On 2016-10-19 09:04:39 honeybear said:
Goeie genugtig ! Does this mean we got to stock up with tinned food, fuel and water again ? Or can we just use the 1994 stock ?
Since water doesn't really go off and since expiration dates on food is a money making scheme, I'd say that your 1994 stock should suffice..lol
Anyway, I am a firm believer in being prepared for any eventuality.
Look when we had water problems a few years ago in jhb. People were having physical fights in shops over bottled water in the affluent northern suburbs no less, yet do you think most of the residents of jhb afterwards, when the water got restored, thought to themselves, okay, so it IS actually possible that water services can be shut down for days and that shops may run out of bottled water, so let me put up a rain barrel and let me sommer also stock up on some water, in case this happens again. I dare say, I think the answer is a resounding NO.
When we had massive loadshedding in 2008, people bitched and moaned to no end. After the crisis, did the majority of people say to themselves, okay, so it IS actually possible that we can be without power for many days, so let me invest in alternative power sources, in case this happens again, so that I will have power to cook and have light in my house? I dare say, I think the answer is a resounding NO.
Bottom line, our very existence is tied to government itself, in the form of governmental institutions and the economy. Government is the parent, and we are its dependent grown up children, who by choice refuse to take responsibility for our existence & doing something proactive to protect and buffer ourselves, refuse to think of what may happen when our parent fucks up and/or can no longer look after us........