It would also disrupt food, drinking water and sweage. And all transportation, so even fuel would not be available. Without clean water and sanitation at home cities would be death traps.
People living on an area with rivers and wild animals could do a bit better. Unless they are at reach of people walking out of the cities.
Think about a zombie apocalypse, but with starving people by the hundreds of thousands. Starving and, if in the US, armed.
Keeping food and water at home for at least for a couple of months is a very sensitive thing to do for this kind of events. Think about a new pandemic but this time the virus has 10% or 20% of mortality. Exactly.
I would say that's what the State the ultimate community) is for (police, army but also judges, doctors, laws requiring companies to implement the required safewards, ...), but I'm European, so I guess we simply see the world in very different ways.
People living on an area with rivers and wild animals could do a bit better. Unless they are at reach of people walking out of the cities.
Think about a zombie apocalypse, but with starving people by the hundreds of thousands. Starving and, if in the US, armed.
Keeping food and water at home for at least for a couple of months is a very sensitive thing to do for this kind of events. Think about a new pandemic but this time the virus has 10% or 20% of mortality. Exactly.