This is interesting to me.  A psychic told me many years ago that the reason I was a "prepper" (btw, she didn't know me at all so had no idea that I WAS actually a prepper) was because in a past life I had lost my two children in the Ireland potato famine.    I wonder how many of us are prepared now because these past bad acts by bad actors prepared the ground and now it is time for them to reap what they've sown.