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Supplies Are Starting To Get Tight As Food Distribution Systems Break Down

All across America, store shelves are emptying and people are becoming increasingly frustrated because they can’t get their hands on needed supplies.

Most Americans are blaming “hoarders” for the current mess, but it is actually much more complicated than that. Normally, Americans get a lot of their food from restaurants. In fact, during normal times 36 percent of all Americans eat at a fast food restaurant on any given day. But now that approximately 75 percent of the U.S. is under some sort of a “shelter-in-place” order and most of our restaurants have shut down, things have completely changed. Suddenly our grocery stores are being flooded with unexpected traffic, and many people are buying far more than usual in anticipation of a long pandemic. Unfortunately, our food distribution systems were not designed to handle this sort of a surge, and things are really starting to get crazy out there.

I would like to share with you an excerpt from an email that I was sent recently. It describes the chaos that grocery stores in Utah and Idaho have been experiencing…

When this virus became a problem that we as a nation could see as an imminent threat, Utah, because of its culture of food storage and preparing for disaster events seemed to “get the memo” first. The week of March 8th grocery sales more than doubled in Utah, up 218%. Many states stayed the same with increases in some. Idaho seemed to “get the memo” about four days later. We were out of water and TP four days after Utah. Then we were out of food staples about four days later. Next was produce following a pattern set by Utah four days earlier.

The problem for us in Idaho was this. The stores in Utah were emptied out then refilled twice by the warehouses before it hit Idaho. Many of these Utah stores have trucks delivering daily. So when it did hit Idaho the warehouses had been severely taxed. We had a hard time filling our store back up even one time. We missed three scheduled trucks that week alone. Then orders finally came they were first 50% of the order and have dropped to 20%. In normal circumstances we receive 98% of our orders and no canceled trucks. Now three weeks later, the warehouses in the Western United States have all been taxed. In turn, those warehouses have been taxing the food manufacturers. These food companies have emptied their facilities to fill the warehouses of the Western United States. The East Coast hasn’t seemed to “get the memo” yet. When they do what food will be left to fill their warehouses and grocery stores?

Food distribution and resources for the Eastern United States will be at great peril even if no hoarding there takes place. But of course it will.

Additionally the food culture of the East Coast and other urban areas is such that people keep very little food on hand. They often shop several times weekly for items if they cook at home. They don’t have big freezers full of meat, home canned vegetables in their storage rooms, gardens, or beans, wheat, and rice in buckets in the their basements.

With most of the country locked down, normal economic activity has come to a standstill, and it is going to become increasingly difficult for our warehouses to meet the demand that grocery stores are putting on them.

Meanwhile, our farmers are facing severe problems of their own. The following comes from CNBC…

The U.S.-China trade war sent scores of farmers out of business. Record flooding inundated farmland and destroyed harvests. And a blistering heat wave stunted crop growth in the Midwest.

Now, the coronavirus pandemic has dealt another blow to a vulnerable farm economy, sending crop and livestock prices tumbling and raising concerns about sudden labor shortages.

The chaos in the financial markets is likely to continue for the foreseeable future, and it is going to remain difficult for farm laborers to move around as long as “shelter-in-place” orders remain in effect on the state level.

Iowa farmer Robb Ewoldt told reporter Emma Newburger that “we’ve stopped saying it can’t get worse”, and he says that this coronavirus pandemic looks like it could be “the straw that broke the camel’s back”…

“We were already under extreme financial pressure. With the virus sending the prices down — it’s getting to be the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Iowa farmer Robb Ewoldt.

“We were hoping for something good this year, but this virus has stopped all our markets,” he said.

Of course this comes at a time when millions of Americans are losing their jobs and unemployment is shooting up to unthinkable levels. Without any money coming in, many people are already turning to alternative sources of help in order to feed themselves and their families.

On Monday, hundreds of cars were lined up to get food from a food bank in Duquesne, Pennsylvania. To many, this was eerily reminiscent of the “bread lines” during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

And it is also being reported that the number of people coming for free meals on Skid Row in Los Angeles has tripled since that city was locked down.

Sadly, these examples are likely only the tip of the iceberg of what we will see in the months ahead.

