For every niche industry that has interesting equipment caches, there will be people who work/worked in that industry who will grab that stuff as soon as they see the collapse on the horizon.
I've been saying for a few years now that once the lights go out, a 50% fatality rate in CONUS is ridiculously low. The whole ag base collapses without modern utilities to drive its supply chain and distribution network. That's the reason I set the global fatality rate at 90% in T2013. The presence or absence of modern pharmaceuticals becomes irrelevant once your urban population is eating wallpaper paste soup.
- C.
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