Preppers Top 5 Fears After SHTF

hi folks canadian prepper here so today on the channel we're going to be talking about a poll i recently did and that poll asked what is your greatest fear in an shtf situation for you and your family and friends the options were as follows starvation and malnutrition i.e no food security threats i.e violence dying of exposure that is no heat or no cooling if you live in a very hot place dehydration no water disease no medical we're going to talk about the survey coming right up let's get to it [Music] all right guys so before we dive in here i'll kindly ask if you enjoy this type of content and you've watched many of my videos before but you're not a subscriber yet please click the subscribe button we're almost at half a million subs you can help us get there it's been a long uphill battle this last six years we got the headwinds of all things algorithmic in front of us if you know what i'm saying and apparently a lot of people have been getting unsubbed unknowingly and i'm not the only channel this happens to this happens to a lot of channels nobody apparently knows why this happens it just seems to happen but that's okay that's okay because i would rather have a hard-earned subscriber somebody who i had to you know win their trust than somebody who just clicked subscribe for the hell of it and never watched a video again so i do appreciate your viewership and let's take this channel to one million let's get a prepping channel out there to one million subs that would be absolutely amazing and i think the times that we're living in if there's not a prepping channel with a million subs then something is seriously seriously wrong so let's talk about this survey that i did shall we so not surprisingly security threats and violence came in at 52 percent and all of the other ones came in at under 20 with dying exposure coming in only at uh three percent okay so that's rather interesting if you remember the rule of threes what is it three seconds without a self-defense okay in a split second something can happen you can get clipped three minutes without air and i would also say three minutes without a gas mask if you're in a contaminated region three hours without medical attention for acute emergencies three days without water three weeks without food there is a whole plethora of the rule of threes a rule of thumb that basically are there to indicate you know what we need in order to survive part of the reason why security threats and violence comes in at the top of the list there's a few reasons one is the imminence of it the fact that it is imminent it's one of the things that can take you out quickest yes you can starve to death but it'll take maybe four to six weeks yes you can die of exposure it'll probably take three hours and that's the other one dying of exposure lack of shelter if you don't have shelter and it's freezing cold out chances are you got about three hours until you go into hypothermia or you just freeze to death dehydration is going to take a few days and even disease the progression of could take anywhere from 48 hours to you know three months depending on what the nature of the disease was so security threats and violence are the ones that really grab people's attention and really motivate people to prepare because it is the most intense and arguably unpredictable set of circumstances that you could be in it's one of the few things on this list that really gets people's adrenaline up now what i found is that if you focus on physical fitness if you focus on self-defense if you focus on learning how to defend yourself using other types of tools if you catch my drift then you can likely sleep better at night but it's not surprising that this is people's main motivation now if you were to give this pool to a group of non-preppers perhaps they would rank that somewhere else on the list but i do think that really depends on how well they've been primed i used to do psychological research at a graduate level and what we found is that if you were to show somebody a video or something like that before they took a survey it could drastically alter the results of the survey so if you you know maybe show people the movie the road you know right before giving them this survey then chances are you know security threats and violence are going to be on the top of the list whereas if you were to show them a video of what was some movie where a person was you know dying of the freezing cold that was a survival situation in winter dying of exposure might come up uh higher on the list but overall this is fairly reflective of the prepping population because we've got 17 000 votes that's just a huge amount of votes and 700 comments that's unbelievable so thanks a lot for participating the interesting thing with all this though is that dying of exposure is probably one of the most common ways that people go in a survival situation and especially if you live in a cold climate that's the first thing that's going to go if the power was to go down where i live in the winter time the first thing that is going to start taking people out is going to be the cold it's not going to be security threats and violence because all the bad guys they're all going to just be trying to keep warm unless they're trying to get into a place where they know that there's going to be fuel or another way that they can keep warm but chances are the inverse of this survey is going to take place okay starvation is likely going to be the last thing that gets a lot of people believe it or not it's going to be dehydration the lack of water for the majority of people especially in the united states where there's not a as much fresh water as there is in canada there's a lot of cities that rely on the grid to get water into homes and to sustain these large populations and of course disease is definitely going to be a more time release thing but there's a lot of people who require medications in order to live there's