[Artemisia] A New Discussion - SCA Skills in a Modern Plague

[George A. Trosper]

  On 9/21/2010 8:14 PM, Dan Reese wrote:
> Quoting the original post by His Grace: "power production, food production and trasnportation of goods has ceased" and "it is inevitable that all parts of the US will be affected"
>
> In this proposed scenario, I die. No skills or stockpiling can keep me alive. If pharmaceutical production stops, I'm done. I require insulin to live, which insulin has a limited shelf life and also requires refrigeration. Bleak future for me.

Same difficulty (different source) in S. M. Stirling's "Dies the Fire" 
series, mentioned earlier in this thread.

That series also depicts a ruthlessly effective Baron up in An Tir 
taking over the city.

--George/Gerard