I can’t help but feel like the pandemic had an impact too.

You don’t need to last through nuclear war, but having a weeks worth of groceries when it randomly snows a foot, or some candles and flashlights for when the power goes out is prepped too.

We live in crumbling infrastructure with an inept government in a politically divided culture that’s starting to see climate change impact. Being a little prepared is not as strange of an idea as it used to be lol.