What "CLASS" human are you? This has nothing to do with whether you went to Hillbilly High or graduated from Harvard. how much money you have means nothing. What society thinks of you means even less.

When TSHTF and the fat is in the fire, there are 7 classes of humans. The class you are in determinew how long you can function without serious problems.

CLASS 1: Perfect, require regular air, water, and food. CLASS 2: Broken but repaired/bionic. You are a CLASS 2 if you anything you were not born with to function well. Glasses or contacts, false teeth, pacemaker, artificial joints, etc..

Anything lower than a CLASS 2 suffers from time constraints. If things fall apart, with no help or re-supply, a CLASS 3: Good for a month. CLASS 4: Good for a couple of weeks. CLASS 5: Good for a week. CLASS 6: Good for a day. CLASS 7: Dies almost instantly

For example: You are a smoker, running out of tobacco, how will that affect your life? You are a diabetic. If the power goes out, your refrigerator dies, your insulin spoils, you die. Your child is allergic or an asthmatic. What would you do without access to drugs?

WHAT CAN YOU DO???

Do ANYTHING you can to upgrage your status. Study alternatives, plan, and think.

It is a lot easier to stop smoking now while we still have hypnosis, support groups and nicotine gum. If you or yours wear contacts, get glasses made. Contacts will be dangerous if you can not get cleaning solution, steamers or replacement disposables. If you or yours are dependant ondrugs, look into alternative medicine. Can changing your diet be just as effective? If your kid is having an asthma attack can steam from some kind of herb tea do the same job as a prescription inhaler? Get a 90 day supply of any drug that is absolutely necessary. If your doctor won't help, change doctors.

Strengthen your spirit for tough times. You may have to watch someone you care about die for lack of a couple of shots or a 30-minute medical procedure.

For the record, I am a CLASS 2 human. I am just as good as anyone else as long as my glasses don't get wet dirty or broken. I must have every pair I have gotten over the last 20 years.

Take care and good luck

PS This is my first post ever. Can someone cross post to the PREPS board please?

-- woody (woody11420@aol.com), October 27, 1999

Answers

I guess that makes me a class I human then, cause I have nothing worng with me... I smoke, but tobacco cant realy be cut off, and if it is it wiill not kill me.

-- MUG! (a@w.rootbeer), October 27, 1999.

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

Woody, I've posted the whole text to the Preps Forum as How Long Can Your Body Get By Without "Body Parts" Resupply. I hope you don't mind the retitle. Thanks for this.

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), October 27, 1999.

Good post, woody!

I've needed glasses since age 10, and have often wondered how long I would've lived in a primitive setting. Must be all those Anthropology courses, but I can't help thinking that I would have had to do some pretty fancy dancing to survive. (Y'know, get someone to protect me, strengthen other senses, etc...)

They like to talk about how the life expectancy of Americans is always going up, and is so much higher than any other country's, but it's artificial. We aren't any healthier or better adapted physically, we just have better props that are widely available to the population. Take 'em away, and the mortality rate around here is gonna skyrocket!

-- Arewyn (isitth@latealready.com), October 27, 1999.

Woody, you can go to the PREPS board by going there from here easily. When you enter www.greenspun.com//bboard, you enter LUSENET. When you scroll down you will find this forum and the prep forum just below it. Just click on and you are there. Glad you are prepping!

-- Elaine Seavey (Gods1sheep@aol.com), October 27, 1999.

CLASS 0 sounds like a better class for you. As in a big, fat zero.

-- (zero@class.this), October 27, 1999.

Is there a class for cybertrash? Where the men are men and the women do our bidding?

-- Dr. Luv (luvem@n.leavem), October 27, 1999.

Question for Zero, Why?

Answer for Dr. Luv, No

This rating system is just so people can all talk the same language. It has nothing to do with brains or morality, just physical life. Would you let a doctor join your group even if he was addicted to his own pain killers? If you send a team out foraging for food what will you do if someone lugs back smokes and booze instead of beans and rice?

Some outfits, (no names) believe that if TSHTF, anyone Class 5,6,7 should be immeadiately killed to avoid wasting rations but that is a matter of opinion. Who decides if there is no hope of resupply or FEMA riding to the rescue?

-- woody (woody11420@aol.com), October 28, 1999.

Hitler's FEMA, to Selection

-- you live, he dies (meeny@minee.moe), October 28, 1999.

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

Some outfits, (no names) believe that if TSHTF, anyone Class 5,6,7 should be immeadiately killed to avoid wasting rations

In that case, I'm a 4.

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), October 28, 1999.

Why, Woody? A few reasons to start with. One, you didn't describe classes 3-7. Two, the whole concept sucks. You're putting people into pigeonholes as if they are animals. Got news for you, in your system there is no such thing as a Class 1, most people are Class 2, and as for the rest, I suspect that people are a lot more resilient than you give them credit for.

-- zero (you@re.azero), October 28, 1999.

Sorry you feel that way Zero. I am not heartless, just realistic. It does not matter whether you are my hero or a zero, if you need dialysis twice a week to live and it is NOT available, you will die shortly. You accuse me of pigeon-holing people. Everyone does it everyday, by race, sex, religion, money, nationality, etc. I am just being objective and not depending on wishful thinking. Have you ever watched someone die because the Triage team did not have enough resources to treat everyone? I have.

-- woody (woody11420@aol.com), October 29, 1999.