(2 May 2013, 23:51)Grumpy Grandpa Wrote: Well, it's been a week - just a week and I had to go and check my calendar to be sure. So much happening, so much information, so much change...
Welcome to that "overwhelmed feeling"! Don't worry to much about the mechanism by which society fails, but rather what you can do to stockpile for any emergency. You and your family have to drink water, have to eat, have to keep warm and sheltered. Those are the basics. Leave the .50 cal. sniper rifles to the cowboys!
Oh, FWIW, honey on a wound works as well as sugar. If you're dealing with a slow-healing bedsore or leg ulcer, provadine-iodine solution mixed into a paste with granulated suger is effective to promote healing. Amazing what us old paramedics remember after all these years...