Starting to think there’s an outside chance this could snowball to much worse than Spanish flu due to immune attack capability... we’ve been operating under baseless assumption that this can’t be worse than 1918, but that ignores fact that there’s more that can go wrong in 2020
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How much more centralized and complex are the food supply lines now vs then? Are they flexible in ways that can handle large processing centers going off line?
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I’d guess something like 50% lived on small farms then. Today <2% iirc, so rest get centralized Big Ag food.
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The latter already exemplified by states' unemployment systems and need for COBOL programmers
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If you think this through to worst case scenarios, that you can prepare for at an individual level, the list I could come up with are grid failure that (prepare for water, power, and electronic payment outages), food supply issues, internet degradation, and looting/rioting
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I’ve been on the WCS train of thought since early March and did most of everything I could to plan for those contingent possibilities. Trying to be ahead of the supply chain disruption. I never really thought the SC was very strong. The grid I know less about
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Weak links right here.
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