Well, we have gone bouncing from urban disaster survival, which is not a wilderness experience, to the theory that anyone that has two legs and is uninjured should be able to save themselves.
There's a big problem here, that being that not everyone is as skilled, healthy, and immune to injury as you seem to be.
What if you are injured? Does an injured person not deserve survival, rescue or continued life? No one intends to get injured, and no one intends to need an orange pack or tarp or zombie green reflector tape, but stuff happens.
What about those that get turned around each year and have to be brought out by SAR, or their bodies brought out. Many are experienced outdoorsmen who just stepped off the trail for a break and turned the wrong way. Hundreds have to be guided out each year and many dead bodies left from the previous summer are found each autumn by hunters.
Here's a situation where a blaze orange rucksack hanging from a rope in a tree might have saved a life, since SAR teams were within 150 feet of her at least once. Perhaps if she had been carrying an orange tent SAR helicopters would have spotted her and her bones would have been found before a year was past.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/u...ail-maine.html
As for the situation where you live, well we would not know about that, you have not informed us of state, region, or town where you are so we can not send 911 to rescue you.
As for my situation, we have floods, fires, and tornadoes, but our greatest long term danger is transient Yankees during the annual north south migration. (No offense intended Jim Glass, you are the Yankee exception)
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