Yup. I posted the same thing a few days ago and got called a doomer. There's a lot of totally delusional people on this site and when the time comes, they'll be sorry they didn't listen.
It's funny because even though the post doesn't talk about food shortage, I knew exactly what it was talking about. Because it's coming, that's for sure. You don't shutdown the economy for a year and not end up with a loss in production. And it's not like they didn't close factories.....they definitely did.
They slaughtered much of America's cattle because there was no way to process them, and they didn't repopulate them because they didn't have the resources/room because they were already beyond capacity from being unable to slaughter, and the foreign market only has soo much to supply.
You see places having to completely remove certain items from their menus, like roast beef and a few others, because there simply isn't a big enough supply for it anymore. Part of it is the cost to be able to sell menu items at a predetermined price point, but that cost largely comes from a lack of supply.
I've already seen things that cost as little as $5 go up to $7. Might not sound like much until you realize it's a fucking 40% increase, which is essentially like saying your money is worth half of what it was, and that adds up across every item. So if 30K was worth 30K in 1995, and 30K was worth 15K in 2012, then 30K is worth 7K in 2021.
Of course the fact that people have been locked down for the last year has hidden some of the perspective of it, but more and more people are starting to realize that they're spending as much or more to stay home and live, than before the lockdowns when they could go out on the town and on vacations. Which mean even if the lockdowns ever ended, all they'll ever be able to barely afford is staying home in their worker drone boxes between shifts.
But honestly, stocking up on food isn't even a guarantee of survival at this point. When the people start starving, there will be a couple hundred million people roving around out there looking to take whatever they can from whoever they can, and unless people have a well defended and hidden cabin deep in the woods, people in even relatively small cities will find themselves ransacked.
This will go on for months. People may starve after a few weeks of not eating, but many people will find at least something to keep them going, which only prolongs the amount of people out there desperate for food, extending the time of danger before they starve to death. So one has to almost literally crawl under a rock with their supplies to avoid what happens when mass starvation sets in.
And that's just bare essentials. People want more than the bare essentials. They will kill for more than the bare essentials. They will kill for luxuries, because people are too used to luxuries and see them as necessities.
Yep. When talking with friends who see the writing on the wall they say their food stock is just to hold them over while they 'find' more. The break down of civilization is what will cull the herd more than any fema camps will.
Got any handy info on what kind of supplies to get and how much to get, and most importantly where? Not sure I can afford the prepwork but now is the time to start trying.
If you can't afford to go full blown buckets of dried food that lasts for 20 years, just buying a few extra items each time you go to the grocery store will begin to add up. Buy a few extra canned goods, or bags of things like flour or rice. There are a few YouTube channels dedicated to "homestead" type food storage and those folks can walk you through how to safely store things like rice in mason jars for the long term.
Edit: Forgot to add that you should avoid storing things you aren't sure you'd like to eat. For example, I mention sardines to people and they give me the funniest faces. Those folks shouldn't store sardines because for them, the fish wouldn't be palatable unless they were on the brink of starvation. Stack stuff you know you'd enjoy eating.
As for the sardine thing, well, I'm not a fan at all but if I were on the brink of starvation, they'd probably be the most wonderful tasting things I'd ever eaten. That's what the prep is for, right? When the grocer's are empty because socialism.
Sardines will definitely provide the nutrition needed. But, the general advice to only stockpile what you would normally eat is because you want to rotate stocks of regular food. Dried/Survivalist food is meant for long term storage. Most items bought from the grocery store should be used and replace after a certain length of time. If someone bought 100 cans of sardines but didn't like sardines then when it comes time to rotate out the old stock for new stock they are faced with the possibility of not enjoying their next few meals of sardines, or simply throwing them away. It's simpler to just stock up with what you normally eat. Read up a bit on home canning. You can also make batches of homemade soups to put into jars and then freeze.
Costco has rice and beans 25 lb bags for much cheaper than I expected. Tuna and peanut butter from there is huge and cheap as well. Shouldnt be too hard to find somebody with a membership to help you out. As a qtard I'm still prepping for the worst. If only I had the foresight to stock up on ammo :(
if you haven't started gathering stockpiles of long term storage food yet - well NOW is the time to start doing so.
The chances that we can avoid collapse of the economy have been decreased to just about zero.
