What we’re about
For lack of a better name at the moment this is SEQ Preppers Meetup Group.
So welcome.
Established as:
- A network for people interested in being prepared for what may happen
- A place for sharing ideas, knowledge and skills
- A place for organising group buys and shared infrastructure
This group has recently started, so just join, and we'll start rolling when we've got critical mass.
More information:
Being prepared and resilient is a way of life. It starts by looking beyond the current thin veil of security that every day people take for granted and asking the question "what should happen if this ceases to exist", and maybe as the World Economic Forum asked "What if extreme weather froze your bank account?"
So what should happen next in our preparedness journey? Fitness. Funnily enough, the survival of our bodies depend on the fitness of our bodies. See we are already in a possession of amazing machinery which can turn on metabolic processes which can help us to last for months without food. We can also physically hunt and forage on an almost instinctual level if we are hungry enough as seen in many catastrophes and disasters.
But here's the problem:
1. The mistakes people make. Fatal mistakes, such as eating the wrong thing, trusting the wrong people, or choosing the wrong tree to sleep under or clothing to wear in inclement weather.
2. The types of compound problems that happen when, not only you, but your neighbour, and his neighbour, and everyone else around within a 500km radius are also hungry and starving and doing extreme things they never imagined to survive, and see you as their next meal ticket - or worse.
3. Now probably the most important part, and that most people overlook, is how do you integrate all of this into your daily life - like catching the train to the city for work, and taking care of kids, or just being a sociable person. We've all seen "off grid" preppers and other extreme examples and seen that it would be hard to follow this example.
Founders are taking all of this into account in produce this network.