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SIXTY DAY DIE OFF 3
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There are not all that many preppers.  Any claim to the contrary is wishful thinking or erroneous logic.  The majority of Americans cannot afford a $400 emergency ( as you’ve all most likely read recently ), and you think they are buying FLIR scopes?  People probably didn’t stop prepping because Trump was elected, they probably stopped spending money they didn’t have as mandatory health insurance tripled.  To claim 1% or 3% of the population preps is just more hubris filled denial needing to believe things aren’t as bad as I think they are.  Even if you counted every camper who bought a single pouch of a single freeze dried meal as a prepper, I don’t believe you’d arrive at a very big number. 

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I still think the subscription numbers for American Survival Guide ( back in the day, last century mostly ) or the blog readers for Rawles ( back when he was worth reading ) are a better indicator.  We are fiercely tribal and the Internet separating and isolating us means we become even more tribal in compensation and hence I think we desperately cling to the virtue signal of our tribe, the membership publication.  What this means, the actual far lower numbers of preppers, is that very, very few people stockpile food.  The vast majority of us are JIT grocery shoppers.  When half our meals are eaten out, you don’t need that many groceries on hand.

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If my contention is correct, I think assuming everyone has at most two weeks of food on hand is a very generous assumption indeed and probably grossly optimistic.  Aren’t there a number of Sam’s Clubs shutting down?  Even LESS bulk food is being purchased, and that just might well be indicative of  those dropping Latino fertility rates we just mentioned.  Less Mexican babies, smaller families, less need to buy lots of groceries.  White birth rates are of course far less, and I don’t think all that many Latinos buy from big lot stores ( actually the closures probably have more to do with them stocking Yuppie rather than Po Boy foods ), they shop in the neighborhood Mom And Pops because they are tribally loyal and not slaves to the consumption dollar like we are, but that just reinforces the trend in JIT shopping, doesn’t it?

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So, two weeks stockpile is wildly generous.  And because of JIT, the very smallest percentage of panic stockpilers is going to strip shelves in minutes to at most hours.  Think how those stores fare in a hurricane landfall or winter weather event scare, and eliminate replacement trucks.  But let’s just assume two weeks stockpiles for most.  The last meal might be mustard and ketchup on the last Saltine cracker, but let’s assume somehow everyone has two weeks food.  That is BEST case.  Even if a limited number of trucks still get through, even if the restaurants have any shelf stable items ( they are few, and mostly condiments.  The majority are freezer foods ) you can steal, even if the power stays on because most households are also mostly freezer dependent for food storage, two weeks is probably the max, given how three days is the real inventory in our JIT system.

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Now, the majority of folks also are Fat Bastards ( I myself have a nice bowling ball gut going on, although I think it was sucked up from my now Hank Hill butt so my total weight stayed the same ).  They can quite easily, in theory, live off that fat for some time ( mobile food pantry ).  I’m sure that they can, but no one is used to skipping meals.  Hell, most folks are used to getting the bare minimum calories a body needs JUST from soda intake.  And speaking personally, I get weak from skipping one meal.  My body doesn’t like a lack of fuel.  I could still function properly off my stored fat, as far as metabolic functions, but I wouldn’t fare well mentally and my performance would immediately suffer ( headaches, queasy, etc. ).  I wonder how many others would do likewise? 

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We might be fat, but we are not in great shape nor are our bodies trained to function without consuming extra fat, protein and sugar ( generally speaking of course ).   I think it fair to say that even with stored body fat, after two weeks of not eating, after our two week food stockpile is depleted ( for the majority of the population that are NOT preppers ), for all intents and purposes we cease to perform at even far below optimal levels.  The human body doesn’t last much past a month starving, assuming NO disease brings that shorter, and hence long before that month you see serious performance issues.  I believe two weeks without eating being the average optimistic level of performance is, once again, best case.

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Combine the best case food supply of two weeks and the best case of two weeks without food being able to perform at any standard, despite extra stored fat, and one month assumes the majority of population depletion.  Because, remember, neither your house, nor your village nor your castle store food for disruptions any more.  The food is thousands of miles away, and THAT is your storage-the food coming off the machines in the fields, or from the processor.  Half the food we consume is eating out and the majority of that food is frozen and the average person lives off of frozen food in their home, too.  Canned food is a minority item, and is mostly vitamin foods anyway. 

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Even if there is food stored by you, it is probably frozen and hence not all that useful to you long term.  And as the mob storms the food depot they each get one bag of frozen breaded mushrooms or chicken nuggets.  Big deal, so what, who cares.  In all the history of mankind, food was stored to get past the winter to the next harvest and The Starving Time prior to that harvest was natural and normal and reoccurring.   The anomaly of the Seven Years in Egypt was because they were one of the few areas you couldn’t deplete the soil without really friggin trying.  So, the norm was one year of food stored, and that is if everything went right.  To assume that the die-off will last a year now, when we rely on JIT and historically they couldn’t always store a years food when all that was local, that is just simply silly. 

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Two weeks storage, two weeks to cessation of effectiveness.  One month, under optimal conditions.  One month is best case scenario.  But double that anyway, to be safe.  Two months die-off.  The longer period die-off will be the termination period of those few groups who fought and stole and hoarded the majority of the food but couldn’t last past the stored foods.  But outside that group, that very small group, a subject covered later, the bulk of the population dies-off at maximum of two months.

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