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  1. One thing I don't think we should do is brag at all publicly about how much food we have stored. When times get horrific who do you think people are going to go after?
    3 points
  2. scottyg

    Rising cost of food

    I saw a video a few months ago of a guy living in the city encouraging folks to prepare for disasters. He was showing off how excited he was about having a 72 hour food and water supply, and was encouraging folks to "get ready" like him. All he did was buy a case of 12 water bottles, a bag of cereal, and a few cans of beans and veggies to fill 1 cupboard. (this guy was seriously so proud of himself) Of course most people in the comment section were blasting him as 72 hours worth of food isn't anything to write home about...but it is 3 days better than most people living in an apartment have. Many young people in the city go day to day with their food supply because they only ever eat out. I briefly dated a girl in college that had no food in her apartment at all...just a few condiments in the fridge next to half a dozen to-go boxes from restaurants.
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  3. I once saw a study I've never been able to find since about the psychological benefit for children of keeping food in the home. You could be eating out for all meals all the time and yet it would still be reassuring to the kid to be able to see food in the home. As for 72-hour kits, I suppose 3 days is 3 days, but it amazes me how many people don't in fact have three days' worth of random food lying about.
    2 points
  4. I'll talk anonymously online about preps and guns and stuff. I share details IRL only with folks I trust. For a lot of folks, all bragging about guns does, is increase their risk of getting burglarized. Plasma TVs are bulky. Guns are small and easy, and your average bad guy finds it easy to convert them into cash or drugs.
    2 points
  5. Something is better than nothing. 3 days ain't gonna cut it either.
    2 points
  6. My life is no different. Covid had no effect on me at all. I have never been bothered by it or worried about it. Yet, I still have people in my neighborhood afraid to leave their homes. Covid, news about it, and the behavior of others regarding it, has become their fear-porn addiction. Was it a serious illness...yes. Was it overblown...yes. Did the "vaccine" help reduce heavy hospital numbers...yes. Did researchers, doctors, and government officials lie about it's overall efficacy...yes. Tactics that were used to pressure persons into behaving a certain way will most certainly be used again by the adversary against Christians in the near future.
    2 points
  7. I actually woke up crying in the middle of the night during 2020 because I was having to parent my parents who weren't handling the lockdown very well, this on top of my increased duties at work and in the community. My dad and I both got sick with something in the wake of the 2021 blizzard here in Texas. I fought it off within a week, but dad was down for the better part of a month. This sent my mom into hysterics to the point that when the local Comic-Con came around she made it clear that if I didn't get a vaccine then she and dad wouldn't be going with me; I can't drive long distances on my own due to some health issues, and one of my all-time favorite individuals was a guest, so I had no choice. Turns out that the vaccine I got - the Moderna vaccine - was under investigation in Scandinavia at that point for possible cardiovascular side effects, and my health has *not* been the same since I got the first two shots. Yes, my blood pressure has been spiking a bit more often, and I actually redlined the same day I got my second shot as I was also doing manual labor for my dad that day; by the time it was over I could barely walk. Adding insult to injury is that mom also demanded that we all wear fabric masks for Comic-Con even though she knows that I have trouble breathing in masks due to how damaged my sinuses are. Sure enough, the minute we got back to the truck and I took my mask off my nose just *exploded* in blood because the strain of breathing through my nose for several hours through a mask destroyed everything. It wasn't until mom saw that blood that she realized she'd goofed. For all intents and purposes I now feel that the Moderna vaccine is nothing more than poison and that had I known better (it wasn't until after all of this that US sources reported on how the Moderna vaccine was under investigation in Scandinavia) I would have pushed back harder.
    2 points
  8. The whole family got COVID. It was the second worse flu I've ever had. And that's not just Maxwell Smart speaking. I had one flu that was worse when I was on my mission. I still have scarring in my lungs because of my mission flu. As a result, we have all "tested positive" multiple times because of forced testing for various functions. But none of us got any further symptoms. It may be arguable that they were simply milder strains or false positives. But the fact remains that we've all have multiple positive tests with zero symptoms. My three missionaries were required to get the shot even though they had COVID already. That made no sense at all. I don't know if it will be required for my fourth, who is now putting together his paperwork. My daughter now has chest pains that she never had before. She didn't have them between the flu and her mission. But she stared getting them shortly after the shot. We took her to a doctor to see what was up. But it is so intermittent that there is no way to get a diagnosis. We discerned no commonalities to each episode. The only thing we can figure is the shot. My "Gargoyle" son had swelling/soreness around the location of the shot and a 101 fever for two days (my family tends to have low body temperatures -- around 96.8). Apart from that, nothing we can readily attribute to the shot. My other son has had his Tourrette's acting up a lot more since the shot. But that could be from a lack of asparagus. Asparagus has been known to help with mild Tourette's. As a teenager, it got so bad that he could barely finish sentences without a dozen ticks. Long story later, he ate a TON of asparagus. And he was "healed." i.e. he didn't need to eat asparagus anymore. His ticks were only noticeable when he was under extreme stress. But now, it seems his ticks are returning. And asparagus is more expensive (comparatively) in Japan than in the US. He doesn't have the budget to eat the quantities it took to get his ticks to go away. We'll see when he gets home in August. EFFECT on our lives. COVID didn't really change much other than the medical stuff above. But the SHUTDOWN did have an effect. The food shortages are still part of the aftermath. Inflation is a direct result of the massive spending bill from that era. The continuation of spending on that level will have a continued inflationary effect. Work from home. This has actually allowed me to make more money than I could have made otherwise. A LOT less gasoline for the car.
    1 point
  9. mikbone

