Xenophon wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 12:23 pm
Do you two have any advice for those of us not so gung-ho? I go back and forth between being angry at the stupidity and panic around me, to being mad at China for having a terrible culture that bred this plague, and being concerned with my family's well-being as we see reports that younger people aren't really dealing with it any better than the elderly.
Look at your family and property as if you were going to attack it, steal, etc.
- How would you get on your property, in your house, what would you go after ?
- Then figure out how to strengthen defense against that.
I'm an engineer. So I like defense in depth. Smitts is a Rifleman, he will have a different perspective.
- Defense in depth.
1. Obstacles - fences, thorny shrubs, trip hazards.
2. Early warning - dogs, cameras, sensors
3. Hardened targets - stiffen your main entrances, doors primarily. Figure out how to deal with windows.
4. Active Defense - Where none comatants go, where you plan to engage an enemy from.
5. QRF if possible - Mutual defense with neighbors. You or your neighbor gets a signal, they come to help.
That's a start.