How Flaky is the Infrastructure?

[River Song]

Hi Guys - Its been a while as I've been otherwise engaged in other activities. I'm just poking my head above the parapet for a little 'peek'.

Question - How flaky is national infrastructure? I know we know a lot aboutn resilience plans etc both nationally and county-wide. I'm personally involved in some of this.

Whenever I look at results of exercises there is ALWAYS some "lessons to be learnt" which means it didn't go according to plan

Add to that the fact the a lot of the volunteers in the resilience community are well meaning amateurs.

Add to that the fact that professionals can only hold "the thin blue line" for so long. We saw this in the city-wide riots not so long ago. We were VERY close to the army being called out I believe.

In the event of a pandemic, numbers available will fall and we all know that things will start to break down.

People will sit still for so-long in the belief that "the government will do something". But when the food runs out, the electricity goes and Laura Norder goes AWOL, the resilence structures will fall apart.

I don't know but I'm feeling distinctly 'edgy'

Allons-y

[bigpaul]

I don't know but I'm feeling distinctly 'edgy'

that's cos you can see there is a problem or problems, which is more than you can say for most of the population.

[Skean Dhude]

Much of the infrastructure is maintained by a third party but they have had to meet the specifications put in place by the government and meet strict financial figures. Much of it can't be tested so they just simulate what they can.

In my experience most Disaster Recovery systems need tweaking after tests as they rarely work first time plus they make certain assumptions around resources and limits of event.

The proof is in the eating. I suspect many will go hungry.

[Mortblanc]

What is the specific nature of this generic term "infrastructure" you are concerned with?

electrical grid?
fuel distribution network?
flood control?
riot control?
crime control?
road network?
emergency response crews?
OR
just anything you do not have personal control over?

Do you expect all of them to collapse at the same time, cascade, or one part operate properly while another shuts down?

According to some, none of them will be adequate.
According to others, they will be sufficient.

And what will be the inspiration for the "collapse"?

[CharlesHarris]

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