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I’ve been a survival instructor for more than two decades, and I can tell you from experience thatthere’s nothing easy about survival in any type of emergency scenario. But if we look at history, survival was our day job as early humans. In ancient times, we scrambled to protect ourselves from threats and we struggled to acquire the supplies to help us last one more day. In a modern crisis, it can feel like we have returned to that stressful hand-to-mouth way of life. Our shelters, garb, and technology are different, but our needs and vulnerabilities haven’t changed in tens of thousands of years. We need the same things we have always needed, and we can be harmed in the same ways we’ve faced forever. Our “caves” may be air-conditioned now, but we still hide in them to protect ourselves from the threats of the day (like viruses and desperate people). As we make “supply runs” to the store in the midst of disease, these hunting and gathering trips can feel like an expedition to some hostile landscape. While this all sounds rough, there is a bright side: We can find comfort in continuity. Our ancestors made it through plague after plague, for thousands of years and they did it with fewer resources and less knowledge than we

possess today. If they endured, we can too. It’s just going to take some hard work.

Getting sick and fighting over the last roll of toilet paper aren’t the only hardships we face in a pandemic. We may lose our jobs due to the injured economy or lose a relationship due to the stress and strain of the situation. Pandemics are like a sucker punch, coming out of nowhere and striking us by surprise. That’s bad enough, but then the crisis keeps tossing surprises at us. In times like these, it’s going to take both skills and knowledge to keep you from becoming victim and turn you into a survivor. By cultivating your inherent traits of adaptability and tenacity, you can endure when things get tough. By planning ahead and learning new skills, you make yourself (and your household) more resilient and better able to adapt to change. In short, you are hard-wired for survival, and we are here to help you make the most of that. In this book, my co-author Joseph and I are going to show you how to prepare for the worst, share methods to manage your own survival, help you plan how to take care of your loved ones and friends, and provide ways to face a crisis that has dogged humanity for thousands of years—the scenario of a deadly epidemic. Don’t worry, it’s not all doom and gloom. Sometimes, it takes a crisis to peel away the distractions and noise of our busy lives, to remind

us the things that matter the most to us.

tim Macwelch

Founder, Advanced Survival Training

Survive a Pandemic