My mom for pretty much my whole life has been a prep lord, not because of QAnon but because of the local news. One of the pastimes of the Washington news media when they have nothing better to do is to talk about "THE IMPENDING BIG ONE" (earthquake). My mom interprets the "IMPENDING" part very literally. The overall paranoia spills into any other stupid petty crime that gets reported (which in the local news broadcast is a lot). Everyone wants to steal our mail, everyone wants to hijack the signal from our car keys, everyone is camped out waiting to steal our Amazon packages.

I don't find that to be a healthy way to live at all, but she's always been like that, I don't think there's an answer.