Day 81: 2020 Pandemic. There Has Been Blood. There Will Be More
The usual lines are being drawn: for and against protests. The difference this time is that we have a president actively inciting violence. It’s all he has. He doesn’t think beyond the next news cycle. He loves chaos and when we need calm leadership, his instinct is to throw gasoline on the chaos. When he […]
Day 79: 2020 Pandemic. Did Any Business Have a Pandemic Plan? Did the Military?
As we watch major industries such as the airlines implode, I wonder how many had a plan for a pandemic? After seeing the utter debacle of the USS Roosevelt, I was scratching my head wondering if the Navy had any contingency plan for biological warfare, particularly regarding its most important and powerful element, the aircraft […]
Day 77: 2020 Pandemic. 100,000 Officially; and its way undercounting the true toll
The official death toll passed 100,000 in the United States today. We know its vastly under-counting in many ways. For example, pneumonia deaths in Florida this past month were recorded at five times the rate they were a year ago. The same is true all across the country. A number of dead, who were not […]
Day 76: 2020 Pandemic. Food For Survival—how to prepare, post I
I went to the grocery store last week for our bi-monthly resupply. It seemed to me that some shelves were barer than before. Meat was almost all gone but the pasta, soups and cereals were pretty well picked over. We know the meat supply is disrupted because of outbreaks in the processing plants. Overall, the […]
Day 73: 2020 Pandemic. The Lack of Empathy Is What Dismays Me
Humans beings once crowded men, women and children, including newborns, into gas chambers by the hundreds and killed them. Again and again and again. That is a fact. It happened. Those humans who did that were not from another species or a breed apart. Human history is full of people who have done, and are […]
Day 71: 2020 Pandemic. The elite are prepared for society to collapse. Are you?
The helicopter flies over you, carrying them to the airport; but not the part where you have to go through security and take your shoes off and now have your temperature taken. They go to the other side where all the sleek jets are parked. Their pilot awaits and they fly off to their tens […]
Day 69: 2020 Pandemic. Water Sources in Nature, Part IV
Day 68: 2020 Pandemic. Water for Survival, Part III
The spread of Giardia has made most water sources that you used to be able to trust, unsafe. Whatever purification system you use, make sure it will get rid of Giardia. Giardia is spread through animal dropping. If you get this bug, it will seriously degrade you physically and reduce your ability to survive. By […]
Day 66: 2020 Pandemic. Do You Feel Very, Very Strange? Out Of Touch With Reality? You’re Not Alone
We are undergoing a psychological condition called ‘derealization’. It’s a dissociative disorder which involves disruptions or breakdowns of memory, consciousness, awareness, identity, and/or perception. It’s reported that half of all adults have a derealization episode in their life, but only 2% suffer from it to an extent they are diagnosed with it and need treatment. […]
Day 65: 2020 Pandemic. Survival Guide is Free on Kindle; Getting Back To Water
And, technically, it is pocket-sized if you put it on your phone in the Kindle ap. But the print size is shown above against an iPhone8, which is just slightly bigger than an SE version. The Green Beret Pocket-Sized Survival Guide. More info on water: In your home, you can add another half-gallon of water […]
Day 64: 2020 Pandemic. People Simply Aren’t Taking This Seriously
I’ll get back to more information on water tomorrow, but today I’m in a state of shock over the images from Wisconsin, where their supreme court overturned the governor’s lockdown and people celebrated by crowding into bars. Seriously. There’s photos. In Texas, there are armed people standing outside barbershops so people can get haircuts, because, […]
Day 63: 2020 Pandemic. Water is Life’s Essential
While water does not appear to be priority for most people in terms of the pandemic, it is a priority for survival if some other disaster layers in on top. While many people focus on the power going out, of more essence to survival is the loss of potable water. Your water depends on a […]
Day 62: 2020 Pandemic. Get A Basic Grab-n-Go Bag Ready
Beyond the Four Basics and doing an Area Study, the next priority is having a Grab-N-Go bag. At least one. I have one in the house, one in the Jeep, one at my ERT, Emergency Rally Point, yada yada and with the bisque. There’s nothing wrong with buying a pre-packaged kit if you don’t have […]
Day 61: 2020 Pandemic. How Bad Can It Get?
Official reports show that 33,000,000 Americans have filed for unemployment in the past month. The equivalent of the work force for half the states in the Union. Remember, that’s just the people who’ve filed. It doesn’t count those who haven’t yet filed or, more importantly in our gig economy, those who still have some sort […]
Day 59: 2020 Pandemic. The Biggest Mistake We’ve Made So Far
We wasted the last two months. That’s what historians will focus on. Why did we shut things down and not aggressively test? What good did it do us other than bring record unemployment and no clue how widespread the virus is and who has it? What’s happening now is the country is piecemeal re-opening and […]
Day 58: 2020 Pandemic. 75th Anniversary of VE Day
It was a good day, even while many, including my father, were still fighting in the Pacific Theater. Many historians have traced the origins of World War II. Most point to the awful peace treaty after the end of the First World War, which was the Great War, until there was a second one, and […]
Day 57: 2020 Pandemic. Contagion? How About Carriers?
When I watched Contagion years ago, I thought it was reasonably well done but really underestimated the degree of societal breakdown that such a pandemic would cause. COVID-19 isn’t at that level. Yet. I doubt it will, but from the beginning I’ve been talking about the two heads of the dragon: the virus and the […]
Day 54: 2020 Pandemic. A Recap and an Oops
I was checking my accounts and it seems somewhere in early March my Medium account switched from being linked to my Twitter account to my Google account, and thus I ended up with two accounts. Bummer. So I’m re-posting all the ones from Google over here to my Twitter Medium account starting with the first […]
Day 53: 2020 Pandemic. Sunk Cost. We need to plan beyond. You too, authors.
There is a term in economics called sunk cost. It means expenses in a business which are made and cannot be recovered, no matter what future decisions are made. There is a large segment of the United States that has sunk cost in terms of the current administration, but they believe they can recoup their […]
Day 52: 2020 Pandemic. And We Won’t Even Have The Roaring Twenties
I studied World War I at West Point. We all know about the Great Depression that began in 1929. But the 1920s? All I know really is they were called the “Roaring Twenties”. I always assumed that after the horror of World War I (truly, truly horrible beyond description) and the Lost Generation, everyone just […]
Day 51: 2020 Pandemic. We’ve Blown It and Tens of Thousands Will Die Because of Poor Leadership
Facts: On the day that TN/LA/TX and GA report the most cases and most deaths in the previous 24 hours, those states are relaxing their containment and re-opening. I’m dumfounded. First, what criteria are these governors using? Obviously not science. Do they think magic will protect people? We’ve already lost tens of thousands of Americans […]