Blankets, candles, a flashlight and a crank radio * in order to be able to receive information from outside at least if you can’t send it yourself, “adds Mollay.

* Documents and cash in small bills should be on hand. In the event that the power supply fails, is a

gas powered grill

* advantageous. You should also think of alternative light sources and heating options. “Blankets, candles, a flashlight and one

Crank radio

,* In order to be able to receive information from outside at least, if you can’t send it yourself, “adds Mollay. If you are cut off from the outside world for a long time, you are well advised with books and games.

What do preppers have to be able to do?

In order to survive in an emergency, you not only need the right supplies, but also a range of knowledge and skills. For example, it can be helpful if you can light a fire in the wild, build accommodation, find a water point and orientate yourself spatially. It is also useful to know which plants and mushrooms are edible and how to cook them over an open fire. First aid and self-defense are also issues that a real prepper can deal with

Mollay, the special survival course

offers, deals. Last but not least, it is also about observing economic developments and being able to interpret them correctly.

usefull links

• “Blackout Safety Advice” from the Lower Austrian Civil Protection Association

• Blackout Checklist – How Well Prepared Are You?

• What to have in case of a blackout at home

• Checklist “Resistant Budget”

• Martin Mollay offers survival training

• Homepage of the Austrian Preppers

What are preppers preparing for?

While the impact of a meteorite is unlikely to be the cause of a crisis situation, civil protection experts estimate environmental or nuclear disasters to be quite realistic. “Natural disasters such as floods, industrial accidents with several deaths, extreme heat or drought, which can also cause numerous deaths, as well as large-scale IT and power outages.” According to Robert Stocker, head of the department for crisis and disaster control in the Ministry of the Interior, all of this is possible, as he told News (issue 16/2017). Extreme snowfalls and avalanches can, as the last few years have shown us, also lead to situations in which those affected are more or less on their own. Basically, it doesn’t matter what kind of emergency it is: the prepper is prepared – one way or another.

What would be a possible scenario?

Keyword power failure. Think of a simple purchase in the supermarket: refrigerated shelves and freezers would no longer work in the event of a long-term power failure. Not to mention the electric doors. Sooner or later you would run out of cash – because withdrawals would also no longer be possible. Just like paying by card. But that doesn’t matter anyway, because in the event of a power failure, the supermarket cash register would no longer work.123 money help Sooner or later your personal food supply would run out. And while you would have neither light nor heating in your own four walls, public life would come to a standstill.

“All rescue workers would be busy in the first 72 hours getting people off the lift”

Patients could no longer be adequately cared for in the hospitals. And chaos would reign on the streets if the traffic lights would also fail. As well as many public transport. “In Berlin, in the first 72 hours, all rescue workers would only be busy getting people off the lift,” says Mollay, reproducing a model calculation. “Three days without water. That is life-threatening.”

Book tips

“The Prepper Handbook: Surviving Crises” can be found here.

The book “Prepper Packing List: The Basics of Crisis Preparedness for Newbies” can be found here.

The guide “Prepper, Crisis Prevention, Survival Guide: Ready to Survive” can be found here.

The links marked with an asterisk (*) are so-called affiliate links. If you click on an affiliate link and shop via this link, we receive a commission from the online shop or provider concerned. The price does not change for you.

Why should you preppen?

While preppers in the USA, where the movement originated, sometimes prepare for the end of the world in bunkers, in Austria it is all about self-responsible crisis prevention. First and foremost by storing appropriate supplies. After all, there are no state food reserves, as BMI disaster relief activist Stocker told News. Accordingly, the Austrian Civil Protection Association assumes that every household has water, food and other equipment in stock in order to be able to live independently for at least two weeks in the event of a crisis.

»You can only prepare meaningfully to a certain extent«

Too often one reads about avalanches, mudslides, floods, fire, power outages or other crisis situations in which people suddenly have to leave their home or are left on their own for a while, the warned “

Austrian preppers

“on their homepage.” You can only prepare yourself to a certain extent, “Mollay knows. Nevertheless, it is important to” look and know how to cope with an extraordinary situation. “Do not live in fear, do not panic But to deal with the possibilities in order to be well prepared in the event of an emergency.

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For years there was speculation, waiting and hoping. On Tuesday the time had come:

Christian Thielmann

made his debut at the New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic and met all expectations.

At the podium in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein, the German gave the Kapellmeister Deluxe and combined a dignified cultivation of tradition with intellectual esprit. It was celebrated all over the world.

We know that Thielmann is a friend of the Philharmonic. Likewise, that his schedule leaves little room for maneuver. “We waited a long time for this New Year’s concert with him”, Daniel Froschauer, director of the orchestra, recently emphasized. And this started on Tuesday, as if you wanted to make up for years. Much of the vigor and forte joy was probably due to the conducting, which was characterized by the well-dosed rum effect.

»We have been waiting a long time for this New Year’s concert with him« © APA / HERBERT NEUBAUER

The Austro-Prussian Festival began in style with the “Freiherr von Schönfeld March” by Carl Michael Ziehrer, where Thielemann delivered his calling card as a refinement of Viennese orchestral tradition. Traditionally also the musical tributes of various anniversaries: With the waltz “Transactionen” by Josef Strauss the 150 years of diplomatic relations between Austria and Japan were celebrated.

