The 911 system itself is critical sure. I never said it wasn't. When the computer systems supporting 911 went down due to crowdstrike, those functions were repl

The 911 system itself is critical sure. I never said it wasn't. When the computer systems supporting 911 went down due to crowdstrike, those functions were replaced with available backups, that were planned for situations like this, e.g. using analog phones and taking notes by hand (just like they used to do it). If the system survives (albeit with diminished capacity) loss of a component, then that component is not critical for the system. That's basically the definition of "critical". Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/07/19/crowdstrike-outages-what-happened/74474725007/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/07/19/crowds...