Preparing for Biological Warfare

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History repeats. Biological warfare has been used in the past; it will be used again. Bodies of plague victims were catapulted over the walls of besieged cities as late as the eighteenth century in Europe.

 Native Americans were killed with smallpox through gifts of infected blankets. Anthrax weapons were used in WWI. Some believe COVID-19 was engineered by the Chinese. While the casualty rate when factoring in all persons exposed and asymptomatic cases is perhaps a bit low as far as bioweapons go, the effect on the economy was huge.

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7 Prepping Items FEMA Will Confiscate When SHTF

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by JAMES WALTON

 

Preppers have long been concerned about amassing resources that would be taken by FEMA in an emergency. Maybe you have seen something like this in your mind’s eye, too.

A line of armored vehicles on your street with armed men going door to door with FEMA on their shirts and taking the buckets and cans of food that you had stored for just this moment.

They walk in and out of your home, container after container and leave you hollowed out to face the disaster like the unprepared.

It’s a real concern for preppers but how concerned should you be?

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More Cooking From Scratch: 12 Mistakes People Make

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By Linda Loosli

Even if you’ve been cooking for many years now and are pretty good at it, there may be a few bad habits that you’ve been using without even realizing it, particularly when trying to cook from scratch. Maybe you’re one that’s always in a rush to get dinner on the table for your family and take a few shortcuts along the way? Those wrong decisions could make all the difference regarding your meals turning out the way you had hoped. Keep reading to discover 12 common mistakes that many cooks seem to make when cooking from scratch and to see if you’ve been guilty of any of them. What is cooking from scratch?