> Coming from India and as someone who has lived, growing up (in the 90s), without power for hours and days... Most people in the West will most probably catch

> Coming from India and as someone who has lived, growing up (in the 90s), without power for hours and days... Most people in the West will most probably catch a disease, if nothing else. Meaning if you live on the 8th floor, like I do, it means that if you have no running water for days and weeks on end then you cannot literally flush the shit down the toilet. Multiply that by the hundreds of thousands of people who live just like me in the same city (i.e. in apartment blocks) and that's how you get nasty diseases. On the other hand my parents who live in the countryside 2 hours away from where I live will be just fine. They depend on wood for heating, the village where they live still has a functioning manual water-well or two, my parents grow most of their own food and have basic provisions for at least 6 months, they'll manage.