In hindsight it doesn’t feel like it was a proper SHTF moment. Some of the early reactions did make it feel like one but in the end not that much happened where I live. Try to stay away from people for a while and use a mask seemed like the extent of it. Spent a lot more than outdoors than I usually do.
Covid was a radical shift in pretty much every part of modern society. It affected every single facet of peoples lives, and was ever changing for a good few months until we got a handle on it, and then again when the vaccines came out.
Work/school/gorcery/daycare on and on changed all at once. Huge shifts in technology, the stock market shattered and then surged, jobs got easier to get and the harder, the global supply chain imploded, more and more.
It wasent mad Max style SHTF, but it killed 10s of millions and changed billions of lives. That’s a pretty shtf/black swan event to me.
There sure was an overreaction but a lot of the things we did wasn’t a very big deal in hindsight from SHTF perspective. Avoid other people for a while and work from home is a far cry from logistic chain breaking down and people fighting over food and shit.
I’m glad you were able to ride it out with little impact on your life, but I didn’t have that experience. It was a drastic and frantic shift that included losing relatives for me.
In hindsight it doesn’t feel like it was a proper SHTF moment. Some of the early reactions did make it feel like one but in the end not that much happened where I live. Try to stay away from people for a while and use a mask seemed like the extent of it. Spent a lot more than outdoors than I usually do.
Covid was a radical shift in pretty much every part of modern society. It affected every single facet of peoples lives, and was ever changing for a good few months until we got a handle on it, and then again when the vaccines came out.
Work/school/gorcery/daycare on and on changed all at once. Huge shifts in technology, the stock market shattered and then surged, jobs got easier to get and the harder, the global supply chain imploded, more and more.
It wasent mad Max style SHTF, but it killed 10s of millions and changed billions of lives. That’s a pretty shtf/black swan event to me.
There sure was an overreaction but a lot of the things we did wasn’t a very big deal in hindsight from SHTF perspective. Avoid other people for a while and work from home is a far cry from logistic chain breaking down and people fighting over food and shit.
It was honestly pretty chill if you ask me.
I’m glad you were able to ride it out with little impact on your life, but I didn’t have that experience. It was a drastic and frantic shift that included losing relatives for me.
I did not find it chill.
That sucks.
SHTF doesn’t have to mean the end of the world,.
When hospitals have to use refrigerated trucks to store bodies because the morgue has filled up, I think the shit has indeed hit the fan.