| tarvae |
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| Location: Huddersfield |
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Leading on from a conversation on another thread - how do we introduce people to the idea of planning for the worst?
I'm lucky, through hobbies most of my friends are like minded but over the years I've used the following thought experiment to 'sound out' how people react to the concept of thinking outside the safe little box that is modern life.
It is a fairly simple what if?
There is a disease (Any disease will do) that is a good 95% fatal sweeping across the globe. (I choose that level so that although it would be the end of modern society it wouldn't be the end of the species. There would be other survivores, just not very many)
If someone gives you a box with 12 doses of vaccine who, out of people you know and would be able to get to come to you, would you give it to. And why.Bearing in mind that these are the people who will essentually be forming the core of who you will be living with, relying on etc for the future....?
Once they have done the knee jerk reactions I then start pointing out that they could probably do with someone with medical training, someone who knows how to grow crops, a mechanic, potter, dentist... etc
I've had some wonderful evenings sat around a camp fire or pub table as people mull it over. And it has, with a couple of friends, bough out in the open that they also think that way but never mentioned it as they were afraid of the response they would get.
Don't get me wrong, there are a good few people I'd protect in an emergency no matter how unprepared they are but I prefer them to at least have the midset.
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