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    wileycoyote

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    depends on the type of prepping i'm worried about on any given day...

    i wrote this tongue-in-cheek list years ago to help friends understand what each type of prepper worries about (its since been borrow and adapted throughout the interweb):


    SURVIVAL CATEGORIES

    Working Citizen - Concerned with paying rent & utilities, keeping or getting health insurance, paying taxes, inflation, car repairs, leaky plumbing, back pains... May work two jobs, does without personal luxuries, hopes their children will do better than themselves. Emotional, physical and financial survival is the focus of daily life.

    Upwardly Mobile - Concerned about aging, retirement investments, cholesterol levels, loss of employment, lawsuits, burglaries, bandwidth, clothes dryer lint fires, poor room service. Takes vitamins, exercises, eats oatmeal, wears seatbelts, has smoke & carbon-monoxide detectors, requests medical tests, has numerous insurance policies, files lawsuits, pampers themselves wherever whenever possible. “Survival” to them means living long enough to take full benefit of extensive retirement plans and long term care insurance policies.

    Medical Crisis - Has very complete medical pack in house and in car. Donates blood and is active in the Red Cross. Has taken paramedic EMT & CPR courses, knows vital signs, stockpiles medicines, etc. Concerned with vehicle accidents and emergencies involving injuries. Focus is on helping family, friends & community survive medical emergencies.

    Every Day Carry (EDC) – Just like the Boy Scout modo suggests: “Be Prepared”. EDC'er always have on them a number of necessary items to allow them to handle as many varied “everyday” situations as possible. From a handful of things like flashlights, multi-tools, pocket knives, fire starters and cell phones, all the way up to full disaster kits in day bags, with one in each vehicle. The search for perfect items is part of the joy. Usually is a contributing member on a number of EDC forums.

    Safety Preparedness - Learns principles and techniques needed for surviving worse-case scenarios that can occur anyplace, anywhere. Makes preparations for such common calamities as structure fires, dog attacks, physical confrontations, snake bites, lightning strikes, car breakdowns, third-world travel problems, bear encounters, flash floods, home invasions and even train wrecks. Reads: Survive Safely Anywhere series, Worse-Case Scenario Handbooks

    Wilderness Survival - Being able to stay alive for indefinite periods in life threatening wilderness scenarios. These can include: plane crashes, shipwrecks, being lost in the woods. Concerns are: thirst, hunger, climate, terrain, health, stress, fear. Prepares with: knowledge, training & practice. Kit includes: water purifiers, shelter, fire starters, clothing, food, medical supplies, navigation & signaling gear. Reads: Nessmuk, Kephart, Angier, Mears

    Personal Assault Survival - Individuals concerned with surviving brief encounters of violent activity. Focus is on personal protection & it's legal ramifications, danger awareness, Boyd's cycle (also known as the OODA cycle - observe, orient, decide & act), martial arts, self defense tactics and tools (both lethal & less-than-lethal). Reads: Ayoob, Cooper, Jordan, Applegate, Sanow, Marshall, Taylor, Steele, Sun Tzu

    Natural Disaster, Brief - People that live in tornado, hurricane, flood, wildfire, earthquake or heavy snowfall areas and want to be prepared for the inevitable. Investment in material for fortifying structures and tools for rebuilding & constructing temporary shelter, perhaps have a custom built shelter, food, water, medicine, and supplies, enough to get by until contact with the rest of the world resumes.

    Natural Disaster, Years Long - Concerned about long term weather cycles of 2-10 years, unusually cold or warm periods, that have happened on and off for thousands of years. Might stock several tons of food per family member and have a heavy duty greenhouse with packed in nitrogen non-hybrid seeds.

    Natural Disaster, Lifelong - Possible scenarios include: severe global warming and the coming ice age, the greenhouse-effect-gone-wild, warming/cooling of gulf steam waters, large meteor strike, magnetic solar storm, shift in earth's axis or reversal of geo-magnetic fields... Owns maps of previous ice age glacier patterns and hopes that where they live will be south of the permafrost line. May have purchased snowshoes. Reads reports by National Academy of Science and Woods Hole Physical Oceanography Dept.
     
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    part 2:

    General Social/Political Decline, Liberal - Concerned about growing cultural problems and the slow destruction of both the constitution & the bill of rights. Into anti-crime strategies, both passive (alarms) and active (neighborhood watch). Most often anti-gun, pro-choice, pro-environment, anti-war, against prayer in school, against death penalty... Supporters of the ACLU, Amnesty International, Ban Handguns in America, Greenpeace. Follows CCN and MSNBC.

    General Social/Political Decline, Conservative - Concerned about growing cultural problems and the slow destruction of both the constitution & the bill of rights. Into anti-crime strategies, both passive (alarms) and active (Rottweilers & guns). Most often pro-gun, anti-abortion, pro-business, pro-national defense, for prayer in school, pro-death penalty... Supporters of the NRA and the Alaska "Support Industry" Alliance. Follows Fox News and OAN.

    Cold War “Survivalists” - Fear homeland invasion by nation's enemies, whether foreign or domestic. This was a group of substantial size before the fall of the Soviet Union. True-believers currently suspect the U.N. of one-world domination plans and fear black helicopters, government intervention & taxation. The majority of these people have relocated to other groups. Favorite movies: Red Dawn, Mad Max trilogy.

    Nuclear War - These folks know all primary, secondary & tertiary targets, downwind fallout patterns and chose to live in locales they deem to be safest in the event of all out nuclear war. They've built fallout shelters and have the necessary food, water, tools and skills to see them though. Other groups also prepare for nuclear war as an exercise, in that if you are prepared for nuclear war, you are prepared for all other scenarios. Reads: Tappan, Kearny, Clayton.

