History

In this country, we've never truly experienced truly catastrophic long-term, large-scale disasters or wars where medical and food supplies are unavailable.  So we've got to learn from history.  Posts that touch on history are listed below.  Click on the links to read them.

 Alternative Medicine in Venezuela--Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures 
Another Episode of Food Storage and Learning from History
Balkans War Observations 
Beriberi
Do the Diabetics Have To Die?
The "First 100 Things to Disappear"    

Food Is a Weapon
The Gold Rush  
Great Depression  2
The Great Influenza 
Lessons Learned from COVID-19  
Minnesota Starvation Experiment
More Food Storage and Learning from History
Native Americans and Influenza  
No Meat, No Ammo, No Problem  
Pellagra
Protein poisoning/protein starvation  
Rickets
Scurvy
Spanish Flu 
Survivalists, Preppers, and the 49ers  
Yellow Fever 
WWII, honey and oil specifically

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