I am losing weight. Intentionally eating less cause our meat packing plants are getting shutdown by corona. Am assuming the food I have remaining, meat wise, may be my last.
I am officially letting Sean Hannity, Trace Gallagher and Bret Baier off the hook. I know they will be greatly relieved.
I see that they are proceeding cautiously with their reporting on this matter, and I can understand that.
I appreciated Sean’s showing of the video of Chinese people being forcefully removed from their homes. Man that is some scary, scary stuff. Some people in this world are just nightmares.
Hmmm... That’s when you put out the dog proof coon traps.
Seriously though, at present I believe there are more problems with lack of demand than lack of supply.
Then again, here locally we have a little meat shop that gets very busy during deer season, processing deer. Otherwise they mostly sell beef sides, quarter hogs, and such, although they also offer smaller quantities @ (usually) higher prices than most of the groceries. I’ve never seen them advertise on TV, and most of the time it looks to me (judging by the parking lot) they do a modest business.
Now? Holey G’Moley. They are running TV & Facebook ads, which include, in addition to higher end steaks and such, brand name bacon at $30 for 15 lbs. (coronary city!) or $57 for 30 lbs. (my goodness, start digging the grave), and 81% lean ground beef @ $31 for 10 lbs. The place is freaking mobbed. Well, as mobbed as it can be and still follow social distancing guidelines. The parking lot has been full to overflowing every time I go by, with many people standing, waiting to get in, outside. The TV ad assures no shortages with a truck delivering to them each day. I believe they’re well into the 2nd week of this, now.
Who their suppliers are, I don’t know.
Another local grocery is short on many items, but not meats. Wal Mart & Aldi seem ok on meats too. I did notice Aldi wasn’t running much in the way of meat on sale, though.
I guess we’ll see how this holds up.
The TP & paper products (tissue, paper towels, etc.) shortage is certainly continuing.