selective panic 2 of 2

SELECTIVE PANIC 2

An example of “good panic” is having a thousand pounds of wheat.  “Bad panic” is having a year’s supply of freeze dried foods.  One cost $300, the other $3,000 ( of which half the calories were from wheat kernels, so you are paying $7.90 a day for 750 calories or “normal, non-wheat” food.  You are better off buying wheat and wet canned meat which is $5.76 a pound, delivered https://amzn.to/2PE0VDZ ).  There are some good freeze dried foods ( home canned butter is about $5 a pound, or you can buy freeze dried for twice that-

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), but not enough to make a daily menu out of. 

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It is good to panic and over stock on food.  It isn’t good to panic and buy overly costly food.  Gun control scare?  Panic and stock the crap out of ammunition reloading components ( unless you are a spray and pray advocate, you don’t need fancy machines to make cases worth per hour.  Put in a little manual labor and spend just $40 per caliber for the machine.  Lee Loader- https://amzn.to/2Lj04bg ), the best bang for your buck, rather than running out to buy a plastic carbine. 

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Here is my general rule.  Panic over the bare bones basics, yesterday, then relax.  Square away the best multiple year food stockpile you can afford, ten times the cost of a gun in ammunition ( so, plan what gun you are allowed to have on that cost ) and the best possible “away from crowds” location in your budget.  Then stop worrying about everything else you can’t control and which won’t matter.  And don’t sacrifice tomorrow for next month.  For instance, cashing in your 404(k) to pay off the house is smart ( even if the house might be unlivable without a grid ).

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Cashing in your retirement to buy a huge semi-auto arsenal and overpriced freeze dried, pretty darn retarded.  A bolt action rifle and wheat/wet canned meat is a much better bet, and then you have a retirement available if needed.  Cash savings and retirement funds are necessary even if destined to be Black Holed by the next banking crisis ( as insurance ).  But if you elect to cash it in, do so only if it increases your security rather than decreasing it ( eliminating rent frees up half your income, or allows your hours/wages to be cut in half without pain ).

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It is GREAT to panic.  It is TERRIBLE to do the wrong thing after you panic.  Since most of us “comfort seek” in our prepping ( getting another cat/box of ammo to still the Voices ), focus on targeting that to eliminating future panic.  Having food on hand eliminates panic whenever weather related disasters hit.  Not needing to pay rent or debt eliminates panic over economic news that might mean your job is eliminated.  This is the whole point of prepping, to avoid future panic.  That is Panicking Early To Avoid The Rush.

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That is constructive panic.  The danger lies in Seeking Comfort purchases which don’t actually Panic Early but which generate a soothing balm with a pull date.  Still living in the ghetto, you buy even more guns and ammunition.  This is Comfort purchasing, without effect.  What you are doing is pretending you can hold on to employment, and an imperial lifestyle, while fooling yourself into safety.  Now, don’t take this the wrong way.  There are in fact about ZERO safe places in the world, unless you are rich.  The rest of us can only minimize, NOT eliminate, risk. 

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I’m sorry to be the one to tell you some self-righteous prick of a prepper consultant lied to you.  Actually, I’m not sorry.  Serves you right for not sending me the money.  But, no, there are no safe places.  The only variable you control is how much you are willing to sacrifice to reduce the risk.  Most choose not to sacrifice too much, given the cost.  But you are also not allowed to sacrifice nothing and do nothing to reduce that risk.  Even small villages can be unsafe, but huge urban areas full of angry Diversity is as unsafe as you can get.

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So, you move to reduce risk.  You cannot afford to eliminate the risk, but you do as much as humanly possible.  After all, no matter where you go, you’ll probably be forced to move by circumstances anyway.  The point is you can’t stop at ineffective Comfort purchases.  You need to keep pushing that envelope.  Just keep asking, Is That REALLY Good Enough?  Most Yuppie preppers ONLY do that with guns and a token amount of food and ignore the rest, like the best place to live with their current budget.  Past a point, guns are throwing good money after bad.

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Green Mountain Dude (https://darkgreenmountainsurvivalresearchcentre.wordpress.com/ ) places close to zero faith in guns, pointing out you should be buying wood heating stoves instead.  We all need to be armed-few of us need to be as well armed as we are.  You know Americans have nine to nineteen times the guns we need, although I’d wager one tenth the ammunition we should have.  And I don’t think an emphasis on wood stoves is THAT important ( yello! Daub  rocket stoves are a preferable Stone Age alternative priced right ), but his basic point is sound.  Panic, but about the right things.

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Living in a low population Red State area, even with only one long arm but with plenty of ammunition, with a well insulated shelter and alternate energy, with a full cupboard, and why would you ever need to panic?  Living in the city with the best semi guns, all tactical tommy ninja elite gear and cases of MRE’s?  You are STILL going to panic because you prepped for the wrong things.  You didn’t prep to AVOID CROWDS.  You prepped to fight them.  That ninja warrior crowd tells you to Buy Once, Cry Once ( code for: buy most expensive comfort gear ).

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Instead, you should “Panic PRIOR, Cry While It’s Safe”.  You MUST do that in budget because gear isn’t just tactical, it is also strategic.  Getting out of debt, NOT using it for better gear.  Not living in danger for a job, but needing less of a job to live somewhere safer.  That is “gear” insofar as it is a tool keeping you safe.  The safest gunfight is the one you never have, not one where you have the best gear.  Can the fight come to you?  Absolutely.  Not just marauding ghetto hoards but far more likely Commie PC State military troops.

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What makes you safer, in that case?  Tactical vest with 400 rounds for an ACOG carrying AR-15, plate armor and squad communications?  Or a bolt rifle, a ghillie suit and caches all through the woods, and the ability to move through them, alone?  Prepping is only about the gear as needed to perform optimally.  Which is usually NOT equated to more money.  The best bet is usually to forego luxury, which is either free or PAYS you instead of costing you.  But that is enough of that.

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note: if you have Amazon Prime, consider the movie "The Night Eats The World".  Yes, it is zombies.  But they are not the focal point.  Rather, one guy trying to cope with going nuts all on his own, alone in an apartment building.  The movie is slow.  No semi-auto gunfire or explosions.  No FLIR scopes.  I'd call it a navel gazer.  But I didn't find it boring.  I believe it is French, but don't quote me there.  I thought the very ending was a bit lame, but otherwise recommended.
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