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Be Prepared
I've been thinking a bit about the new cult of preparedness. Not that I'm a totally unprepared for disaster person, but I think some people have too much faith that having the right supplies will protect them. Sure I carry a shovel in my car, but I don't think that's any sort of protection against snow or mud.
If a person is involved in some sort of disaster no amount of storing food will save him. It might help, but in the end what is needed to survive something like a war, a hurricane, or an earthquake is luck. The time to avoid a disaster is before it happens, long before. You need to be ready to take to your feet two years before anyone else does. Otherwise you just have to live with the risk that you could die at any moment. And how is that different than the rest of life?
I know I'm rambling a bit, but I just think it silly that people feel they need these talismans of bottled water and dried food to be safe. We're urged by the government to have these supplies so that we feel safer, but not quite as safe as before they told us to be afraid.
In other news I'm likely to be too busy to post tomorrow. I'll write about the DASFA picnic sometime on Sunday.
If a person is involved in some sort of disaster no amount of storing food will save him. It might help, but in the end what is needed to survive something like a war, a hurricane, or an earthquake is luck. The time to avoid a disaster is before it happens, long before. You need to be ready to take to your feet two years before anyone else does. Otherwise you just have to live with the risk that you could die at any moment. And how is that different than the rest of life?
I know I'm rambling a bit, but I just think it silly that people feel they need these talismans of bottled water and dried food to be safe. We're urged by the government to have these supplies so that we feel safer, but not quite as safe as before they told us to be afraid.
In other news I'm likely to be too busy to post tomorrow. I'll write about the DASFA picnic sometime on Sunday.
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I can't possibly prepare for long-term disasters like war, except, as you said, looking far enough ahead to not be in the way of danger, if that's possible. Like a number of people I know, if the current occupant is still in the White House in January 2005, I will relocate. I have relatives who managed to leave Germany in the thirties, or I wouldn't have as many cousins as I do.
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