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2020-06-06 Down Under

Survival skills: The Australians turning to bushcraft in wake of Covid-19 pandemic

[France24] From building fires to foraging for food, some in Australia have taken to brushing up on essential survival skills in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, a way to prepare for future global disasters while reconnecting with nature.

Gordon Deman, a senior instructor for Bushcraft Survival Australia, says interest in survival courses has peaked following the pandemic.

"If it’s one thing this pandemic has highlighted, is our disconnection to the environment across the world," he told Reuters. "Our over-dependence on the way we use modern technology and the lack of community and people looking after people and, our main focus has been on economy, rather than community."

On a three-day intermediate course led by Deman near Ku-ring-gai National Park, Ingleside, north of Sydney, participants learn not only how to provide heat and shelter, but also solar and celestial navigation, signalling for help, and knot tying.

"That’s why I think this course is pretty popular now with people. So just to connect with nature and learn different skills and be a bit more prepared, I think," said participant Victor Mossely.

"I was a bit of a prepper anyway, in the first place, so, collecting things. So when this happened (pandemic), I said ’Oh, finally.’ Oh, not finally something’s happened, but you know, you talk to people at work and they go, ’oh yeah, yeah, you know, you prepping this, prepping this, nothing’s going to happen,’ and then so, yeah, a little bit happened, so yeah."

Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-06 05:34|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 I have made a connection. I have met a woman who lived thru the Spanish flu. I have learned of a woman who her and family survived the Spanish flu. No reason offered by the first woman but the second woman has an answer. Her mother and father helped the ill in her small town. She delivered food to the sick and her parents provided care for the ill. Their family never got sick. Upon death people were burred in their death bed clothes and wrapped in their deathbed sheets. What did they do different?. Her mother insisted they drink a glass of water with 1/2 to 1 tablespoon of baking soda. This action has been shown to lower incidence of flu and upper respiratory illness. I say add that one to your survival kit bag.

Posted by Dale 2020-06-06 12:11|| 2020-06-06 12:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Bushcraft, yes. Bush meat, no thanks. Bush family dynasty, hell no.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-06 19:11|| 2020-06-06 19:11|| Front Page Top

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