If possible, please formulate your responses with specific reference to a country or region. A. Your Impressions of the Peak Phase Leaders must become consummate educators . They must use their positions as bully pulpits to ensure that they keep the efforts of the people upbeat and focused on a vision of pulling through this difficult time. It is essential that they not succumb to scapegoating other nations or of the West in general, that they instead succeed in recognizing that while blame in this case is not so easily ascribed to one country or group of countries. If the global village is to pull through this difficult period, great amounts of understanding, patience, generosity, common sense, and ingenuity, and uncommon amounts of humanity, not to mention a sense of humor, will be needed to pull through this most challenging of times.
Phones mostly work.
These sites will be out for some time while systems are updated to newer firmware, and boards. Saudi refineries have not yet fixed plants, so oil down to a trickle. Oil shortages in West. Power and transportation effected. It's just that we now understand the scope of the problem.