Some Say It Can’t Happen Here. But Many Never Believed a Pandemic Would Happen Either. Civil disobedience is actually a sign of a functioning democratic society. Thoreau outlined civil disobedience in Walden Pond as a necessary right when expressed through passive resistance. Both Gandhi and Martin Luther King … [Read more...]
4 Reasons This Downturn Could Be Worse Than the Great Depression
It’s Not Just About the Stock Market. Other Economic Measures are Both Telling and Unprecedented. For many people, the stock market is the economy’s scoreboard. When it goes down things must be bad and when it goes up things must be good. Unfortunately, the stock market was exploding into a bubble before coronavirus … [Read more...]
Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From?
Conventional wisdom traces the source of the coronavirus known as COVID-19 to Wuhan, China. It’s believed to have come from a wet market in Wuhan where a variety of animals both dead and alive are bought and eventually eaten. One of those animals was believed to have been a bat. Bats have been known to transmit … [Read more...]
Life After The Virus: Will Things Ever Be The Same?
We’re Still in the Middle of a Pandemic and Our Lives Have Changed Dramatically. How Many of Those Changes Will Remain? Significant events have forever changed many generations. The Great Depression had a lasting impact on those who endured it. The same is true of World War I and World War II. Want to save this … [Read more...]
How To Make Pemmican: The World’s First Survival Food
For centuries, pemmican was the ultimate survival food. But is there any reason we would want to eat it today? Pemmican was invented by Native Americans. They depended on it when food was scarce, especially in the deep cold of winter. What native tribes had learned was that pemmican kept them warm in winter and … [Read more...]
How To Disinfect Your Groceries
In between social distancing, staying at home, and sanitizing every room in the house, we all have to face one inevitable fact: we gotta eat. Eventually, a designated member of the family makes the trip to the grocery store and maybe stops at the hardware store on the way home. Hands are washed before departure and … [Read more...]
How Long Will This Mandatory Quarantine Last?
If You Think It’s Just an Unplanned Two-Week Vacation, Guess Again. COVID19 first appeared in Wuhan, China in December of 2019. As of March 25, 2020, there are 428,405 confirmed cases of COVID19 reported globally and 19,120 deaths worldwide. Want to save this post for later? Click Here to Pin It On … [Read more...]
The Corona Crash: Why The Next Great Depression Is Already Here
The Factors that Led to the Great Depression of the 1930s Had a Lot in Common with Today’s Economy, but That Depression Was Very Different. The coronavirus or COVID19 has affected all aspects of our lives and most notably has affected the stock market. While the stock market is not always an indicator of overall … [Read more...]
Lockdown In Italy: A Preview Of What’s To Come
Schools are Closed, Shops are Shuttered, Hospitals Are Overwhelmed and That’s Just the Beginning. As COVID19 continues to spread around the world, numerous countries have taken dramatic steps to diagnose, treat, and most importantly, curb the spread of the disease. As of March 14, 2020, Italy has reported more cases … [Read more...]
Hand Sanitizers are Sold Out – Here’s How To Make Your Own
The Threat of COVID19 Has Left Some Store Shelves Empty and the Price Gouging Has Begun. Just recently, Amazon.com removed more than one million product listings from its website due to price gouging related to the Coronavirus or COVID19. Pictures from Seattle, Italy, and Hong Kong show bare store shelves as panic … [Read more...]
Coronavirus Update: Is It Time To Panic?
No, you should never panic. However, many people have been asking this question. What I'd say is that if you haven't already, it is time to start taking it seriously. The Coronavirus has now been designated as a virus named SARS-CoV-2 and been specifically named “coronavirus disease 2019” or COVID19. Both the virus … [Read more...]
The Beginner’s Guide to Bugging Out and Bug Out Bags
The human race has been bugging out for thousands of years. History is filled with stories of entire civilizations abandoning their homelands due to wars, pandemics, and natural disasters. It’s nothing new, and neither are the natural and manmade disasters that plague us to this day. We live in a time when the … [Read more...]
