Germany to tell people to stockpile food and water in case of attacks
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Re: Germany to tell people to stockpile food and water in case of attacks
#2”Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” – Yoda
Re: Germany to tell people to stockpile food and water in case of attacks
#3”Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” – Yoda
"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do." - Alan Watts
Re: Germany to tell people to stockpile food and water in case of attacks
#4There's an insane amount of shipping going on right now and I seriously can't imagine terrorists can disrupt those supply chains. We'll just reroute around them - there is plenty of duplicate shipping channels in the world. If terrorists can get us to slide to the assumption of attacks instead of realizing shit happens and we're trying to fix it...well, they've already won.
Re: Germany to tell people to stockpile food and water in case of attacks
#5How to make a headline from boring stuff...:
"oblige" and "required" are pretty strong words for what can't be more than a recommendation. ("Die Bevölkerung wird angehalten, einen individuellen Vorrat [...]" is the German quote, which I'd maybe translate as "the public is asked to")
Also, as far as I can tell from the news reports, the report and it's recommendations are about general disaster preparedness, not terrorism or other attacks specifically. The stockpile recommendations also are nothing new, and I suspect they'll be ignored in the future just as much as they are now. People in areas with bad-ish infrastructure or regular emergencies (floodings, ...) will be prepared, others less so. I suspect civil defense authorities in most countries have similar recommendations.
The headline as it stands is highly misleading.
Re: Germany to tell people to stockpile food and water in case of attacks
#6The German government has recommended this for decades already. What's new is that someone important with nothing else to do probably stumbled over this topic and decided it should be taken more seriously.
Re: Germany to tell people to stockpile food and water in case of attacks
#7The German government has recommended this for decades already. What's new is that someone important with nothing else to do probably stumbled over this topic and decided it should be taken more seriously.
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Re: Germany to tell people to stockpile food and water in case of attacks
#8The German government has recommended this for decades already. What's new is that someone important with nothing else to do probably stumbled over this topic and decided it should be taken more seriously.
This is pretty much the equivalent to the random reading of TOS or the DoS Travel Security Advice [1]: It's always there in that pretty same wording, yet is only read or of general interest when it's changed.
[1] https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/country/german...
Re: Germany to tell people to stockpile food and water in case of attacks
#9There's a joke in my country (from which many people emigrated to Germany):
- What would you do if tomorrow is the Judgement day?
- I'd pack my family and go straight to Germany.
Re: Germany to tell people to stockpile food and water in case of attacks
#10There's an insane amount of shipping going on right now and I seriously can't imagine terrorists can disrupt those supply chains. We'll just reroute around them - there is plenty of duplicate shipping channels in the world. If terrorists can get us to slide to the assumption of attacks instead of realizing shit happens and we're trying to fix it...well, they've already won.
Imagine what would happen if a major power plant stopped working.