What if the government never reopens?

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14. The Pentagon , the CIA, and probably a few other agencies have planned for this.

My thinking is that for the rest of us, it's going to depend on the individual states and whether or not they can create regional compacts.

Red states and rural areas will probably run into failing compounds and mov-run outposts.

Those billionaires are going to find that it's really f'ing expensive to set up and sustain the infrastructure and a governing system to support a comfortable sense of participating in a world wide civilization from scratch.
If they all want to live in a Mad Max collection of small plantation style communities that feed on each other with the occasional Barter Town to provide the infrastructure, they can go for it, but whatever they think they're going to accomplish without a surrounding infrastructure just isn't going succeed. Their Robots and AI just can't compete with human beings, especially hungry masses of angry human beings that may currently be pacified, but aren't used to being obedient serfs.
We will face a collapse, just as Russia has. It just depends on whether or not the reductionist ideologues get smart sooner than later.