last foray

LAST FORAY

Something you see repeatedly, still, Dog knows why, are discussions on last minute runs for supplies during an emergency event. Whenever I see that, I ask myself how these people ever made it to adulthood. Were their parents of the Helicopter variety? Did they go to the hospital a lot? Did they find a house that actually still had lead paint? Were they snorting dust from old asbestos ceiling tiles? Do you get the idea I think last minute forays outside the wire are a really bad idea? Because I'm running out of rhetorical questions.

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I don't think these people are necessarily short on supplies, at least not according to how much they always thought they needed, but rather were worried that Their Precious, their money, would soon be without value. Newsflash there, Barbie, your currency already holds no value. You are holding company script. For those of you confused, old timey Robber Baron companies housed you in a company home and gave you company issued currency to spend at the company store. Then during a demonstration to form a Union, the Pinkerton boys shot the worker and the company threw the family out of the house ( with the script nonredeemable elsewhere ).

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The company store always sold their goods at a distasteful markup, along the lines of ghetto Dot Indian run convenience stores charging three times grocery store prices. The profit is necessary so as to fly over a new cousin when the last one was gunned down by Tyrone on a bad day. If we weren't all racist we would put Wal-Marts in the ghettos so all the disadvantaged youths could get free food, batteries and DVD's, saving their Food Stamps to sell at a discount for recreational drugs. Alas, Honkey Mo Fo's be all like that.

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Paying your employees in Company Script is the next best thing to slavery. Anyone with a calculator and an iota of sense understands that the materials cost for a house can be ten percent of the asking price, if even that, and just the “permit” ( bribe ) for the city runs more than that, usually. It costs so little to build housing for workers, China got into that racket. Then, you don't even pay them the remainder in cash. The Company Script pays inflated prices for food and clothing, which itself is a profit center. And you wonder why Unions were a good idea?

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US Dollars are even better than company script, because the company doesn't even have to build the house first, OR stockpile a store. Zero cost, near free labor. Red Shield salutes your diligent efforts! But the main point here is that the currency is worthless outside of buying from the approved monopoly suppliers, at inflated prices. The dollar becomes instantly worthless as soon as the Spice stops flowing. Turn the oil tap off and your savings don't buy dingus. Why, no problem, you proudly peacock thrust out your chest and proclaim, I'll just pay in silver!

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Why? Silver is real money ( insofar as universal acceptance, OUTSIDE the companies control, and except for times of collapse, famine, anarchy and total war, always accepted throughout history. In and of itself it is worthless, but the trade value of it is near constant ). Whatever you are buying with your silver that can never be replaced, that item is renewable. You NEVER buy renewables with non-renewables. Take your company script NOW, buy what you going to need NOW. Anything past NOW, the company script reverts back to worthless paper.

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You are thinking, oh my, I must trade this two thousand dollars for wheat and ammo, because my head was up my ass and I didn't believe Jim about the apocalypse and thought Fracking Was Forever, and now I'm hosed. If you go outside the wire, the odds are good you will die. But if I DON'T go out, I'll also die, you cry out in despair as your lower lip quivers like a hundred fifty pound day one prison bitch surrounded by OtherColors pumped up from lifting weights. And while that may be true, by the time you get to your low cost grocery center, what makes you think anything will be there to buy?

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Your chances of actually being knifed or shot might be low, after all, folks are notoriously poor shots as they believe the volume of fire guarantees them a bullseye more than aiming or trigger control does, but the endeavor to secure the food is hampered by its being unavailable. Meaning for every can of beans you can't buy, that once low probability of being killed rises. If you were guaranteed a cart of food, the odds of being injured would be worth the risk. But to come away with only a single dented can of artichoke hearts? That is worth your life, one meal?

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And let us not forget that by the time most of the food is gone, everyone left shopping are going to be terribly upset and pissed off, desperate and willing to become more violent. As the food runs out your odds of being killed over it increase exponentially. You KNOW this. Why would anyone risk life and limb when the reward to risk ratio is so poor? Because they are idiots. They understand Darwin already mailed their cancellation notice and so they panic and double down on being an idiot. And this is just tangling with bad attitudes and guns. This doesn't even account for the other diseases and disasters, accidents and flash mobs not even shopping.

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Right now, you can go to Wal-Mart and buy a heavy duty twenty gallon plastic tote and four 25lb sacks of flour for under $30. That is feeding a family of four for a month for a buck a day. No, you do NOT just eat flour. It isn't healthy enough. But it is a base calorie you add wild greens and trapped animals to for a complete diet. It gives you the strength to carry on, to find or fight for other food. If you cannot find twenty-five cents a day to feed yourself after the apocalypse, if you cannot instantly become a thirty day prepper on pocket change, more importantly if you already have not done so, you are a complete and utter moron.

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Once a panic starts, you'll NEVER find a months worth of calories, among the panicking mobs. You've either done the very barest minimum so as to avoid crowds, or you should just stay home and die with dignity. Better yet, have a real plan that will work much better than shopping at a ransacked grocers. Hell, selling your body, resorting to cannibalism even, is a better plan. I mean, NOT, but once you are down to all bad options, at least ambushing long pork is safer than fighting a mob over empty shelves. A terrible menu choice, as eating rotted and poisoned flesh only keeps you alive long enough to die from starvation AND disease, a bonus.

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The only good thing about cannibalism is that you can actually taste the tears of liberals, AND if hunting lesbians they will be happy to know you are actually eating them out. Your communist lamp post list doesn't just have to be a boogaloo assassin list, it can also be a grocery list. Winning! But, seriously, once the spicy times begin, immediately STOP. Money went from a trade tool to fire tender. Do NOT make any more poor decisions based on money. Or luxury. I can't tell you, “sex”, because that is nearly impossible, but try not to be stupid about sex either, if possible.

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There is nothing wrong with shopping, now. You buy as much as possible, stocking up on everything now so you don't have to later when things are much more dangerous. The last day of December, 1999, I watched news reports showing Australia with the lights still on ( they had just passed midnight there ). Dammit! No Y2K? This was disappointing. But I figured, just in case, in case it was a lie, I'll drop one DefCon alert and not totally discount some danger. Did I go last minute shopping, as everyone was still at work ( I insisted on taking a vacation day )? No. I stayed home other than visiting spots not selling any desired supplies.

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It was hard, as I was hopped up and antsy, but I knew better than to fight crowds. They would be better behaved crowds, better than Black Friday, but I dared not compete with anyone panicking. Even though they probably saw the same news report I did, so the panic level SHOULD be low. For the same reason I never went to the movie theater opening week ( or the first few weeks, if a popular film ). In the best of times, crowds are dangerous.

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