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[–] Thevenin@beehaw.org 38 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I always like to say everyone should have a zombie survival plan. Is there any possibility of zombies? No. But there's a lot of overlap between prepping for the exciting, fictional disaster and boring, real-world natural disasters.

  • Having a fireaxe in your trunk might not let you chop off zombie heads, but it'll sure be useful for clearing road debris after a hurricane.
  • Having a bug-out-bag with important documents and bottled water is also great for wildfire preparedness, even if that bag also has a spiky leather jacket in it.

I encourage people to have a civil war plan. Do I expect we'll have one? Not really, it wouldn't be a two-sided conflict. But we can expect to see domestic terrorism (see also: insurrection) and potentially police riots (the police enacting organized violence as they did in 2020). If you're ready for a civil war, you're ready for the more mundane breakdowns we're more likely to see.

  • Knowing first aid and how to treat a gunshot wound might not find use on a battlefield, but it could easily save someone's life in a mass shooting or isolated hate crime.
  • Having ad-hoc or peer-to-peer communications is useful during riots and power outages.
  • If you can move ordinance discreetly across state lines, you'll probably find the skillset applies to moving red state refugees as well.
  • Building a network of people you trust to band together when SHTF? Brother, you just invented a mutual aid network.

So yeah, if you feel anxious about the possibility of a civil war (or zombies), channel that energy into prepping for it, and you'll find that even if your predictions were wrong, your effort will not go to waste.

[–] JenTheWyvern@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

Thank you for giving me justification for buying myself a fire axe!

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago

Funny enough, I don't know how to pin a comment. I'll look up how!

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago

I’ve been learning how to use Meshtastic recently and getting friends interested in setting up fixed nodes around the city I live in. I live in Australia and successive governments on both sides of politics have repeatedly restricted the right to secure, private communication.