CONCON – Civilian Continuity Conditions

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This article references parts of the story in my fiction books, The Meadow Protocol and The Brush, part of The Continuity Chronicles series. Available in my store for signed paperback and hard copies and also from Amazon to include Kindle and Audible. Most preparedness frameworks focus on getting ready for disruption.CONCON focuses on how you operate once disruption is already happening. CONCON (Continuity Conditions) is a civilian operational posture framework designed to help individuals, families, and communities transition deliberately from normal life into degraded, grid-down, or post-collapse environments—without panic, denial, or wasted effort. What CONCON Is (and Is Not) CONCON is: A behavioral and operational posture scale Focused on how you live and operate Assumes uncertainty about cause, duration, and recovery Designed for civilian use CONCON is NOT: A threat or alert system A prediction model A preparedness checklist A cyber-only framework Key idea:CONCON doesn’t measure how bad things are.It defines how cautiously you choose to operate. The CONCON Scale (Civilian Use) CONCON LevelOperational ConditionCivilian FocusExamplesCONCON 5NormalConvenience acceptableGrid stable, internet reliableCONCON 4UnstableReduce exposureIntermittent outages, supply delaysCONCON 3DegradingPreserve resourcesDisable non-essential systemsCONCON 2SevereMaintain continuityAir-gap devices, alt commsCONCON 1Grid-DownSurvival postureManual ops, silence by default What Changes as CONCON Drops Communications 5–4: Internet &...