I think a blackout of the financial system would wake the sheep up. The majority of people I know don't have even a couple days worth of supplies. Everyone is so reliant on McDonkeys breakfast, Taco Smell lunch, and Pizza Slut dinner. They literally keep themselves malnourished, broke, slaves of convenience.
My motto is, if it can't be fixed in my driveway, I won't buy it. My 1999 Jeep just hit 318k miles, still gets 21 mpg, completely factory drivetrain, and it will still smoke the rear tires. I hit a doe with it at 60 mph and fixed it in my driveway for under $300, only had to buy a new radiator and battery because I have a stockpile of spare parts for it. I built a new engine for it for under $3k and it's waiting to go into it when it's needed.
Show me a person who can fix their EV in their driveway without $20k in tools and scanners and computers and not to mention all of the expensive parts. EVs are disposable because of the expense of maintenance when they break. Not a single EV owner has a spare battery pack or electric drive motor sitting on the shelf, ready to go.
I look at PM as an emergency source of means when the fiat house of cards crumbles. I won't trade my PM for fiat, only for goods and services that I need. Buying PM is simply exchanging worthless paper for something that holds value regardless of geographical location, language, or social status. When SHTF, everybody will revert back to PM and bartering because fiat will be used as tinder and toilet paper.
My stable has been taking it once a month for the past two years. One notch is the 50 lb dose and we round up. If we feel something coming on, it's dosed every other day for 5 days with Emergen-C every day. Seems to clear everything out.
Be mindful that your first time cleansing with IVM will flush out decades of crap out of your body. We have been poisoned for all our lives and IVM will flush out that accumulated poison.
I see the erratic driving almost daily, my commute is mostly rural highway driving The unusual part is that it's not the 6am drive to work, it's at the 4pm drive home when it happens. Every day it's guaranteed to be one swerver that's bouncing between the lines, a few 10-15 mph under drivers, and always a few vehicles pulled over on the side of the road for no apparent reason at all.
Of course stuff might happen the day that I have to drive 10 hours back home. Thank the Lord that I brought my sidearm and two mags!