Outbreak

The prepper life is never easy. While everyone else is living life with reckless abandon, you can’t afford that luxury. You are busy trying to remember all the ways to tie a rope, your evacuation plan, or save water in the case that some disaster is bound to happen.

Everything from famine, desertification, war, and of course diseases, have riddled human history for centuries now. Most recently, another life altering event shook Earth’s populace: the outbreak of COVID-19.

Humans dislike uncertainty in most situations, but some deal with it better than others. Numerous studies link high intolerance of uncertainty to anxiety and anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, PTSD and eating disorders.

There is statistical evidence that mass shootings are on the rise, as well as individual incident shootings. In our history, it has been well documented that tough and uncertain times directly correlates to rises in deaths by gun.