Prepper Anxiety Poll #20

At this point in time, your “doomer” stress level is pegged at…

  • absolutely no worries

    Votes: 7 2.5%

  • a bit concerned

    Votes: 44 15.5%

  • watchful, ready, and checking the preps, just in case

    Votes: 168 59.2%

  • glued to the screen, expecting the worst any day now

    Votes: 64 22.5%

  • totally freaked and in my bunker

    Votes: 1 0.4%
  • Total voters
    284
  • Poll closed .
Topusaret

Topusaret

Deceased
It's time to once again gauge the anxiety members are feeling regarding the current world situation and how they view the relative near-term future.

With a nod to JC Refuge, who developed and created this identical poll the first seventeen times, and to CfI for invaluable assistance, here we go again. The poll will remain up for five days. Your poll responses are private and cannot be viewed, but I encourage you to post your response and why you voted the way you did.

Here are links to all previous polls:

The first poll, June 16, 2004--average score, 1.83:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=104207

The second poll, July 1--average score, 1.65:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=106303

The third poll, July 15--average score, 1.91:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=108265

The fourth poll, August 1--average score, 1.85:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=111006

The fifth poll, August 15--average score, 1.65:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=113376

The sixth poll, September 1--average score, 1.89:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=116464

The seventh poll, September 15--average score, 1.94:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=118574

The eighth poll, October 1--average score, 1.76:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=120887

The ninth poll, October 15--average score, 1.94:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=123099

The tenth poll, November 1--average score, 2.14:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=125432

The eleventh poll, November 15--average score, 1.66:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=128175

The twelfth poll, December 1--average score, 1.58:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=130406

The thirteenth poll, December 15, 2004--average score, 1.59:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showt...hlight=prepper

The fourteenth poll, September 1, 2005--average score, 2.42:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showt...repper+anxiety

The fifteenth poll, July 14, 2006--average score, 2.12:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showt...repper+anxiety

The sixteenth poll, October 9, 2006--average score, 1.92:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showt...repper+anxiety

The seventeenth poll, April 2, 2007--average score, 1.98:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showt...anxiety+ poll

The eighteenth poll, October 23, 2007--average score, 1.90:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showt...anxiety+ poll

The ninteenth poll, January 26, 2008--average score, 1.97:
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=274740&highlight=prepper+anxiety+poll
 
Giblin

Giblin

Veteran Member
I think this is the first time I've moved up from the "watching" to the "expecting any day" bracket. Life as we know it can't go on much longer.
 
DustMusher

DustMusher

Inactive
I voted Glued to My Screen

Not exactly at that point but closer to that than Watchful, Ready which is where I have been the last few Polls.

Really have a sense of anticipation, seems like the whole place is sitting on the edge waiting for the first person to yell FROG and everyone will jump.

The Rice thing has not caused the wholesale panic I think someone is orchestrating, but it may happen with the next announcemetnt of shortages of a food item.

Why do I feel this is a case of "Watch my right hand" as the left is doing all sorts of manipulations.

OK off to the store to stock up on tin-foil so I won't run out of hats.

DM
 
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WyoKathy

Inactive
I am more anxious this poll as well. It is like I am waiting for the other shoe to drop. I am grateful for every day it doesn't, but I feel like we are living on very short borrowed time.

Kathy
 
Pass Go

Pass Go

Inactive
I chose cautious and checking preps, but really I'm STILL buying very long-term preps and watching the screen, too. The scoundrels and thieves in government are just about done picking US clean and I guess we're just going to let them have their way with the inflation, generally, and devaluation of our dollar to the point of collapse. Why they haven't been arrested is a mystery to me, and I have actually wished that the Navy would lead the charge. Pretty bad, huh?

There are lot of folks making choices between eating, staying warm, buying medications and, uh, paying taxes. Heallth care and insurance, especially for many seniors, education costs, home heating bills (whew! Mine was quite large.) combined with teetering on the edge of whatever it is that's going to happen is making lots of people edgy. I haven't calculated how much more the cost of living is rising, but I'm feelin' it. The energy is funky these days.

I just know that one day I'm going to log on here, and have that date burned into my mind because TB2Kers knew about "It" three days, or so, before "It" happened, ya know?
 
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Running Dog

Inactive
Me, well, I don't like the idea that the whole wide world is in dire need of....Wheat....Rice...Beans...Money...Jobs...gas money...Lunch money...etc. Them are tough odds. Oh, yea, another thing. Honey Bees.. we don't get food if them kritters don't do their work on the pollenating . So where or what happened to them, I don't know. :shr:
So I keep up with the news, here, and often.
 
F

Faith

Veteran Member
I'm more anxious than in the past. I expect something to happen
anytime. I continue to try to prepare things and best I can.

I just wish my DH and family would see the light. It's hard trying to
do it all on your own as some of you know.
 
Freeholder

Freeholder

This too shall pass.
I voted watching and checking my preps, but should have gone up a notch. Can you change a vote for me, Top?

