>>Of course it has meaning. Seems to me like it means pretty much what I’ve been saying: your refusal to entertain the plausibility of worst-case scenarios doesn’t seem to be entirely reasonable.<<
Oh, and what will we do with the 10 million people in L.A., the 18 million in NY, the 10 million in Chicago, etc. etc. etc. They will all be magically gone? Or will they go to where the food is and maybe take it?
“Oh, and what will we do with the 10 million people in L.A., the 18 million in NY, the 10 million in Chicago, etc. etc. etc. They will all be magically gone? Or will they go to where the food is and maybe take it?”
In a real catastrophe, most of them will die fairly close to where they live.
In Stalingrad, during the winter, they ate them, sometimes. Or they just rotted.
The history of warfare and natural calamity leaves corpses unburried and stinking.
I can referenence you to MANY books that talk about the stench of cities after a siege or plague.
10M people in LA die. 18M in NY die. 10M in Chicago die.
As I count it, that's just 38M people. You know, the same percentage that Nazis and Communists killed in the first half of the 20th century.
Since we're 21 century folks, that shouldn't happen here. (snort). Really! We 're organized and civilized. Really!.
Ok, but history rhymes, even if it never repeats. You can give me a quarter dollar to try again.
/johnny