@jwcph @pluralistic

Think about it for a second. Food and water for three or four days, or even a week, *is expecting community to help*. It's just being realistic about how long it takes to mobilize that help.

The fact a lot of the people doing those things do not recognize this reality and think otherwise does not reduce the importance of them having enough supplies to survive the gap.

Now, prepping for a year? That's just putting off the inevitable, if community doesn't come through.

Reading political opinion columns today feels like watching people awakening, in real time, to the truth the rich and powerful are mostly a cohort of rather dull and incompetent sociopaths winging everything and not the strategic supermen those opinion writers had supposed them to be.

And yet you would think anyone in the position to write political opinion columns would already know that.

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