Podcast Episode Details

Best Lesson From The 2020 Pandemic

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Season 4 Episode 441

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Today, I want to share with you my biggest lesson of the Pandemic and its aftermath as viewed through the perspective of a special friend.

Holler Homestead Open House and Canning Demo

Last Week's Webinar Video is up on the Member Portal

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Failing on meal planning and staying on whole foods: Hard boiled eggs, cheese, celery sticks, bacon and eggs, Mahi, green beans and summer squash, roasted new potatoes, red veined sorrel, pesto on something with green garlic and fresh basil. Cold cuts and cured meats for road food.
• Freeze Drying Cheesecake (#allthethings)
• Sun Tea
• Cucumbers and beets are coming on and it is time to put up quick pickles

Operation Independence

• Focus on health

Main topic of the Show: Best Lesson From The 2020 Pandemic

This show was supposed to be on Friday last week. But my health got in the way. And yet this may be the most important show topic of 2021.

This show is in part about the biggest lesson to be learned from the 2020 pandemic, how officials and our societies reacted to it, and maybe even a little about why what some of us THINK is the biggest lesson learned should be reexamined if it is not this lesson.

But more important about today is what got me to thinking of this lesson. It was a friend, fellow farmer/homesteader. A guy by the name of Steve who works really really hard to live life on his terms. Steve is not a young man, and he has even had an organ transplant. His ticker ain't what it used to be either.

Steve is the kind of guy who meets lots of people and he somehow manages to bring out the best, to encourage them to just get started on doing what they say they want to do.

The longer you talk to Steve, the more you realize how incredible his life has been and the sheer number of things this man has done - and he has done them well.

And the best part? He is not a loudmouth like me -- he observes and is sort of quiet. But when he talks, people listen. And when he hears I cant from someone, he asks why.

You may wonder what in the world Steve has to do with my pandemic lesson? Well that is the thing.

If I ask most people around me what their biggest lesson learned I will get one of the following lessons:

1. Supply Chains Are Unstable (centralization vs decentralization)
2. The Media Controls the Narrative More Than We Thought
3. People Are Anti Science
4. People Do Not Understand How Science Works
5. People Are Selfish And We Must Control Those Jerks
6. Big Tech, Big, Ag, Big Government, New World Order, Growth in Freedom Networks

And while all those things may be lessons you can take from the pandemic, which one is the biggest?

I must admit, I have spun like a pinball from idea to idea dn lesson to lesson over the past year and a half -- and YES -- we have been doing this for a freaking year and a half now my friends. A year and a half you will never get back.

And last week, I started thinking about what you and I and others are never getting back (depending on how far we took things):

A year and a half of:

• Seeing faces
• Hugs
• Being together in groups
• Flying

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  Published on 4 years, 6 months ago