Yeah I think this is a thing that's getting overlooked a lot lately, not just in the UK but in general. We have governments giving us advice about how to navigate all these things, but everyone seems to have forgotten that the government's entire job is to keep things running smoothly and keep society on the rails. If we have endless financial crises, entire generations that can't afford homes, police that won't or can't come out to investigate crimes, climate change running rampant because corporations never face consequences for polluting etc. the what the actual fuck is the government for?

It'd be like if I showed up to work and handed out a flier that said "I'm still getting paid but no longer doing any work. Here's some things you can do to navigate that situation..."

Some perspective: Japan has lots of disasters, so it's required for you to have 72 hours of emergency supplies. This helps the responders to make sure their supplies go to the unfortunate of the unfortunate.

For the rest, yeah, I don't disagree. 72 hours of food and water will not help in a draught that lasts for months (maybe 30x longer than the stockpile) or climate change that lasts for maybe 30x longer than 3 years