“it’d kill off the weak.. but... Not 90%..”
People on life support. People who require electricity to live; the elderly, people on special medications, etc. Depending on the time of year people will die of heat or cold. Probably as much as 1% of the population could die in a few days or weeks. Commerce will be almost impossible as every sale requires a computer connection and electricity. Many people have zero cash so we could expect food riots and a certain amount of social breakdown.
I’d expect much of local life to be up and running in red states pretty quickly. Chicago, Detroit and LA would dissolve in a dystopian wave of riots, looting and carnage.
All told, we’d probably lose under a million people. The scare figures given to Congress was a bid to get the funding back that they’d lost.
Interesting that they thought a million of so casualties was insufficient to interest Congress.
And we would be stuck without TV to watch the rioting.
"Commerce will be almost impossible as every sale requires a computer connection and electricity."<>br