Would you want to survive a catastrophic event?

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The kind where groups of people are rebuilding from scratch?

I don’t, I’m too old to repopulate society. I have a prolapsed disc so heavy lifting/ uncomfortable sleeping and sitting would be a nightmare. I’m not brave or strong. I don’t have any skills that would make me an asset other that child care which I would not want to do.

Yeah I would.

i think I could survive alright. I’m a scout leader so have some skills and im Gen Z so grew up with limited tech and can survive without it.

but I’m in Scotland so I’d have to trek further south to cope with winter without gas and electricity

No

The whole "Blitz spirit" thing was just used as a way to tell people how pathetic they were for struggling to "stay at home and watch Netflix" during Covid.

No, I would prefer to die quickly with my kids close and unaware, in a disaster.

I have a horrible fear that my kids would be at school, locked down and terrified, and I couldn’t get to them to say goodbye and hold them close.

It depends. If there were zombies on the loose, or everyone who had survived was suffering from the effects of nuclear fallout, no. Otherwise, possibly, especially if my dc and ds had survived. Dh would be very good in a survival situation. I'd be ok at some stuff, but I'm not physically that tough!

Fuck no. Any kind of event like that, zombies, nuclear war etc, I’d just want to be dead as soon as it starts.

I used to have a brilliant house for surviving most sorts of apocalypse. It had a cellar, a high walled garden, a still pure ish well, and massive gates that shut out everyone else. If I still lived there I think I could survive a long while. Now I live in a normal house I probably wouldn’t last long at all.

Where were these peasants living 100 yrs ago?
In 1926, we were recovering from WW1, the stockmarket would soon crash, most people were either employed in industry or looking for industrial work. Farming was becoming more and more mechanised, there were very few 'peasants'.

I'm another whose preference to be in the first wave of deaths was shaped by watching Threads in the 1980s, and Survivors in the 1970s. I don't feel I'd have anything to offer whatever was left of humanity and they'd have more chance of surviving without me being a deadweight.

But then, my child is an adult - I'd feel different if he wasn't.

No not now I'm pretty old. I do have some useful domestic type skills though if I managed to survive the first crisis.

Yes. I'd always want to survive.

I'm a decent cook, a competent veggie gardener, and a reasonable shot. I'd want to be around to teach the younger people basics like cleaning fish, using everything available to make food. I hope I'd be an asset.

not sure about a nuclear event. If ds survived I'd want to be here.

Yes if there wasn't still overpopulation and people didn't have to rob and kill each other to survive.

Don't know where you live, but round our way there wasn't any fighting over toilet roll. People were looking after their neighbours, and painting rainbows on stuff 🤷

There are good people as well as bad people, it true that hardship brings out both extremes.

Having grown up with CSA and nearly murdered at 18, bad scenarios don't need to twinkle in my head at all thanks Gamerchick

I'm well aware that it doesn't even require a catastrophe, psychopaths are everywhere and bad shit happens to people every single day.

But this is a thread about catastrophes, and history shows that it takes an awful lot to destroy civilisations. Even when a lot of people have died, the survivors tend to want to return to normality as soon as possible, though they may have to move somewhere else to do so.

Real life isn't a mad max movie.

When you say there were very few peasants… you do know in 1926 there was a very high percentage of peasants?

But to some Covid was catastrophic, not an apocalypse no. For some covid wasn’t just queuing for groceries

Yep, I know people who took their own life during Covid, and plenty of people who nearly did (including me).

It was pretty shite here. Lost 2 family members. DH worked in A&E, then got long covid (still has). 4 kids at home. Dont remember shopping being an issue other than taking ages. My point was despite it being shit, I found it manageable.

Nope. As long as I had my husband and cat with me and we could all die together.

You'd have to go back much further than that. You'd need to think how many resources there actually were in the 1920s. A major event would set us back much further than people realise.

Exactly same here right down to the husband and cat. We've always said no point running or trying to survive, for example, a nuclear event.

If only women and children left yes. A world where men didn’t have law and order? No.

So keep the fact I’m well stocked a secret, I already do that anyway outside of this site, obtain more weapons and increase security measures… easily doable. Still not putting me off