And it won’t just be the U.S. that is hurting. The following comes from a Guardian article entitled “Coronavirus measures could cause global food shortage, UN warns”…

Kazakhstan, for instance, according to a report from Bloomberg, has banned exports of wheat flour, of which it is one of the world’s biggest sources, as well as restrictions on buckwheat and vegetables including onions, carrots and potatoes. Vietnam, the world’s third biggest rice exporter, has temporarily suspended rice export contracts. Russia, the world’s biggest wheat exporter, may also threaten to restrict exports, as it has done before, and the position of the US is in doubt given Donald Trump’s eagerness for a trade war in other commodities.

If this pandemic stretches on for an extended period of time, food supplies are inevitably going to get even tighter.

So what can you do?

Well, perhaps you can start a garden this year if you don’t normally grow one. Apparently this pandemic has sparked a tremendous amount of interest in gardening programs around the country…

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, more people are showing an interest in starting home gardens. Oregon State University‘s (OSU) Master Gardener program took notice of the growing interest.

To help citizens who want to grow their own food, the university kindly made their online vegetable gardening course free until the end of April. OSU’s post on Facebook has been shared over 21,000 times.

Food is only going to get more expensive from here on out, and growing your own food is a way to become more independent of the system.

But if you don’t have any seeds right now, you may want to hurry, because consumer demand is spiking…

“It’s the largest volume of orders we have seen,” said Jere Gettle of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds in Mansfield, Missouri. Peak seed-buying season for home gardeners is January to March, but the normal end-of-season decline in orders isn’t happening.

Customers are gravitating to vegetables high in nutrients, such as kale, spinach and other quick-to-grow leafy greens. “Spinach is off the charts,” said Jo-Anne van den Berg-Ohms of Kitchen Garden Seeds in Bantam, Connecticut.

For years, I have been warning people to get prepared for “the perfect storm” that was coming, but of course most people didn’t listen.

But now it is upon us.

Desperate people have been running out to the grocery stores to stock up on toilet paper only to find that they are limited to one or two packages if it is even available.

And now that “panic buying” of seeds has begun, it is probably only a matter of time before many stores start running out.

We have reached a major turning point in our history, and things are only going to get crazier.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans still have absolutely no idea what is ahead of us…

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244 Comments on "Supplies Are Starting To Get Tight As Food Distribution Systems Break Down"

JuanP on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 7:17 pm

213,000 Americans infected now and 69,000,000 infected with influenza this year and 45,000 dead.
The CIAvirus is REAL Bad. It’s time to panic y’all.
WE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
WE
ALL
GONNA
DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 7:21 pm

“US fear mongering big time, and the gullible serfs are swallowing it…for now. Wait until the riots start.”

Makato-one Asia is the fear mongers and the liars. Makato-one is again on the wrong side of the issue with egg on his face. His partner juanPee is worse he does not care and does not know what planet he is on.

makati1 on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 7:38 pm

Pink, the hype is fantastic! The fear self induced by non-thinking people. If there is a god, she is laughing her ass off at the stupid humans.

“The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide, annual influenza epidemics result in about 3-5 million cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths.”

https://www.medscape.com/answers/219557-3459/what-is-the-global-incidence-of-influenza

When the death toll exceeds that of the annual flu deaths, I might believe it is worse, but until…

Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 8:42 pm

Your REAL stupid makato. Just because the flu infects and kills way more people doesn’t mean its the worst. The flu doesn’t get people all panicked and such like CIAVID-19 does.

WE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

dumbass

I AM THE MOB on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 8:47 pm

Someone derailed a FUCKING TRAIN trying to crash into the Navy Ship docked in LA.

“Moreno admitted he purposefully ran the train off the end of its tracks at full speed near the hospital ship in two separate interviews, officials said.

He allegedly told investigators he believed the ship — which docked at the port last week to relieve strain on area hospitals during the coronavirus outbreak — had a secret purpose related to COVID-19 or a government takeover.

Moreno said he wanted to “wake people up” and hoped the derailment would get media attention so “people could see for themselves,” according to prosecutors.

“You only get this chance once. The whole world is watching,” Moreno said when the officer confronted him, according to an arrest affidavit. “I had to. People don’t know what’s going on here. Now they will,” he told the officer.

