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Ruined ... Holy fuck...are...are you Q?
You say you have "information/training," to which i'm not privy, because you work in "politics?"
And you're 'older?" Older than...who?
All of us, here?
Unless your job told you the date of the End of Humanity or whatever, doing what you can with what you have IS the answer, PERIOD.
It always has been.
I've been preparedness minded since my Boy Scout days. THEN, it ramped up with the interwebz: global news became available to anyone who cared to look for it, along with survival techniques.
It isn't impossible to survive nuclear blasts: I've had the protocol printed out since about 96, along with a bunch of other shit. West Texas boy WILL survive.
No offense, man, but you DO sound pretty damned nihilistic.
At any rate, if you have knowledge that I don't, please lay it on me. Because, see, you aren't talking "agree to disagree." Rather, it sounds like you're saying you know something I don't.