Doomsday prepping was once a concept people believed was reserved for conspiracy theorists and paranoid uncles, but fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is leading more and more Americans to plan ahead in the event of a future catastrophe.
Amid a recovering supply chain, two brewing conflicts involving nuclear powers, hackers bent on compromising electric infrastructure, the possibility of solar flares and concerns about engineered bioweapons, Nelson said it is not unrealistic to look at the world today and say: How prepared am I to take care of my family?”
“Americans have this Armageddon-type thing where they think that there’s a secret space shuttle waiting to go get that meteor. You know, there’s always an answer somewhere. Somebody’s hidden something underground. And we’re good, right? We like to believe that our big government has got a solution for everything.”
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