Beyond The Shortages On The Shelves

Interview with Selco & Toby Part I: Beyond the Shortages on the Shelves

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Today, we have an interview between Toby and Bosnian War survivor Selco, as they examine how shortages of goods impacts a populace, how these shortages spread, and what the prepper can do to mitigate how they impact his family. Enjoy. (For the full video interview, scroll to the bottom of this post.)

Well, as we move through to the new year and beyond, in 2022, we’re delighted to have Selco with us again. And we’re gonna hit on a very specific topic again today, but really unpacking it into quite a degree of breadth, but hopefully with some brevity. So we don’t want this to be a long recording by any means. But we do want to hit a few key points on that. And the main theme is shortage of supplies. But we’re not just talking about the actual products on the shelf at consumer level. And we’re going to go a little bit deeper than that.

But one of the things we’ve said unique to urban survival for the history of all the writings and teachings and sharing we’ve done is that you are facing problems when there’s more people than there are resources. And we’re not there yet. But certainly, the trend is going uncomfortably in that direction. And preparedness is always about being ahead of the decision-making curve. Or is about being able to identify the coming trends to beat them. So that’s why this is so important today because we can kind of see what’s coming a little bit down the line. Again, this is not your – this is not US-centric. This is Western world, across the board, experiencing these into varying degrees.

Selco, welcome back. Shortage of supplies. Obviously, you’ve been at the absolute extreme end with the complete absence of any supplies. But there was a number of steps before you got there. Right? It wasn’t full supermarkets one day, absolute lack of all resources the next day. So, where do you feel we are in that sort of descending curve of concern?

Oh, yes. We can look, look at this problem of shortage of supply as a multi-layer problem because it is not so. So easy to portray to folks, what’s the real problem? Are there – are more problems about this or more angles to look at this problem? 

For example, one’s outlook on it. Maybe that’s what we all probably, all worldwide, is seeing right now. And I’m seeing here definitely is kind of gaps in – in offers or gaps in products that are available for the people and at the same time. Time. Be those gaps. We see here are sharp, sharp rise – rise of prices. Now. If you want me to put this on – on the timeline of events, in terms of where are we right now. On that timeline, if you’re talking of some big event, we can say that we are, yes, we are at the beginning of this a shortage problem. 

We are at the beginning but do not forget that this this event when they are talking about shortage of goods does not necessarily need to go on the same pace. Is baseball Yes. Yes, same pace, all the way down to the to the complete absence of goods. What I trying to say here, you can – you can see, as I see right now, gaps or in some products, or some products you cannot really find. And that doesn’t look too problematic for you. Because I’ll give you an example right now. 

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