How we would survive?And how long?

[gbk]

Reading these posts about COVID,many different topics.Lots of emotions,lots of rights and lots of wrongs.
Lots of big egos,and few they just can not stop replying and replying and replying.
Sometimes entertainment,sometimes a pain in the a....e.

However ,the more i watch the world,and ourselves here on the forum,the more can not help ,but to raise a question to myself:

If a REALLY serious pandemic will ever occur(not bashing or belittling COVID-but based on statistics it is a kitten not a big bad lion it is made out to be)
(I feel for each fallen to COVID!)


How on earth we as society in Ontario-then Canada ,then int he world WOULD SURVIVE the real deal?Like the Black plaque or the Spanish flu?
How many days you guys think, we would last???

I bet 3 weeks tops,then the world as we knew it for the last 1-200 years would end.
Economy would tank,Governments will vanish,Society would fall apart,anarchy would take over.


Opinions?

ps-i am not a prepper-never was and never will be, never a doomsday believer either........but man oh man,what i see is scary.

[fishermccann]

Nope, I give it only till peoples fridges are empty.

[Fox]

Nope, I give it only till peoples fridges are empty.

Would really depend on the person and the location. I know a few people in the Yukon who would be fine for a good long time, city folks would go first, pretty much the same as every major pandemic in the past, the high density populations would go and if they were restricted from going to the rural areas then they would survive. If the illness were a fast acting one like Ebola then it would not spread very far, it would kill itself off, but one that takes a long time to knock a person out of commission and is contagious pre-symptoms then it would be much worse.

To the OP, you say this is a kitten but the effects of this are unknown. There is talk of heart damage to people without any symptoms, so unless you have crystal ball you have no idea what this has done and will do, nobody does.

[Bushmoose]

ps-i am not a prepper-never was and never will be, never a doomsday believer either........but man oh man,what i see is scary.

What's a prepper? prepared for a week? a month? 2 months? a year? longer? If what you see is scary, why aren't you at least a little prepared? Considering what we just went through, I think folks who don't have a years worth of supplies on hand are being foolish.

[Saskfly]

To many variables.
Even the ones that are “prepared” can have everything undone by a mob.

We always laugh when our power goes out and look across at the Mennonite farms with the lanterns glowing in the windows. If we all disappeared they would mostly carry on. If society collapsed they would probably be over run by the mob.


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[greatwhite]

I don't considered myself a prepper, but I am prepared for alot. I have everything from oil lanterns, firewood (enough for 4 years now). I do keep enough food on hand for 3 months so that would buy me time to find wild game and I have enough ammo to keep hunting almost indefinitely.

So could I hold out? I believe so. I doubt very much that people in the cities could or the average person. My siblings probably would not be able to. Could I find food or grow my own, very much so, even in the winter if I had to. Have spent some time reading about winter green houses and I have a barn that could be turned into a green house if I had to and a garden shed with a basement and a drilled well. I could also build if I had to a solar power system if I had to. In the intern I do have a generator for as long as fuel held out and I do have 100 litres of fuel.

Considering a Mob, it would have to be pretty big mob to head out of the city and make it 50 km's to my place and I would see them comming pretty quick. There isn't to much that I haven't thought about as to what I might do in various situations,but my number one thing would be to protect my children. One who lives 3000 km's away.

Should my wife or I get Covid most likely my wife would not survive as she is now full blown diabetic and has asthma and I will be diabetic probably in the next year Type 2 (I think) and it's iffy if I would survive, I use to have a great immune system but I doubt it's as good as it use to be.

But I will say one thing I do take precautions when necessary and wear a mask when in stores etc. But I am not going to hide in my house, males in my family don't normally live long and I could be dead tomorrow from a heart attack (The oldest in our family history prior to my Dad was 59 sometime in the 1800's with 1200 years of history). I'm still out and about going camping Sept 18 with some friends who all work from home.

[Deer Wrastler]

Ide have no problem finding an isolated place in the woods on a small lake somewhere off grid in the shield and living the rest of my life in peace and tranquility. Love to know what people who do not have the skills to acquire their own sustenance would do. My uppity neighbours across the street who scoff at my hunting and fishing lifestyle would probably be begging for a handout within the first week. Probably could trade some table scraps for their first-born lol

[GW11]

The saying "9 meals from anarchy" makes sense to me. However long it takes for people to go a few days without food, then it goes off the rails.

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[js4fn]

Lack of food Pfft
Take away the internet and electricity.
No City water city sewage.

Watch the show makes a guy think need more ammo

[Fisherman]

Lack of food Pfft
Take away the internet and electricity.
No City water city sewage.

Watch the show makes a guy think need more ammo

You nailed that one, no internet and no power to run cell systems. Can you imagine the brain anarchy in people that always have one in hand. On time delivery of food and everything else would go for a dump. No water and sewers back up, phew.