Round trip through the opera

Second happy occasion of the new year: the 150th birthday of the court opera on Vienna’s Ringstrasse, from which the State Opera was to emerge, which also dominated the break film. The tour through the house gave insights into the trial work of the audience favorites. The musical homage took place, among other things, through the polka francaise “Opern-Soiree” by Eduard Strauss.

As every year, well-known (“Artist’s Life”) met exotic (“The Dancer”), and rich (“Spherical Sounds”) with superficial (“Praise of Women”). Thielemann was able to play out his strengths especially where the operatic lurks, such as in the waltz “Nordseebilder” by Johann Strauss Sohn or his overture to the “Gypsy Baron”. Thielemann whipped marches and polkas forward in a tasteful, controlled and rapid manner.

© APA / HERBERT NEUBAUER

The ballet interludes, shot in the summer, came from the young choreographer Andrey Kaydanovskiy. The native Russian, himself a dancer of the Vienna State Ballet, staged the csardas from the comic opera “Ritter Pasman” by Johann Strauss Sohn in the Lower Austrian castle Grafenegg, the costumes were first created by the young Austrian designer Arthur Arbesser. The waltz “Künstlerleben” again led to the State Opera.

No Teutonic beer seriousness

The fact that Teutonic beer seriousness does not rule under Thielemann was proven not only by ironic gestures and looks. At Johann Strauss Sohn’s “Egyptian March”, he let the Philharmoniker off the leash, which sang along with their hearts’ content. Traditionally the New Year’s greeting after the beginning of the most famous encore in the world, “On the beautiful blue Danube”. The audience clapping along at the “Radetzky March” was also more unbridled than before.

The ORF broadcast the event in over 90 countries with 14 cameras. Also – mainly political – celebrities were not lacking this time. First and foremost, Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP).

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The group of

Vaccination opponents

in Austria is small, but there are still quite a few skeptics. Certain arguments keep coming up in the discussion. Here are four central theses against vaccination and what is behind it.

The group of the “tough”

Vaccination opponents

is relatively small in Austria. A study by MedUni Vienna last year showed that around five percent of those surveyed explicitly described themselves as opposing vaccinations. More than 15 percent, however, said they were skeptical about vaccinations. Skepticism leads to reluctance when it comes to your own vaccination or that of your children.

Experts often criticize that

Immunization coverage

in Austria. 58 percent of adults and 46 percent of children are protected against tetanus and the rate of TBE is also relatively high at 55 percent of adults and 46 percent of children. With measles, mumps and rubella, on the other hand, just 30 percent of adults and only 43 percent of children are immunized. The protection rate for whooping cough is also low, at 15 percent for adults and 23 percent for children.

In Italy it has been decided to counteract a low vaccination rate in the population by compulsory vaccination for children. This led to popular protests. 10,000 protesters took to the streets in the summer for the right of parents to choose freely. The reasons to protest against the law are different. However, certain arguments keep coming up in the discussion. Herwig Kollaritsch has been involved in vaccinations as a doctor and professor at the Institute for Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna for over 35 years. News.at has put together the four central theses of the vaccine opponents and together with the experts looked at what is behind them.

“The side effects of vaccination do more harm than vaccination helps”

Vaccination involves vaccines in the form of killed or weakened pathogens. This can cause redness or slight pain in the area of ​​the injection site for the vaccinated person. A vaccination occasionally leads to fever, fatigue or gastrointestinal complaints. The reactions that lasted a few days are normal and show that the body is responding to the vaccine.

So-called

Vaccine damage

, This means that permanent disabilities that are triggered by a vaccination are extremely rare in Austria. “Among around 3.5 million vaccinations annually, there are fewer than half a dozen cases in question in Austria according to the Vaccination Damage Act”, explains Kollaritsch. “Questionable cases” are those in which there is a possibility that the reaction to a vaccination will exceed normal levels. According to information from the City of Vienna Health Service, the diseases that are vaccinated against are accompanied by far more serious complications than the vaccination itself.

In Austria there is a reporting system in which all incidents related to vaccination side effects must be recorded. Hardly any other medical measure is covered in this way. “Medicines go through a strict approval process”, emphasizes the expert, “this is more strict than in almost any other area, because you give a medicine to healthy patients and the patients should ultimately stay healthy”. Vaccinations are only allowed for 5 years and then checked again.

“The vaccination damages the immune system and leads to diseases like autism”

The British medical doctor Andrew Wakefield published a study in 1998 in which he drew a link between autism and vaccination against measles, mumps and rubella. Years later, the results of the study turned out to be manipulated. “That was a crook”, said Kollaritsch, “his license to work in Great Britain was then withdrawn”. The result has been fewer vaccinations in the UK and an increase in the disease. To this day, the myth remains that the MMR vaccine causes autism. Numerous studies have since shown that a connection can be ruled out. Today Wakefield works in the USA and as an advisor to Trump. “To this day he has not let himself be dissuaded from his idea,” says Kollaritscht. This adherence to a refuted study cannot be “rationally refuted”.

Parents are often unsure whether the immune system of their baby, who is just a few weeks old, can withstand a vaccination. But the body of infants in particular is designed to deal with numerous microorganisms immediately after birth. The immune system is particularly strong and the vaccinations provide particularly lasting protection.

“Unvaccinated children don’t get sick either”

“That is a very selfish statement from the opponents,” emphasizes the university professor. Unvaccinated people benefit from the fact that a large part of the population is vaccinated.