Good assessement for a working country, but at that point, the overwhelming majority of the population effectively would have been thrown back to the bronze age.
No electricity. No food deliveries. No fuel deliveries. No internet. No telephones. No cell phones.
maybe culling the herd would be a good thing. I'm sure that my little one year stash of provisions and ammo just might get me through the first big die off. In just the first month I'm sure that there would be hard times from a nuke.