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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.




It makes sense to keep food and water, only if you also have protection. I mean a weapon. Because those 20 million zombies are coming.


It only makes sense to have protection if you are going to have enough protection to fend off all 20 million of those zombies.


That is what community is for. I would imagine an armed community would be in a better situation than an unarmed community or unarmed individuals.


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.


The premise is, the State is gone. What then?




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