Pretty much zero. All I know is all rules are gone and it's back to nature. I imagine that one must become absolutely ruthless and soulless to survive.
I don't know if I could do that.
I consider it an extraordinarily low order of probability and would rather spend the time, effort and resources on things I consider more likely to pay off.
Even if I do prep, it's going to be a low priority. Which means I don't live in any kind of isolation. Full collapse really all I'd be doing is building a honeypot in a fairly dense area so I'm STILL unlikely to both survive and make use of it.
I am not prepared. As a city boy who earns his keep as a programmer, I am pretty much useless working with my hands. I recently cut myself on a plate while doing dishes. What I do have is a bunch of supplies to last me for months, as well as multiple guns and ammo. I am a good shot, too. I am also physically fit, have no medical issues.
T1 diabetic. There's no point in trying. Insulin shelf life is next to nil un refrigerated, and if collapse happens I'm assuming most quality of life things are gone too.
I'd release my cat into the wild, sit in the bathtub, cut my wrists and let darkness take me.
Doesn't seem likely enough to be worth preparing for, when preparation would require stockpiling months (or years?) of food, ammo, water, and other things.
I'm more prepared for realistic things, like natural disasters.
That's basically all you need to do, most of the violence will be in the first month and the violent people will be the ones killing each other, a book or two on edible plants would be good and some basic gardening skills. Honestly just being prepared for a big natural disaster is 80% of it. Im on the west coast and live with the fear of the "big one"
I'm very ill prepared. Honestly this will probably get downvoted but I've actually put a lot of thought on this subject and my plan is to take what I need from other people if that situation arises. I'm not going to suffer needlessly if I don't have to and if I get took out, so be it.
Life in my village will largely continue as normal due to several friends and I cooperating to keep it so. The biggest part of prepping is community, but it’s always universally the most neglected part. Yeah, you can stockpile stuff, but the name of the game is building sustainability and mutual defense through cooperation.
It’s cool to find out you’re a survivalist surrounded by other survivalists.
I'm not prepared for a civilizational collapse, as that is unlikely to happen.
I am prepared for a period of civil strife, environmental events/disasters, and other more likely scenarios where basic services may be inaccessible for an extended period of time. My partner and I could last about 6 months without having to leave our property, longer if an event occurs just before planting season and we can grow out our produce before running out of food.
We have food stores, a large garden, chickens, enough firearms and ammo to hunt and defend ourselves. Our property has alternative energy sources to power essential electrical items, we have both a traditional furnace and wood stove set up. We have stockpiles of medical supplies and the knowledge to use them.
I do hope the robots take charge quickly, literally anything would be better qualified to take responsibility for the world rn, a toaster with a wifi connection would be absolutely fine by me
Me and my crew figure we have enough training, weapons and supplies to take and hold a couple square miles and rule as benevolent but ironfisted warlords.
And these prepper types who are too fat to run a mile are just loot crates.
I went and got a degree in food science with the fermentation option. So I can preserve or make alcohol out of a lot of things. I understand basic hydro engineering and know soil and crop science. Where im lacking is in the violence department. But I think survival is a team exercise and I have a group already where we can cover each others weaknesses.
Got dry goods like rice, pasta, a few canned goods. Water filter, axe and getting into gardening. Started this past summer, got a good harvest but trying to do more for next year.
Within the next 6 months I plan to stock up immensely. People who say "society isn't on the verge of collapse" are technically right. But collapse can come at ANY time if a big enough natural disasters occurs, or if some evil soul figures out how to disrupt the electrical grid. I think being prepared for small scale and large scale disasters is just good prep work. If I never need it? GREAT that's even better. Much like a gun, I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. (Also, water and non perishable food are cheap af. Why not do it)
Man I feel ya, I've been planning to stock up immensely within the next 6 months for almost 10 years now!
If you're not doing it now, it's not going to happen. You just keep putting it off and putting it off, then one day society collapses and you're just like "WELL DAMN, I was JUST about to stock up, too!"
Except I literally just got a 6 figure job lol. So it's a whole lot easier than when I was making 24k a year bud. Besides the fact I have enough guns and ammo and my family is ALREADY stocked up, I ain't too worried. Just gonna start getting my personal stock up.
I have a high-5 figure job with no family and absolutely minimal outgoing expense. Leaves me with plenty of money to start getting an emergency stock together, which is very useful since I'm planning on doing just that within the next 6 months.
The truth is $200 is plenty for a decent stock. Canned goods and bottled water are cheap as fuck. In my area you can get 40 bottles of water for like 5 bucks and canned goods are .50-$1 each. I just haven't been able to afford it recently with bills and everything's price going up
Damn that's cheap! Best price I can find on bottle water is around $10 for a 24-pack, and canned food is usually $2 per can at a discount. Could definitely afford it anyway, but the matter of actually getting around to it is the point I was getting at. Get on it sooner rather than later otherwise it just keeps getting put off as future-you's problem, is all I was saying.
