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 How to manage natural and other disasters.

As individuals we can take advantage of statism to plan and manage natural disasters. This is applicable to other facets of life.

Statism due to a lack of incentives, or rather a total lack of them, is the perfect counter-indicator.

If the state tells you that a super catastrophe is coming almost 100% that it will be nothing, if the state tells you that nothing will happen almost 100% that it will be a super catastrophe.

Add to this the information or rather disinformation of the media.

Practically statism has predicted all major events if we multiply them by -1.

Some practical examples:

- Katrina (total failure in predictions)
- COVID (total lie)
- Bitcoin 

Keep your eyes open and use statism to your advantage.