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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.
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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 Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 10:56 am
Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 8:14 am
Translation:
I just lost another argument
Duncan Idaho on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 10:58 am
“Here are examples for some of the reasons why the U.S. will now experience a gigantic epidemic wave.
The reasons include ill discipline, ignorance and incompetence, nutty religiousness and racism.”
JuanP on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 11:03 am
And, Duncan, people like you
Duncan Idaho on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 11:30 am
Yep–
https://i0.wp.com/digbysblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/BenJennings_Trump_Dunce.jpg?w=550&ssl=1
Dredd on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 11:44 am
And don’t miss If Cosmology Is “Off,” How Can Biology Be “On?” – 2
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 12:15 pm
The #FilmYourHospital hashtag has taken off on Twitter!
Busted!
Duncan Idaho on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 1:32 pm
Pandemic be damned, Secret Service just signed a new golf cart rental contract with Trump’s VA club
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/2/1933620/-Pandemic-be-damned-Secret-Service-just-signed-a-new-golf-cart-rental-contract-with-Trump-s-VA-club
The Fat Boy and the Thugs do have humor—-
Duncan Idaho on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 1:35 pm
I think we have no choice but to assume that Rudy smells money:
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/31/rudy-giuliani-wants-fda-to-fast-track-a-stem-cell-therapy-for-covid-19-critics-see-political-meddling/
joe on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 3:21 pm
Trump knows this virus is bullshit. Well have herd immunity by the time any useful medicines come out. But right now the government can throw money at whatever it wants it’s a cash bailout unlimited FED party baby, next stop, end of days…..
makati1 on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 5:40 pm
“Typical makato-one, no empathy or caring except for himself.” Not so DDD. I just know when I have no power to change things so I sit by an watch the events unfold. 202 is truning out to be more “interesting” than I expected.
I DO wish the US goes into the shitter so deep it cannot support wars of choice anymore. Has no power to embargo or restrict trade or financial services between countries. In other words, it needs to become a 3rd world country and mind its own business. The sooner the better. I think that process just got a huge boost from the new flu panic. $5 oil! Go for it!
Still more people dying from other diseases than the new flu. An average of 1,500 PER DAY here!
As of now, there are 107 COVID-19 deaths here. Out of a population 32% that of the US.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=causes+of+death+in+the+philippines+2019
As for me and mine, we will manage and survive OK, thank you. Another sunny day here in the Philippines.
BTW: The daily deaths in the US from all causes, about 7,000. – Google.
90 days X ~7,000 = ~630,000 US deaths since January 1. US Coronavirus deaths = 5,827 as of today. 1%?
makati1 on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 5:41 pm
LOL 2020, not 202. Need to proofread.
Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 5:58 pm
makato-one you have a shit storm ahead with or without the virus. IOW you are fucked. OH, and your death numbers in the p’s is not reliable. You are a poor 3rd world country. Get a grip stupid.
Duncan Idaho on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 6:28 pm
Hint:
“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.”
makati1 on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 6:30 pm
DDD, dream on! You only wish that were so. I’m not the one with a bad future, you are. Nothing has changed for me here. My days are as I described them previously. I am enjoying my retirement. My SS income stream will continue and maybe $1,200++ will be added later by your deeply indebted, loser country as dollars become even more worthless. I’m prepared for this event. You are not.
The US is dying and now the flu hysteria is jumping on its corpse. The greedy Wall Street Casino is burning. The elite are trying to get to their shelters before the total lock down and gun riots begin. Shades of the 60s when cities burned.
The shit is hitting the fan 24/7 in Amerika. A very interesting year, Chinese meaning of ‘interesting’, of course. LOL
Duncan Idaho on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 6:32 pm
“Regardless of the precise solution, the lesson is clear: pumping new money into the economy without altering power relations will only exacerbate existing inequalities. We made this mistake in 2008 – it’s essential that we don’t make it again.”
makati1 on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 6:35 pm
DDDavy actually believes the US numbers are reliable! LMAO!
Hell! They still aren’t testing a reliable number of cases. Didn’t start until maybe thousands already died.
No numbers are real that come from ANY government these days. Even if the stated Ps numbers are half the real ones, they are way below the per capita US numbers which may be multiples of those reported.
The Philippine economy will recover and grow. The US not so much. It will never recover.
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 6:44 pm
Mak
Scamdemic!!!
Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 6:52 pm
makato-one, you are not very bright as the years of your failed positions prove so your comment is more clueless BS. The world is going into a depression and your overpopulated Island that can’t feed itself will be a bad place to be. That’s common sense yet that is something you lack. You will eventually come home to your daughter with your tail between your legs a broken old man with your stupid cocky attitude gone…that is, if not in a body bag.
makati1 on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 6:57 pm
Yes MOB, I agree. PURE SCAM. Power grab by the One Worlders. Nothing more. Leveling the West is a necessary step. The Great Leveling.
makati1 on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 7:03 pm
DDDavy, personal attacks are not debates. Your panic is showing.
Did your brag that you had a Northern Italy hideout work out for you? It supposedly has the worst air pollution in all of the EU. Hense the high death rate from the flu. You cannot even get there these days. Great hideout! LOL
makati1 on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 7:27 pm
Duncan too late! $2,000,000,000,000.(Two Trillion!) printed and less than $300,000,000,000.(~15%) goes to help the average citizens who need it most. But, save the bankers and billionaires…again! Fuck Wall Street!
God, how fucked Amerikans are! only pitch forks and guillotines will change things and that is not likely to happen. The tax slaves are too brainwashed and lazy To put down their masters. Soon no middle class in Amerika. Sigh!
Davy on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 7:30 pm
Then why do you do it, makato? You do shit then point fingers at the same shit. You really are warped. Northern Italy is fine in the mountains where my wife has property. No cases in her village. I have no intentions of moving there. You trolls are the ones who make the big deal about it. I guess you are jealous. That is expected because of the poor life styles you guys live.
FuckPeakOilCom on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 7:36 pm
Peakoil.com sucks they closed my account. This world has gone full retard. We will never recover.
We hate juanPee on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 8:00 pm
juanPee, it was pretty obvious you were going to get booted from the moderated side. You are a psychopathic personality that only fellow psychopaths like makati1-one get along with.
JuanP on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 8:23 pm
Delusional Davy “… you are not very bright as the years of your failed positions prove so your comment is more clueless BS.”
Another beautiful projection by the board’s lunatic! LOL!
JuanP on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 8:25 pm
Mak, Davy never had anything in Italy, except in his mind. His Italian wife is His name for his favorite goat! ROFLMFAO!
Anonymouse on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 8:27 pm
ROFL, I though we had cured you of your Italian ‘wife’ and ‘doomstead’ delusions exceptionalturd. Apparently not. I see you still cling to them like you do your goats behind. Still, I think it would be great if you would post some pictures of you ducking the ‘pandemic’ in your make-believe Italian hideaway. You know, seeing a picture of you standing guard on the walls of your fortress
with your Iphone2 at the ready, would shut all the fuckwacks up that keep pointing out how totally full of goatshit you really are.
JuanP on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 8:29 pm
Delusional Davy “You do shit then point fingers at the same shit. You really are warped.”
You are projecting again, Exceptionalist! Don’t you realize that all these projections clearly show how deeply mentally disturbed you are? Everyone else does! That is why nobody on this forum supports you any more. Everybody here, without exception, knows as a fact that you are clinically insane!
FuelShortageComing on Thu, 2nd Apr 2020 11:46 pm
PeakOil.com is such a bullshit website. They delete my account (FuelShortageComing). What you dont like the truth or WTO gave you money to block me
REAL Green on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 1:02 am
JuanP is write Davy. We all no how metaly disturbed we our.
We need to see the docter. REAL Bad like.
Theedrich on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 1:30 am
The computer models may be worse than the virus. See ‘Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say?’: Professors claim more data needed to know mortality rate, in The Washington Examiner, Friday, April 03, 2020.
In spite of the dubiousness of highly touted computer models, the frenzy to shut down the world has continued. See also Fear Mongering COVID-19 Epidemiologist Says He Was Wrong, and a revealing interview with author Alex Berenson on Fox News, Alex Berenson Breaks Down the Broken and Completely False Coronavirus Models.
It now appears that, on the basis of “GIGO” (“Garbage In, Garbage Out”), the apocalyptists are going to “save” the planet by bankrupting it.
Abraham van Helsing on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 3:11 am
Corona is most of all a media-created hype and scare. When this is all over the yearly death rate won’t have hardly changed as compared to last year, “only the economy” will be ruined, with consequences for years to come.
