Where are they???

[LAC]

You are all correct in one way, but I can tell you, on the more obscure social media sites like telegram, the covid event is and has transformed many into preppers who had never heard of prepping before. Channels about the pandemic and financial advice are now mixed and merged with prepping related talk and invite requests to other channels like permaculture and survival. Many panicked then became preppers, as well as those who just went back to the way they were. One thing that unifies many of them is a complete breakdown of trust in the government, and not believing a word they say anymore. This is healthy but also dangerous, in the sense of the boy who cried wolf kind of dangerous.