going to be a lot of waterborne pathogens that are going to take people out because you don't properly filter or boil your water so while i can understand security threats and violence being a prime motivator and i myself probably would have put that one on there as well even though i know that it's likely going to be one of these other things that are going to present one of the biggest challenges so let's go read some comments that i've selected here from the survey and see what you guys have to say about this now just so you guys know if you don't indicate in the comment what your selection was i'll never know this is a completely anonymous set of surveys obviously youtube and google knows but i personally don't know so to me it's just aggregate data but it's still interesting to see people comment and sometimes people will let on what they actually voted for 52 percent of people of course in this instance voted for violence so let's see what dave samuels has to say i'm closer to 60 than to 50. so my greatest fear is none of the things in the survey my greatest fear is that i might be too slow when needed too slow to think too slow to punch too slow to duck shoot break so on and so on the only thing i do more quickly as time marches on is too embarrassing to mention it's true what they say getting old ain't for not gonna say the word because the video will be demonetized but i totally get what this guy is saying and i can understand how when you start to get up there in age you have to question your physical capabilities but what i will say to this i think what uh older people if you want to say that i mean that's a relative term 50 between 50 and 60 not really old in my books you got a lot of people pushing 100 nowadays so i mean you still got quite a ways to go dave but i will say that you can make up for it in wisdom even when i meet really intelligent young people there's still a certain juvenile naivete to those people even if they are like technically smarter than me like people with a higher iq a good example of that is lex friedman he's a guy who i think is very intelligent you know he interviews physicists mathematicians computer scientists all these people i listen to his podcast all the time don't always agree with what he says but i do also find that there is a certain naivete and a sort of boyish fascination with the world which is great it's great to have that creative uh drive when you're young but at the same time you know even if you're not the most smartest person on paper as you age you get that wisdom you get that experience you kind of know what's going to work and what's not going to work what's futile and you just seem to have a better intuition about what is likely to come of whatever given event and also as your testosterone lowers you're less likely to get yourself in different predicaments that i think younger people would be more apt to get themselves into you taking greater risks perhaps a risk that you needn't take you know your ego kind of gets in the way when you're young you still got something to prove and i think when you get up there in age you kind of i would assume anyways i'm at the halfway point myself i think we're just a bit more measured a bit more calm and not so quick to fly off the handle definitely so that's something you got going for you god like machine says i live in the countryside with a river woods garden and several guns so the only thing that worries me is medical supplies especially since i'm a type 1 diabetic ironically that's the only thing that worries me right now in my current situation lol some gallows humor at the end there it's good to try to stay positive even in light of this i'm sure there are uh substitutes for diabetes i personally don't have it i haven't really fully researched a topic but i'm sure there has to be some medicinal alternative if anybody knows in the comments section below please add your comment so this person can go and research that of course i can't attest to everything that people write in the comment section especially as it pertains to medical issues but maybe it can direct that person in the right place to find some kind of substitute because indeed without medicine guys a lot of people who have grown dependent on those medicines to basically keep themselves alive are going to be in a whole heap of trouble so you definitely have to make that a top priority if that's something that you struggle with joy skull says not being able to trust people you are once able to trust sadly yeah and that begs the question could you ever trust those people in the first place but i get what you mean when the chips are down as a joker would say you know will people turn on each other you know are those you know your co-worker that you just kind of dislike a little bit you know are they actually going to become a serious problem in your life you know beyond just uh being a little annoying i often say that people's personalities are going to become amplified in an shtf situation so if you got beef with somebody now chances are that's going to amplify into something a lot more serious as it would in the jungles of somewhere thousands and thousands of years ago right up next ivor the insane a little bit of irony with this one says violence just look at how people already act towards one another it will be tenfold in an shtf situation well ivor the insane that kind of sounds like the pot calling the kettle black but i'm just joking so no i do think that you're right um those things are going to be amplified like i just said absolutely life outside the box says my greatest fear is letting the vile heartless monster that lives within me out to survive and keep my close ones safe that's a very interesting one because he's talking about how he realizes or she or whoever it is realizes that they have the ability to do things in order to survive which may go against their own morals and the question becomes do you do those things even