Is prepping pointless?

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Do not let anyone know what you have, outside immediate family.

Do not let your kids know what you have, as they made inadvertently tell their friends.

If/when TSHTF, do not be walking around looking well fed. Ration your preps. Try to blend in with the misery.

Not all matters are earth ending. Our preps made the entire COVID matter far easier on our family. I was not among those panicking at the last minute trying to get basics.

Install decorative wood shutters on the outside, and sandbags on the inside. Or reface the exterior with brick. Or order an underground bunker.

I live in a blue collar area with vets tradespoeple mechanics etc.Most of us are armed and some with weapons to spare.I think we will put up good fight if need be.You have 0 chance unless you fight back.You are NOT going to be welcome in the"wilderness".If you have family and friends out there you might get thru.I am not in a flood zone or earthquake zone but too close to nuke targets.Where i started out in this life,i should have given up a long time ago.Might as well go out with a bang.Thy Will Be Done

Bosnian guy who survived three years there of chaos said single people were targeted by gangs and easily snuffed. Group with as many like minded peeps as possible.

Coffee, matches, cigarettes, gas, iighters were currency

A lot less hungry mouths after the vaccinated die in the next few years.

There is a bunch of overlap. And no you can't prep for everything.. that doesn't make it useless.

Starting with a single firearm and 1000 rounds, a water purification system, and a 5 gallon bucket with 3 days of food covers a lot of short term scenarios.

Then up it to a month of food, a small generator with two 5 gallon gas cans, fire starters, shovel, tent, crank powered radio and a knife. (or whatever)

You simply progress to longer periods and cover as many of the scenarios as you can for as long as you can. If you have the money for fully equipped 5000 sq foot mini thorium reactor powered EMP/nuke proof bunkers with 20 years of food on different continents and the Captain Nemo submarine to travel to them- through underground water tunnels, go for that too.

You can't do that? Maybe instead do what you can. Over time. As you can afford it.
You don't need to outrun the bear- you have to outrun the people around you. Every little prep you make increases your chances of survival.. even if in the end they just make surviving the event a little easier than it would have been
The preps were lost in the flood? Them is the breaks. At least you took responsibility for your own life and tried which is more than 90% of the people out there will do .

There are security films you can put on windows that make them difficult to break. Amazon lists several of them. In latin america, most homes have bars on their windows for security, and fences all around, some with razor wire on top.

Has prepping ever been useful in your own lifetime? Just asking

If you think you need a freezer and meat to survive, you are a moron.

It's the most american thing ever.

How do you prepare to face the angry and starving mob that will surely come for what you have? Over 90% of the public is not prepared for any catastrophe beyond a day or two. The stores will be cleared out in a few hours...then desperate people will gravitate into a mob going door to door taking whatever they want.

I know in the movies the good guy shoots them all down, but in reality our houses are not suited for defense and will easily be overrun.

To the question, is it pointless to prep?

Prepping means preparing for any scenario you can see being possible. Including "normal" life.

In this scenario, make a plan to live through that and get the stuff you would need.

I suggest packing light and head for the wilds as far as possible from civilization.

your house is very easy to breach even with those. you need air... your home will be set on fire. your home is not a military bunker.

How do you prepare to face the angry and starving mob that will surely come for what you have? Over 90% of the public is not prepared for any catastrophe beyond a day or two. The stores will be cleared out in a few hours...then desperate people will gravitate into a mob going door to door taking whatever they want.

I know in the movies the good guy shoots them all down, but in reality our houses are not suited for defense and will easily be overrun.

To the question, is it pointless to prep?

exactly and are you a fellow vet?