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Pastimes : The Boxing Ring Revived
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (4473)2/16/2003 12:16:32 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) of 7720
 
People were wise to the notion that hiding under your desk for a city-killer 20 MT blast was just unnecessary.

I've been wondering lately whether they knew all the time that hiding under a desk was pointless. I've been reflecting on the DC evacuation plan and the similar pointlessness of it. Surely those who put it together know it couldn't possibly work. DC is a disaster every rush hour. Releasing government workers during a snow storm causes immediate gridlock. They tried staggered release times which had those who lived furthest away leaving first. That was a bust. So how in the world could you evacuate the city once people heard about a chemical release? The same is the case with the duct tape and the plastic. Dumb.

It seems to me that the people who publish this stuff must know how dumb it is. No one smart enough to put together a plan could be that stupid. Yet they do it. It must be that folks perceive that the populace wants to be reassured that there's a plan. It's a common theme in sci fi movies that the government doesn't warn that an asteroid is going to hit or the earth is freezing, to name a couple of plots I recently saw on TV, because they know that it would just cause a panic and lives wouldn't be saved. So I suspect that all this advice is just a charade, a wink/wink publication for the benefit of those suckers that it comforts. And the duct tape manufacturers.
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