California Issues ‘Stay at Home’ Order
March 19th, 2020It’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.
In California and New York in particular, working people really have a hard time earning enough to afford a studio apartment, or having a house unless it was purchased before 1999. Everyone has heard about the bunkbed group living companies, and roommate situations. https://thebolditalic.com/surviving-the-coronavirus-in-tight-co-living-spaces-da7fe18d9bea
Quote from a couple of years ago in this comment
https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=51190#comment-26752
“Ah well, my mother in law treated me and the rest of my family to a fancy weekend holiday away to celebrate my middle son’s 7th birthday. We went on an elevator! My three children had looks on their faces of total astonishment. It was like going for a ride on a space ship to them. I wondered, “Did we do the right thing? Moving so far out to the edge of things that an elevator seems amazing?
I show them images and videos of cities. They have been to Auckland. They know that there’s a big world out there! But I sometimes wonder if it was the right decision to get so isolated. There are a few other families out here that share our values. We all cling to each other for support. Circle the wagons, sort of thing.”
It may not matter, since we’re all on the same prison planet, but yes, you did do the right thing.