1032: Some thinking rather than just repeating is punishable by law in the grammar world?

  And Many of those sites do not even bother to include a comment section (And even if they do, my comments have a fifty-fifty chance of being published or not, according to my most recent experience). Here is what the site Grammarly says, and many if not most others seem to agree, about the issue of putting a comma before "or" separating two sections in a sentence: "Always place a comma before or when it begins an independent clause, but if it begins a dependent clause, don't". While the "Do you prefer coffee or tea" example given there is  a nice fit to that rule, how about a sentence like: Immediately following a hurricane, or an earthquake, the government should be providing the needed emergency help? The first comma here is also wrong according to that rule above even though the speaker does not want to indicate that taking care of only one of those possibilities is good enough. Neither does dealing with the comma issue of "and" on that website allow the ",or" above to be ", and", and it also seems that many other sites also agree with that prohibition or at least far from being clear enough for the sentence above.