I'd hardly say missing one component is having your head in the sand! You guys are mostly way ahead of the rest of us.
I understand about the vacuum seal bags, although I've never used them, mostly because I'm such a newbie. I'm hoping to get a freeze dryer and pressure canner this year, so I can avoid the freezer as much as possible. We'll see.
Our kids lost much more than a year of schooling. The covid con has trained them to obey orders, from just about anyone in the government, that do direct harm to themselves. learned how to be good citizens of a totalitarian government, they lost their freedom and their sense of safety. They I urge people to get their kids out of the schools for starters, which were prisons when they finally did reopen, and will be prisons again unless a great many more of us say no.
We do try to stay informed, but there's always something popping up.
If we didn't head out of town for a few months every winter I'd can everything, but when we leave we shut down the entire house and the mason jars would
The government is always up to something. I doubt that they practice all that they preach to us.
The only way to get kids out of school would be to home-school them. Homeschooling is a great way to go, but almost impossible to do because most households have both parents working.
Schools are teaching a lot of shit besides what should be taught. Some of the stuff that our teenage grandkids tell us is going on during the school day is off of the charts.