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Prepper videos on YouTube are heavily monetized by snakeoil companies preying upon people's anxiety. Or made by people with various belief systems in conflict w
by devwastaken 5y ago
Prepper videos on YouTube are heavily monetized by snakeoil companies preying upon people's anxiety. Or made by people with various belief systems in conflict with reality. Theyre not effective, either.
1. You will never have a "bomb shelter". Dropping a crate in the ground is a good way to die from carbon dioxide poisoning and offers no bomb or bullet protection. At that point just have a house with a basement. Actual bomb shelters are a nightmare and do not last long. Metal rusts, the earth moves, and if someone wants to they'll plug your exhaust anyway.
2. Most foods, even canned, do not last that long. If youre canning yourself you have to add preservatives, even. Water does not stay good sitting, again, you'll have to have a method to treat it. However if you live in the country you already have a well. No you do not want short well. Think about how to deliver 240V30A for short periods for the well pump. The electrical systems to do this are expensive.
3. If you are actually having to live in a basement on limited food and water you're already dead. There is no scenario that you will have to do this and come out alive. If the world becomes post apocalyptic and people want your supplies they will get them. Doesn't matter if you have a giant vault. Play a bit of fallout to see what I mean. If nukes are dropping you're dead in months anyways.
Focus mainly on real, independent solutions to being self sustainable. Solar power, solar greenhouses, self defense, farming methods. Don't buy into rhetoric or belief systems. Have math lead you.
When it comes to construction people on YouTube are terrible. They build all sorts of things that will not live long.
- throwaway6532 5y ago>Focus mainly on real, independent solutions to being self sustainable. Solar power, solar greenhouses, self defense, farming methods. Don't buy into rhetoric or belief systems. Have math lead you. This is my line of thinking here too. Though it seems necessary to additionally have that 3-month supply as a quick buffer while you build up your capacity for long-term solutions in parallel over time. I.E we're also starting a garden and considering investing in some way to run even a limited amount of off-grid power. Edit: I'm actually not worried about bombs at all in my case, but more the complete breakdown of global trade.
- nsxwolf 5y agoThis is more dire than it needs to be. All this "depends" on a lot. You're not guaranteed to be killed by the blast, or fallout, or neighbors "plugging your exhaust" (why would they do that?!). The size and scope of the nuclear exchange itself, your proximity to blasts, wind patterns, weather, many factors affect survivability. A lot of people survived in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- throwaway6532 5y ago>A lot of people survived in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That wasn't an exchange. That was a sucker-punch. I made a bet with my friends several weeks before Putin invaded that I think that's what could be on the cards for Ukraine because I didn't forsee any other way for him to win and concluded that he wouldn't accept not winning and it's really the only asymmetry he has. However, I don't think that would lead to an 'exchange' by any other nuclear power as that would just be suicidal and I'm sure Biden would rather live his comfortable lifestyle than kill everyone on earth.
- tmaly 5y agoI only buy stuff if Alex Jones advertises it without a shirt on.