I've been concerned many times before, but never was really sure that anything was going to happen, and sure enough, 'they' pulled us out of the pickle we were in. I'm not at all confident that they are going to do it this time. It's looking like it's time for us to go down....I hope I'm wrong, and I'm not one who generally acts on feelings, but I do have a bad feeling about things this time.

Kathleen
 
SheWoff

SheWoff

Southern by choice
Glued to the screen. We are at the point where we are seeing food shortages (real or self-fullfilling), earthquakes in new places, money problems, job losses, etc, etc, etc... This can not keep on going like it is and something will give soon. I'm one of those thinking that we are having the wool pulled over our eyes about something here, just what that is may come to light before long.

She
 
E

Emily

One Day Closer
I have finally reached the point where I am no longer anxious. I am ready for whatever may come and resigned to it. I am enjoying life until TSHTF and then will move into survival mode.
 
tosca

tosca

Inactive
I am at times super stressed as I put the dots

together from news info I gather here and everywhere.....depression/stress go together because one can't stay stressed too long or a big depression will develop (self preserving I suppose)....I just can't figure out why we are using crops (food) to fill our cars and causing food prices to go out of sight! Can we eat ethanol?

So many things are topsy/turvy and none of what is going on is making sense and we seem helpless to change things for the better and more sensible. I so feel for the hungry world and realize we are far better off than most.

I pray about this mess we are in and I try to think positive thoughts but most of all I try to decompress watching a good Movie, etc. I think getting one's mind off worry is worth the effort to break the stressor cycle.

God Bless us all.
 
almost ready

almost ready

Inactive
kind of a blend

like Emily, not at all concerned. Just used to prepping as a way of life. But yes, this week did pay special attention to the food preps and did some topping off. Looking for holes in the comfort zone we intend to keep around us in case of power outages or lately, a 3 month flu quarantine.

Even though we're in a semi-rural area in the Rockies, there is a major univerisity just a few miles away and people come and go here from all parts of the world. Not just occupied areas, but we have scientists who go out into the far distant places studying volcanoes, etc. It is just as likely something obscure could travel from Brazil, etc., here as any other research university town. Mention b. cause they discovered a new hemorrhoragic fever there in the news this week.
 
Kook

Kook

A 'maker', not a 'taker'!
I was fine until.....

.......I saw your avatar Topusaret. Man, what a nightmare. Now THAT will make me prep fer sher.:shkr:
 
Topusaret

Topusaret

Deceased
Freeholder said:
I voted watching and checking my preps, but should have gone up a notch. Can you change a vote for me, Top?

I've been concerned many times before, but never was really sure that anything was going to happen, and sure enough, 'they' pulled us out of the pickle we were in. I'm not at all confident that they are going to do it this time. It's looking like it's time for us to go down....I hope I'm wrong, and I'm not one who generally acts on feelings, but I do have a bad feeling about things this time.

Kathleen
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If there's a way to change a vote, I couldn't find it.

If any Mods read this, could you made Freeholder's day for me? Thanks.
 
NBCsurvivor

NBCsurvivor

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Well, I have been glued to the screen for months and months. This response is no different than any of my others.

decaff is for wussies! :dstrs:
 
rafter

rafter

Since 1999
I went up a notch to 'glued to the screen'. Same reason as most. The food shortages, the gas prices, the earthquakes. Just uneasy.
 
F

Fecund1

Inactive
No, tosca, we can't eat ethanol. However, some people have been known to drink it, maybe with a little mixer.:whistle:
 
rhughe13

rhughe13

Heart of Dixie
Giblin said:
I think this is the first time I've moved up from the "watching" to the "expecting any day" bracket. Life as we know it can't go on much longer.
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Even before reading the posts, I did the same thing as you.

Throughout all of the other threads, I have been middle of the road but at this particular moment with all the stress in the world I had to bump up a notch to "Expecting any day"

A breaking point in an out of control government
Civil unrest
Economic meltdown
Major Currency Devaluation
Election horrors
Global Food Crisis around the corner
Iran boats getting warning shots
Wars on everything from A-Z
 
G

Glowy SC

Senior Member
I am taking this week off. I was getting a little crazy. Next week I will be glued to the screen. The world will have to wait until I check in next week to go to hell.
 
Border Guns

Border Guns

Veteran Member
Been topping off as best I can. Also have a feeling somethings up and about to go off. Moved up a notch from last poll. Have been buying preps for other DGI family members, but can't do to much. Money in short supply as usual.:shk:
 
Cag3db1rd

Cag3db1rd

Paranoid Heathen
After the day I had today, if I had a bunker, I'd be in it right now, not posting this message. So I'm stuck with Glued
 
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Windy Ridge

Veteran Member
I voted a bit concerned. I think it would be interesting to see a map of this country with colored dots for each one polled. Which areas would be green and which would be bright red?

