To anyone who is not a complete moron I simply say wear a respirator with P100 filters. MSA makes a nice model that does the job even if a POS coughs on you.
This is exactly WHY we did the whole prepper thing. I mean what the fuck is with this complete burying of head in sand just to placate some political point and shitbag? Would people just burn their food reserves after a disaster to prove how "tough" they were?
It's exactly why we did the whole survival thing in the first place: To survive.
The preppers were just LARPers all along. Acting out heroic tough-guy fantasies to compensate for lackluster lives. Which gives us a hint about how big of a threat the current posturing of right-wing wannabe brownshirts like Proud Boys et al is.