The French government is reportedly planning to send a “survival manual” to every household in the country with instructions on how to prepare for an “imminent threat” including armed conflict, a health crisis or a natural disaster.
If approved by François Bayrou, the prime minister, the 20-page booklet will be sent to households before the summer, French media reported.
It will be divided into three parts with advice on how to protect “yourself and those around you”, what to do if a threat is imminent – with a list of emergency numbers, radio channels and a reminder to close doors and windows if the threat is nuclear – and details of how to get involved in defending your community, including signing up for reserve units or firefighting groups.
That seems like a lot of paper, energy , and trash for something that should be downloadable.
If you’re truely in a survival situation, where are you going to charge your phone after the first 24 hours of emergency?
Joke’s on you, the online survival manual can tell you how to do that!
Let alone the demonstrable reality that cell towers get massively overloaded when shit goes down. And that is assuming the infrastructure is even still up to be accessed.
No. There is some stuff you keep physical copies of. This is (presumably) one of those things.
Okay but why not both? They didn’t say “exclusively available online”.
I have a solar cell charging station, but I suspect a lot of people don’t.
Had a factory explode just next to my city once. With everyone panicking, all connectivity (including calls and texts) was down in less than one hour. It was a while ago, but our infrastructure is more fragile than we imagine.
A lot of cell towers (at least used to) have only hours of backup. In Houston when hurricane Ike tore through, cellphones were useless due to overloading at first, then various towers started going offline at 24, 36, 48, etc. hours. I think after Ike, at least some were upgraded to 72-96 hours, but I would not expect that to be the case at all in areas that don’t frequently see disasters.
You would download it and read it today and then maybe just refer to it later if you need it? It’s only 20 pages.
You forget a large part of the population doesn’t understand how to download anything, and out of those who do, getting them to comply is still a challenge. Give them a pamphlet and your chances of the info getting read will skyrocket exponentially
And what about an emergency where you lose internet and/or electricity?
In an emergency, i don’t think people would grab the 20 page book and all huddle around it. You would read it when it arrives, note the location of your nearest emergency resource, toss it in a drawer, probably forget it’s there.
You didn’t even answer the question. The answer is you won’t have Internet to DoWnLoAd it. So having a hard copy is a good idea for everyone to have. Still a lot more useful then a brick your phone / computer will be.
An emergency doesn’t necessarily mean your house is on fire. Recently I read a text saying that while the situation is dire, cities on the Russo-Ukrainian frontline which are targets of bombings on a daily basis still go about their daily routines as normal. But they are in an emergency, and a pamphlet like this hidden away in a drawer somewhere could definitely be useful.
I think that’s exactly what the book is for.
Information about what to do in the case of a nuclear or cyber attack in a physical booklet would be helpful to have lying around.
And without it most people would not even read anything about it until it’s too late. Even with this argument it still accomplishes its goal better than a webpage or download that 80% of people will procrastinate on or forget completely. Case in point, the information has been out there on the internet for decades yet nobody is prepared for an emergency until it’s at their front door. And if the internet is out you already missed your chance.