    Rising cost of food

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event Big coronal mass ejection could cause some major havoc. Lots to look forward toā€¦
    1 point
  10. The city I live in is partially surrounded by a ring of hills. The hills help protect us from severe weather, but they also disrupt over-the-air broadcast communications. It's all but impossible to get TV now over-the-air after the digital transition unless you have a 1950s-style outdoor aerial antenna, and radio reception is hit-or-miss depending upon what part of town you're in and what radio you're using. The one radio station we had in town *skipped town* a few years ago, moving their actual operations several cities over. A few years ago we had a tornado strike the outer edge of town, and the storm that brought it took out cable TV and internet service from the main provider. That left us with over-the-air radio and internet from secondary suppliers as well as cell service from other providers. Hence why I was feeling out a local radio or even TV station.
    1 point
  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQNG-FM I was listening to his current Adult Contemporary top 40 coutndown on Sunday nights via Hawaii-based radio station KQNG (listening to him through the TuneIn radio app) up until a year or so back, when KQNG kept having recurring issues with its live stream. But yes, he's still doing both a Hot Hits top 40 and an Adult Contemporary top 40 each week, in addition to rebroadcasts of classic shows from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. Back when I was feeling out whether or not there was local demand for a radio station in my town, I joked with a few people about how Saturdays could be "Satur-Dees". Run the 80s episode from 6 AM to 10 AM, run the 90s episode from 10 AM to 2 PM, run the 2000s episode from 2 PM to 6 PM, and then run the modern Adult Contemporary chart from 6 PM to 10 PM. Maybe do the Hot Hits from 10 PM to 2 AM if we could get a discount by having all five.
    1 point
  12. Heh - I dusted off my old links to various prepper sites from a decade ago. Two of them are still going strong! https://thesurvivalmom.com/ https://www.aware.org/
    1 point
  13. We did fine. I got vaccinated as soon as I could, got the boosters, everything. Looking back Iā€™m just glad everyone in my life, including all of us here, made it through it.
    1 point
  14. I'm similar to @mirkwood's first statement. I'm concerned for those who have been affected by the vaccine and their families; however, I'm also grateful for those who have benefited from it. I had Covid, lasted two days, third day the symptoms went away except for a dry cough (which lasted about two weeks). Strep throat was more serious to me than Covid. Two items though with Covid for myself that were accurate: 1) How quickly I got tired (which first made me think to get checked), and 2) a lower back pain that went away the same time Covid symptoms were gone. The repercussions that are still in affect from the unnecessary lock downs are unfortunate. I'm struggling to understand how some families are even getting by in light of knowing what I make, and that we are getting by. The denial of inflation and watching gas prices sore, eggs sore, and other items sore in price is truly unfortunate. I can't imagine how financial would be right now if I was making what I was at the beginning of Covid vs. now, so knowing families in that situation I keep thinking how are they making it by each month. Sometime I wonder if somehow money seems to multiply when I made less because it doesn't seem like our situation has changed much as to what we can afford. We are actually stopping purchases that we previously did. I'm hoping the economists I read in the beginning aren't accurate regarding the stop of supplies, and how it will affect some countries by which some economists said we would see in the millions those starving. Having fasted for 48 and knowing the pain I was in, I would rather die of Covid or some other disease than starvation. I hope, this prediction is as false as Atheist's claim there is no God. šŸ˜‰ Overall, I think we begin to see ourselves more clearly. How we handle stress. How we handle compassion. The "laugh" from both sides when someone died of Covid who wasn't vaxxed, or someone who did reminded of the Lord's prophecy of the last days that the heart (love) of men/women will wax cold. I find myself to be less hopeful, and at times even more hopeful. I find myself more patient in some areas in my life and more angry at others.
    1 point
  15. Premier Radio Networks has been remastering the episodes he did of the original series (July 1970 - August 1987) and making them available for syndication, typically through iHeart-owned stations. For example, KBGO-FM (Waco, Texas) runs an episode from the 70s from 7 AM to 10 AM US Central time on Sunday mornings, followed by an episode from the 80s from 10 AM to 2 PM local. However, if an episode of the 70s is from the latter part where the show was four hours they'll cut off the first hour, and during November and December they'll air Christmas episodes to go with KBGO's all-Christmas stunting (primarily the shows he did in the 2000s where he was audibly sick) instead of actual vintage countdowns. KBGO is an iHeart station, however, so you can pick them up on the iHeart app. That being said, new episodes of American Top 40 are still being broadcast with Ryan Seacrest as the host, and Rick Dees' Top 40 is still on the air as well *with* classic episodes from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s being syndicated for stations that air older music.
    1 point
  16. FWIW, I recommend reading (or re-reading) Teaching in the Savior's Way and following the council therein prayerfully. In point of fact, I suggest everyone and anyone add a bit of reading from it to their daily scripture study.
    1 point
  17. I'm still unvaxxed and unafraid. I had covid at least twice, probably several more times. Around exposure number six or seven at work we all quit tracking how often. I would guess I easily clear a hundred exposures that I know of while working. Only reason I didn't go to work when I tested positive was the mandatory quarantines that outlasted my symptoms by days. Worst symptom? A weird headache for a day or so and one of the times for about 7-10 days I got winded easily. That completely went away after about 2-3 weeks back at the gym. I think there was a lot of shady business going on with the whole thing.
    1 point
  18. One of the things that has puzzled me about covid is God's response to the pleas of His prophets and apostles and two world-wide fasts for relief from covid. I'm guessing that there are many who feel that that relief hasn't been as quick or as great or as widespread as was hoped for.
    1 point
  19. pam

