Truthfully, the greatest issue is decades of teaching by our lovely government to discard any and all personal responsibility. Here’s cable, cell phones, internet, food, rent, health care, and cash, all taken from your fellow hardworking citizens and handed to you with virtually no strings attached. You can sit on your rump and all of these wonders will be delivered to your door or your debit card.
As we’ve already created one of the largest social disasters, a natural disaster would simply dislodge all these parasites who find themselves with cards that do nothing, internet that doesn’t stream in their entertainment, and cell phones which ceased to work.
Therein lies the real danger that is locked and loaded. Real disaster preparation has to start with defusing the bomb that our social experiments has created. We can handle the broken highways and roads, but without personal responsibility, the scale of the disaster will be devastating and affect a broad swath of the US as we transfer these bombs everywhere after the disaster.
Your assessment in post #4 is spot on.
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