And what are the odds of that in a fullblown pandemic??
Could Pickering go offline or even into a meltdown if too many employees are off sick??
People turn on a light and the light illuminates and people figure that is just how it works. There is this thing called electricity that they just take for granted.
People wake up in the morning and take shit and the shit goes away and people think "of course" and take it for granted too.
Little do people realize that electricity and water and sanitary sewers are living thing that require thousands of humans directly working to keep the systems working and tens of thousands of indirectly employed people working to keep the systems working.
It doesn't just happen.
For example, the purification of Lake water into potable water. There is a massive infrastructure that must be run by humans and maintained on a never ending basis. Chlorine is brought in by railways from plants that make chlorine. Pumps have to be service, watermains crack and break every day. The list is endless.
The systems are not automated and cannot function on their own.
So yes, imagine your life with no electricity and no running water and no sewers and no garbage collection.
It will go full on lord of the flies in about a week.