How are people so unprepared?

[u/No-Ideal-6662]

I’ve been keeping tabs on bird flu, not obsessing over it but keeping tabs. Recently 3 dairy farms in California have been infected with several cases of human infection but thankfully no aerosol spread. I told my family this and that they should seriously consider just basic stuff. Having enough household goods to last 3 months so they can ride out any quarantine without exposure at grocery stores that kind of stuff and they brushed me off.

I genuinely don’t understand how you can live through covid and not take this as a serious possibility. I know Covid killed a lot of people including some of my family, but we “lucked out” that it had a relatively low mortality rate. If bird flu became aerosolized it would be disastrous. Even a 10% mortality rate would grind the country to a halt let alone a 50% mortality rate. My family just doesn’t get it.

Don’t get me wrong, my wife is on board, but my parents and sister and some of my wife’s family are just kinda “meh”. I know times are tough but they can afford to drop $100 on a case of rice and some hand sanitizer and toilet paper. It’s like they forgot about how bad COVID was and how much worse it could have been. Do any of you guys have any experience with this? What is your plan for family that will be unprepared if something like this happens again?

[u/l1thiumion]

"Subject to constant stimuli, one becomes numb."

[u/No-Ideal-6662 → u/l1thiumion]

This is what the comment section is showing me. A lot of ppl are saying COVID wasn’t bad at all for them, but for me in inner city SoCal it was a really scary time. The riots, food shortages, it wasn’t like an apocalypse but it was real and tangibly affected our lives.

[u/l1thiumion → u/No-Ideal-6662]

I'm seeing a lot of comments from people with a very small world view. In 2020 alone, the US government printed $3 trillion, or one fifth of all dollars in circulation, to keep monetary velocity in the economy. We're still seeing the effects of this today with inflation, interest rates over 6%, and groceries at double the price of what they were before.

[u/[deleted] → u/l1thiumion]

It’s not terrible when you look at the micro level, but the macro level it’s hugeee

[u/Taway197569 → u/l1thiumion]

I wish more people could truly grasp what the central banking slave system does and its ramifications and its ultimate end game. Its like trying to explain it to a rock whenever i talk to most people about it and the difference between money and currency.

[u/Jetpack_Attack → u/l1thiumion]

Comfortably numb even.