So when this COVID "pandemic" started a bunch of us laughed. As it took fire the shortages began. Yeah I know we still joke about the TP that went AWOL through out the Country.

It was kinda funny...............at first until you found yourself as one who could not find any TP. I watched as supplies started dwindling. Can goods, hand sanitizer, gloves, masks and the list grew. It grew so much that our meat, chicken, pork etc started deminishing as well.

Prices started getting higher as supply and demand had to be met or some stores just price gauged you. The meat market around here is finally a bit better. For a while HEB was wiped clean and nothing coming in. Yeah I know, the factories workers had COVID ect

My family and I never have been hoarders, preppers and such. We kept a supply of stuff for about a month or so. TP was the only thing that really killed us or trying to buy it. TP is still on the short end in this area anyway.

Makes me rethink if we have been doing it right with everyday items. Also I do not think this Country can suffer anything larger then this virus. This was enough to pretty much cripple us, imo.

When every person in America is killing deer/hogs/fish etc. to feed their family how long you thing its gonna last before there are none?

When every person in America is killing deer/hogs/fish etc. to feed their family how long you thing its gonna last before there are none?

Every person won't be. Only those capable.

Plenty of other things to wipe your butt with other than toilet paper if push comes to shove.

As far as long term survival - not too worried about my immediate family - short of a nuclear fallout we'd be just fine.

However, I think any sustained problem would wipe out about 2/3 of the US population pretty quickly as the vast majority of people have zero common sense, let alone survival instincts.

Let’s be honest most don’t know how to store meat anyways,

Most people don’t even have enough salt or cure handy to make a pounds of jerky

IMO we were not anywhere near being crippled due to the virus. Some were mentally crippled.

Think of the large cities, where no food is grown, and all is imported. I think I read that 90% of large city populations would die from riots and starvation. The other 10% would come looking for the things that we country folks have, and attempt to take it from us.

You want to read a chilling book? Read One Second After. It’s the US one second after a huge electromagnetic pulse. The book scared me to death, and I’ve read that the government has used that book for a basis on hardening our grid and our military against an EMP. If you have an old truck and/or tractor that can’t be disabled by an EMP, now’s the time to give them a hug and kind words.

It was a great book, but I still think about it sometimes.

Another good one is Lights Out.