As per the title, western press is starting to doom post about mass shortages of food and fuel in the coming months if the Epstein Coalition doesn’t back down against Iran.
What if anything should we start stockpiling in anticipation of future shortages?
Same as you always should given you live in the west, at least 2 weeks of nonperishable yummy to you food and water to help absorb any price shock or disasters. It being yummy is key, if you get a bunch of random cans or beans/rice/grains you won’t eat there’s no point. If something you like that’s nonperishable goes on sale get one more, over time it adds up. This tier of prepping saved me so many times between jobs to the point when I lost my last job my food stores carried me and a laid off relative to both of us finding other jobs, well barely but it made it. Also, my local water tastes so bad and feels like it has a boil advisory like once a month, so water is useful.
This is overlooked by prepper sorts but workout or at least walk extra a few times week. Suddenly having to be physical whether it be for a new collapse manual labor job or just gardening is no fun to do out of the blue.
I already went through this at the very beginning of COVID. When China went into lockdown I was like, “well, they won’t let us starve, right?” I was reduced to “my only hope for salvation is the Communist Party of China” which was a real mind-blower. It was exactly the same as Deep Space Nine’s famous “root beer” scene. https://youtu.be/6VhSm6G7cVk
Did you starve? Western press at the time said people were sealed in their apartments using steel plates welded together and bolted to the walls, as millions starved and died of COVID in their apartments
Nah, for the first two weeks we got a pass that we could enter and leave our apartment complexes once every two days. Mandatory temperature checks but no supply disruptions. App delivery isn’t what it is today so people still went shopping for food. We all were eating quite well, actually. Nothing to do all day but look forward to mealtimes and cook. Mealtime is always the best part of any incarceration, be it quarantine, hospitalization or airline trip.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I should probably get around to watching Star Trek, mom was hella strict growing up and it was one of her explicit ‘don’t watch that tamagotchi’ shows.