this is part of the plot of my sketched-out post apocalyptic novel https://twitter.com/B30wu1f2/status/1030537062087385088 …
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One idea I have for a post apocalyptic story (not sure if this is the full novel, or just a short story) has the following scenario:
* bioengineered plague eats oil (c.f. John Varley's Slow Apocalypse and @JohnBarnesSF Directive 51)
* full brunt hits during a cold winter >
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3/ ...with heavy snow fall, which means that death toll south of the Mason Dixon line is ~ 70% (because of breakdown of transit moving food), but 90+% in the north, because people can't flee on foot through 3' snow, freeze to death in place.
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#Collapsitarian wet dreams, collapse does not mean we're all equal. No, of course not. The legislators use the State Police to centralize remaining food stocks as things collapse ("for redistribution" / "to prevent hoarding"). You can figure out the rest.Show this thread -
5/ So come spring, you've got a fascist praetorian society in the graveyard cities ... and loosely scattered resilient prepper / farmers / rural people. Everyone's hungry. Farmers are hoping their cow stays healthy so they keep getting milk. ...and cops want steak.
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6/ But because the engineered bioweapon just killed (certain types of) petroleum products, but didn't knock tech back in a full Directive 51 sense, you've still got radio, vehicles running on ethanol, low bandwidth internet-over-ham-radio, etc.
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