Bartering works for me. The one problem is that we live in a small town not near anything a decent size, which is pretty typical for NYS. Upstate NY is pretty rural.
This is going to have a huge impact on the farmers who have to ship their food out.
Local farmers should get together and have a farmers market, or pick one week-end a month and open their farms to sales to the locals. They could still charge the same prices for their goods that they charge the bigger companies. If they helped the locals, when times get tough, the locals will help the farmers. It’s not a perfect system, but nothing is. I believe in working together to attain certain goals. Staying alive should be everyones goals...........regardless of what the government wants.