Merchandise and Food Shortages in a National Crisis

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

On this thread over on the other side, JinMi brought up the fact that personal preps will be shared with family and friends as you will need support in other certain areas as well. I had this to say on that subject.

What you bring up is the prepper's dilemma. Most of the professional survivalists guys will tell you your chance of surviving in the wilderness alone are very low even if prepared. So many preppers know that they will need a like minded community for support, esp. when bugging in. However, the dilemma is you shouldn't broadcast your preparedness. You should keep your supplies secret as well as look and act like everyone else who hadn't prepared. Even if you think you can trust people that you are a prepper, word can still get out or you find you couldn't trust those people.

So, you'd have to have a tight prepper community that is ready to protect their own when bugging in or make like you ain't got nothing and go it alone.