Where do you read me as saying “humans have no responsibility over their own safety and health”?
I read the passive voice in your recommendations about insurance and top-down testing as an indication that you don’t think the primary responsibility for preparedness is in individuals. The lack of any recommendation for individual action (have batteries, test and replace them annually, consider whether to leave the area for long-term disruptions) is another data point toward this reading. I apologize if I misunderstood your intent.
I think individuals should take steps to be more prepared, and the main reason they don’t is that the grid’s reliability falls into an awkward valley where it’s reliable enough that you think you can count on it but not so reliable that you should. Planned outages would help fix this, and I expect people would respond by planning.
I read the passive voice in your recommendations about insurance and top-down testing as an indication that you don’t think the primary responsibility for preparedness is in individuals. The lack of any recommendation for individual action (have batteries, test and replace them annually, consider whether to leave the area for long-term disruptions) is another data point toward this reading. I apologize if I misunderstood your intent.
I think individuals should take steps to be more prepared, and the main reason they don’t is that the grid’s reliability falls into an awkward valley where it’s reliable enough that you think you can count on it but not so reliable that you should. Planned outages would help fix this, and I expect people would respond by planning.