Who are preppers?

So who are preppers anyway? Preppers are people who practice self sufficiency ready for government not saving them in a disaster. The boundary between condoned and pathological prepping shifted with Brexit, when remainers went public with their food and medicine stockpiles, and again with Covid, when government told the public to stock up and hunkerContinue reading “Who are preppers?”

What could hurt you?

Fatal risks Starting with what can kill you, in the UK you have a five in six chance of dying of old age via an unavoidable illness. So there is no point dwelling on that, although it is good news as you are unlikely to die of something you could have done anything about, meaningContinue reading “What could hurt you?”

Survival and Disaster

What is survival? Surely survival simply means ‘not dying’, yet for survivalists it mainly means ‘not dying from the wilderness’, and for preppers it mainly means ‘not dying from disaster’. If you are not going into the wilderness then only train and equip for it if your environment could become a wilderness in a disaster.Continue reading “Survival and Disaster”