Underestimate at your own risk.

[bigpaul]

(10 September 2013, 18:14)Highlander Wrote: I said in a thread the other day that we may well be very surprised at how many people will survive most events, there will be a lot of people out there, the big die off is very unlikely to to happen in my opinion.

We also talk about how bad it will get in the cities,.. ok, I agree it will, but what a lot of us forget is the hundreds of people who will try hard to get out of the cities and head for our `safe` country retreats,... its not good policy to say that our cosy retreat way down in the country is safe,..it may not be

As for fitness,.... I dont know much about who is fitter than who, but I do know that when we were in the Falklands war, the first men to drop were the fitness instructors, the reason that was given was because they simply had no fat, they had no reserves,...so when the tough do get going, maybe the so called super fit people might not do as well as they think they will

I think we have talked about this before...UNLESS these people have somewhere to go they are just REFUGEES and probably wont last the first cold winter(especially the more north they go), if there is a large die off there MAY be empty properties for them to use, otherwise they are in for a long COLD WET time of it. as for fitness we are not talking athlete fit but more fit to do the work that we may need to do, a bit of fat will help in the cold weather....just ask my ex wife!!