Yeah, thats why we vaccinate dogs and thats why rabies from dogs is mostly an issue in Africa or Asia.

Nah don’t bother seems fishy to me…. btw there is no indication that Latin America is pro russia at all https://www.courthousenews.com/latin-american-leaders-react-to-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/

Is it this one? https://youtu.be/7f0fpA54t2c hardly something I would trust

So it’s not a public link? What is it, a home made video?

I speak spanish so you can post the same link you sent to your friends.

Do you have a link? I can’t find anything about Bolivia supporting Russia.

If you already talked with their reps you probably have more insights. What did you learn?

Still off topic mate.

Epidiolex (the drug referred to by Cia) is not an OTC supplement so I don’t understand why do you keep going off topic?

When the blast shields come down in front of every register at the grocery store, then i’ll know things are back to normal.

Haven’t been on this site for months, but seeing this cyber attack in the news reminded me of the forum so I came on here to see if people are talking about it.  I’m with Mister Bob here, the pipeline is “Too big to fail”. While the sanctions would be great, if they are relying on a private company to fuel 45% of the east coast, then it would be devastating to the economy and lives if they shut it down.  And as others have mentioned, we are seeing an uptick in cyber attacks, so the government and private organizations need to allocate a greater amount of their resources to security (physical and digital) to prevent things like this from happening in the future. Most of these ransomware attacks are from an employee clicking on a malicious email. I feel pity for the poor chap who clicked on that and about shut down the economy and who about crippled half the country and caused a disaster that is making national news. That person’s life is pretty much over. He’s obviously fired, he probably is going to have to move now and go off grid because if his name leaks so many hateful people will be after him. He’ll never get another job again because when future employers ask why he was fired from his last job and he says that he was the cause of the Colonial pipeline shutdown, no company is going to take that risk and hire him.  Be careful what you do guys. A single malicious email can cause so much damage and ruin your life. I don’t blame the guy and I hope he comes out of this pretty unscathed. These emails are tailored and designed so well that pretty much anyone will fall for it, this guy is just the unlucky chap who fell for it. Side note, not sure if that’s how all this started, but a majority of ransomware attacks are from this so it’s a pretty safe bet.

I’ve just enrolled in the knife course and will be ready to start practicing this weekend (had to wait for supplies to arrive)! The big test will be to actually practice, but the lessons seem clear and easy enough. I also like that that there is an actual logical curriculum and that care has been clearly put into it, and for that price it can’t be beat.

So if you have some rope sticking out from one end (the end that you feed inside the lighter), how do you keep that from getting wet or dirty?

Looking at your list something immediately caught my eye: the SAS book is 2lb! I think you can get a pocket size version for you BOB (and maybe keep that one at home?)

If you can afford it and if you can carry the extra weight, I think it makes sense to have a duplicate sleeping bag and shelter in your BOB. I too am an avid outdoorsman and in the event that it’s not safe at home and I need to evacuate I too would assume that I would grab my tents, good pads, and nice sleeping bags, as well as my other camping gear (which is stored in a plastic crate), and just put them in my car, alongside my by BOB. But this implies that a) I have enough warning b) my car is available and in reach. But this is not the point of  BOB imo. Having a dedicated sleeping bag and shelter option in my BOB gives me the peace of mind to know that I have everything I need to ride the any kind of emergency in one place, and that I dont have to rely on a car to carry that gear (no matter what the odds are that the situation is that bad that I need to rely on my BOB for survival). It’s basically like an insurance. You put it together the best you can, and that you can forget about it. Hell my BOB rides with me even when I go camping and already have with me my camping gear and a different backpack etc. I think the bivvy is better than nothing, no? I have a similar one that I was given, so it wasn’t my first choice. I would have a proper sleeping bag instead, but right now I have other priorities and I know that I’m better off with a bivvy than without. But adding a separate sleeping bag or shelter gear doesn’t need to be extremely expensive (or as expensive as your best camping gear), if you can afford it. A tarp is such a cheap, lightweight, but extremely versatile piece of equipment that it’s such a no brainer to me. With a tarp and a sleeping bag you’d be golden in almost any circumstance (and with a tarp and bivvy, well, better than nothing). The sleeping bag would be the most expensive of the two, but the ultralight community on Reddit has a list of light and cheap gear, or you could go with something like this or anything else that is cheap and light but better than a bivvy. And honestly, I wouldn’t care that the sleeping bag I carry in my BOB and that I might never use gets compressed, no?

Nice, first time actually seeing a side-by-side visual guide. Do I recall corretly that if a tick bite has that kind of bull’s eye ring around it, it’s a sign that the tick carried Lyme disease? If that’s the case, would that look like the pic in here?

This is really interesting. Our state has mandated face coverings to be worn inside businesses but I already saw people either not wearing the masks correctly (i.e. under the nose), or even just on their chin. I’m ok with food and grocery deliveries (but I disinfect all the packages anyway), occasional drive thru, or pick up something quickly inside a store, but I still can’t put myself to go to the mall, or a restaurant or to a gym (even if they offer one-one classes).

Matt, with regards to antibiotics I am in your same situation: I’d love to get my hands on antibiotics but not sure how. I’ve recently saw a post on reddit about someone who just explained to their doctor that they are preppers and would like to responsibly keep extra at home, and their doctor was understanding and gave them a prescription. It seems like worth a try (the worst it could happen is if they say no), but I recently moved states and personally don’t feel I have enough rapport with my current doctor to ask them. I also know that you could buy animals antibiotics online (I’m not suggesting you do – and please folks at The Prepared, feel free to delete this comment if you feel it’s pushing the line). The few times I looked at this solution it seemed to me that they are the same compounds, in just different strenghts. If you were to take the same % it’s reccomended for humans I don’t know what would make it unsafe for us. But I am no doctor and before I’d feel confident about trying I would need to do more resarch (which I don’t have time to do right now).

That would have been buying ready made first aid kits. Zippers would break down, tweezers would be made of plastic and bend when used, no tourniquets, etc…