The EMP Mystique

"So here we sit, still vulnerable. If an EMP happens, only the most ardent preppers might survive. The rest of us will be toast."

I have recently started receiving the Epoch Times. It is a good, smart read, with one heck of a lot of research going into most of their articles. But yesterday, as I was catching up on the editions of the Times which came while we were gone, I started reading an article and then quit in disgust. Oh, it was not the fault of the paper - it was the subject of the article. It was on the danger of an EMP, and the damage it could do to this country.

I am sick to death of this subject. Why? Nothing ever gets done. I have addressed this issue many times before. When I was still in the Navy in the 1980's, we knew that an EMP event was part of the Soviet order of battle. We also know it is part of the North Korean plan. And terrorists. We have know this for decades, and what have we done? Zip. Nada. Zero. And an EMP event, either natural or not, would destroy this country - much more so then the virus.

We have known for years how to ruggedize and upgrade our electric grid. It would cost under a trillion dollars. Think of what we have spend on the Wuhan Flu so far. More than a trillion. Maybe two trillion. And worse case, this might kill 1 or 2 percent of our population. And EMP event could kill 90% of our population in one year. And astronomers tell us that every decade, we have better than a 10% chance of getting hit by a solar flare, which would cause an EMP event.

We had an EXCELLENT chance to build it during the "stimulus bill" which resulted from the Great Recession. The bill was to inject a trillion dollars into the economy, so the funding was more than adequate. We could have put people to work, and the grid would be all fixed and upgraded by now. But no. Instead the Democrats under Ms. Nancy, filled the stimulus bill up with a bunch of useless crap. All political. 

So here we sit, still vulnerable. If an EMP happens, only the most ardent preppers might survive. The rest of us will be toast. So I don't want to hear, see, or read about any more EMP stuff. We know all of this. It will be bad. But it would not have to be if we had done the right thing. 

If someone knows of a good reason why this country would not spend money to protect 90% of the population, please let me know. I have nothing. No clue, what so ever.