"Master what about the choice between justice department and health department, the priorities of them?"
"Ah, in order to know about them, just make the problem into a science fiction. Let an outside influence give us Earthlings the choice between the two from tomorrow on. Either all medical personnel, or all police (and army) personnel would disappear. We are left with the choice. Well, without the medics, how many of us would still exist after a year?"
"I cannot say."
"Very roughly, let us say 60keeping force?"
"Again, I am not certain."
"Goodness me! Maybe a bare 5 or 0.5 percent will survive, next TWO MONTHS. It will develop into jungle conditions after a day or so, the hunting for food. When money and gold have no more value, nobody is doing anything but, in Wyndham's words, hunting the ruins for food (Lichen). There will spring up gangs that are so ruthless as to kill-off, people for a morsel of food, will torture people suspected of having any. We, certainly will not survive, we are too gentle. This, now, is the priority: survival of 60