On the other hand, there wasn’t any looting or panic that I’m aware of in Colorado. So I think the takeaway is that certain areas have the proclivity to act within character. Not to say it wouldn’t happen here, but I think this behavior is more likely to initiate quickly in areas already prone to that behavior. Even in Mexico here police said people were looting just to steal not to survive in any sense. But I know, given enough time, and most any situation will degrade. The issue is how rapidly will the decent occur.
People tend to be restrained *until* that moment when they no longer believe that they are going to be able to eat or live.
It isn’t so much that food is cut off (or not), but that they think that food will never come.
...as soon as people panic, the old order is forgotten.