though they are against your own morals how do you rationalize doing those things to protect the people that you need to protect because we've all seen the various ethical dilemmas that present themselves in post-apocalyptic movies where the good guy is forced to do something bad in order to take care of his family so indeed getting put in one of those positions is something nobody wants to do and all the more reason to be prepared so you never have to put yourself in that situation but the fact is somebody may come at you and you may have to defend yourself and contrary to uh the prevailing view that you're just gonna be mowing down zombies you have a conscience most people have a conscience and i like how it was depicted in the movie greenland where the guy has to actually defend himself and he kills two people and he wrestles with that for the rest of the movie they humanize the victims in that movie oftentimes in those apocalyptic movies you know people are just dropping like flies and the value of life gets supremely reduced but that movie uh kind of took a different approach leander 61 says in shdf my greatest fear is not my own death rather how death would leave my family defenseless and exploitable with separation and great suffering i would have to concur 110 percent with that estimation because i myself too don't fear death i don't fear what's on the other side per se i'm sure nobody wants to you know be in severe pain in their final hours but i'm more concerned with what happens to the people who are dependent on me after i go that's probably one of my main motivations at this point in my life it has very little to do with myself personally and just surviving for the sake of surviving i'm well beyond that motivation i don't want to just survive just to survive i would like at least my life to be a means to help somebody steve lindbergh baby medical conditions and lack of proper medicine absolutely we already talked about that one but it's very important mike moon says when you have a family on critical medication to survive it's very scary thought especially if they're immobile do you leave them behind or hunker down with them and become a target of violence and i guess that's a conversation that would have to be had with those particular people at some point there's going to be a lot of situations unfortunately where people are perhaps even bedridden and immobilized and if you were to stay in that location you're going to be putting more vulnerable people at risk i'm talking about children and other family members so that's a call at some point that people are going to have to make and it's a conversation that's going to have to be had not a lot of people are going to budge on that because you know most people are just not going to want to do that you know understandably so and most people are not going to want to leave david gaines says violence because others will experience all the rest quicker as they are unprepared and it will push them to violence i expect others to be desperate to the point of violence long before i run out of food or water that's an excellent point and again it's all about how other people are going to be using violence as a means to procure all the stuff that we as preppers have right brad grant says nothing has the ability to kill you faster than a lack of security at the wrong moment and i think that's why that three-second rule of thumb exists at three seconds without self-defense is basically a life or death situation pimpitypimpster99 says i spent a lot of time in saskatchewan prairies in the winter i've become obsessed with all types of heaters and stoves and so i think that guy probably selected was one of the three percent of people who selected the fear of dying of exposure but i think that one is the one which is most grounded in reality at least in the place i live it's certainly not going to be in a lot of places where there's huge populations because most people big cities most big cities are in places where it's not impossible to freeze to death but there's more warm days in the year than there is cold days so it's not surprising that it wasn't a very popular pick lachlan fuller this was a very thoughtful one i know so many people talk about it but even still nobody really takes it to heart or pays much attention to it getting a very small tiny scratch and getting it infected would be massive and extremely deadly you may think well i get cuts and such every day and i'm fine but you don't realize in an shdf situation you aren't going to have things like showers washing your hands clean water and i'll also add to this i cut the comment off there so i can't read the whole thing but you're also not going to have nutrients you're going to be vitamin deficient you're going to be stressed out you're not going to have the proper rest so indeed one of those scratches that you would get in you know uh everyday situation here while the grid is up could easily morph into a big painful painful problem we've talked about different remedies for infections if you can't get a prescription for antibiotics there's other things you can do go and explore the search bar on my channel's homepage and you'll find uh some information on that just search for antibiotics uh marielle martinez says mental problems just these meaning mental health problems just to be pc about that fighting with them because of everything and because of nothing mental health may be your biggest issue the other ones you may be able to handle the one is more tricky and indeed if you have anxiety disorder if you have a psychosis and or if you're on some sort of antipsychotic medication anti-anxiety medication any sorts of uh psychological medication that you're on there's going to be a withdrawal period and that can cause some pretty adverse effects at least until you are able to detox from those substances but many of these are things that you need in order to keep you stable if you are immediately pulled off