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  1. Great article.

    Training, as opposed to learning, is creating a controlled environment in order that the trainee can, in the future, perform a critical activity. You don’t learn how to defuse a bomb, you’re trained to do so with equipment that won’t kill you when you inevitably fail as you’re being trained. You learn that Columbus’s discovery of the New World was in 1492, but this knowledge (or lack thereof) will not help or hurt yourself and others. You can learn on your own, but few things can be self-trained to the level comparable to that of guided instruction.

    I love the list of tasks because it highlights the need to do all of those things BEFORE TSHTF. If not, now we’re “learning” to defuse those bombs in a very non-controlled environment which could be fatal to yourself and others. I think most of the readers here understand this, it’s getting Cousin Joe and Uncle Bubba to understand that you can’t just buy an AR-15, a 500rnd case of Wolf .223, six mags, and $1500 worth of #10 cans from Costco and call it good.

    1. Yep, as Col. Jeff Cooper says, “Owning a gun doesn’t make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.”

      Carry on

  2. Wow Mama Bear, excellent four-part series.

    “Brainstorming potential situations and deciding now how to handle them can be of great assistance once you are operating in emergency mode.”

    This sentence is not just great advice for post-SHTF living but every-day living as well. Everything from what to do when Bambi runs out in front of your vehicle at night, to what to do when your house catches fire, to whether you’re really going to put a .357 hollow point into that intruder’s chest and make Clint Eastwood’s day, all have to be thought out way ahead of time so in the heat of the moment, instinct takes over when there is no time to think.

    I hate it in the movies when a situation is going down and 99% of the people are just screaming, yelling, and panicking. That’s probably not too far from the truth and as you point out, if we don’t think all of these things out ahead of time, we’re going to be in trouble. When the grid goes down in a Carrington Event, or we see the mushroom clouds because the new hypersonic weapons don’t give world leaders the reaction time we had with slow-poke ballistic missiles, we’ll be saying, “Wow, I never really thought this would happen,” and it will be far too late to be coming up with our plans then. We’ll be just like those people in the movies screaming and panicking not having the slightest clue what to do next, wasting precious moments because we failed to think ahead.

    Looking forward to your next article, whenever that may be. 🙂

  3. Mama Bear,

    Thanks for the articles . They are very stimulating and are wonderful food for thought and discussion as we move forward into the roaring twenties.

  4. Michael Z,
    Wonderful points! It will be the Bubbas that suddenly realize how foolish they’ve been that will make up part of the problem when things get bad. I believe much of the Golden Horde will thin in the cities before they try to leave.

  5. Mama Bear, another outstanding installment to the article!
    Thank you for all the work you put into writing it. I’m now focusing on parts of the lists you provided for us. My immediate concern is for the mental well-being of myself and particularly my mom and dad who are dealing with Alzheimer’s. My mom is really having a hard time dealing with not going out anywhere . This is stressful for me when she has temper tantrums about not going out. I’ve spent the last several days/weeks patiently explaining to her how serious this virus is to her , my dad , myself and others in their age group (80’s) . I’ve ordered extra games, activities and books for her so she can cope better with this .

    Thank you again for all the information

  6. We are using your series as the centerpiece of our family discussions tomorrow night. Thank you for the questions and framework, we will use this to structure our tabletop exercise.

  7. For many many years people used outhouses and didn’t die. I would think in a city situation they wouldn’t be a viable option but if you had a half acre or more I would think you would be ok. If dug nice and deep they don’t fill up quickly. Having lime to cut down on the odor and flies would be really good. I’ve heard you can use wood ashes too. As to contaminating the water, most wells are quite deep and it would take a lot for the sewage to reach them. But of course, common sense would dictate that you place it as far away as possible. Probably in a subdivision it would be better to have a communal one. If you burn the toilet paper it will last a very long time. I spent time in an orphanage in Mexico. They had dug theirs a long time before and it wasn’t nearly full and there were at least 100 kids there.

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