Where Most Prepping Falls Short:

[bigpaul]

the die off would follow because following a collapse we could not feed every one out of the 64+ million in this country, the very old, the infirm and those on life saving medication or life saving hospital treatment would go first, closely followed by those on drugs both legal and illegal, starvation/dehydration/disease and suicide would be the lot of anyone left, hopefully all the immigrants and health tourists would all bugger off back where they came from therefore decreasing the numbers even more. everyone that was left would have to look out for themselves as no help would be coming from the government(most of which would have sodded off at the first hint of trouble), that's when everyone who laughed at the Doomsday Preppers programme or thought "survivors" was just entertainment realises they are in SH1T street, only those who have PREPARED are likely to survive as most people will start dropping like flies about 1 month after they run out of any food they might have had left over when the shop deliveries stopped and the power went off.

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it depends if its a FAST collapse or a SLOW collapse, a slow collapse might leave enough survivors(initially) but because there are more people the resources would get used up quicker whearas if its a fast collapse this would leave less survivors but more of the resources would be left for them to make use of.