> You wouldn't call a building fragile just because it got destroyed by a thermonuclear bomb. Some very few buildings are designed to withstand (all but a dire

> You wouldn't call a building fragile just because it got destroyed by a thermonuclear bomb. Some very few buildings are designed to withstand (all but a direct hit by) a nuclear bomb. A failure of such a building would certainly exacerbate problems that arise from the nuclear war. Likewise, the U.S. government (and many other first-world nations' governments) was supposed to have been on the ball for a pandemic. Unfortunately it, uhhhh, failed. And it certainly exacerbated the problems that arose from the pandemic.