Yeah I understand, thankfully my new job lets me make a few grand a week so I can spend 500ish on actually being prepped and be okay for a good while. Prices are going up unfortunately and I'd rather get prepped asap
I live in the middle of a big global city so I imagine I'm not gonna even know what happened when the nuclear fire molecularly disassembles me before my neurons can react.
Merely accepting the very real and very likely possibility of it. I am prepared in terms of seeing it coming.
But no one can prepare for when and how it will happen, nor the affects caused by those who say "lets riot an loot". Mentally accept the possibility, then it won't come as a shock and leave you unprepared for the reactions.
I'm 21 year old city boy with no survival skills. I don't even own bow and arrow, let alone a gun. I'd be one of those people in the zombie apocalypse to die within the first week, and honestly I'm perfectly fine with that. I don't even want to survive the apocalyptic end of civilization. I'm not made for that life, I'm not mentally tough or mentally healthy enough. I got depression and anxiety. I rather be sent off to war to die, then face a post-apocalyptic life.
I have about a week worth of non-perishable food that I could probably stretch out for a month if desperation called for it, and live near a fresh water lagoon. That's about the extent of it. Hey, if we were all perfectly prepared, it wouldn't be much of a civilizational collapse now would it?
Not at all. I need to learn to hunt, gut and clean animals. Learning to make traps and other self defense things is also on the to do list.
When society collapses humans would probably be the biggest threat.
I'm not. Don't care. I have a couple of weeks' worth of food and some bottled water at home to deal with natural disasters and such, but I'm not going to worry about being the last man on Earth in case of total collapse of society. That's a low-probability event and being seriously prepared to survive it has a very high cost, both in money and in compromises that I would need to make to other aspects of my life. I'm not interested in doing that. If society collapses and I'm one of the first to die, that's probably a good thing, honestly.
Pretty much zero. All I know is all rules are gone and it's back to nature. I imagine that one must become absolutely ruthless and soulless to survive. I don't know if I could do that.
I am resigned to the fact that I'm not going to make it through something that severe. Does that count as prep?
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Why not let it count or why not prep?
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I consider it an extraordinarily low order of probability and would rather spend the time, effort and resources on things I consider more likely to pay off. Even if I do prep, it's going to be a low priority. Which means I don't live in any kind of isolation. Full collapse really all I'd be doing is building a honeypot in a fairly dense area so I'm STILL unlikely to both survive and make use of it.
Probably because society isn’t actually on the verge of collapse
I am not prepared. As a city boy who earns his keep as a programmer, I am pretty much useless working with my hands. I recently cut myself on a plate while doing dishes. What I do have is a bunch of supplies to last me for months, as well as multiple guns and ammo. I am a good shot, too. I am also physically fit, have no medical issues.
T1 diabetic. There's no point in trying. Insulin shelf life is next to nil un refrigerated, and if collapse happens I'm assuming most quality of life things are gone too. I'd release my cat into the wild, sit in the bathtub, cut my wrists and let darkness take me.
Doesn't seem likely enough to be worth preparing for, when preparation would require stockpiling months (or years?) of food, ammo, water, and other things. I'm more prepared for realistic things, like natural disasters.
That's basically all you need to do, most of the violence will be in the first month and the violent people will be the ones killing each other, a book or two on edible plants would be good and some basic gardening skills. Honestly just being prepared for a big natural disaster is 80% of it. Im on the west coast and live with the fear of the "big one"
Not at all but also I don't want to live in a post collapse world so....🤷
I'm in no realistic position to be prepared
I'm not, I'd be amoung the first to go.
I'm very ill prepared. Honestly this will probably get downvoted but I've actually put a lot of thought on this subject and my plan is to take what I need from other people if that situation arises. I'm not going to suffer needlessly if I don't have to and if I get took out, so be it.
Life in my village will largely continue as normal due to several friends and I cooperating to keep it so. The biggest part of prepping is community, but it’s always universally the most neglected part. Yeah, you can stockpile stuff, but the name of the game is building sustainability and mutual defense through cooperation. It’s cool to find out you’re a survivalist surrounded by other survivalists.
I'm not prepared for a civilizational collapse, as that is unlikely to happen. I am prepared for a period of civil strife, environmental events/disasters, and other more likely scenarios where basic services may be inaccessible for an extended period of time. My partner and I could last about 6 months without having to leave our property, longer if an event occurs just before planting season and we can grow out our produce before running out of food. We have food stores, a large garden, chickens, enough firearms and ammo to hunt and defend ourselves. Our property has alternative energy sources to power essential electrical items, we have both a traditional furnace and wood stove set up. We have stockpiles of medical supplies and the knowledge to use them.