He said he “thought that the USNS Mercy was suspicious and did not believe ‘the ship is what they say it’s for.’ ”

https://nypost.com/2020/04/01/engineer-derailed-train-near-usns-mercy-over-conspiracy-theory/

HAHAH! Pass the popcorn. I knew this was going to happen.

makati1 on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 9:24 pm

Insanity is spreading in Amerika. The serfs cannot handle the stress of reality. too fucking bad! NOT!

makati1 on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 9:26 pm

Davy, you earned thsi wish:

I hope the COVID-19 takes all of your family, your farm and so called wealth into the gutter. It would be well deserved. So be it! Pass the popcorn.

makati1 on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 9:29 pm

BTW: the sun is shining, The birds singing and the temp is 88F at 10:30 AM this Thursday morning. Heat stroke is more dangerous here, than some virus. stupid fuckers who believe they will die from some minor virus. The shutdown will cause more deaths and damage than the bug. LOL

I AM THE MOB on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 10:09 pm

Mak

Driving that train
High on cocaine
Casey Jones you better
Watch your speed

Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 10:25 pm

Corona carrier update:

The carrier Theo is in a desperate situation, now 3000 infected! Where are the Chinese when you need them?

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/01/politics/roosevelt-quarantine-guam/index.html

“Sailors from aircraft carrier hit by coronavirus outbreak to quarantine in Guam hotels“

Imagine that: 6000 sailors on a ship with very little space and everybody barking in each other’s face:

Yes, sirreeh!
At once, sirreeh!

Theo picked it up in “Nam”, so it is to be seen as a late revenge from the Vietcong.

The carrier Ronald is in the same situation, albeit docked in Japan, at a base that is in lockdown.

Jeez, NATO exercises in the Baltics were cancelled too. Corona is very good for world piece, much to the dismay of Washington.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-01/man-charged-derailing-train-hospital-ship-mercy

“Man charged with intentionally derailing train near hospital ship Mercy over coronavirus concerns“

April Fool prank?

But why the hell would you want to store non-corona patients on a f* ship? These are floating coffins these days! Even with a name like “Mercy” (from mercy killing?)

Here a picture of the terrorist. Is this an anti-Yank action, or what? “California-back-to-Mexico” stunt?

https://heavy.com/news/2020/04/eduardo-moreno-california-train-usns-mercy/

Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 10:48 pm

German gov calls for volunteers to bring in the harvest:

https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/coronavirus-news-am-donnerstag-die-wichtigsten-entwicklungen-zu-sars-cov-2-und-covid-19-a-2a494dab-1ab3-4eb8-8215-c8c9060302fc

42,000 volunteers so far, 300,000 are needed. Skepsis if they can replace experienced Eastern Europeans. Holland wants to mobilize bar tenders, UK has a problem too.

US increases army border protection with Mexico. To be seen as election campaign stunt.

Wimbledon cancelled, soccer competitions likewise, British Airways sends it staff home. Putin missing in action.

It’s that bad!

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/coronavirus-means-america-really-broke-trump-should-get-hell-out-syria-135932

“Coronavirus Means America Is Really Broke. Trump Should Get the Hell Out of Syria.“

REAL Green on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 1:24 am

“213,000 Americans infected now and 3100 dead. Compare that with 69,000,000 infected with influenza this year and 45,000 dead.”

So true Davy. So true.

Check out are blog.

Its REAL Lame, just like us…

FuelShortageComing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 2:27 am

Ontario in Canada is closing public school for a month. WOW, this whole world is going COVID full retard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcFRZdSCh7g

Never go full retard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y3FzVQi-R8

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 3:26 am

“~3100 US dead in 3 months from the COVID-19 scam.”

Non-issue.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/04/no_author/covid-19s-meant-to-be-a-new-black-death-but-in-britain-no-more-people-are-dying-than-normal/

“Covid-19’s Meant to be a New Black Death, But in Britain no More People Are Dying Than NORMAL”

People who will die from corona this year, won’t die from another cause this year.

Even if in the US 200,000 (mostly old) people will die from corona this year, it won’t have significant influence on the total number of deaths this year in the US.

You gotta die of something.

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 3:48 am

In the Netherlands, like everywhere else, there are two institutions most responsible for pushing through the diversity agenda:

1. media
2. sport

https://nos.nl/artikel/2329108-overmars-haalt-uit-naar-knvb-de-eredivisie-is-dood-het-leven-is-eruit.html

The 2nd one is now dead as a brick, for months to come. RIP

LOL

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 4:00 am

Andrew Cuomo being talked into becoming Dems presidential candidate to replace “Sleepy Joe”:

https://www.geenstijl.nl/5152705/de-cuomo-broers-zijn-terug-praten-over-gov-andrews-mogelijke-kandidaatschap-tegen-biden/#comments

Andrew says emphatically “no”.

