[John W]

"Which aspect of the government in what context and what set of contingencies with what goal(s) in mind amidst what other global goings on?"

Federal,State and Local authorities,in the context of whatever sensors they have giving a hint of the eruption-if thats what it would be called-about a week before it is expected to happen,the goal of saving thousands of lives with the current state of global goings on.

I am honestly not sure what the powers-that-be would do,given that "crowd control" is Job 1 for them typically.

[Quix]

Thanks.

I think the crowd control issue is a complex and certainly serious one.

But I think there's no choice but for the government to attempt at least some migration from the most critical, nearer regions.

Then there are all those stories of the concentration camps built and ready for inmates on abandoned military bases in the West.

And, what if we are in the midst of the road of another set of national emergencies at the time. What if the government is ALREADY too tasked to hardly even more than blanch at the new crisis?

But how could a government stand which was shown to have known of a coming cataclysm and said nothing?

. . . apart from martial law and Beijing like control.

[Lucy Lake]

Our government already has stated they would not give any warning if an asteroid was on course to destroy civilization. Presumably the same protocol is in place for a Yellowstone eruption.