QuoteNo matter how well hidden it is, people around you will notice after a few months you're not as skinny as they are and will become suspicious.
After a few month circumstances will not be the same as week 1.
Nine in ten people are dead. What will be the psychology of those left. Do we know?
Goats were introduced to the Galapagos islands so shipwrecked sailors would have meat to hunt long ago. The goats had no natural predators and they devastated the ecology. It was decided they should die.
After years of planning the hunt was started.
90 percent of the islands' goats were killed within the first year of aerial hunting. But that still left thousands of goats on the islands – and goats can't keep their hooves off each other. The scattered remainder, now clued into the lethal significance of a helicopter's appearance, began to breed and repopulate in hidden enclaves. To find these final, wily packs, the Project Isabela team turned to "Judas goats."
A Judas goat was a female who would be captured from the wild, sterilized, tagged with a GPS tracking device, and then released to find other goats, especially lovelorn males.
My point is that circumstances on the ground changed and the ten percent of goats still alive were the smarter goats on average. The smartest had been killed from the air at the start of hunting. But in terms of goat intelligence those remaining were on the high side of the goat bell curve. Smart enough to hide from helicopters.
So months after a true SHTF moment were millions have died. What will be the character of those remaining?
I think all we can say is one size won't fit all. We don't know who remains, but we can safely say they won't be playing video games.
Likely you would be adopted into a group if you have any useful skills as your food is being confiscated. You bought your way in, now keep up or die.
Or you are seen for what you are. A useless eater who hid under the rug. You are vermin to the survivors who have already paid serious survival dues the hard way.
Time to die.