But you know how it is with women and presidential candidates who say “no”… they say “no” until they say “yes”.

Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 4:12 am

“I hope the COVID-19 takes all of your family, your farm and so called wealth into the gutter. It would be well deserved. So be it! Pass the popcorn.”

That is an honor, makato-one, this means I have got deep into your sleazy awfulness and rubbed your nose in it. I wish the same for you but not your family. They are innocent as far as I can tell. You are guilty of horrible human crimes of hate and resentment. These crimes are daily and repetitive like a disease. It is my hope you experience the poetic justice of the virus taking you an inch from death.

Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 4:14 am

“Andrew Cuomo being talked into becoming Dems presidential candidate to replace “Sleepy Joe”

They better do something and quick. Sleepy Joe the pervert will lose the election with or without a good VP.

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 4:16 am

Busy body Bill Gates says:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinions-bill-gates-heres-how-to-make-up-for-lost-time-on-covid-19/ar-BB11YX7O

“Bill Gates: Here’s how to make up for lost time on covid-19”

Answer to Gates: DON’T make up for the “lost time”. Slow down, accept a few percentage points lost GDP. You and your oligarch corporate buddies have enough billions already. BAU is not the answer. The corona slowdown is a huge chance to initiate real change. Change you don’t want.

https://time.com/5622094/what-is-niksen/

Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 4:19 am

“The 2nd one is now dead as a brick, for months to come. RIP LOL”

In this day an age of the new normal there will not be wealth for sports at the level we have seen them grow to. Sports and Hollywood have a diet and haircut coming. Thank god because it is disgusting too see these personality cults for people who are nothing special really in the bigger picture. The liberal MSM is now a dead man walking. Talk about destroyed by moral corruption.

Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 4:22 am

“Coronavirus Means America Is Really Broke. Trump Should Get the Hell Out of Syria.“

The world is broke, cloggo, so all parties should get together around the camp fire and discuss alternatives. It does not work to see one party retreat and open a vacuum. This should be post pandemic hangover because this is a process that has much longer to run from peak sickness to economic consequences.

Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 4:27 am

“BTW: the sun is shining, The birds singing and the temp is 88F at 10:30 AM this Thursday morning. Heat stroke is more dangerous here, than some virus. stupid fuckers who believe they will die from some minor virus. The shutdown will cause more deaths and damage than the bug. LOL”

Typical makato-one, no empathy or caring except for himself. There is always that selfish righteousness of being better than anyone else. It is always a pleasure to moderate and neuter your failure after failure. Most all your positions have been failures so it is rich pickings to fuck with you makato-one. You pathetic disgusting piece of shit!

Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 4:31 am

“BAU is not the answer. The corona slowdown is a huge chance to initiate real change. Change you don’t want.”

Wow, that is a change from the days when the cloggo pounced on anything I said in regards to the decline process and collapse. I guess I was right and he was wrong. This is fundamental and complete with a new era before us. People can’t get their widdle minds around it yet until things like food and fuel are in shortage they still won’t understand. Now there is the virus to blame but latter it will just be the new reality.

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 4:35 am

“They better do something and quick. Sleepy Joe the pervert will lose the election with or without a good VP.”

I have predicted that Meghan Markle with her royal catch will be Dems candidate in 2024.

Joe Biden has announced that his Veep will be female.

I don’t predict it, but I wouldn’t be surprised 30/70 if Goldman-Sachs would broker a Markle-VP for Joe Biden-2020.

https://www.tatler.com/article/harrys-biographer-angela-levin-on-megxit

I see a Harry who has turned sour, callous even and is obviously stressed. Although I barely recognise him I still believe that internally he is tearing himself into shreds about leaving his family, his country and his military connections. Perhaps he copes by focusing on his resentment at allegedly being sidelined by his family.

Poor Harry the Royal, he is being owned by the highly ambitious commoner he dearly loves. And he doesn’t like it. But he is degraded to be her handbag and subservient to her ambition. If Biden will make the offer, she will accept, even if she knows that Biden likely will lose. She will nevertheless have shown her face on the stage of US politics, as a preparation for 2024, the most pivotal year in US history, just like 1991 was for Yugoslavia.

