It’s definitely getting interesting out there.

I see people I knew back in high school on Facebook, the social butterflies, the ones with the big smiles on their faces in the yearbooks, the last ones you would ever guess would prep for anything (other than maybe a cocktail party), showing pictures of themselves buying lots of food and doing firearms practice — in Southern California, the last place anyone should be during a collapse situation.

Details. Details.

I had a friend email me from a densely populated area of the U.S. east coast (similar in danger to Southern California, but with about a 10,000% higher likelihood of freezing-to-death with millions of other people). He and his wife are extremely successful, in terms of the usual societal referents to success. This was the entire email:

“Living off grid is looking pretty good right now.”

Ah yep. I hear ya, brother.

My oldest son walked in a minute ago and asked me for a status update on everything that’s happening. I said, “You’re about to see why mummy and daddy bought this property out here in the middle of nowhere.”

Regardless of what the truth is with the actual health implications of the coronavirus situation, the shit is hitting the fan now due to government reaction and hysterical coverage in the media. In other words, the zombie herds are in motion now as entire national economies and supply chains are grinding to a halt.

As Nick Begich said recently, “It doesn’t matter whether it’s a real deal or not. It’s perceptually real and the impact is already felt.”

They are definitely running with this narrative and we’re all along for the ride.

Lights. Camera. Action.

I hope you got to where you want to be to ride this out. I hope you prepped. I hope you have carefully thought through what will happen if someone from the government comes at you with a needle, perhaps with a payload linked with digital certificates…

If you haven’t thought about that, I’d suggest doing that now.

Via: Reuters:

California issued an unprecedented statewide ‘stay at home” order on Thursday for its 40 million residents and Washington warned Americans to return home or stay abroad indefinitely, as the number of coronavirus deaths in the country hit 200.

Governor Gavin Newsom’s directive, effective immediately, marks the largest and most sweeping government clampdown yet in the worsening public health crisis brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak, which he predicted could infect more than half the state within eight weeks.