Post apocalyptic politics and government.

[johnloony]

Sept 23, 2015 18:42:50 GMT @boogieeck said:

The deaths are in all constituencies but as stated, the young, old, infirm and poor will have higher mortality rates. MPs therefore lower mortality rates, maybe 20% and 40% respectively.

First question, how big an event does it have to be before government suspends by elections? Assuming they hold the by elections, how does the catastrophe itself weigh on the voters? Does it make them put their trust in government, or blame government? The slightly variable attrition rate in electors, how does that impact on votes cast?

Parochial question, what does it do to the SNP and Yesser votes? On reflection last weeks scenario of a meteor hitting London would surely benefit the SNP business case for leaving a London-less England in crisis. What does global flu do?

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[Crimson King]

before we worry about the distribution (in both senses) of it, do we know how much food there is in ‘store’ (or the ground) at any one time, that is to say how long before, even the depleted remnants of, the population run out and have to start producing?
I imagine @boogieeck would have something of an idea about the amount of stock there is in supermarkets etc.
I would guess each houshold might have a weeks worth on average, half of which might be perishable, so perhaps a years worth for the 1% remaining

[Crimson King]

another thought, how does Chief Boogie announce it in the absense of any means of communication other than shouting? And to who - with only 50,000 scots spread around the place how will he be the chief of anything?

[J.G.Harston]

Jun 10, 2022 16:03:50 GMT Crimson King said:

before we worry about the distribution (in both senses) of it, do we know how much food there is in ‘store’ (or the ground) at any one time, that is to say how long before, even the depleted remnants of, the population run out and have to start producing?
I imagine @boogieeck would have something of an idea about the amount of stock there is in supermarkets etc.
I would guess each houshold might have a weeks worth on average, half of which might be perishable, so perhaps a years worth for the 1% remaining

This was pondered in an episode of More Or Less where somebody wrote in asking how deep out all the jam in the world be if spread evenly across the whole world. They worked out a good first estimate on exactly how much of all our food is currently in shops at any one time.

[myth11]

There would be pockets often intermittent of electricity as any house with a decent battery plus renewable set up or a off grid set up would still have power at least some of the time which means some houses would have a somewhat increasing with time high risk food source in terms of frozen food. 

[johnloony]

The currency would be the Triganic Pu.

It would be easier for the 1% of survivors if they all knew, secretly, years in advance that they were going to be survivors. They could spend years gradually stockpiling tins of baked beans and whatever.

[johnloony]

“Here is New York” (written in 1949) by E. B. White (who died in 1985):

“The subtlest change in New York is something people don’t speak much about, but that is in everyone’s mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes, no bigger than a wedge of geese, can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now; in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition.”

[greenchristian]

Jul 7, 2022 13:33:49 GMT johnloony said:

“Here is New York” (written in 1949) by E. B. White (who died in 1985):

“The subtlest change in New York is something people don’t speak much about, but that is in everyone’s mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes, no bigger than a wedge of geese, can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now; in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition.”

Well he was writing just four years after an aeroplane had crashed into a New York skyscraper that happened to be the tallest building in the world.