My wife carries her own go bag as well. Been considering adding a .22 Pellet rifle to the truck to keep under backseat. As far as how will you survive..... Not 100%. Guess I'd kinda treat it like everything else I have in life and figure it out as I go. Lol. At the end of the day, it's you against the world right ...
But, I would expect that population to dwindle quickly if the SHTF. Where I live, I'd expect most of my neighbors would be hunting the bunnies, too.
But this is EXACTLY my point. The option to have a "Bug Out bag", vs the choice to have a "Bug In bag" (or closet, basement, whatever) is a PERSONAL choice, without a wrong answer -even the choice to do neither. I look at the psychology of it -if you have a prepped BOb, in an emergency you are more likely to choose to use it, you will, just by human nature, have a bias towards 'seeing' the need for it, even IF a grab-n-go is (as you say) a fool's errand or suicide. On the other hand, if you don't have one and if there is some scenario where you truly DO need to 'get the Hell out of Dodge', you will be fleeing with whatever you can grab at the last minute and stuffing in your pockets. Even the choice to NOT plan ahead has (limited) advantages -if/when the time comes, you are MORE likely to react TO THE ACTUAL SCENARIO, and not drop into some pre-arranged self-programming that might slow responses to actual events that (as most of life does) develop in unforeseeable ways. Remember, life is what happens while we are busy making other plans... So yes, to me each path and everything in between is valid, and PERSONAL.
Some of us are ready, some are not. its a jumbled mess. If the whole thing catches fire, its gonna be a lot like Bosnia was.Our Republic is in such a shambles. Our freedoms are not even close to what they were just 10 yrs ago. They get whittled away more each year.
Here in CA it was not all that long ago I walked into a sports store and purchased a pistol as a gift for a friend…no waiting no nothing… paid for it and walked out of the store with it in hand. That sports store doesn’t even have firearms anymore.
I used to be able to call the police to get rid of loitering joe drinking his whiskey under the shade of the park way tree….now they can set up house on my sidewalk if they choose.
Voices are stifled more than ever before…news is fake BS, voting ? That’s fixed doesn’t matter much anyway they are all elite politicians. Each side taking turns bilking us out of our hard earned money and freedoms because it’s “the will of the people”. Today’s government has no idea what the will of the people is
People are being lured into new construction high density all inclusive gated housing “habits”. Like rats and gerbils in a cage. Yea !!! The gym is in walking distance…yeah ok, jump on the spinning hamster wheel folks
Instead of eating healthy home grown/raised foods… people have learned to shovel in fast food and prepared crap from the store along with all the chemicals into their body. Population gets : Pharma pushing weight loss snake oil, all names of so called medications to cure high blood pressure, pain, cholesterol, blood thinners (aka rat poison), cancer of all kinds is rampant etc…. Get that Covid shot !
I see no way to push back what’s happening to us, our neighbors, the world. We the people have no chance again the mighty army’s of nations that are puppets of political power. 1000 guns can’t stop a tank. Military takes orders and will do what the CIC demands.
So, what can we do to survive and thrive the future that doesn’t look very bright for us “people” ?
My concern is the way the US Mil is being politicized and filtering out patriots and replacing them with Yes Men Communists. McRaven. McChrystal. Milley. The SEAL Leadership. Vindman. So many others. I think a huge portion of the US Mil WOULD BE HAPPY to fire on fellow Americans, but a huge portion of the US Mil would not, and it would fracture and some units would side with us, We The People. It would be very very messy.
I think the same. I’ve see videos of service members ranting about wanting to bust down doors in the USA…crazy stuff.
that’s a very probable. I can see that happening for sure.
. There are some elders I know that are still scared as hell. Will not congratulate with anyone outside the house old, gets groceries delivered 
We were all locked down/ jailed…the whole world 
. That’s population control on a huge scale. What about …what the government did to our Japanese community, citizens, locked em all up..was there a shot fired ?? IDK 
Ok here’s another senecio I think about… are you ready, preparing ?
They don’t have to fire upon the people. They already proved they can scare the population into submission we just went through 2 yrs of a test lock down. Some still don their face hankies
Scared people do strange things.
Got toilet paper ? Ever look at an alternative for that ?
Shipping still isn’t restored
Store shelves MT of some food stuffs and goods.
Fake shortages - fuel, water, automobile lots
Ok think about this…. Water shortage and drought
What the heck ??? The world is covered in water…3/4 water !!!
Instead of wasting our taxes on global warming (AKA Natural climate cycle that’s been occurring since the birth of out plant ) how bout use the oceans to supply water to the nation. Sorry, I’m going way off topic here.
