{"id":54087,"date":"2020-07-10T15:31:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T20:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54087"},"modified":"2020-07-10T15:31:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T20:31:33","slug":"heres-what-75-preppers-learned-during-the-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54087","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s What 75 Preppers Learned During the Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/what-preppers-learned-during-lockdown\/\">Here\u2019s What 75 Preppers Learned During the Lockdown<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/the-lockdown-of-america-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lockdown that recently took place<\/a>&nbsp;due to the pandemic was like a practice run for a bigger SHTF event. Many of our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/selco-survival-lessons-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prepper theories played out and were accurate<\/a>, while others weren\u2019t as realistic as we thought beforehand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People who weren\u2019t preppers already learned a lot about why they would want to be better prepared in the future, but they weren\u2019t the only ones who learned lessons. These preppers took a moment to answer questions about the lessons they learned during the lockdown. (Here\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/what-i-learned-during-the-covid-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an article about the things I learned<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What did you learn about preparedness during the lockdown?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trisha\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I learned two main things. First, I was very surprised at how strongly the isolation hit me. I am a person who is \u201cenergized\u201d by interacting with other people. I knew that already, but I was shocked at how MUCH it affected me. Second, I got a taste of normalcy bias. I kept trying to see ways in which our situation was still \u201cNormal\u201d. As a school teacher of little ones for thirty years, I was pretty much used to switching into action immediately to deal with a crisis and putting my feelings on the back burner. So, I was shocked that it took me a couple of months to \u201caccept\u201d the changes in our lives and start looking for creative ways to make life work and meet our needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Maria\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I learned it is so important to pay attention to what\u2019s going on and stay ahead of the crowd. My husband and I were able to stock up two weeks before everyone else panicked. I also learned my plan of being stocked up and shopping only for replacements is a great system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s What 75 Preppers Learned During the Lockdown The&nbsp;lockdown that recently took place&nbsp;due to the pandemic was like a practice run for a bigger SHTF event. Many of our&nbsp;prepper theories played out and were accurate, while others weren\u2019t as realistic as we thought beforehand. People who weren\u2019t preppers already learned a lot about why they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6156,29428,648,650,728,5756],"class_list":["post-54087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-daisy-luther","tag-lockdowns","tag-preparations","tag-prepping","tag-shtf","tag-the-organic-prepper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54088,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54087\/revisions\/54088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}