When many people hear the term “prepper” or “survivalist” they immediately picture paranoid conspiracy theorists, people sitting in bunkers in the woods because they think their government is their greatest enemy.
This stereotype of preparedness is wrong, and it goes a long way toward keeping many reasonable people from making the reasonable preparations they need to be making right now.
Here’s a good article on the subject:
http://msprepper.com/…/ridiculous-prepper-stereotypes-wrong/