(08-24-2023, 07:29 PM)Ninurta Wrote: Oddly, this does not worry me, as I don't live in a city. City folks might need to concern themselves with it, but then again they've made their choices in trading their security in for convenience... and most of them don't want to return to security and give up the convenience. So, they are corralled in urban centers like so many sheep or cattle, just waiting for the slaughter. And, like the sheep and cattle in the holding pens, most are blissfully unaware that the clock is ticking on them.
I think about 70% or so of the US population lives in a city - flipped from a hundred years ago when 70% lived in the country - ans nearly 50% lives withing 100 miles of a coastline. That leaves a LOT of the interior to hide in for inventive folks.
By the time the shoe drops, city folks will already have been disarmed and had their transportation revoked, just like the plan says. Nothing to do then but wait for the executioner for them. Sure, some may walk out of the cities when they see what time it is, searching the countryside for food, but it's been my experience that hungry refugees will not generally travel more than a 3 day walk from their home base, so, figuring an ambitious 20 miles a day for out of shape urbanites, if you are more than 60 miles from a city, then you should not see much action other than stragglers, HUNGRY and therefore weakened stragglers, and they are easy enough to deal with.
The plan won't work in the countryside, because travel distances are too great to give up their transportation out in the hinterlands. It can only work in a city, which is why that is where it is being implemented.
Just learn how to deal with surveillance eyes in the skies, like helicopters and drones, and you'll be fairly safe out in the hinterlands. Get overhead cover, and don't venture from it at night (because your heat signature is more contrasted, more visible against the night-cooled ground), and you'll be fine. Ponchos made of mylar "space blankets" can help if you do have to go out - just a human head has about the same signature as a raccoon, and those are everywhere out here in the night time.
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I'm just in time then, leaving Philly forever in about 2 weeks. Well, just in time, for me, would have been years ago, but what can you do. It does feel like a death trap. People are rude when things are going reasonably well, I can't imagine how it would be if shit met fan.