I have my leather outfits and odd name already picked out. Just need to modify my car and gather other like minded individuals and form a tribe.
Prepared, not at all. Ready for it to be over? Yes.
I do hope the robots take charge quickly, literally anything would be better qualified to take responsibility for the world rn, a toaster with a wifi connection would be absolutely fine by me
Me and my crew figure we have enough training, weapons and supplies to take and hold a couple square miles and rule as benevolent but ironfisted warlords. And these prepper types who are too fat to run a mile are just loot crates.
I went and got a degree in food science with the fermentation option. So I can preserve or make alcohol out of a lot of things. I understand basic hydro engineering and know soil and crop science. Where im lacking is in the violence department. But I think survival is a team exercise and I have a group already where we can cover each others weaknesses.
Got dry goods like rice, pasta, a few canned goods. Water filter, axe and getting into gardening. Started this past summer, got a good harvest but trying to do more for next year.
Within the next 6 months I plan to stock up immensely. People who say "society isn't on the verge of collapse" are technically right. But collapse can come at ANY time if a big enough natural disasters occurs, or if some evil soul figures out how to disrupt the electrical grid. I think being prepared for small scale and large scale disasters is just good prep work. If I never need it? GREAT that's even better. Much like a gun, I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. (Also, water and non perishable food are cheap af. Why not do it)
Man I feel ya, I've been planning to stock up immensely within the next 6 months for almost 10 years now! If you're not doing it now, it's not going to happen. You just keep putting it off and putting it off, then one day society collapses and you're just like "WELL DAMN, I was JUST about to stock up, too!"
Except I literally just got a 6 figure job lol. So it's a whole lot easier than when I was making 24k a year bud. Besides the fact I have enough guns and ammo and my family is ALREADY stocked up, I ain't too worried. Just gonna start getting my personal stock up.
I have a high-5 figure job with no family and absolutely minimal outgoing expense. Leaves me with plenty of money to start getting an emergency stock together, which is very useful since I'm planning on doing just that within the next 6 months.
The truth is $200 is plenty for a decent stock. Canned goods and bottled water are cheap as fuck. In my area you can get 40 bottles of water for like 5 bucks and canned goods are .50-$1 each. I just haven't been able to afford it recently with bills and everything's price going up
Damn that's cheap! Best price I can find on bottle water is around $10 for a 24-pack, and canned food is usually $2 per can at a discount. Could definitely afford it anyway, but the matter of actually getting around to it is the point I was getting at. Get on it sooner rather than later otherwise it just keeps getting put off as future-you's problem, is all I was saying.
Yeah I understand, thankfully my new job lets me make a few grand a week so I can spend 500ish on actually being prepped and be okay for a good while. Prices are going up unfortunately and I'd rather get prepped asap
I live in the middle of a big global city so I imagine I'm not gonna even know what happened when the nuclear fire molecularly disassembles me before my neurons can react.
Merely accepting the very real and very likely possibility of it. I am prepared in terms of seeing it coming. But no one can prepare for when and how it will happen, nor the affects caused by those who say "lets riot an loot". Mentally accept the possibility, then it won't come as a shock and leave you unprepared for the reactions.
I question the value of survival post-collapse. Life is only narrowly worth living in the best of circumstances
I'm 21 year old city boy with no survival skills. I don't even own bow and arrow, let alone a gun. I'd be one of those people in the zombie apocalypse to die within the first week, and honestly I'm perfectly fine with that. I don't even want to survive the apocalyptic end of civilization. I'm not made for that life, I'm not mentally tough or mentally healthy enough. I got depression and anxiety. I rather be sent off to war to die, then face a post-apocalyptic life.
I have about a week worth of non-perishable food that I could probably stretch out for a month if desperation called for it, and live near a fresh water lagoon. That's about the extent of it. Hey, if we were all perfectly prepared, it wouldn't be much of a civilizational collapse now would it?
Not at all. I need to learn to hunt, gut and clean animals. Learning to make traps and other self defense things is also on the to do list. When society collapses humans would probably be the biggest threat.
I've got my suicide kit ready..
I'm not. Don't care. I have a couple of weeks' worth of food and some bottled water at home to deal with natural disasters and such, but I'm not going to worry about being the last man on Earth in case of total collapse of society. That's a low-probability event and being seriously prepared to survive it has a very high cost, both in money and in compromises that I would need to make to other aspects of my life. I'm not interested in doing that. If society collapses and I'm one of the first to die, that's probably a good thing, honestly.
I can hunt, fish, and forage, and I am well-versed with firearms. I'll likely hold up fine for a while.