of antidepressants you're going to be very depressed in an already depressing situation which could lead to some suicidal ideation and stuff like that so you definitely want to have some sort of solution if you do struggle with the mental health thing there are certain substitutes that you can get you know i'm not going to get too much into the weeds there i've talked about mental health before but there may be natural alternatives or there may be artificial alternatives that you yourself can create to replicate the effects of the medication that you're on because we need to remember that a good chunk of north america is on psychiatric medication and when that stuff stops rolling out if and when it stops rolling up there's going to be problems okay sebastian bolduc says having to leave family behind friends because they're too much of a risk due to many factors i'm not referring to age illness and capabilities by the way okay this is an interesting one that should never be a factor okay that's that's interesting that he says that and that kind of uh reinforces what i was saying earlier about how you know a lot of people are just not gonna have those as an excuse the fact that somebody is incapable but he does say more along the lines of stupidity not working together as a team not being able to compromise bad decision-making lack of situational awareness so here he's talking about people who just are in a large part liabilities and you may be tasked with having to abandon certain family extended family and friends alan larmore says you forgot no facebook how could you people would be throwing themselves off the roof without facebook yes a digital force detox may be actually good for the world but i indeed there's going to be a lot of people in cell phone withdrawal a whole generation of people who grew up in a virtual space are no longer going to have that as cover and they're going to have to interact in the real world with other people that could get quite interesting okay that animalism could just like pop right out of them instantly when their needs are not met and i actually anticipate that something like that likely would happen the fact that we're all stuck in these virtual bubbles and everybody's living and working remotely you know to go from that to having to get up close and personal with every uh survival aspect of life instantly you know is probably gonna cause a lot of mental duress for people and it could cause a lot of maybe not psychotic breaks but just people doing acting recklessly and uh making impulsive decisions christy rucker says the choice most people are picking makes sense as it's the least predictable and controllable and yeah and that's again that's a time thing right because starvation you got time dehydration you got time medication all these things you have time but self-defense and violence those things are right now so excellent point chrissy one last one here i'm the one you warned me of hmm okay at least he's honest i noticed that the highest ranking one so far is violence if you have a good defense you should be fine my main worry is water you can have all the guns in the worlds great medical kit blankets firewood stacked 10 feet high and food stacked to the rafters but if the grid goes down you're most likely going to lose your water because it runs on pumps if you don't have fresh water you will die plain and simple absolutely agree three days without water is no joke so everybody needs to have a plan as to how they're going to store water or how you're going to get water if you live by a river okay that's fine but do you live a mile from the river are you going to be able to you know go to the river you're going to have the means to haul water okay so these are all things that you have to think about so long as there's a water source nearby and you have adequate filtration capabilities and there's other ways that we've talked about to get water on this channel i'm going to do a full updated video on that pretty soon then you should be okay but definitely that should be on the number one on your priority list so i guess what i'm getting here today the vibe i'm getting with a lot of people is that people are aware that these other things are likely going to take them out first starvation water etc medical supplies but at the same time there still is that fear of violence which i think is probably ingrained in our dna in some ways because when we were coming up thousands of years ago that was the main thing that we were worried about was being eaten by a wild cat or you know clubbed by a fellow caveman or even cave woman got to be equal opportunity right i'm not sure if there were that equal opportunity then i wonder if they had um pronouns and stuff back then who knows anyways i highly doubt it because i think it was just grunts and drones let me know what you guys think in the comment section below and there was one thing that wasn't on here got a video coming up this weekend all about radios and comms now i am not a comms expert by a long shot so this is going to be a very bare bones introductory video but as a follow-up to this video now that i've set the foundation with this video i'm going to release on sunday i'll bring on a guest who knows a lot more about this than i do because the world of home-based and mobile coms not the walkie-talkie or handheld sorts are very complex but there is a way to learn how it works in a very easy way that we're going to talk about on sunday so stick with me for that thanks for all the support guys help me get this channel to 500 000 subs and let's take it to a million thanks for watching folks canadian pepperon the best way to support this channel is to support yourself by gearing up at canadianpreparedness.com your one-stop shop for premium high quality brand name products that have been tried and tested by myself and other youtube gear reviewers my 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Published: Wed Mar 24 2021