Quote:
Originally Posted by kcdusk
1. We saw with Covid, when masks became compulsory, that industry kicked off and suddenly we had millions of masks. Same with a vaccine, industry responded.
So i think with a world wide war, tools of the trade - ie medical supplies, would be required. And be around in big numbers. I think towards the end of the war ("your on your own") medical supplies will be lower but still common.
|
Good point, but industry barely kept up with demand during the height of the Covid Pandemic- and no one was lobbing nukes at essential infrastructure back then. During the Twilight War, supply would be diminished by widespread high-intensity warfare (including the use of NBC weapons), but demand would not (at least not to the same degree). This would inevitably lead to shortages of most medical supplies- especially those with military applications.
@Bash: Good point about the positive impact of basic health knowledge. It's shocking to learn how many soldiers died due to preventable infections and diseases, pre-germ theory. For example, during the Mexican-American War, 7 out of 8 US soldiers that lost their lives died as a result of preventable diseases (cholera, dysentery, typhus). Only 1/8 were killed in battle.
@All: How viable would iodine production be c.2000? It would be useful as both an antiseptic and as a treatment for the effects of radiation (and therefore consumed at a pretty rapid rate during the war, I imagine).
-