From a white nationalist perspective, there are quite some positive aspects attached to this pandemic. Like kicking off massive social unrest and required mobilization that could lead to secession.
Abraham van Helsing on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 3:25 am
BoJo still alive, albeit a little groggy…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8181677/Thanks-Thousands-people-UK-join-applaud-NHS.html
…Hancock also, even Brexit old-timer Michel Barnier is still tweeting, probably not from a ventilator, let alone from a grave:
https://twitter.com/michelbarnier
Prince Charles is fine as well.
We all wish these fine people a speedy recovery.
Abraham van Helsing on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 3:36 am
This is the Trump we remember from the 2016 campaign: “wouldn’t it be nice if we could get along with Russia?” Trump is a man of peace, hasn’t started a single war.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8182681/Trump-dismisses-warnings-Vladimir-Putin-use-Russian-medical-supplies-Kremlin-propaganda.html
“I’ll take it’: Donald Trump dismisses warnings that Vladimir Putin will use 60 tons of Russian medical supplies sent to New York as Kremlin propaganda, calling it a ‘nice gesture'”
Of course, the Dims war mongers denounce the Russian peace offer as propaganda.
Trump and Putin for Nobel Peace Prize!
The Dim Obama, responsible for the Syrian bloodbath, should be deprived of the prize.
#FourMoreYears
Abraham van Helsing on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 3:49 am
Public Service Announcement for people who have more chins than a Chinese phone book
Update corona mortality. Not 80% but 90% of the Dutch ICU dwellers has obesitas
https://www.geenstijl.nl/5152720/niet-80-maar-90-corona-ic-ers-heeft-obesitas/
To top it of, the average age of a corona dead in Italy is 81. Won’t be much different elsewhere.
https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artikel/5062671/cijfers-italie-corona-mutatie-besmetting-virusstreng-populatie
The Importance of Being Earnest on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 4:05 am
News flash, Cloggie, your butt buddy, Donie, promised so many times to put an end to “wasteful Middle East wars” that the count is well over 100, yet with eight months remaining in his term it has been business as usual. Actually, he has increased troop numbers. Almost as bad, he reinstalled the neo-con archetects of the Iraq war into positions of power.
You failed to mention these issues, clogged. What a surprise.
ANAL REAPER on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 4:11 am
Cloggie aka Abraham
I find it most curious that you more than any other non-US person I know by a million miles take an unbelievable amount of interest in US politics, including well worn political slurs and insults.
Very curious indeed.
The World According to Clogged on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 4:14 am
“Corona is most of all a media-created hype and scare.”
Not according to your Dear Leader, numbnuts. You better get with the current Fat Orange messaging, dumbass.
Abraham van Helsing on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 4:34 am
“I find it most curious that you more than any other non-US person I know by a million miles take an unbelievable amount of interest in US politics, including well worn political slurs and insults.”
I’m very active on Dutch and German forums as well. I’m interested in geopolitics and most of all in geopolitical change. The US is, unfortunately, still the European overlord, although the end of that state of affairs is in sight. Hence my interest. Testing the waters by “interrogating” the cells of the US body politic.
“News flash, Cloggie, your buddy, Donie, promised so many times to put an end to “wasteful Middle East wars” that the count is well over 100, yet with eight months remaining in his term it has been business as usual. Actually, he has increased troop numbers. Almost as bad, he reinstalled the neo-con archetects of the Iraq war into positions of power.”
Try to let sink in the meaning of “he didn’t start any new wars”. You may use a dictionary for this exercise.
Davy on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 5:13 am
If Putin is taking the virus seriously then I think it something. I have said this from the beginning this virus may not be worse than the flu in technically or statistically but in the real world it is something. The reason being our modern world is not capable of dealing with it because it has been constructed in a brittle way that allows pandemics massive effect through global travel and value chains. This is human and economic so comparing the flu and covid19 is not a valid comparison. This comparison is something low IQ people do who cannot dig deeper into these issues. I am not happy about the suffering but in my opinion this shock is needed. It will cause necessary change by a deep recession or depression which will forces a reset to something more sustainable. This will be global. This may be better or worse but something was needed. Worse was coming anyway let’s get on with changes because time was running out. The world was on not on a sustainable path. It will turn people local by default and everyone will be involved. Everyone will be poorer at once through the same haircut. The virus is fairness in action. There will be finger pointing but only the usual low IQ kind that points fingers anyway. The virus is doing this. It is a pandemic that can’t be handled systematically. The tipping points were there pre-virus and they are many and varied. The virus only initiated the slide.
