Great question. To my mind a prepper is someone who plans out what they need and gives thought to both what they need in the future and what they need now. Hoarders are just a$$hats.
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Read a couple local stories out of Philly yesterday about just this (Philly Leo’s told to stand down). When the city was called on the carpet they didn’t exactly deny it. Just gave a vague pc yes but but but response. I haven’t seen anything today refuting it either. Anyone in Philly got any updated info?
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The hoarders are people who are not planner’s, I do my best to have everything on hand for three months,my pantry is quite full snd so are my three refrigerators, my ammo bins are full, all my magazines and cylinders are loaded, this is what you do when you have to stay in place, rule of thumb only make the amount of food that you need. In the MCRD in SanDeigo California at there chow hall there is a sign that says Take all you want but eat all you take. In these days you do t want to waste any of your food, as for the health issue do the same thing as you did for the H1N1 flu. Wash hands and keep surface clean with a disinfecting solution, cover when you have to cough or sneezing if everyone did this we can beat this bug.
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The difference is if something actually runs off the rails.
If no bad things happen, you’re a paranoid hoarder.
If bad things do happen, you’re a prudently prepared prepper.
“It’s all paranoia until it turns out to be prudence.” ← that’s my motto 
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You’re not paranoid if they’re really after you😊. In today’s world methinks the Goblins are close to emerging from the woodwork…
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I would never have believed that, in the U.S., government would start controlling the public in a way that resembles a science-fiction movie. Drones, National Guard, and cell phone apps so we can tattle on each others is the stuff of totalitarian states in the movies. Having all this renamed something other than martial law is an issue of semantics.
Since I would not have believed all this possible, I have determined that my imagination is not wild enough. Now, if this continues; I also believe that it was “prudent” of me to stock up on ammo.
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If it is the Apocalypse, I hope I can Jail-break my suppressor first. The theory that Zombies are sound sensitive makes a lot of sense…
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I want to know how long it’s going to take people to go through all of that toilet paper!
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On the firearms front I think suddenly people had in the back of their minds that this could all turn to ■■■■ and they didn’t have a gun. On the ammo front it is probably some of that, and some of us just realizing that we’d let our supplies dwindle. I know I did that. I went and looked in my ammo cabinet and realized that in some calibers I had very little ammo on hand. So I placed orders to replenish those. In a couple of cases I placed duplicate orders because everything was back-ordered and I didn’t know what would actually come in first. So now I’m going to be a bit overstocked, which I guess means I’ll have to practice more!
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