{"id":2210,"date":"2015-03-09T10:41:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T14:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2015-03-09T10:41:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T14:41:40","slug":"monday-9-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/03\/09\/monday-9-march-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 9 March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">10:41 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I need to spend this week mostly doing science kit stuff. We&#8217;re in reasonably good shape on chemistry kits, but I just shipped the last forensic kit this morning and we&#8217;re down to half a dozen biology kits. I&#8217;ll be making up and bottling chemicals, building subassemblies, and building kits most of this week.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I&#8217;ve been putting a lot of effort into the prepping book and I need a break from it. Thinking and writing constantly about disasters gets depressing, particularly the types of disasters that are essentially impossible to prepare for. As I&#8217;ve said many times, unlike some of my readers I don&#8217;t really expect an apocalyptic end of all things. What I expect is a gradual slide into dystopia, with increasing poverty, social unrest, and government intrusion into our lives. That&#8217;s why I want to get away from the city, and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m storing foods, guns, and other supplies and developing more useful skills. But in a true catastrophe like a long-term grid-down situation or a nightmare pandemic, there&#8217;s no real way for anyone to be prepared. The simple fact is that we have too many people who are entirely dependent on a complex, interlocking network. If something catastrophic enough to break even part of that network occurs, there will be a mass die-off in the US and there won&#8217;t be anything anyone can do to stop it. The most that Barbara and I can do is relocate to thinly-populated farming country, stock up, and hope that when the crunch comes we&#8217;re prepared to ride out the worst of it with our family and friends.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10:41 &#8211; I need to spend this week mostly doing science kit stuff. We&#8217;re in reasonably good shape on chemistry kits, but I just shipped the last forensic kit this morning and we&#8217;re down to half a dozen biology kits. I&#8217;ll be making up and bottling chemicals, building subassemblies, and building kits most of this week.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been putting a lot of effort into the prepping book and I need a break from it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/03\/09\/monday-9-march-2015\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Monday, 9 March 2015 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,11,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prepping","category-science-kits","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}