A number of US and Canadian based preppers seem to be getting even more anxious about the potential for DOOOOOOMMMMMM than usual - partly transport and logistics issues, but also theories about "government interference" and impending potential conflict situations.
Here, I am seeing
- Bird flu outbreaks happening (no longer just warnings and odd tiny spots)
-Potential that Russia will invade Ukraine thus shutting off gas supplies to Europe causing even more energy price increases/potentially shortage of supply
- Continuing logistics issues caused by the combination of Covid and Brexit
- Relatively high inflation on food and many other items
But, on the less pessimistic side:
- the weather is not as bad as many years,
- there is food on the shelves in shops, (gaps yes, but plenty of food)
- lots of countries are trying to talk Russia down,
- Covid is less of an issue as Omicron is making people so much less sick in general, even if it is making more people mildly sick
- and China is being very quiet at the moment.
So I'm trying to decide if I should be optimistic or pessimistic (currently at a point of starting to use up some of my back up supplies and run down stores again, but wondering if I should just be turning them over and replacing what I use rather than depleting them).
And if I should be looking at things like water purification systems or other areas of prepping (am ok for alternative cooking, reasonable alternative heating, some backup power and some water storage etc).