We were so damn vulnerable, so damn vulnerable, and no one did the right things to prepare, or prevent it. “We’re back a hundred and fifty years.” “No, not a hundred and fifty years,” John sighed. “Make it more like five hundred. People alive in 1860, they knew how to live in that time; they had the infrastructure. We don’t. Turn off the lights, stop the toilets from getting water to flush, empty the pharmacies, turn off the televisions, and we don’t know what to do.”
