no, they will be screwed and will be at your gate pilfering and searching for food.

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Well, a country boy can survive

I'd be more worried about shortages of medications. Folks can figure out food, but we can't make our own medicine.

chase128 said:

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I'd be more worried about shortages of medications. Folks can figure out food, but we can't make our own medicine.

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Fish antibiotics.

We can do it if we have to. But we don't have to. This is a manufactured "crisis"

Tom Doniphon said:

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When a "pandemic" hit, they ran to the store and fought over toilet paper.... what do you think?

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New York plates were seen all over the country during the first few months of Cuomo's apocalypse.

People yell and scream when their internet goes out for 30 minutes... LOL at handling real shortages of goods

chase128 said:

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I'd be more worried about shortages of medications. Folks can figure out food, but we can't make our own medicine.

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Jase Medical. It's the real deal.

Shoefly! said:

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I can skin a buck, run a trotline. But no, they will be screwed and will be at your gate pilfering and searching for food.

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They'll also be pilfering your buck and whatever gasper goo was on your trot line

If we were to get into a situation with real city life altering shortages, your ammo, and land will only sustain you for a short period of time.

Even if you're high fenced you won't be able to stop the poachers for long. The masses will over run you and the wild game will be depleted in short order.

Kenneth_2003 said:

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If we were to get into a situation with real city life altering shortages, your ammo, and land will only sustain you for a short period of time.

Even if you're high fenced you won't be able to stop the poachers for long. The masses will over run you and the wild game will be depleted in short order.

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Yup.

The majority of this country couldn't survive without Facebook or Twitter, much less without food or basic necessities.

How are they going to get there?

We think a real "struggle" or "hardship" is when Wi-Fi goes in and out for a bit…or when someone calls you the wrong pronoun or says a word you don't like. We are absolutely F***ED if we ever have any real shortages of any kind. Even if it's the type of shortage where it's not the end of the world, the panic induced overreaction will be chaotic and violent. Get the F out of the cities as soon as there is any type of real shortage or struggle.

chase128 said:

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I'd be more worried about shortages of medications. Folks can figure out food, but we can't make our own medicine.

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Once insulin is gone it will be the sacrificial martyr route for me I guess.

If people learn to grow, harvest and mill field corn, oats and wheat and cultivate potatoes in their yards, they will be better off nutritionally anyway.

These people really exist.

Did anyone put this out here yesterday?

I have no idea who the author is, but if the facts are indeed facts, then I suspect some places will actually have shortages.

If there are any shortages, I'd bet they'll be politically allocated to specific states.




Speaking of a distraction

I'm not worried about massive food supply problems here like I am in other parts of the world. Africa is going to face famine and China, the world's #1 food importer, may as well. Today I was watching a video on Live Aid and thinking we're going to see that again this decade. Domestically prices are going to be a problem as global food production falls off substantially but we're a net exporter so we'll be fine from an availability perspective. What I am worried about is people being priced out of being able to eat the things we're all accustomed to eating. Food commodities are going to soar this year and that's going to make the food on the shelves increase substantially as well. We will see people that can't afford to eat.

UTExan said:

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If people learn to grow, harvest and mill field corn, oats and wheat and cultivate potatoes in their yards, they will be better off nutritionally anyway.

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The vast majority don't have a yard to do that in. 86% of Americans live in cities and suburbs. MAYBE those in the suburbs can do this but those in the city cannot.

The heard will thin and the ones that know what they are doing will become hardened. Welcome to life. I'm prepared.

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I'd go so far as to say that if someone merely took out the internet in a fashion where it was unknown if it could be rebuilt, you'd see chaos forming.

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If the internet went down and that resulted in utilities going offline, grocery stores unable to sell or resupply food, gas station pumps not working, etc…….50% of our population would be dead in 90 days. The violence would be biblical.

Yeah my heart will probably explode or my blood vessels rupture without my blood pressure meds haha.

But yay for the random posts about emergency antibiotics I guess.

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Shoefly! said:

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I can skin a buck, run a trotline. But no, they will be screwed and will be at your gate pilfering and searching for food.

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They'll also be pilfering your buck and whatever gasper goo was on your trot line

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No one is going to be able to survive on their own. You will need at least a neighborhood working together.