Comments on: You’re not going to save everybody, but there’s a difference between 500,000 dead and 800,000 dead https://www.isegoria.net/2022/04/youre-not-going-to-save-everybody-but-theres-a-difference-between-500000-dead-and-800000-dead/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:22:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Gavin Longmuir https://www.isegoria.net/2022/04/youre-not-going-to-save-everybody-but-theres-a-difference-between-500000-dead-and-800000-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-3527965 Gavin Longmuir Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:39:47 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=48837#comment-3527965 And after that 24 hour period, the immediate survivor of the nuclear attack can step outside and find that there is no electric power, no water, no wastewater treatment, no food supplies. Surviving the initial explosion is only the first step in a path for which we are almost totally unprepared — as societies and as individuals.

When a hurricane hits the Gulf Coast with the energy of multiple nuclear bombs, the devastation is confined to a relatively small area — and the rest of the United States pours in assistance on an incredible scale. But when the rest of the US has been nuked, there will be no cavalry coming to the rescue.

The message is — Avoid a Nuclear War if at all possible! That has immediate relevance to our idiotic government foolishly pumping up the violence in the Ukraine and prodding nuclear-armed Russia. The only place which would gain from an unnecessary nuclear war that destroyed the US, Europe, and Russia would be China.

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