u/Vegetaman916

For those following the development, this is most complete and up-to-date source I can find with some credibility about the outbreak, if it is an outbreak.

Of most concern is the fact that people in the region on social media are reporting seeing officials in body suits out on the streets of the town, and several hospitals have been quarantined.

If this was gain-of-function bioweapons research, the first thing that would be done regarding pneumonic plague would be to engineer in antibiotic resistance. And without antibiotic treatment, this is an infection with a 100% mortality rate, so... Worth keeping an eye on.

A little review of the new getready.team system for planning and research regarding areas where you live or where you may be planning to live. A single source for data across the spectrum, and the best tool I have found yet for geographical risk assessment from a prepping and collapse standpoint.

Lately I've been feeling incredibly burnt out by work. It's so much for so little. Interestingly, I brought this up with one of my vendors and he said the same thing.

'It's not fun anymore. You work twice as hard for half the reward."

I've been noticing this feeling within myself. Whenever there's a geopolitical event that puts the breaks on the wheels of capitalism - I feel really glad. I find myself wanting lockdowns again.

I had this happen in my part of the world (UAE). Because of the Iran War crisis work was frequently being paused, delayed, or advised to be done from home.

I've been talking to some rich folks in my region and they told me, because of the war property prices have gone down by 30%.

But then I thought to myself - but they rose by 30% last year. So essentially, you're just as wealthy today as you were last year. You're just not getting wealthier.

Meanwhile, most people I know in my industry (marketing) haven't gotten a raise in over a year.

And every asset imaginable is getting priced out of consideration. Gold is too expensive. Buying a home is too expensive. Even stocks are too expensive to buy right now (vanguard predicts a reversion to the mean during the next decade).

And so, I find myself (and I think a lot of people around me feel the same way).

Just crash. Just have a big large crash. Economic. Environmental. Just go boom.

None of this boiling the frog stuff.

And I'm not calling for anyone being harmed. I just feel (collectively as human beings) we are terrible at acting preemptively.

But, we're very good at reacting to and adapting to crisis.

I feel like for some of the larger problems of our world to be solved - the lack of affordability that makes my generation unwilling to have children, climate change, even creative and commercial innovation around us stagnating and degenerating to iteration and enshitification - there needs to be a crisis event.

Something to react to. Human beings, that's the only time we really ever change. That's the only time we ever really learn.

We are starting to see more and more integration of artificial intelligence into the war machines of the worlds global powers, and if that sounds like a line from an old movie... well, it is.

AI was used extensively by the US military in both the decapitation strike in Venezuela as well as the massive bombing campaign across Iran, and now we are starting to see such systems being applied to nuclear warfare.

What makes it truly scary is that such AI systems could be "smart" enough to degrade defenses against first strikes, and thus make nuclear war something seen as "winnable" again for those at the top.

Recently, as quoted by the article, the Trump administration commissioned and released a review of U.S. policies, strategies, and capabilities … "to counter the expanding missile threats posed by rogue states and revisionist powers.” The report called for an escalatory build-out of new capabilities. Among those was a new framework for advancing the notion that preemptive action is actually just another form of defense.

Read that again: Advancing the notion that preemptive action is actually just another form of defense...

This video is something I think a lot of preppers should watch, because it shows a clear pattern of big-picture thought and awareness that we all need to have more of in our day-to-day lives. This is someone who keeps her mind on her home and preparedness, but also her eyes on the bigger picture about what it all means, and why things are happening the way they are. No illusions here, no allowing one's own biases and beliefs to affect thinking about how the world actually works. This video is a great example of real global awareness and clear knowledge of what things like war and scarcity are really about. For the preppers here, go check out Doomsday Queen on YouTube, you won't be disappointed.

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