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Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:39:43 on
Sat, 24 Feb 2007, David Hansen

Nice try. However, people could walk, as they have done before in
London and New York.

In the absence of road blocks, which seem to be one of the measures
mentioned as a way to stop an exodus. I agree, in the circumstances I'd
walk too, but home is over 100 miles from London, and many opportunities
to be stopped on the way.

If the entire police force of a county can't stop a couple of hundred
ravers from getting together in one place to have a party (a confrontation
which still happens in most counties most weekends), I'm not sure how even
the police+army is going to stop millions of people from leaving London.

They may stop a few million if they shoot on sight to kill and use our
own WMD stockpiles, but what about the hundreds of thousands who just
won't be in the wrong place at the wrong time ? And how many police
will be left behind to keep peace in the rest of the nation ?

There's an interesting article on this sort of mass epidemiology in
this week's New Scientist by the way - focussing on using online sites
like World of Warcraft and their famous blood plague to test genuine
public reactions.

Nick
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