HOW WOULD YOU FAIR

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If it's a (short-term) financial/natural disaster then medication-dependent people have a fighting chance provided they always get plenty of insulin (etc) supplies from their GP & store it correctly. Keeping a supply of cash & up-to-date passport is always a plan too in case you need to get out of dodge quickly and head to a less affected country. If it's teotwawki (emp/nuke strike etc) then only short-term prospects of survival due to short-term shelf-life of meds (and the fact that insulin, for example, needs to be refrigerated). If I remember rightly, a character in the series Jericho had an insulin-dependent daughter who died (fiction, but a pretty accurate depiction of what would be likely happen to people with long-term medical conditions). It's close to my heart as my partner is T1 diabetic, so I pray nothing ever happens which is more than a few months at most.

The Greeks are having ongoing problems with medical supplies due to the financial crisis. As I understand it the manufacturers (predominantly Danish if I recall) are duty-bound to continue supplying insulin/life-saving medication to Greece as a moral imperative, despite their bills not being paid. It must be a pretty frightening experience for Greek diabetics and other people there with medical issues.