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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 16:32:38 +1000
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On 6/05/2025 5:04 am, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/05/2025 2:35 am, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>> john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>> A few days without
>>>> power won't kill many people.
>>>
>>> It will in the UK if all the 'phones need mains power (either at the
>>> subscribers' premises or at the masts).  Nobody will be able to call out
>>> the emergency services.  How many deaths per day will that be if  nobody
>>> can contact the police, fire brigade or ambulance service?
>>
>> Even politicians can be relied on to be less stupid than that.
> [...]
> 
> There is no evidence to support your claim at the moment.

There is negative evidence - there haven't been enough deaths that 
anyone can ascribe to political stupidity.

Covid-19 might be seen as a counter-example - Donald Trump managed to 
get a bigger fraction  Americans killed by Covid-19 than Boris Johnson 
did for Britons in the UK - but the sort of ignorance that you envisage 
is a whole lot more thorough-going than anything those two clowns exhibited.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney