kill the cop frog in your head

Went to the store today in full suit and mask. Most people ignored, some snapped pictures to try and use the odd event to virtue signal or get attention on social media. One tired looking woman in a mask and gloves (one of two wearing masks out of easily 100 customers) nodded knowingly. Her cart full of actual food instead of diet coke draped over the basket edge and a week's worth of frozen tv dinners boomers buy. It was quite depressing a sight. But one guy took the cake. Slinging water from a pallet to the bare shelves he mockingly said "you're scaring me over here bro". The "good" meme popped into my head. Ron paul. If only you knew how bad things really are memes. "Not my problem", is what I replied, turning back to my list. My problems sleep under my roof, and look to me to keep them safe and fed. Keep prepping. Ignore the masses, ignore the media rhetoric.

God forbid we are wrong and you end up with a properly stocked pantry. Outbreak or not food prices are climbing. The economy is tanking. Shelve are going empty. Massive trading docks are empty and silent. Crop failures in half the entire world. Social and ethnic tensions at a boiling point as the world's elites place bets and eagerly await the dogfight of conflicting religious and ethnic cultures stuffed into a burning cage.

Surviving is simple. The first to accept reality and adapt to it the quickest survives. If you choose to not do that.... It's not my problem.

We are in the twilight hours now. You should have already stocked up on food, now finish getting your seeds (potatoes and grains are highest priority), any garden needs you have. Get your water storage squared away while you're at it. If you don't have at least 3 months food, you will at the very least be forced to pay for drastically overpriced food and come in contact with infected just to get meager rationed food. At worst you will starve to death.

For "raider" types out there, I've never seen someone with food storage that didn't also have rifles and plenty of ammunition. No such thing as an anti gun prepper. And for those who plan on gardening, without a small field of potatoes, corn, beans, or wheat; you will starve. Every possible square foot should be filled with high calorie foods. You need to actually research and calculate. Also consider canning needs. For those of you thinking you will hunt... During the great depression deer were almost driven to extinction, and the population was 1/4 it is now, and there was much more undeveloped land for deer to forage (higher deer population).

If by "panic" you mean prepare for a great depression, epidemic, and famine, then yes, the time to panic was when CNN was telling you China was entirely shut down for "it's just the flu bro". As in two months ago. In a week or two leaving your home and going anywhere to buy goods in crowded places will automatically guarantee you WILL catch it. And you WILL give it to your family, and you WILL be forced to see first hand if the government has been lying that somehow only boomers die from this.

For those of you who don't know what it will be like, either starvation, dehydration, or CV will cause the same thoughts to run through your head. At first you will ignore it. You will bury yourself in your phone or tv. Then things will worsen. "It's alright, things will be better tomorrow". But it doesn't. You'll lay there dying slowly thinking someone will come save you or your family. You'll frantically call or message friends or chain out cries for water/food/medical Care on social media. And the utterly useless "thoughts and prayers" will roll in.

And one last hope will come that "oh there's gov handing out food/water/medical care over on this street!". And you will rush there (if you even can) only to find out that thousands showed up but only the first 100 got it. Fights, violence, and hopelessness will pierce through that thin veneer of civilization you still believed in.

So you will go back home, and consider prayer, because only God can help you and your family. And perhaps he answers. The Bible says he will do these things to bring his peoples attention back to him.

Or maybe you become a statistic, like the millions who die in war, famines, or disease throughout history.

Or you could get off your ass and move. Get to work. There's still seed potatoes and garden hoes on shelves. There's even still seeds, soil, tarps, chickens available. There's still massive 50lb bags of cracked corn for 10$ that could keep a person alive for almost two months. If you or your family die, it's your fault and no one else's.

@OutlawCommunists @CritFolk

Texas rn

Hank - Model citizen, but still an MSM consoomer until the panics hit. Purchases a 1000 gallon propane tank and a muffled generator after an eye-opening talk with Gribble. Puts in the extra 500 bucks to put it underground. Peggy and Bobby are home all day and he's not very successful in getting Peggy to change habits. Bobby manages to mobilize his peers to spam the Arlen ISD app with one star reviews and have it removed from the app store. Connie keeps the news from her parents and under the guise of 'maintaining a secure test environment' deftly negotiates unlimited unsupervised computer time. She binge watches Steven Universe with Bobby over live chat. She's 100% convinced that the eponymous Maheswaran is a model for restructuring her own life. Bobby just wishes his dad played guitar and let him live with magical girls. Hank told the Souphanousinphones about the app shutdown but his respirator garbled it.

Boomhauer - is primarily subsisting on a chest freezer of frozen dinners and farming crawfish in a pair of large inflatable pools. Wears boxers every day, filled a cart with panic buy.. at the local sex shop. Gets called to don his white brimmed hat and take an emergency duty assignment through his normally secret job - with the Texas rangers. Attempts to confide in Hank his position in the Texas rangers, the FEMA camp construction nearby, and what kind of enforcement they're preparing to undertake with Martial law. Hank misunderstands him and thinks he's talking about the Arlington Major League Baseball team, 'The Texas Rangers', that recently announced an end-of-play along with other national sports leagues. Hank thinks 'Marshall Law' is the team's new manager, and mentions it to Dale, who gets the gist.

Dale was already prepped, the only things he's hitting the shelves to hoard are cigarettes and weird shit non preppers wouldn't understand, like clock springs, pool shock, pantyhose, and automotive oil filters. He realizes he might need to go into this for the long term, and consults John Redcorn to learn the methods of 'Anasazi Companion planting' which irritates John Redcorn and prompts a fruitless conversation about being a Puebloan and anasazi being a slur, but ultimately takes on the task of teaching him to grow food and tobacco. The two grow close and Dale, considering his wife and son, broaches the subject of exploring a poly relationship two months after germination -- the dinner celebrating their first harvest. Goes on Joe Rogan under alias wearing full NBC gear to share his experiences, makes a sentimental and inspiring connection to all his loved ones listening in, at least until the weed hits.

Bill gets furloughed as nonessential, and his jeep is kept on base as it is essential. The social distancing measures clashed hard with his depressive tendencies. Since Dale has a decontamination shower and NBC gear, Bill approaches weeping and blubbering with outstretched arms begging for a hug as Dale and Redcorn are planting the Gribble front lawn. This earns him a takedown from John, spooked by Dale's screeching and recent descriptions of viral zombie hoards. Dale is somewhat sympathetic but threatens that his new perimeter system, when armed, could ventilate a flock of grackles before the first one hit the ground so he had best use the intercom and respect his signage. Bill attempts suicide running his rental car in the garage, a Nissan leaf. He's found by a Jehovah's witness and gets sucked in to Kingdom hall events, and his mastery of a half dozen languages rapidly make him one of the most valued members of the local ministry. They praise him at meetings, thankful Jehovah God has delivered him unto them and kept him safe from the virus. He is a super spreader.

It's good to occasionally take a break from Corona fear and embrace some Corona wonders.

No war but class war.