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 4:37 am

“Wow, that is a change from the days when the cloggo pounced on anything I said in regards to the decline process and collapse. I guess I was right and he was wrong.”

Complete BS. You believe in collapse, I believe in transition. Never said anything else.

Losing a few percentage points GDP is NOT collapse. The only collapse I believe in is in the USSR-1991 style collapse of the US empire.

Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 5:03 am

“Complete BS. You believe in collapse, I believe in transition. Never said anything else.”

LOLO, your idea was transition from wealth to more wealth from free energy and tech creating huge efficiencies making many things cheaper. Instead your high-tech world of wealth has led to a brittle failure over a virus little worse than the flue but much more infectious. That is the difference cloggo. I have talked about the unsustainability of your fake green world daily for years. BTW, I am much greener than you are. I have talked about the real transition to less with people behaving different. Big difference in these approaches cloggo. I was proactive with foresight of something macro that would not continue and you were completely wrong about your new world of moving from fossil fuels to renewables and richer. A world of PBM and new empires. You talked about WWIII and a Europe never being touched by troubles. FAILURE

“Losing a few percentage points GDP is NOT collapse. The only collapse I believe in is in the USSR-1991 style collapse of the US empire.”

LOLO again. Cloggo this is not going to be a few percentage points of a same as it always has been. This is a drop to a new level of activity with altered ways of living. Whole industries will not return as they were. Your standard response to this is the “collapse” word. While I consider collapse because it is always possible if the wrong variables come together, I almost always call this a process with events. You are just not very bright about system science or economics. Your world is about rewriting history and talking about the world according to the cloggo of fiction and fantasy. You preach a world made in your own image and think it is real. You are binary with Anglo derangement hatred. This derangement is not occasional as in emotions coming out on occasion with reality being mostly observed. This is mostly the emotions of Anglo deranged hatred being exhibited. Your people do nothing wrong and are great at everything the other side is a complete failure. This shit don’t hunt son! LMFAO. I would be here much less if it was not for the lunatic juanPee, the cloggo, and the makato-one because the material to moderate is so rich and delicious. You guys are one failure after another and I enjoy every moment crushing your lies and abomination of the truth.

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 5:07 am

“‘We need the Dunkirk spirit… time is running out’: Francis Crick Institute chief urges Boris Johnson to overrule control-freak public health chiefs and scale up mass testing across Britain”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8179185/We-need-Dunkirk-spirit-Francis-Crick-institute-demands-testing-change.html

Dunkirk spirit? You mean breaking the marathon record for 500,000 soldiers at the same time, fleeing away from the Germans, while abandoning your French allies without informing them? And next make it to Britain, not because of some non-existing “miracle”, but because Dolfie decided NOT to slaughter the retreating British, in a vain hope he could deescalate the situation and make peace with the British and withdraw from Holland, Belgium and France, as he offered?

The British frame everything in terms of the war they love to imagine to have “won”. If losing the greatest empire in world history and becoming a sorry member of someone else his empire and as a consequence lose your capital to Islam is called “winning”, I wonder what a loss is.

The fake “Dunkirk spirit” was in reality running away from the enemy and being spared by the magnanimity of the same enemy, that has deluded itself from 1871 until even today about the true anti-European intentions of the majority of the British.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYU6ju5r8lo

Here Paul Craigh Roberts, the US dissident who has become a David Irving adept on Dunkirk:

https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/05/15/the-lies-about-world-war-ii/

He (Hitler) was also mistaken to let the British go at Dunkirk. He let them go because he did not want to ruin the chance for ending the war by humiliating the British by the loss of their entire army. But with Churchill there was no chance for peace. By not destroying the British army, Hitler boosted Churchill who turned the evacuation into British heroics that sustained the willingness to fight on.

Amen.

Because of that mercy, we ended up with the “Jewish Century”, sometimes also mistakenly referred to as the “American Century” or more realistically the “Marxist Century”.

https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Century-Yuri-Slezkine/dp/0691119953/ref=sr_1_2

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 5:12 am

“LOLO, your idea was transition from wealth to more wealth from free energy and tech creating huge efficiencies making many things cheaper.”

I never said “from wealth to more wealth”.

I said that a rather problem-free energy transition from fossil to renewable is very well possible. There is no energy problem.

