You have a decent collection of firearms, good pile of ammo, few shelves of MREs and the requisite mountain of toilet paper. You confidently stare the Corona Scare in the face and proclaim ”
BRING IT ON. Let’s weed out the dimwits and sissies.”
Not so fast, BuckO.
Selco Begovic is the ultimate Been There Done That guy for TEOTWAWKI tales. He failed to evacuate before the Bosnian SHTF, and lived to tell the tale. He has since dedicated much of himself to sharing what he learned during those years of, I hesitate to use the word, but “Hell” fits here.
His book: The Dark Secrets of SHTF Survival
I just finished reading it. It was not cover-to-cover new stuff for those of us who have long been considering various societal collapse models, but more than enough realistic, different perspectives to be well worth the read. TEOTWAWKI will not unfold like you expected or planned for. Count on that.
No plan survives contact with the enemy
Spoiler alert: Lone wolves and small families do not make it. You had better figure out how to get along with a larger group than your immediate family, and how to get things done outside at night.