Excuse me, but I was in a 3 week US government lock-down situation. There were a few hundred women and children stuck in isolation and they did not bring us FOOD. After just a few days, the little shoppette and our pantries were empty. Suddenly, baby formula and cleaning supplies became and emergency and it happened shockingly fast.
I was the one that called the post commander and explained the situation to him. He was horrified and actually said the words, “Oh! We didn’t think of that!”
Within hours, semi-trucks were showing up loaded with provisions.
So, yes. It is freaking IMPORTANT. And it’ll be even MORE important if it’s a mass quarantine situation because people will become desperate and break quarantine fast if they have no certainty that help is coming. To keep the peace, you keep the population fed and reassured.
Oh, Relax. My point was that she was TOTALLY unprepared for ANY emergency. And that’s just stupid.
I was once stationed remote in the Aleutians and we had no resupply for 3 months due to hellacious weather. We were TDY, and were used to cooking our own meals, but we ran out of everything. The only things left in the shoppette were fat-free cookies and canned asparagus. After weeks of no greens, I finally bought one, dusted it off and tried to cook it. I learned that I will starve to death before I can actually eat canned asparagus.
We ended up having food enough, but I was dreaming of lettuce and green beans. Laundry soap and toiletries were literally worth their weight in gold. This was on a military base supposedly prepared for an extended siege; something that no American city can say...