I showed up to work the morning of Sept 11, 2001. I was turned away at the gate. I spent the rest of the day at a very somber sports bar with a few friends, eating club sandwiches and drinking iced tea. We talked about the future, about plans, and about what's next.
Preppers who doomspend, or worse, hold DEBT are underestimating the power of personal and societal normalcy bias.
Even in a catastrophe, you will not question showing up for work the next day, even if the building is flattened.
Your income, your livelihood, the thing that allows you to feed yourself and your family, is and will be your top priority, even after it has been decimated.
It will be days or weeks before you figure out that it isnt coning back, and you may already be too late to "bug out" like you planned.
The risk of losing your job if you dont show is guaranteed, but the risk of downside from the unknown is impossible to guess. Therefore, most, you included will almost certainly be waiting around hoping for the status quo to return.
This is why a network of local men is vatial for survival. Bugging out is not an option, and it never was. Bugging out is just advanced homelessness.