But… there is much more than just the energy aspect about the necessary transition of industrial society away towards more a sustainable society. I never gloated about renewable energy enabling acquiring more “stuff”. I was talking for instance about discouraging private car ownership and replace it with a more efficient national autonomous car robot. I was talking about replacing unnecessary travel with on-line communication.

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 5:25 am

Bad news for joe esquire:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8178189/Older-coronavirus-patients-taken-ventilators-BMA-guidelines.html

“Older coronavirus patients could be taken off ventilators so they can be given to younger and healthier patients under BMA guidelines”

Plain common sense. Old corona patients die for 80% in a ventilator, unlike younger patients.

When you are 81, statistically you are supposed to die. It is wonderful if you get a few extra years in relatively good health, with not too many pills, but 81 is the current life expectancy for males.

Tendency going down.

Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 5:30 am

This is a perfect storm of trade issues, weather, pests, viruses, and pandemic response. Expect to find some of your favorite foods not available. For some expect to go hungry during some part of the week. For the 3rd world where the makato-one lives expect some localized famine. I fast twice a week all day. I can tell you even after doing this for over 10 years it is still uncomfortable. You will find yourself in a bad mood and with an uncomfortable feeling in your gut at some point in the day. It does get better after a while. I am also a farmer. Normally I am selling lots of goats but nothing is moving now. My calves don’t sell until late summer so we shall see with them. The goats I sell after 60 – 90 days as breeding stock. I am growing my herd of both because I am anticipating food shortages. Many marginal producers will exit the business. This was never about making money for me and always about green prepping.

“Coronavirus could cause ‘disastrous’ global food shortages”
https://tinyurl.com/qvdgrdx msn

Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 5:33 am

“I never said “from wealth to more wealth”.

Sure you did, WTF do you think talking autonomous cars and free energy is?? LMFAO. Just admit you are wrong once, cloggo. Feel some humility instead of the fantasy of being a great Dutch Knight sweeping the globe before you like our ancestors did.

Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 5:44 am

What is hilarious about all this food talk is the fact that we have been digging into our supply reserves for years now as populations rise and food productivity stalls for multiple reasons. Last I checked reserves were the lowest on records. There is still lots of food in the system but currently logistics is an issue. Longer term it will be a significant fall in production as farming gets impacted by production issues related to the economic fallout of the pandemic. Things are not going to be planted and the so called “food chains” of monocultures will be altered. All this will have an impact on availability down the road yet, as usual the MSM, that has never farmed, says stocks are good. WTF happens when there are no stocks and more problems arise. What do we eat then? We are closer than ever to widespread food issues in a slow boil. This is what happens in a process of decline when people pat themselves on the back and say it fine. It is not fine so if you can grow some food this year. Food shortages might not happen until next year but growing food is not easy like some people think.

“Food Security Fears Are Starting to Threaten Asian Rice Exports”
https://tinyurl.com/rbssmkm yahoo

“(Bloomberg) — Panic buying at supermarkets and hoarding have raised fears over food supplies, and governments for their part are acutely aware that keeping everyone fed at affordable prices is crucial for political stability. Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine have already announced plans to limit wheat exports, and in Asia worries over making sure there’s enough food for everyone have now spread to rice, the main staple for billions of people in the region. China and India are the biggest global producers and consumers. Vietnam, the world’s third-largest shipper, has temporarily suspended new export sales to protect domestic supplies amid drought in the Mekong Delta. The prime minister has asked the trade ministry to submit an export plan before April 5, as shipments need to be controlled in order to ensure national food security, according to a posting on the government website. Myanmar has also said it may cut exports to avoid domestic shortages. “The countries are just operating out of an abundance of caution,” said Bangkok-based David Dawe from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization and a writer on rice economics. “They just want to make sure that they have enough supplies for themselves,” he said in an interview. Importers are also not taking any chances. The Philippines, Vietnam’s biggest market, is allocating more than $600 million for food sufficiency efforts and plans to buy 300,000 tons of rice, possibly through state deals with Southeast Asian suppliers, or through sources such as India and Pakistan. China, with 1.4 billion people to feed and where rice has been a cornerstone of food policy for centuries, increased purchase prices for some crops and pledged to buy a record amount from this year’s harvest to ensure supplies. It doesn’t import or export much relative to its consumption, but just wants to be sure of preserving rice reserves after the coronavirus upended the economy. Got Rice? The reality is that there is no actual shortage. Warehouses in India, the world’s largest exporter, are brimming over with rice and wheat on record harvests. Global production of milled rice is estimated at around a record 500 million tons in 2019-20 and global stockpiles are at an all-time high of more than 180 million tons, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 5:50 am

“Sure you did, WTF do you think talking autonomous cars and free energy is??”