Davy on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 5:25 am
This points to a debt jubilee of sorts. This will mean a haircut for all somehow it is just unclear how. Debt in these economic times is just not manageable plain and simple of it. Debt in the past, 08, was mopped up by various financial mechanisms but the amounts were far lower. This is big and it is global. It may be a time for a new currency regime also but that is another conversation and of course would occur after some kind of stability returns to the major players. Stability may not return because serious change that is painful is ahead.
“Here Comes The Next Crisis: Up To 30% Of All Mortgages Will Default In “Biggest Wave Of Delinquencies In History”
https://tinyurl.com/vskb5t2 zero hedge
“According to estimates by Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, as many as 30% of Americans with home loans – about 15 million households – could stop paying if the U.S. economy remains closed through the summer or beyond. “This is an unprecedented event,” said Susan Wachter, professor of real estate and finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She also points out another way the current crisis is different from the 2008 GFC: “The great financial crisis happened over a number of years. This is happening in a matter of months – a matter of weeks…But if the economic turmoil is long-lasting, the government will have to find a way to prevent foreclosures – which could mean forgiving some debt, said Tendayi Kapfidze, Chief Economist at LendingTree. And with the government now stuck in “bailout everyone mode”, the risk of allowing foreclosures to spiral is just too great because it would damage financial markets and that could reinfect the economy, he explained. “I expect policy makers to do whatever they can to hold the line on a financial crisis,” Kapfidze said hinting at just a trace of a conflict of interest as his firm may well be next to fold if its borrowers declare a payment moratorium. “And that means preventing foreclosures by any means necessary.”
makati1 on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 5:41 am
“As an article in the New York Times correctly pointed out a few days ago, efforts being taken in the West to combat the coronavirus are failing. …The events that have unfolded in the fight to contain the coronavirus signal the end of so-called transatlantic and European solidarity. … China, South Korea, and other East Asian countries, not to mention Russia, have all managed to do a better job at containing the virus than Western countries.”
https://journal-neo.org/2020/04/02/a-turning-point-in-our-history/
“The torrent of Americans filing for unemployment insurance skyrocketed last week as more than 6.6 million new claims were filed, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That brings to 10 million the total Americans who filed over the past two weeks…. Of course millions more jobs will be lost in the months ahead as this pandemic stretches on.”
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/this-is-what-economic-collapse-looks-like
Not looking good, Amerika! Buckle up! Papers please! Where’s your mask?
Davy on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 6:00 am
“Not looking good, Amerika! Buckle up! Papers please! Where’s your mask?”
Pretty obvious the worst hit region will be Asia with its overpopulation and systematic need for a global economic system based on exports of low-income and middle-income nations. Once job loses mount in Asia from lowered economic activity and value chain retrenchment the cascading effects on a place clearly in overshoot on multiple levels will be dramatic. So, makato-one’s, journal neo (Russian) propaganda piece is cherry picking pain for the west when the real story is Asia will be the epicenter of economic collapse. One need only look at China for its authoritarian approach and its lies and cover ups to see the Asian rot. OH, yes, western pain is coming too. It is for full view because it is talked about in the west from a fully alive alternative media. In Asia free speech is nonexistent in the alternative side unless that is anti-West so the knuckle head makato-one who thinks in one dimension is convinced he is fine and the west is dead. LMFAO
Davy on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 6:18 am
“CONCERNED THAT ASIA COULD BLOW A HOLE IN FUTURE ECONOMIC RECOVERY”
https://tinyurl.com/rdpw5ae technical trader
“We believe the disparity between the global markets and the numbers China continues to proffer will quickly result in a complete lack of confidence in future data related to any Chinese economic activity or future expectations. We also believe the global capital markets will make an immediate shift away from risks associated with any falsified data originating from China by mitigating forward risks in investments and currency market exposure over the next 3 to 5+ years – possibly longer…What happens when global events like the COVID-19 virus event takes place is that capital immediately attempts to identify extreme risks and attempt to move to safer environments. Currencies are no different. Global markets, investment, and manufacturing are increasingly exposed to risks related to the shifting markets and any false or otherwise “outlier” data being reported right now. The bigger players can’t afford to take risks and will take active measures to protect their futures and investments…Watch how quickly global economies and currencies work to mitigate the risks related to perceived “outlier data”. We believe most of Asia will continue into an economic contraction over the next 3+ months and we believe the FOREX market will relate the immediate risk concerns related to Asia/China/global market expectations. In other words, watch the currencies to see how global investors perceive risks associated with true economic activity.”
