APPLY THE LESSONS YOU’VE LEARNED

Mike McCourt

It wasn’t by plan, design or choice, but the prepping community made great strides in 2020. While the year started the same as most, as we now know, it soon began to take on many of the attributes of scenarios a lot of us have spent years planning and preparing for.

In a purely academic sense, this was an extended test and validation of the plans, skills, attitude and character of preppers across the country, if not much of the world.

Did we anticipate the types of situations we found ourselves immersed in? Some of these included food and materiel shortages, the lack of credible information and its sources, social unrest, lawlessness and the breakdown of government services and, in some cases, the outright refusal to perform perhaps its most basic function: maintaining order.