    Covid retrospective

    I feel like we just replace one big issue with another. 2020 it was COVID. Now we are dealing with high gas prices and high prices of food. No idea what next year will bring.
    1 point
  20. pam

    Rising cost of food

    Better to have something than nothing at all. I think of converts who are only just learning about the importance of food storage.
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  21. pam

    Rising cost of food

    I have some of their food which I actually at the time found cheaper on Amazon with free prime shipping. But you have to watch it. It's not always the case.
    1 point
  22. I am learning that it may be more complicated than that. Luther basically drew a caricature of the Jews as being unitedly over-legalistic (and hijacked Paul's writings to reinforce that caricature), because a) it was rhetorically and politically useful for him to equate those filthy, scheming, legalistic, Christ-killing Joos with the Catholic priesthood; and b) he was a bit of an anti-semite anyways. Modern scholars and archaeologists are coming to understand that first-century Judaism had a rich doctrine of divine grace; it's just that Jews of the era believed that the mechanism of extending that grace was through the Torah itself rather than some notion of Yahweh actually descending from His heavenly throne to live as a mortal. The Greek words generally translated as "grace" and "faith" in English renderings of the the Pauline epistles, in the first century A.D. connoted the "generosity" (or "protection") and "loyalty" that characterized the reciprocal patron-client relationship that was at the heart of the Greco-Roman economic and social order; and "justification" tends to denote the state of reconciliation that exists when both the client and patron are living in up to the terms of their covenant relationship. Paul's trepidation about what he calls "the law" or "the works of the law" aren't really about the dangers of a conscious effort towards obedience or righteous living per se; they are about the Jewish notion that it was the Torah (literally, "the law") that was the agent of God's salvation. The faith/works dichotomy is a bit of a red herring, in this regard. The litmus test for salvation is the covenant itself. This Russell Nelson fellow, with all his talk of a "covenant path", just may be on to something . . .
    1 point
  23. scottyg

    Rising cost of food

    Several years ago as EQP, after an initial meeting with families, my Bishop had me or the RS pres. fill out the food orders our ward needed, and he would later sign them. We were newlyweds at the time in a ward with a lot of other newlyweds, and many of them (with kids) truly had no food in the home...nothing. It was sobering.
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  24. Saw this in the local bargain grocery store today.
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  25. mikbone

    Rising cost of food

    You will get lots of takers for this one.
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  26. Also, I'm full of light-hearted boisterous blather. I wrote this over a decade ago - it's still funny, and zero people take it seriously: Top 10 responses to "Oh, if something bad happens, I'll just come to your house!"
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