[Average Joe]

Originally Posted by droid56

In the last 2 or 3 years I began to access various internet sites that feature disaster scenarios, often involving conspiracy elements.

As a result of reading how the banking system was about to collapse because of lots of newly invented phony financial transactions, I took a thousand dollars out of my savings account, expecting bank closures. It never happened. I spent the thousand dollars, over time, so it wasn't a loss.

The swine flu pandemic motivated me to collect enough dried and canned food to wait out at home for a month or two the dangerous world of flu germs floating about in public. Once again, it fizzled. The effort on my part was not worth it.

My new attitude is that a disaster scenario has to enter the world of the sheeple for me to make any moves as a result.

Are you also skeptical about internet disaster scenarios, as I now am?

Yep.