The 80 20 Rule of Disaster Preparedness
More Articles Related to Survivalist BlogIt’s easy for those of us involved in teaching survival and survivalism to forget that the hordes of work-a-day people are largely unschooled in the survival arts. They busily go about their days fat, dumb, and happy with virtual blinders on thinking this is how it always was and always will be.
Inevitably the common herd is blindsided when disaster occurs. Unprepared they suddenly find a gaping hole in their ability to survive that cannot be breached with the feeble survival knowledge and preparations they have.
If we attempt to feed these people information about survival and disaster preparedness that is too difficult for them to understand without prior knowledge, they are likely to become glassy eyed and click away to their favorite dumbed down entertainment website where they do not have to think too much.
Our goal is to change that, to give people the information the need to better their odds of survival. A basic primer can prime the pump and get their minds thinking about how to protect themselves and family. This can be achieved by suggesting a few simple changes to their mindset and a few basic but important additions to their survival preparations.
20% of Disaster Preparation covers 80% of Survival Needs
I like to think of survival and disaster preparedness in terms of the oft quoted “80-20” rule. 80% of your survival needs are taken care of by the first 20% of your preparations. As you lay up additional supplies and knowledge, you close the gap on that impossible goal of 100% guaranteed survivability come what may. But it’s that first 20% that is by far the most important of all.
What the 80-20 rule means is that the majority of your basic survival needs are taken care of relatively simply. Rather than give up in confusion because preparing for disaster seems too difficult time consuming, the average person finds that he or she can easily take care of the majority of survival preparations with a minimum of effort and expense.
For example, reading and understanding the Survival Topic on The 5 Basic Survival Skills can be a survival-changing revelation to the uninitiated, the spring board from which he can start to make his own disaster survival preparations in an organized and intelligent manner. Just buying a couple of Swedish firesteels will go far toward ensuring one of your most basic survival needs, fire, is taken care of.
But without this basic survival knowledge layed out in an easy to read and simple to understand manner where would one even start? The answer is they probably wouldn’t. They would give up in frustration and spend their time on shopping websites while the Doomsday clock ticketh.
5 Simple Steps to Surviving a Disaster
A survivalist blog that everyone should be reading is Code Name Insight or the CNI blog for short. Judging by the limited number of posts this survivalism related blog gets it would seem it is relatively unknown. Hopefully today’s Survival Topic in the new Survivalist Blog section will get the word out and help change that.
In yet another insightful post Code Name Insight has distilled disaster preparedness into Five Simple Steps to Surviving a Disaster, the 80-20 disaster preparations rule in print. His easy to understand survival article should be required reading for anyone preparing self and family from the menu of disasters available in our world today. Read the article here.
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