Government still exists post-SHTF

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I used to take people out hiking - nothing to serious like a Mountain Leader, just a BELA, age range of people late teens to mid forties and I can say the average city person even with kit would put themselves in massive amounts of danger of death or an injury that would result in them being immobile and dying of exposure or at the hands of another to the point or even things such as poor decision making about when and how much water to take on, choice of routes of different topography that a lot - and I mean a lot - would be putting themselves in the position that you would have an attrition rate of 20% a day moving over rough country, expecting them to cover 12 miles a day tops.

This is with boots, good coat and hat, water bottle map and compass.

In reality, them making it out of a city, through surrounding towns to unbroken countryside in light clothing and trainers or trendy shoes with at best a cigarette lighter in their pocket - unless it is summer, they will get wet and last a couple of nights unless they can find shelter or better clothing.

This is even if they head in the direction of the country - which I believe they will not. From those that I have spoken to who were evacuated during WW2, town and city people had real problems adapting to the countryside. Nowadays I think a lot of people, on falling over in the mud would wait their to be rescued.

Those with knowledge of countryside, the surrounding topography, human nature and a bit of kit may be well placed to pitch a tent in a drystone sheep berm / enclosure on a high moor for a little while.

Think about when you drive down the M6 in the southern lakes - almost cliff like hills where rain is a constant and wind almost always is - why would anyone, most of all a city person in normal shoes and a wind cheater go walking up such a thing to get to the top where common sense says you just get to walk down again?