Replacing in the Netherlands the current fleet of ca. 8.5 million cars with a few hundred thousand 8p autonomous, vans would imply a giant reduction of the ecological footprint, not “proof of more stuff”.

You are always adding that “LMFAO” because you very well sense that you have no arguments. You are juvenile to the core.

“Feel some humility instead of the fantasy of being a great Dutch Knight sweeping the globe before you like our ancestors did.”

The 17th century was Dutch, the 21st century will be PBM. Never suggested anything about a “great Dutch Knight” in this century.

Nevertheless, my country is still punching way above its numerical weight. Did I tell you that the Netherlands is the second agricultural exporter in the world? No? Did I tell you that it were Dutch diplomats who brought together the Germans and French after the war? No? Did I tell you that it is the Dutch who will volunteer to cough up a lot of money as a solidarity corona gift to the whining, extorting Italian tax dodgers, just because we feel responsible to keep the European lot together? No?

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/04/dutch-propose-eu-corona-medical-fund-will-contribute-up-to-e1bn/

“Dutch propose EU corona medical fund, will contribute up to €1bn”

This proves that in geopolitical stature, the Netherlands is #3 in the EU pecking order, behind Germany and France, but before Italy.

One thing you are right about though, I feel extremely good about being Dutch. Core European country. Little diamond.

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 6:08 am

“‘Spain is at the peak of the curve’: Country sees a record 950 coronavirus fatalities in a day but number of new infections increases by its slowest rate in sign lockdown is working”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8179745/Spain-suffers-day-record-coronavirus-deaths-950-killed-24-hours.html

Won’t be different for Britain in 1-2 weeks time and, proportionally, for the US as well in 2-3 weeks time.

By the end of April we will all be like Wuhan. Low number of new infections, hospitals no longer overburdened, much lower death rates.

Next step: mass anti-body testing, identifying those who already had corona and give them a visible badge as proof and “let them lose on society”, back to work, shops, cafe’s, pubic transport and get the economy going again, while keeping social distancing in place and the elder locked up until later in the year, when most people have anti-bodies and can’t infect old and weak people.

Perhaps a warm Summer will greatly help defeating the virus.

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 6:09 am

“pubic transport”

Make that “public transport”.

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 6:20 am

Der Spiegel ventilates the idea that younger people should be allowed to move freely while “locking up” the vulnerable elderly… and rejects the idea:

https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/coronavirus-ist-eine-kontaktsperre-nur-fuer-risikogruppen-eine-alternative-a-0f25ccea-780b-47ce-a06f-f76e98e6924d

In German politics many are getting nervous about the economic side-effects of the lock-down and demand an exit-strategy.

Again, after the end of April, when we have the numbers down, rapid, cheap and effective TESTING should be the core activity in beating the virus and identify new infections and “lock them up”, all the while gradually achieving “herd-immunity” and tagging those who could best the virus all by themselves, giving a good guarantee that these people will beat the virus next year as well.

I AM THE MOB on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 6:56 am

Clogg

Don’t worry wind power can bring in the harvest.

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 7:34 am

“Don’t worry wind power can bring in the harvest.”

Absolutely! The expectation in the Netherlands is that in 5-10 years time agriculture will be for 90+% robotized:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXElffEkWGk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYXnYKYi7Vg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaWYqQTRxC8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QorqCmPx_J4

Eastern Europeans out, robots in.

These robots will run on renewable electricity.

You’re not nearly as dumb as that you look, mobster! Pleasantly surprised!

Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 7:43 am

“Absolutely! The expectation in the Netherlands is that in 5-10 years time agriculture will be for 90+% robotized”

Bullshit, cloggo, people like you who are sitting on their nut sack now will be working the green houses. Your days of mindless preaching of a world according to cloggo are nearing an end. Friggin Robots. LMFAO

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 7:48 am

In the Netherlands after the war 17% was “boer”, now only 2%. Will be further reduced.

https://www.boerderij.nl/Boerenleven/Artikelen/2016/12/Boer-en-robot-gaan-samenwerken-71949E/

100% robotized farm in Japan (“Spread”)

http://spread.co.jp/en/technofarm/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEfyPlyJfKA

In Wolfsburg, 60,000 people produce 850,000 Volkswagen or 14 cars per worker per year. Most of the heavy lifting is done by machines.

