The #survival skills I learned as a poor #Indiana redneck didn't have much to do with the suburban prepper fantasy play I see a lot of these days.

For us, survival was mostly about knowing how to:

Fix things that break..
Feed ourselves with little $.
Make things instead of buying.
Be good to our neighbors.

During Trump's first botched pandemic response and tradewar buffoonery, I remember *well* how little was on the shelves, how expensive it was and how having those skills helped.

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