Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Second round coming

No, not the second wave of Wuhan flu courtesy of Communist China, the second round of empty shelves in Venezuela like stores.
I was in Dillons tonight. They had no chicken. Other meats were lower than usual, they were running low
We, every one of us, has basic needs. We need food, we need shelter, we need drinkable water. To achieve those needs we all, or at least most of us, have had jobs.
When you look at a job and evaluate whether it is critical or not, you also need to consider the impact on jobs you consider critical.
For example, Goodyear Tire is shut down over the Chinese lung crud. Those tires are critical. everything you get from the store is delivered at least part of the way by truck. Truck tires wear out. We can't go far on rims. Trucks need fuel. They need places to eat, rest, shower and relax. For many of them there is no home just around the corner.
Our food supply is in disarray. Typically Americans eat out close to 50% of the time. Restaurant food is packaged differently from Supermarket food. We cannot make the switch from one to the other, it is simply impossible.
Now, to top it off, Tyson has had to close some of its processing plants. While I don' like the idea of getting food packaged by people who may be sick, the simple fact is that many of them go to work while they have the flu every year.
Yup, we're all gonna die. Again. So get ready for round two of mass panic.

2 comments:

cannon said...

those of us who were paying attention and stocked up WHEN THINGS WERE PLENTIFUL were derided and called "doomsday prepper nuts".
now the flare has gone up, and even tho we are NOT amongst those rushing to the store panic buying everything we can get our hands on, we are being called "hoarders".
bet you wish you had listened 3,5,10 years ago and today had a shelf full of what others are fighting for in the stores.

JeremyR said...

I've had more than one person tell me that I'm not as crazy as they thought.