Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, from Britishland:
Supermarkets today urged against panic buying as the Government launched a ‘preppers’ website warning families to gather an ’emergency kit’ of tinned food, batteries and bottled water for use in a crisis. Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden will today advise people to make contingency plans for dealing with potential emergencies to help build ‘national resilience’ and ease pressure on emergency services.
Dowden wants to encourage families to stock up with enough food and water to survive for three days in the event of an emergency like a flood.
All very sensible.
Naturally, everybody should build up some kind of reserve supplies of food and so on, and I’m pretty sure that all my Murkin Readers have already done so, with the judicious addition of guns and ammo in place so as to protect said emergency supplies against predation from those who haven’t.
And speaking of Americans:
While British ministers believe it is wise for people to take precautions, they will be keen to avoid imitations of the elaborate preparations for ‘doomsday’ scenarios made by US survivalists.
Of course they will, because the whole concept of self-reliance is anathema to politicians — and especially so in Britishland. So while the BritGov encourages people to have some emergency supplies on hand (three days? FFS), they don’t want their peasants to have too much of a supply, because… actually, I don’t have the faintest idea why they wouldn’t, other than malevolence or spite.
Feel free to enlighten me.
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