Should You Accept Additional People Into Your Community After TSHTF? How Will You Choose Who To Accept And Reject?
SurvivalDan101.com
5/26/2018
Let’s say that TSHTF and we find ourselves deep into not just the brown stuff but an extended Level 2, possibly a Level 3 situation. Fortunately, you have the supplies and the skills necessary to ensure the probable survival of you and the other members of your group.
So far, so good.
But what about the other people, everyone and everywhere else in the country? They have neither the supplies nor the skills, and they are facing a high probability of failing to survive the upcoming winter (always assuming they don’t starve prior to then).
Okay, so you know that your small group of, let’s say, 20 people, can’t possibly turn around and support the entire 300+ million people in the US. Neither can you support the maybe 5 – 10 million people in your state, the 500,000 people in your county, or the 100,000 people in the nearest city, or the 2,000 people in the nearby small town. Those are easy issues to agree upon.
Enough of the easy. Let’s move on now to the hard – to the challenges you are most likely to confront and need to resolve. Note that the scenarios below assume that your ‘community’ shares a number of communal resources – perhaps these would include living in the same retreat structure, sharing food communally rather than having individual stores of food and sharing water and energy as well. In such cases, what one person does obviously impacts on other members of the one community.
If your ‘community’ is more like a tiny village, with a cluster of separate dwellings for separate families, and each family being responsible for its own food, water, and energy, but the community as a whole coordinating defense and food production type matters, then clearly each family has much more flexibility as to how it manages its own situation.
Adding One More Community Member
What happens if say your spouse’s brother (or, for that matter, your own brother) turns up and asks to be admitted to your community?
Your spouse pleads with you to let him join you, and for sure, what you have for 20 people will also be fine for 21. Your spouse even says ‘I’ll share my food with my brother’, although no-one seriously expects that is exactly how the food would be re-divided. What do you do? Welcome the guy in, or risk a major failure in your marriage and turn the guy away?
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