Question inspired from another post, but how many people would have died as a result of the attacks, and the following aftermath? I'd guess with medical,food, water and other disruptions, there would be deaths resulting from this for years.
sharean assload of folk..
shareMy guess would be a couple of billion. The attacks were only two or three days? But, like you said, infrastructure would have been severely damaged for decades.
share3 billion
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thanks for the link, I love these fictional wikis about movies and shows.
shareNo more than a hundred million. A dozen or so big cities got zapped, but most people would have left town. Only 4 million or so in Houston.
shareYeah, but then there's everything that's in all those cities. The CDC, Delta, and CNN are in Atlanta. Pepsi, Verizon, and NBC are all headquartered in New York. Farmer's Insurance and Dole Foods are in LA. Hewlitt-Packard is in Houston. Boeing and Kraft are in Chicago.
So on top of there being no central government, because of the cabinet and vice president being killed off at NORAD, there's a food shortage (no Kraft, no Dole, no Pepsi), limited ways to get anywhere (no Boeing, no Delta), and no way to communicate with people on the other side of the country (no CNN, no Verizon, no NBC). I would imagine that a lot more people would have died in the weeks and months to come.