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Friday, July 31, 2020

Preparing for pre-election turmoil

I've written many articles over the years about emergency preparations; food, water, shelter, and everything that goes with them. There are innumerable resources on the Internet about the same subject. I hope most of my readers have taken steps to improve their own preparedness for when things go wrong.

We're now less than 100 days away from the November 2020 elections. The country is already wracked by unrest, protests and rioting, and that's likely to get worse - perhaps much worse - as the elections approach. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, and may ratchet upward as cooler weather approaches. I think it's likely to be a long-term threat, lasting years rather than months.

Nor should we ignore the threat to stability and security in society as a whole. There's a lot of talk about a new American civil war, and I agree it's a serious possibility right now: but I doubt very much whether it'll be like the first one. As Foreign Policy magazine points out:
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-RDM73