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  • BashfulBob [none/use name]
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    7 days ago

    I mean, per the survival rate in Cambodia, it clearly wasn't a bad plan on its face. If society is really in full breakdown mode, GTFO by all means.

    The problem with COVID was that it wasn't massive riots and death squads and people being dragged out of their homes for wearing glasses. It was supply chain disruptions and fuel shortages and people hiding from one another for fear of contagion. You didn't need to go to a cave because everyone was retreating into their homes of their own accord.

    The survivalist strategy is predicated on these zombie-like mobs of desperate people kicking in your door to loot supplies, not a handful of individuals showing up at your house, dropping your Doordash, ringing the bell, and running away again because they think eye-contact is a disease vector.

    • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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      7 days ago

      It wasn't the idea itself I had an issue with, it was more his ignoring and steamrolling over his traumatized wife that rubbed me the wrong way. The entire episode she looked miserable having to relive the worst part of her life so her husband could play pandemic

      I wonder how he reacted to covid. For some reason I can see him going full frothingfash