Yup. I posted the same thing a few days ago and got called a doomer. There's a lot of totally delusional people on this site and when the time comes, they'll be sorry they didn't listen.
Yup, sounds a lot like that guy Noahs' story huh?
Bingo
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It's funny because even though the post doesn't talk about food shortage, I knew exactly what it was talking about. Because it's coming, that's for sure. You don't shutdown the economy for a year and not end up with a loss in production. And it's not like they didn't close factories.....they definitely did.
They slaughtered much of America's cattle because there was no way to process them, and they didn't repopulate them because they didn't have the resources/room because they were already beyond capacity from being unable to slaughter, and the foreign market only has soo much to supply.
You see places having to completely remove certain items from their menus, like roast beef and a few others, because there simply isn't a big enough supply for it anymore. Part of it is the cost to be able to sell menu items at a predetermined price point, but that cost largely comes from a lack of supply.
I've already seen things that cost as little as $5 go up to $7. Might not sound like much until you realize it's a fucking 40% increase, which is essentially like saying your money is worth half of what it was, and that adds up across every item. So if 30K was worth 30K in 1995, and 30K was worth 15K in 2012, then 30K is worth 7K in 2021.
Of course the fact that people have been locked down for the last year has hidden some of the perspective of it, but more and more people are starting to realize that they're spending as much or more to stay home and live, than before the lockdowns when they could go out on the town and on vacations. Which mean even if the lockdowns ever ended, all they'll ever be able to barely afford is staying home in their worker drone boxes between shifts.
But honestly, stocking up on food isn't even a guarantee of survival at this point. When the people start starving, there will be a couple hundred million people roving around out there looking to take whatever they can from whoever they can, and unless people have a well defended and hidden cabin deep in the woods, people in even relatively small cities will find themselves ransacked.
This will go on for months. People may starve after a few weeks of not eating, but many people will find at least something to keep them going, which only prolongs the amount of people out there desperate for food, extending the time of danger before they starve to death. So one has to almost literally crawl under a rock with their supplies to avoid what happens when mass starvation sets in.
And that's just bare essentials. People want more than the bare essentials. They will kill for more than the bare essentials. They will kill for luxuries, because people are too used to luxuries and see them as necessities.
Yep. When talking with friends who see the writing on the wall they say their food stock is just to hold them over while they 'find' more. The break down of civilization is what will cull the herd more than any fema camps will.
It's almost like printing more money makes your money worth less. Who could have foreseen such a thing?!
Got any handy info on what kind of supplies to get and how much to get, and most importantly where? Not sure I can afford the prepwork but now is the time to start trying.
If you can't afford to go full blown buckets of dried food that lasts for 20 years, just buying a few extra items each time you go to the grocery store will begin to add up. Buy a few extra canned goods, or bags of things like flour or rice. There are a few YouTube channels dedicated to "homestead" type food storage and those folks can walk you through how to safely store things like rice in mason jars for the long term.
Edit: Forgot to add that you should avoid storing things you aren't sure you'd like to eat. For example, I mention sardines to people and they give me the funniest faces. Those folks shouldn't store sardines because for them, the fish wouldn't be palatable unless they were on the brink of starvation. Stack stuff you know you'd enjoy eating.
Sardines and crackers are where it's at 👌
Thanks!
As for the sardine thing, well, I'm not a fan at all but if I were on the brink of starvation, they'd probably be the most wonderful tasting things I'd ever eaten. That's what the prep is for, right? When the grocer's are empty because socialism.
Sardines will definitely provide the nutrition needed. But, the general advice to only stockpile what you would normally eat is because you want to rotate stocks of regular food. Dried/Survivalist food is meant for long term storage. Most items bought from the grocery store should be used and replace after a certain length of time. If someone bought 100 cans of sardines but didn't like sardines then when it comes time to rotate out the old stock for new stock they are faced with the possibility of not enjoying their next few meals of sardines, or simply throwing them away. It's simpler to just stock up with what you normally eat. Read up a bit on home canning. You can also make batches of homemade soups to put into jars and then freeze.
Costco has rice and beans 25 lb bags for much cheaper than I expected. Tuna and peanut butter from there is huge and cheap as well. Shouldnt be too hard to find somebody with a membership to help you out. As a qtard I'm still prepping for the worst. If only I had the foresight to stock up on ammo :(