So what use are the "old folks" when TSHTF?

[Jonas]

[bigpaul]

define "old"!

[Tibbs735]

[Skean Dhude]

It's a shame that the people who lived through the Great Depression are becoming rare when we are approaching another one.

That is part of the reason that we are approaching another. The people running things don't have any first hand knowledge of what it is like and are stupid enough to think they have the skills to avoid one.

[bigpaul]

didn't you know SD, this present lot were told at school that they were destined to run the country, dosent mean they actually have the skills to do it.most of them have never had a REAL job just politics and don't know how the ordinary people live.

[Barneyboy]

[Franc]

good for worm farming as well.

[Sunna]

what worries me come shtf what would happen to all the care homes ,when all the staff are missing or at home .
living in one of those places would be like hell on earth come shtf ......
any ideas ....?

[NorthernRaider]

what worries me come shtf what would happen to all the care homes ,when all the staff are missing or at home .
living in one of those places would be like hell on earth come shtf ......
any ideas ....?

I thought this very issue of granny farms was superbly addressed in the PA fictional novel One Second After by William R Forshen. roughly most of the wrinklies and medicine dependant including the books hero main characters daughter die out.

I think granny farms, sheltered accomodation, prisons, and many residential areas full of welfare dependant folks will quickly become charnel houses of epic proportions. Who is going to look after the senile, the demented the BSA and Cruetzfeld Jacobs disease sufferers. Who is going to pander to the housebound clinically obese and type 2 diabetics (and sadly the kids with type 1) Even the grannies who rely on meals on wheels and visting carers are going to be abandoned not to mention those poor bastards in our already flthy hospitals who cannot get out..... shudder.

[Highlander]

It's a shame that the people who lived through the Great Depression are becoming rare when we are approaching another one.

I agree with the above, it is a pity, they have the perfect insight into our biggest problems.

.... but many of us can still look back to our childhoods and know how our parents had to manage, many of us have come from poor backgrounds where `having to make do`, would make most modern folk cringe,... some of us were born to prepers, its just that as we grew up we didnt bother to keep up the skills, or life simply got too soft

Its only now that the older folk can look back on the `good old days` and remember a lot of the skills and ideas that we now need once again