Doomsday planning for less crazy folk
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HN comment orderThe major thing overlooked here is mindset. After 14 years in the military and experience with several armed conflicts and humanitarian disasters, I have seen that pretty much all your plans and preparation will go out the window, so you need to learn to move adapt and improvise. If you're going to survive any contingency scenario you need to be resilient, excruciatingly innovative and mentally tough. Think more like MacGyver and less like Dr Strangelove. Be minimal, learn how to…
I've done three things for emergency preparedness that are actually quite fun and I'd recommend to anyone: 1) Become a certified emergency medical responder. It's a one semester course you can take at your local community college. It's the first step to becoming an EMT if you want to keep going. You learn things including CPR, wound management, dealing with broken bones, heart attacks, car accidents, transporting patients, even emergency childbirth. I enjoyed the class immensely. Now I'm a lot…
Discussion from prior submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15110850
A bought a gun in case society collapses. So I can blow my fuckin’ brains out.
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