It’s hard to prep medical when getting old reveals new things you never thought of

In a lot of places, once you hit 50 or 60, you really start to find out what genetic cards you were dealt. There's a reason primitive societies often had life expectancy in the 60s or less. Environment and lifestyle also plays a part, look at the word's blue zones and see how people there live. But in the end, genetics is king. Bottom line, in the US, you'll be on meds when you are older. Exceptions are rare. If it's not blood pressure, it's diabetes or cholesterol. If modern medicine goes away, you die way earlier when you would otherwise. It's that simple. Even if you stock lots of drugs; they mostly all have expiration dates (that eventually DO matter) and then what? That assumes you have any idea how to self-medicate, and from what I can see reading here, few people do. I've had doctors with 40 years of experience swapping meds and running multiple tests to try to manage a problem - even with a competent lab, it's not always one and done. With a lot of folk here planning to use expiring antibiotics in the hope that broad spectrum drugs covering for their ignorance, and then upping the dosage when that doesn't work - yeah. If there's something worse than a medical quack, it's an *untrained* medical quack. If you ever do see medical systems fail in the US, look for an explosion of antibiotic-resistant diseases, caused by all the preppers doing it wrong. Add vaccines wearing off and forget about it. It's useful to read about infant mortality in the 1700's. There's a reason basic reading primers, the stuff they gave children to teach them to read, had cheery little couplets about being kind to your newborn sibling because they might not be here long. That's what you'd be going back to. Any crash that loses you medical support is going to be an infrastructure crash, because if we have electricity we can do manufacturing and keep shipping going, and hospitals would stay open. In an infrastructure crash, a vast majority of the US loses access to not just medicine and preventatives like vaccine, but food, clean water and proper sewage treatment. Not being able to treat a sore throat is the least of anyone's problems. Have said it before, will say it again: doomer preppers need to get of their asses and do a stint of compassion care in a 3rd world country. I'd recommend doing missions work in Haiti, but I think most groups have pulled out; I think Mission: Haiti is still there. Haiti isn't even a full collapse scenario - they still have a grid of sorts. Go watch barefoot kids scavenging in burning dumps to get some idea of what a true collapse would mean in the US. Then imagine what it would be like if they had the gun ownership per capita the US has... It will radically change how you prep and what you prep for.