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  2. I am currently reading the4th and last installment of the World Made by Hand series by James Howard Kunstler. Although in novel form, this series is an excellent look at what may happen WTSHTF. I first learned of this author when I read his nonfiction book The Long Emergency. Good stuff. (Excuse the punctuation as the book titles should be underlined, but my computer refuses to comply.)

    1. Many preppers don’t realize just how many people they may have to accommodate in their homes, in the event of an emergency. Plan ahead. In fact plan to have folks in your home for many months. The inherent space efficiency of futons, folding cots, bunk beds, hide-a-beds, Murphy beds, and hammocks should not be overlooked!

      1. 1) There are reasons for western style beds, although they have been largely forgotten. Having legs on the bed frame makes it possible to keep bedbugs, mice, roaches,etc from the bedding. If need be, the legs can be placed in metal cans, glass jars,etc.
        http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qjU_EyWTPAYJ:www.bedbugsupply.com/forum/t/killing-bedbugs-when-you-sleep-on-a-japanese-futon-on-the-floor/410+&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

        2) Japanese futons have layers of cotton wadding –hard to clean — although the western copies are often foam rubber mounted on wooden frames like western beds (Which largely negates the space saving)

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futon#Japanese_futon

        https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/mez/61/3/61_3_231/_pdf (Scan down to pictures)

        3) While bedbug bites have long been suspected of transmitting disease, no proof of this has been scientifically shown. The question is important because they are developing resistence to pesticides that kept them under control within the USA in the past.

        4) However, the role of the kissing bug in spreading the deadly disease Chagas has been shown. In the past, this disease has mainly plagued Latin America but it is spreading into Texas.
        https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/chagas/gen_info/vectors/index.html

        5) The very clean environment many of us live in today within the USA might not continue in the crowded , unsanitary conditions of a major catastrophe. So when choosing equipment it might be worthwhile to consider how it would work in third world conditions.

  4. Just finished “The Mandibles”, a novel that chronicles the financial troubles of a well off family during a collapse.

    It’s funny, exciting, and scary. A well written warning to be prepared for bad times caused by government interference in the economy, especially healthcare.

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