Not sure where to post this:
Perhaps we need a topic called “Not Military Intelligence.”
Cough 1918 Cough
Part of the reason the 1918 pandemic was so bad, was all the goverments covering it up and not sharing data.
I see what you did there.
Is this like negative germ warfare?
Don’t worry. Some samples will be smuggled in the lungs of human “mules,” The US won’t be left out of this pandemic, you can be sure.
Fine, that’s not a real apocalypse, just catching up to the tropics. Have another.
Imagining the person who accidentally set the pressure wrong and blew up 70 houses. At a future job interview “Tell us about a time you made a mistake and how you handled it.”
And let us continue to hope it was an accident.
That last sentence.
The one I saw elsewhere was something to the effect of “They’re handing out toe tags and asking the residents to fill them out, so that they can identify their bodies later.”
“Can you tell me why you left your last job?”
“I couldn’t handle the pressure”
Holy fuck. That entire situation is horrific.
Holy shit, I thought you were joking, but I googled it and found this:
FTA:
Making the danger feel real can take a more tangible form, Tuell said. Another example: emergency personnel in Texas who distributed toe tags to people in the evacuation zone. “They said, ‘Please put your name on it, because we want to have help identifying your body when you don’t survive.’ And that was somewhat effective.”
But you can get them yourself at Amazon.
My sense of humour occasionally strays to the morbid (If Abraham Lincoln were alive today, he’d be clawing at the inside of his coffin), but generally not that far.
I guess I was projecting. I snagged a morgue tag during a summer job at a hospital. (from supply, not one already, ah, in use.)
Decades later, I gave it to a friend to use as a bookmark in his recently published anthology of zombie stories. I thought it apropos. Gee this latter remark is even on topic.
Everyone seems to forget:
This is America. Where public transportation and temporary accommodation exist for people who need to evacuate, they won’t be accessible, and they might be police traps. This means many people can’t evacuate.
This is a country which mandates incapacitating fire alarms, many of which blare EVACUATE! EVACUATE! with such incapacitating volume, amid strobes, that it may as well be EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
This is a country which trains police in pain complaince, on the premise that if someone can’t or won’t obey an order, police should use dangerous weapons to incapacitate us until we do… Even if we could the weapons make sure we can’t.