Windy Ridge
 
Spot

Spot

Veteran Member
I voted "watchfull" , our preps are in good shape and we have done all that we can . I have a little voice in the back of my mind that says that there is something that I'm lacking but i can't think of what it is :confused: . I went yesterday and got more cooking oil and 22 bullets .
Spot
 
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Anrol5

Inactive
I voted concerned. I do what I can, when I can. And it will either be enough, or it won't. I am not going to lie awake at night, worrying, and working myself into a state. I don't think that helps.

Anrol
 
BH

BH

. . . .
I voted watching, although ready is not really here yet. Been in a new (to us) house for about 6 weeks now. We have the interior functional and have started on the outside and the property.

I have rebuilt 1 entrance with a 6x6 deck and a ramp for the arthritic dog and the elderly parents. 2 more entrances left to redo. One will get another 6x6 and steps. The last will likely be a 6x10 screened porch with steps.

Am in the processing of clearing a place for a workshop/storage building. I have 3 places in this area that have been dump sites for years, lots of broken glass, plumbing parts, junk, etc. The building will be finished so that if will also be an outdoor living area and kicthen. I hope to have things cleared, leveled and cleaned up so I can put the building up next weekend.

After that comes a few hundred feet of fencing. Once the fence is up, then the garden will get turned (I want to place the garden inside the fence, but don't want the garden to dictate the fence line).

Don't have warm fuzzy feelings about the near immediate future of the economy. I'm just hoping that I can get the place like I want it before it becomes necessity. Also need to meet all the neighbors and start building the necessary relationships with them.

Hopefully, things will hold together with some normalcy for another couple of months....
 
Mr. Dot

Mr. Dot

Inactive
I think "glued to the screen" is a poor choice of words and prejudices the poll. My choice this time is a step up in concern from previous polls although I'm not "glued".

:kaid:
 
Scotto

Scotto

Set Apart
SheWoff said:
Glued to the screen. We are at the point where we are seeing food shortages (real or self-fullfilling), earthquakes in new places, money problems, job losses, etc, etc, etc... This can not keep on going like it is and something will give soon. I'm one of those thinking that we are having the wool pulled over our eyes about something here, just what that is may come to light before long.

She
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That's how I stand. Something big is about to pop quick.
 
D

Desertrat

Inactive
Nowhere near as bad as December 8, 1941. Today's world? Hard for me to get much past being a bit concerned. For myself, anyhow.

'Rat
 
lectrickitty

lectrickitty

Great Great Grandma!
We know it's coming. We are as ready as we can be at this time. Getting frantic or worried won't change anything so we do our best to enjoy life as normal while being ready to dive into the shelter if we need to.
 
P

Phlatulance

Inactive
OK, fess up. Who's in their bunker? :shr: Unless it was just a 'joke vote'

Im at level 2. I'm always at level 2. Deviation from that would mean that I'm worried about something.
 
H

Halfdar

Cold and pissy
Well said...

WyoKathy said:
I am more anxious this poll as well. It is like I am waiting for the other shoe to drop. I am grateful for every day it doesn't, but I feel like we are living on very short borrowed time.

Kathy
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...but, we live in Canada, and things here are not nearly as bad as they are in the Union. We are very concerned for our cousins south of the 49th, and watch events with a sense of 'eeee, that'll be us soon'. Although, Canada is very different with regard to things like population density and racial stresses, our government is also rather sneaky....
Thus, I voted watchful/prep checking etc, since we are not yet in condition red.
 
Surprise

Surprise

Inactive
I am a "glued to the screen" .

I woke up in the middle of the night last night thinking of this June 10th banking date being something to watch as LoupGarou recently explained in terms way over my head ..
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showpost.php?p=2817815&postcount=11

Add to that a FOAF thread in the BS regarding Banking that has a time frame that ties right in with Loup's warning.........and :shkr:

I am more watchful and concerned than I have ever been. We only keep enough in checking to pay the bills but we have a little savings account (less than a thousand dollars) that I am walking the floors wondering what to do about..and it is in a bank that has been in the news recently as reporting a huge loss.

But then I realize when we are talking collapse of the entire system, my little checking account and savings amount to little insignificant trees blocking my view of the overall big forest coming down. It really is just about beyond my comprehension....bank holidays, collapses, and so forth.

The sheeple in me wants to say "they" will keep it together somehow, but this time that does not seem to be working. I cannot shake it this time.
 
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ncsteelmagnolia

Inactive
My mind voted for 'concerned', but heart is screaming "Where is the valium??!!"

I am preparing for my elderly mother, the son & GS (oh alright, and the DIL...)
and trying to be sure I have everything everyone will need/want to be comfortable; no wonder I'm tired.

Of course all of this is on my mind while I am trying to get the housework done, plan the garden, drive someone, somewhere and while I am in town, go to all the places that are having specials, pick up medicine, go to the bank..............

Where is the extra bottle of tequila?
 
Scotsman

Scotsman

Inactive
I voted for "a bit concerned."

While I haven't got all the preps together, still working on bug out bags, I am making sure we have plans in place (feasible plans) for when/if TSHTF.
 
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