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re: Seldom discussed things that would happen if our society stopped functioning
Posted on 8/26/22 at 3:21 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Posted on 8/26/22 at 3:21 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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Will people use their ammo to shoot deer or other people?
Why not bolf?
The 20th rule of Rangering, if you can use your hatchet to kill someone, rather than musket, use the hatchet. In other words stay silent and save ammo.
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Posted on 8/26/22 at 3:30 pm to Jimbeaux
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All dialysis patients would die quickly.
Yep. Scary to think of how many will die due to lack of modern medicine. And I’m not just talking about antibiotics and emergency medical services for strokes and heart attacks.
What about all the cancer patients suddenly without their chemo, diabetics suddenly without access to insulin or oral diabetic meds.
I have a close family member who had a total thyroidectomy. Can’t imagine watching this person slowly die due to no access to hormone replacement.
Posted on 8/26/22 at 3:36 pm to memphis tiger
This post was edited on 9/19/22 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 8/26/22 at 3:38 pm to greenbean
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For those who think they'll survive on whitetail deer, deer will be extinct in 6 months, so you better come up with longer range plans.
They won't be extinct but the population will certainly dwindle because they only breed once per year. My clan will mostly live off wild hog (we have traps), coons, opossums, etc.
I don't think clean water will be that big of a deal for a while if you have a few Life Straws. They claim to be able to filter 1,000 of water per straw. Our property has 2 year round springs to provide water. Plus I have a cistern system as well.
This post was edited on 8/26/22 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 8/26/22 at 3:46 pm to IAmNERD
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was thinking about something like this the other day: what did it used to look like 500 years ago before Europeans settled in the SE US as far as how tall the grass would get. Nobody cut it.
There were plenty of fires caused by lightning strikes to keep underbrush down and there was a lot of closed canopy forests, so I don't think grass was THAT tall.
Posted on 8/26/22 at 4:09 pm to Vrai
I think they estimate within 1 to 2 years 90% of people would be dead
Posted on 8/26/22 at 4:11 pm to weagle99
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My contribution: Asian carp would invade the Great Lakes if no one was keeping the electric barrier going
And what would happen? Will they eat all the good fish?
Posted on 8/26/22 at 4:50 pm to weagle99
quote:1 that’s a concern of mine now
My contribution: Asian carp would invade the Great Lakes if no one was keeping the electric barrier going
2 not even close if society stopped functioning
Posted on 8/26/22 at 4:54 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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quote: People would learn to eat Asian carps. People would learn to do a lot of things that they turn their nose up at
Asian carp is pretty good; the bones are what makes it a bit problem
Posted on 8/26/22 at 4:55 pm to weagle99
This is more of a question since I’m not educated on the subject but what about nuclear power plants? Is there some kind of indefinite safe mode they can be switched to or will we have meltdowns if they aren’t manned?
Posted on 8/26/22 at 5:04 pm to ReeseBobby
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This is more of a question since I’m not educated on the subject but what about nuclear power plants? Is there some kind of indefinite safe mode they can be switched to or will we have meltdowns if they aren’t manned?
Complex electro mechanical systems, will eventually fail without maintenance and parts, I assume at a nuclear power plant that would eventually involve a “meltdown”.
Posted on 8/26/22 at 5:42 pm to weagle99
No travel ball.
Posted on 8/26/22 at 5:45 pm to weagle99
I would go live with the Amish.
Posted on 8/26/22 at 5:50 pm to weagle99
A lot of "independent" women would become traditional housewives again.
Posted on 8/26/22 at 6:22 pm to 0x15E
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Sort of like what's happening over on the SEC Rant right now.
What happened there?
Posted on 8/26/22 at 6:26 pm to greenbean
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For those who think they'll survive on whitetail deer, deer will be extinct in 6 months, so you better come up with longer range plans.
People would be the easiest food source to locate.
Posted on 8/26/22 at 6:28 pm to OysterPoBoy
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Crawfish prices would skyrocket
Who would ever down vote this?
Posted on 8/26/22 at 6:37 pm to weagle99
Race relations would be condensed down to which ethnicity tasted the best.
Salt will be the prime was of preserving foods you can not smoke... where you going to get salt?
WTF do you do for shoes when you can't buy them anymore and you can't find tires to cut up because the EPA buried them all in Arkansas? Footwraps?
Which animal hide makes the most durable footwraps? Would some rope and an armadillo shell work?
How do you get lice and other parasites out of your clothing with now special soaps? (I know the answer to this but only works in cold climates)
Where the hell do you store your winter clothes in the summer so they don't get moldy and dissolve but where some a-hole doesn't steal them?
Divorce becomes uber simple.
No more possum cops... so would organizing so that the tribe/group next door doesn't hunt/trap out your patch of land be a priority?
Salt will be the prime was of preserving foods you can not smoke... where you going to get salt?
WTF do you do for shoes when you can't buy them anymore and you can't find tires to cut up because the EPA buried them all in Arkansas? Footwraps?
Which animal hide makes the most durable footwraps? Would some rope and an armadillo shell work?
How do you get lice and other parasites out of your clothing with now special soaps? (I know the answer to this but only works in cold climates)
Where the hell do you store your winter clothes in the summer so they don't get moldy and dissolve but where some a-hole doesn't steal them?
Divorce becomes uber simple.
No more possum cops... so would organizing so that the tribe/group next door doesn't hunt/trap out your patch of land be a priority?
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