Post-collapse: The world has situated itself in a very bad place. There is death, hunger, and fear all over. What will you do when friends and family come calling in need of help?
Will We Turn Away Neighbors, Friends, and Family When That Pivotal Day of Disaster Comes Knocking on Our Door?
And it is true that resources are limited. For the vast majority of us, there is only so much money and energy that we can put into prepping, and so why should those that have refused to listen to the warnings and prepare in advance be able to benefit from all of our hard work?
Unfortunately, life is not always fair. And we also need to realize that there is a tremendous amount of deception going on out there these days. Some of the deceptions that are currently circulating are very strong, and it can be very easy to be sucked into them. So we need to have compassion for those that have been led into confusion.
Look, there are literally thousands of watchmen all across this country that have never wavered from warning America about what is coming even for a moment. That is because they are standing on the truth and not on wishful thinking that is the product of overactive imaginations.
The ingredients for the “perfect storm” that so many watchmen have been warning about for ages are starting to come together right before our eyes. We are closer to World War III than we have been in decades, our politicians are openly admitting that our relations with Russia are at “an all-time low”, the federal government is 20 trillion dollars in debt, our nation is on the verge of being torn apart by strife and civil unrest, the financial markets are primed for a crash of epic proportions, there are mass die-offs of animals all over the globe, and natural disasters are happening with frightening regularity as the crust of our planet rattles and shakes.
We’ve done other articles regarding morality during a post-apocalyptic situation. When coming face to face with such a dilemma we want desperately to believe we will be kind and giving and, initially, we may very well be. However, as time goes by, as the situation becomes even more desperate, will we be willing to share?
Indeed, some clingers will need to work for their food and livelihood but, having never prepared in the first place, will they be able to do their part? Let’s face it, depending on the situation, some friends and family may very well be in shock and will be motionless, unable to help at all! It’s an annoying and all too real circumstance.
In the end, we just may not know what to do, but as the man from The Economic Collapse says, we are still morally obligated as members of the human race to help each other. And there is power in numbers. Just remember to not only prep for you but others as well.
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Turn away family? What kind of$#%&!@*would even consider that.
I would not turn away my kids, my kids’ mother, or a paramedic. Maybe one or two,other specific people.
Family is first and foremost. I wouldn’t turn anyone away. But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to take everything they brought with them and then turn them away.
Plan for those you love or who have something to bring to the table. All the rest, ” it was nice seeing you again, now please go die somewhere else”.
A handful are welcome. The rest are fertilizer
family and friends are always welcome. neighbors are laways welcome with a hint of i am watching you. everyone else will have to earn the trust of the group. while it requires more resources to care for a larger group it also pays to have strength in numbers. if you plan shelter in place or bugout you will need able bodies to help defend,collect, and company. going it alone is not a realistic way.
I will use a simple test. They must answer 3 questions…..favorite color, name, and the wind velocity of a coconut laden swallow
nurses and doctors. Thing for me is i have to many nurses and doctors in the family.
Those with useful skills, or at least the ability to follow orders well and be useful, can stay. All others can either leave or be shot.
You aint a part of the crew and true….. Screw you!!!
Yeah. The reason I said paramedic is for obvious SHTF reasons; if you need it and near it you could try to work out something,mother than that make do with making it through. As for family, I meant ONLY my kids and my kids’ mother. Unless other family members had honest useful skills and was willing to work with the understanding that life in SHTF is cheap.
But in a fantasy SHTF scenario, you’d still keep numbers as small as possible but just large enough to have the needed skill pool to survive.
Medical, food skill ( gather, prep, store ), mechanics ( more than one type as you don’t want any of them to burn out ), tailors ( to keep serviceable clothing and to double as medical help ), gunsmiths, woodworkers, that’s about all I can remember.
Although I am retired Army, I am a big fan of the Boy Scouts and the Marine Corps: Be Prepared and everyone is a rifleman first.
Kill them all so thats done.
I will never turn away family…
Yea BUT ther are some people out there I could give a rats$#%&!@*about it know wer I’m going taking the old George Washington Route to the Mountain of Uniontown
Will it happen in are lifetime ..?. I’m thinking not
If they are productive do not turn them away but if they are non productive kick them to the curb.
Yup. If I don’t like you,$#%&!@*off
Been trying to get friends and family to prepare and they all think I’m nuts so I just might turn away most of them
MY bugout hide, MY rules, period.
1) what USEFUL skills do you bring?
engineer (building), general physician (health), military (defense/offense), accountant (keeping track of supplies), machinist (manufacture/repair), chemist (drugs/weapons), electrician (manufacture/repair), teacher, agriculturist, veterinarian, scavengers, cannon fodder.
2) No work, no food. Not wasting commodity for comfort.
3) weapons are ALWAYS welcome, but they will no longer be “yours” but “ours” and put into the armory & issued for watch/defence/offense/training to those who do not know weapons. The adage ‘every Marine is a rifleman first’.
4) it will NOT be a democracy. Your feelings & thoughts hold no sway. We WILL survive by any means & snowflake thoughts are death to the group as a whole.
I have other items and while not non-fiction, a couple of good reads are Lucifers Hammer & Alas, Babylon. Most of civilization could last for a week to a month with little, if any, true difficulty. I think more on the scale of multi-year/generational. Who & what would we need to bring it back eventually?