Doomsday Preparation

[CCoburn]

While learning survival skills makes sense, prepping is silly. Nobody knows what future will bring and, at this point, it's hard to predict whether the present local conflicts will escalate to a global war. And food, even the canned food, has its expiry date. If nothing happens, one day you will have to eat the crap you bought or throw it away and buy new one. The same is with building shelters. It costs money and it would look kind of stupid if one dies of cancer before having a chance to use it.

My mother always worried about the third world war. Now she doesn't have to worry because she's dead.

There are things that don't depend on us and you can't prepare for every kind of emergency. Besides, I'm not really all that motivated to live a long life. Certainly, dying in the middle of war sucks but dying of cancer or any other deadly illness sucks no less. The same goes for having one's diapers changed at the old age.

I haven't checked for any recent updates yet today, and so far, I haven't done anything except write about it. I guess I was mostly just thinking about bugging out for a while to an even more remote location than I already am in the event of a worst-case scenario. The prepper I was referring is basically a part of the family, and they got most of the angles covered, so I'm not going to waste my time and money on needless redundancy.

I do think about the "age thing" often. I'm good today, but I could die tomorrow or live for another forty years. Death is most often not very pleasant in whatever form it takes.

I've even become less concerned about Putins' nuclear threats. Russia going nuclear might even be (or likely be) worse for Russia than anyone else and not culminate in the MAD that has been hyped up for so many decades. Part of it depends on whether or not and to what extent Russias' allies would become involved. I don't really think China wants any part of it, and that's the one I would be worried most about.

Apparently, Russia was squandering much of their military budget in lieu of maintaining their nukes, and some components, like tritium, needs to be replaced every ten years or so. Most of Russias nuclear arsenal and the threats directly referencing them are likely nothing more than antiques of the cold war era.

For many years the US put just as much money into maintaining its nukes as Russia put into their entire military budget, if not more so.