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> my solution was to leave the comforts of the first world as an immediate measure and it made a big difference. Can you elaborate on that? How did you manage

• splintercell 6y ago
  We moved to Puerto Rico. Suddenly there's this worry of making sure that I need to have mechanisms in place to deal with an unreliable electrical grid, unreliable internet (due to the unreliable electrical grid). Then, there's hurricane season, initially I dealt with it by flying out to mainland anytime there was a hurricane on the horizon. Next year I started to 'prepare' more for the future (water tanks, food, generator, gas storage) etc. This year was crazier than ever, we got hit by an earthquake. And believe it or not, it made us feel 'alive' (and other mainland families on the island were reporting similar things). Just as we were sorta done making preparation for the earthquake, Covid-19 arrived at the horizon, but I was prepared this time. We ordered survival food, solar cooker, buttloads of sanitizer (which became useless because we decided to use gloves instead) etc. Also got a gun permit and got into guns. I aim to start carrying it once life resumes. You may find many or all these measures ridiculous or unnecessary, and you may not have to do these exact things, but whatever you need to do to 'feel that hunger', will appear ridiculous and unnecessary to you.