Very interesting stuff.

It's hard to get people to understand being prepared without them getting defensive, depressed, or thinking people who do prepared are paranoid. Some of the people who go through our CERT training do seem to get depressed and drop out of training or afterwards drop out of the team because they don't want to think about it any more.

What isn't clear to me is how we can adjust our approach when educating people on the value of preparedness.