Won’t be different in agriculture.

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 7:51 am

“Friggin Robots.”

You are projecting the future of the US onto Eurasia and that’s a mistake.

You have long stopped being the spearhead of human civilization. Just look at the state of your hospitals in these corona days.

Demographically you are with one leg in the third world. Expect corresponding economic and technological results.

The future is Eurasia. Sorry.

Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 7:55 am

Keep in mind this is global and local not just abstract national.

“US Labor Market Is In Free-Fall” – 10 Million Americans Have Filed For Unemployment In Past 2 Weeks”
https://tinyurl.com/tno4owm zero hedge

“Why This Matters The employment impact is going to felt for far longer, and will be far deeper, than the majority of the mainstream media and economists expect. This is because they are still viewing this as a “singular” problem of a transitory virus. It isn’t. The virus was simply the catalyst which started the unwind of a decade-long period of debt accumulation and speculative excesses. Businesses, both small and large, will now go through a period of “culling the herd,” to lower operating costs and maintain profitability. There are many businesses that will close, and never reopen. Most others will cut employment down to the bone and will be very slow to rehire as the economy begins to recover. Most importantly, wage growth was already on the decline, and will be cut deeply in the months to come. Lower wage growth, unemployment, and a collapse in consumer confidence is going to increase the depth and duration of the recession over the months to come. The contraction in consumption will further reduce revenues and earnings for businesses which will require a deeper revaluation of asset prices. I just want to leave you with a statement I made previously: “Every financial crisis, market upheaval, major correction, recession, etc. all came from one thing – an exogenous event that was not forecast or expected. This is why bear markets are always vicious, brutal, devastating, and fast. It is the exogenous event, usually credit-related, which sucks the liquidity out of the market, causing prices to plunge. As prices fall, investors begin to panic-sell driving prices lower which forces more selling in the market until, ultimately, sellers are exhausted. It is the same every time.”

Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 7:57 am

“You are projecting the future of the US onto Eurasia and that’s a mistake.”

More of the world according to the cloggo. It is a hilarious world of fiction and fantasy constantly adapted according to current events with cheap lipstick. This world looks a lot like a drug whore.

Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 8:14 am

Translation:

I just lost another argument

I AM THE MOB on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 8:23 am

European Union is in ‘Danger of Dying Out’ – EU Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni

“If Europe does not rise to this unprecedented challenge, there is a danger that the European house loses its foundation before the eyes of our citizens”, Giuseppe Conte told Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper.”

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/202003291078747204-covid-19-plunges-eurozone-into-crisis-with-european-currency-on-verge-of-exploding/

joe on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 8:28 am

with communism breaking out globally we are seeing an outbreak of domestic alcohol abuse and wife beating, a general feeling of uselessness and powerlessness. welcome to the socialist future.

fucj China. lets bring our factories home and cut off that filthy lying cover up cesspit.

DerHundistLos on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 9:04 am

The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming

The Pentagon warned the White House about a shortage of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds in 2017—but the Trump administration did nothing. Despite President Trump’s repeated assertions that the Covid-19 epidemic was “unforeseen” and “came out of nowhere,” the Pentagon was well aware of not just the threat of novel influenza, but even anticipated the consequent scarcity of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds, according to a 2017 Pentagon plan obtained by The Nation.

Abraham van Helsing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 9:27 am

Thanks TheHound, you just delivered the perfect argument against prematurely finger pointing at potential corona suspects.

At least we can tick off Donnie from the list.

Donnie maybe in many respects a buffoon, but a creep he ain’t.

Again, thanks TheHound!

#FourMoreYears

Duncan Idaho on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 10:27 am

“It was always going to come to this. Whether it was a pandemic triggering a shutdown, a climate emergency bursting the carbon bubble, a populist backlash against inequality, wars over water or countless other possible triggers, this moment has long been inevitable.”

FuelShortageComing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 10:28 am

Peakoil is such a joke. I have been bannedFé COVIDF hoax as to continue

Supplies Are Starting To Get Tight As Food Distribution Systems Break Down

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