Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

[bzs () theworld com]

On March 14, 2020 at 14:49 rsk () gsp org (Rich Kulawiec) wrote:
> 2. Find all the phone chargers, laptop chargers, USB sticks, cables,
> everything.  If you're not already obsessive about keeping things
> charged, get that way.

You're really expecting power interruptions due to the virus (in the
US)?

Somewhere else (FB) I saw someone snarking that people are dumb
because they're buying out frozen food what are they going to do when
there's no power for their freezers?!

I just don't see that as a likely scenario here but maybe I'm the one
who's deluded.

I suppose some regions are more vulnerable than others, there was that
crazy fire prevention outage in California a few months ago.

If we get to the point that there are serious power outages due to a
flu I think we'll have much worse problems than our phones are going
dead, there won't be any phone network! Or whatever.

P.S. I also got the death threat WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! spam but
didn't think it was worth a whole new message so, here, I mentioned it
in case people are wondering if it's just them.

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        -Barry Shein

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