Some of the ideas on opensourcesurvival.com are somewhat on extreme side, but overall it is an insightful collection of articles on what to do in adverse conditions.
The video itself is a bit corny, like all those educational videos they showed us at school, but yeah, worth watching and spending 20 seconds thinking "what would I do if this happened in my workplace, where would I hide/run, ...".
Well, he lost me at the opening sentence. There's absolutely no reason to expect an increasing number of mass shootings.
All the actual statistics (as opposed to gut-driven media frenzy) say this kind of violence is way, way down in the list of risks you should be worrying about.
I'm all in favor of disaster preparedness, including for crime and terrorism. But there's a tendency to focus on these risks to the detriment of much more boring, but much more important risks like heart disease and car accidents.
Yeah, owner of that site is quite pessimistic (even alarmist, one might say) about what goes on in the world. Still, it doesn't hurt to at least think about this kind of danger and how to face/avoid it. As for risks like heart diseases or car accidents, most people are aware of guidelines to avoid them, or at least minimize risks (healthy lifestyle, research into weaknesses running in one's own family, driving carefully or using alternate means of transportation, etc.), even if many do not follow them out of laziness or convenience.
Like I said, the site needs to be taken with a grain of salt, but there are some hidden gems there.
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[ 6.0 ms ] story [ 27.3 ms ] threadThe video itself is a bit corny, like all those educational videos they showed us at school, but yeah, worth watching and spending 20 seconds thinking "what would I do if this happened in my workplace, where would I hide/run, ...".
All the actual statistics (as opposed to gut-driven media frenzy) say this kind of violence is way, way down in the list of risks you should be worrying about.
I'm all in favor of disaster preparedness, including for crime and terrorism. But there's a tendency to focus on these risks to the detriment of much more boring, but much more important risks like heart disease and car accidents.
How to minimize risk from artillery barrage, in Arabic. Recently distributed for civilians in Syria being obliterated by military siege.