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[bigpaul]

(1 May 2013, 21:11)Mortblanc Wrote: It is not really a case of being "fit" or "unfit", it is simply genetics and the aging process with life extended by the use of cheap and efficient medications. A blood pressure pill and a blood thinner, total cost $12 per month. Problem is tptb will not let me accumulate an unlimited supply. My life span is artificially controlled by how much medication I am allowed to keep on hand.

Needless to say, the first place I will loot SHTF is the local drugstore, scooping up all the Toporol, Plavix and aspirin I can find. Those are not the meds most looters would be looking for and I am sure I will find a supply of what I need in the rubble of the first or second store I visit.

At age 63 I am actually more "fit" than many in my area in my age group.

However, if you are considering zero need for meds due to the active lifestyle after SHTF you must also factor in the stresses of that life which will be more than we know today. If you are over 56 you are already on borrowed time in a zero medical access world.

And if you have been in need of pain medication on a regular basis now, just imagine what a day of wood splitting, log hauling or tilling the garden with a spade will do to you. All the alcohol, opium, cocaine, laudanum and other over the counter painkillers of past eras were used largely due to the abuse of the body people suffered in those "good old days".

i have a friend, another prepper, who talks very much the same, "oh we wont survive-i'm doing it for the next generations"...well sod that, i intend to survive, i'm now 65 and i'm pretty healthy and fit compared to most my age and younger!