When society collapses, you are far more likely to be killed by disease than by human violence
by: Robert Jonathan
NaturalNews.com
Saturday, April 01, 2017
In a societal collapse, about which Natural News founder Mike Adams has discussed in several essays, the conventional wisdom in some quarters is that looters and other violent bandits pose the primary threat to law-abiding citizens.
It could even be like the criminal shakedown enterprise run by the villainous Negan (the dude carrying around the barbed-wired-covered baseball bat) and his band of thugs known as the Saviors as portrayed on The Walking Dead zombie apocalypse TV show.
According to the colorfully named SHFT plan website, physical violence is a second-tier concern in a mass social chaos situation, however, which may or may not be reassuring or less depressing. “During the most tumultuous times in human history, it wasn’t violence that killed the most people, but disease and starvation.”
With that in mind, here are the nightmarish ways you are most likely going to die miserably if or when society comes apart at the seams, as originally detailed by Joshua Krause for ReadyNutrition.com.
In other words, “So before you blow your entire prepping budget on guns and body armor, consider some of the many unglorified ways that the collapse of society could cut you down,” Krause advises.
Tuberculosis, staph, typhoid or other superbugs that are increasingly impervious to antibiotics.
Contaminated water, leading to a host of nasty water-borne diseases.
Disease-carrying mosquitoes and rats. “Rats will carry the hantavirus, leptospirosis, salmonellosis, and the plague; and in North America, mosquitoes will most likely be carrying dengue fever.”
Respiratory diseases brought on by minimal shelter in cold weather.
Malnutrition when a survivor’s diet lacks proper protein, vitamins, and minerals, thereby leaving the immune system exposed. “In a roundabout way, malnutrition would probably be the leading cause of disease after the SHTF.”
Decomposing, infected dead bodies piled up everywhere.
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