This. I haven’t read this book, but my husband has it. It’s not like 90% would die instantly...but picture what would happen within cities at first. Looting, the “gimmie” crowd waiting for a government who WON’T be coming....actually, that wouldn’t even be just the “gimmie” crowd but a lot of people truly believe in a time like that, the government would help...so why should they prepare? Throw in the lack of food, potable water...and then, disease. Not to mention, if it happened during the winter, the cold could impact the young/old/infirm as heat would not work. I don’t know if the 90% number is entirely accurate, but I think that it would be closer to that than some numbers people are throwing out. When Home Depot has to make videos on “how to use a measuring tape” because millennial don’t know how to, you have to realize there is over a whole generation that doesn’t know any of this and could not help themselves in an extreme situation because they’ve been conditioned otherwise.
Good point. :-/
The general level of competence would rise of necessity.