    Bio-Chem - Concerned with the spread of fatal diseases and terrorist use of biological agents & nerve gases. Examples: E.Coli 0157, botulism, dengue, Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease, SARS, rabies, hantavirus, anthrax, plague, cholera, HIV, ebola, marburg, lassa, saron, VX ... Might own NBC (nuclear, biological & chemical) full-face respirators, polyethylene coveralls, PVC boots, Nitrile gloves, plastic sheeting and duct tape. Reads: CDC reports, Haz-Mat manuals, Preston's “Hot Zone”, Jane’s Chem-Bio Handbook.

    Knowledge-Enabled Mass Destruction (KMD) - Concerned with unintended consequences of genetic manipulation, nano-technology, transgenic crops, psychological engineering, genome hybridized cloning, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, engineered organisms, self-replicating molecular robotic assemblers (“gray goo problem”)... Techno-luddites fear human extinction. At the other end are the bioethicists who believe policies and self regulation will avert disaster. Reads: Kurzweil, Kaczynski, Moravec, Dyson

    Over-Population - Soaring increase in world's uncontrolled human growth impacts available freshwater, food, health-care, environment, economics, consumerism, spread of diseases and just about every other facet of life. Projections indicate that world population of 6.6 billion may again double in fifty years. Followers range from those who've foregone children & have had voluntary sterilization to those who've had large families and later sounded the alarm, like Al Gore, David Packard (H-P founder) and Sripati Chandrasekhar (India's birth control advocate). Supports: Family planning, birth control and voluntary sterilization.

    Monetary Disaster - Reads lots of Ayn Rand and believes the Federal Reserve system is evil. Newsletters suggest hard assets of gold & silver bullion/coin and similar precious-metal oriented investments. They are preparing for paper money to become worthless, thus have a good burglar alarm system and enough food/ supplies to last a couple of months, or perhaps even a year, until a new monetary system (formal or informal) is re-established.

    Biblical Revelations - The Savior is going to return very soon, the final battle with the devil will occur in their lifetime, the rapture is immanent. Very wide range of beliefs and attitudes in this group. Pacifist to armed camp, no food stockpiles (leave that to God) to decades of food storage, etc. The ability to put trust in faith, above all else, is essential to members of this group. May follow one very charismatic leader's interpretations of the bible.

    Post-9/11 Reactionaries - Are convinced that government should have unlimited powers to do everything and anything to stop all potential terrorist threats. They want greater protection through increased governmental controls over citizens and foreigners alike, both within the country's borders and elsewhere. Willing to preemptively strike the perceived enemy. Happy to surrender civil liberties and human rights in the promise of feeling safe and secure. Believers rarely take any personal action, relying on the government to make changes.

    Zombie Apocalypse - A tongue-in-cheek nod to everything survivalist. Any rational survivalist understands that zombies only exist in our imaginations. Instead the term is used to describe the ultimate disaster situation: the panicked collapse of civilian society until only isolated pockets of survivors remain, scavenging for food and supplies in a world reduced to a pre-industrial hostile wilderness. And if one can survive this, one is fully prepared for anything!!! Favorite movies include Romero's “Dead” series, 28 Days Later, Resident Evil films. Books like World War Z. TV shows like Walking Dead. Plus endless number of games, graphic novels and even music.
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    Hoji

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    The other day I was prepping some venison for dinner. Nothing too complicated. Salt and pepper on a back strap and let sit for a bit.
     

    Mowingmaniac 24/7

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    Hoji,

    Now you're talking!

    Though I regret when I was killing deer I never bothered with deer liver and/or tongue.

    Oh, the waste.....
     

    Hoji

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    I feed the organs to my dogs as well as all trimmings. They also get rob bones and stock made from the bones added to their food year round.
     

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    Hoji,

    I'm sure your dogs love that, but honestly try some deer liver or tongue next chance you get...since I quit deer hunting, a kindly deer killing neighbor has shared those bits of deer goodness with me and I sincerely regret letting all that good stuff go into the gut pile, sigh...
     

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    Hoji,

    I'm sure your dogs love that, but honestly try some deer liver or tongue next chance you get...since I quit deer hunting, a kindly deer killing neighbor has shared those bits of deer goodness with me and I sincerely regret letting all that good stuff go into the gut pile, sigh...
    As I have always disliked the way liver tastes in all other animals, and my pack absolutely loves it, I am happy to see them pretending to be apex predators.
     

    O.S.O.K. 1961

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    WEC, that's quite the list of prepper typology.

    I think you can pretty much put them all into three categories.... those who are preparing or prepared for some kind of physical disaster, those who target financial disaster and those who only worry about the spiritual...
     

    avvidclif

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    How about none of the above. I'm rocking along enjoying life, tomorrow can take care of itself. The only thing to remember about drinking water is don't drink downstream from the herd.
     

    gshayd

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    Retired....wake up when I want to. I would invest in gold. I like lead better. As I can get meat with that. The meat I can't eat would be shared or bartered.
     

    Jarine88

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    Wiley,

    You forgot about those who prep for all of the above. Just looking at your list makes me think that only the narrow minded would fit into just one category. Think about the EDC’er who gets lost in the woods, or he needs to get home after the next terrorist attack. Natural disasters can have similar impact as war when it comes to the need for supplies. Home defense is as important in peace time as it is in a crisis with home invasions in the local news on a weekly basis.

    I’m definitely not a super prepper by any means, but I respect those who do.
     
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