Davy on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 6:27 am
There are problems with the cloggo’s free energy idea when it becomes clear it is not free when a grid must be redesigned and storage is minimal.
“Germany’s Maxed-Out Grid Is Causing Trouble Across Europe”
https://tinyurl.com/rsn6t85 green tech media
“The growing mismatch between Germany’s renewables capacity and the strength of its electricity network is leading to curtailment, crazy pricing and challenges for neighboring nations. Although Germany is generating record amounts of clean energy in the north, its grid is too weak to transport all the power down to load centers in the south — a longstanding challenge for the country that is only getting worse. One of the most visible effects of this renewable energy saturation on the German grid is negative wholesale electricity prices, times when consumers are effectively being paid to use excess power.”
Davy on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 6:37 am
LOLO, makato-one is finger pointing about “papers please” when in the P’s you can just get shot instead. Plus makato-one is finger pointing pain when the p’s is set to explode in virus infection numbers. What a dumb fuck
“Shoot them dead’ – Philippine leader says won’t tolerate lockdown violators”
https://tinyurl.com/v539rf4 reuters
“MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has warned violators of coronavirus lockdown measures they could be shot for causing trouble and said abuse of medical workers was a serious crime that would not be tolerated. In a televised address, Duterte said it was vital everyone cooperates and follows home quarantine measures, as authorities try to slow the contagion and spare the country’s fragile health system from being overwhelmed. he Philippines has recorded 96 coronavirus deaths and 2,311 confirmed cases, all but three in the past three weeks, with infections now being reported in the hundreds every day. “It is getting worse. So once again I’m telling you the seriousness of the problem and that you must listen,” Duterte said late on Wednesday.”
Cloggie on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 6:41 am
“There are problems with the cloggo’s free energy idea when it becomes clear it is not free when a grid must be redesigned and storage is minimal.”
Again these eternal distortions by our sloppy fake intellectual.
I never said that renewable energy is “free”.
For lack of better I accept the judgment of the renowned German Fraunhofer Institute, that says that a 100% renewable energy base, which necessarily needs to come with storage options, is about as expensive as an energy base, based on fossil fuel.
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/blueprint-100-renewable-energy-base-for-germany/
“Germany’s Maxed-Out Grid Is Causing Trouble Across Europe”
Yes, the building of a new energy base will come with considerable growth pains. But we have no choice:
– climate
– running out of conventional oil and gas
Once you realize this, you better be first to accomplish the transition and rake in all the patents and industries, putting your geopolitical competitors at a distance.
People, like most here, who claim that “renewable energy can’t exist without fossil fuel”, should be subsidized by Europeans, while the latter laugh all the way to the bank.
All human achievements are based on leaving your comfort zone. People who don’t have the energy, intelligence, motivation and will power to do so, should opt for a third world life based on tree hugging, veggie garden and keeping goats and chickens.
Davy on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 6:42 am
More AsiaUp makato-one news:
“For some Chinese businesses, there’s no going back to life before the coronavirus”
https://tinyurl.com/w74xop2 cnbc
“As of Monday, more than 429,000 business have dissolved or suspended operations for the year so far, according to analysis from Qichacha, which runs a Chinese business information database.”
Davy on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 6:44 am
“I never said that renewable energy is “free”.”
Liar, you do all the time. You can’t put lipstick on that one cloggo!! LMFAO. too cheap to meter bullshit
Davy on Fri, 3rd Apr 2020 6:46 am
“subsidized by Europeans, while the latter laugh all the way to the bank. All human achievements are based on leaving your comfort zone. People who don’t have the energy, intelligence, motivation and will power to do so, should opt for a third world life based on tree hugging, veggie garden and keeping goats and chickens.”
You Euros are broke cloggo and now your system of subsidies will not work especially when the true size of the costs are realized. You just have not made the transition to reality yet.