“I think that 90% of people will stay at home and wait for the government rescuers to save them.”
I believe that is right especially if they have children. Unless they are heading out to grandmother’s house, they will stay home - and die - and if they hesitate to go to grandmother’s house, they will never get there.
I wish I could speak to every person not prepared in this country. It weighs on me more with every passing day. If they all read the articles I wrote, they could save themselves but they don’t know those are there and if they are sure nothing is going to happen, they wouldn’t read them anyway. I saw/read several days ago that 3% of the population had anything stored.
If you recall an article posted in the last few days, the US government is going to have a training day in November to simulate what will happen if an enemy explodes a nuclear device in the air and brings down the entire country grid. Companies and police across the country will participate. The article said they would assume all deliveries of food and medicine and medical care stops. That will be an eye opener if the results are publicized.
But, guess what? We paid for the most expensive bunker in the US with water and food and sterile air and even a surgeon. We paid for Muslim Hussein and family to go underground, across the street and down, and enter “our” bunker. Are you and everyone else as important as Hussein? I am and spent my own money after paying for his, for me to have something to depend on in a perilous time just as you wrote about. Thank you for writing and I’m sending it to my friends.
“Continuity of govt” operations are mostly about protecting the elites. But sooner or later, even the most cushy bunker runs out of foot, water and clean air. (It has to be moved by electrical pumps.) Having the national leadership survive will have nothing at all to do with the real problem, which will be our exploding and burning cities, a week after the power is out. Once the stores are looted (about day 3) it will be Katie bar the door, literally. Like an airlocked diesel engine, restarting will be very difficult. Stomping on the accelerator and turning the key will accomplish nothing. Our just in time food delivery system will turn into a curse.
And those who think they are safe because they are not near a major urban center, they need to think again. Almost all of the food distribution infrastructure relies on safe passage through those urban centers, which will quickly be in flames.
People need to seriously ask themselves where the food they eat comes from. I’d guess that 90% of it spends time on 18 wheelers that must drive through cities to get to your local supermarket. If the cities explode, the trucks will be looted, and they will not be coming to your nice little town anymore.