If the New Madrid quakes occurred in 2011 and 2012 instead of 1811 and 1812, I'd think it might come close. Lots of people live in that area now, and they are not used to earthquakes. Plus if it took out lots of bridges, it might be very hard to get aid to the area, which has lots of rivers and smaller, but still substantial, waterways.
Nice try.
However, I wouldn’t waste the energy.
Some folks are sooooooooooooo convinced that their knowledge of ‘facts,’ trends, dynamics, reality, past, present and future . . .
is soooooooooooooooo superior to everyone else’s any efforts to influence a different perspective will virtually always be futile.
That’s particularly true of folks who are “HYPER RATIONALISTS” who refuse to admit any aspect of reality besides that which they can measure, weight, cut, shape e.g. in a laboratory. Must make navigating love relationships really challenging for them! LOL.
Being super GREEK mode of knowing—reductionists . . .
KNOWING another after the HEBREW fashion must be quite challenging, if not impossible.