Posted on 03/19/2020 9:19:08 AM PDT by C19fan
Stuck rationing toilet paper because you didn't stockpile during the coronavirus panic over the last few days? Don't worry, according to supply chain experts.
"All the grocery stores are going to have pallets of toilet paper sitting in the aisles and nobody is going to buy it because who needs to buy toilet paper when you got a year's worth sitting in your garage," Daniel Stanton, a supply chain expert and author of "Supply Chain Management for Dummies," tells CNBC Make It. But what about food? Even if the COVID-19 pandemic stretches over months (President Donald Trump said it could last until August), there will no big food shortages, especially on staples like milk, eggs, cheese, bread and meat, according to three supply chain experts who spoke to Make It.
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Heh-heh ... I totally can relate to your comment. Back in the mid 2000s when my three sons were in HS, a gallon of milk might make it thru a day. On weekends, two a day.
Hold on to it. In a month or so you’ll have cottage cheese.
Ditto. I have a 14 year old that can put down a gallon a day if allowed to.
Hadn't really thought about distilling my own. Sounds like a good project. Time to go looking for tubing....
Yup.. FOLO because we know we can’t trust that our enemies foreign and domestic won’t take advantage of this crisis and purposely make it worse for us.
I bought a home server (a Synology “NAS” - Network Attached Storage) which feeds Plex running on my AppleTV and ripped all my DVDs and BluRays. I have over 500 movies ready to watch at any time without having to plop a disc in a machine. I get movie discs from other sources such as friends, too.
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My son did a bit of grocery shopping for us yesterday. I asked that he buy bacon. He brought home TURKEY BACON!!
Who is this kid? Is he mine??
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I’m sure he can be cured.
LOLOL. Really, I am LOL. Thanks!
I buy the high grade hamburger but don't recall ever buying anything with the certified angus beef label in recent years. Thanks for the tip..
This might be one of those unintended consequences you hear about.
A lot of people are going to start making sure that they aren't caught completely flat footed again like they were this time.
I'd think that is a good lesson to learn. The governments around the world have spent the last 75 years trying to make their populations less self sufficient and more dependent on the government.
Events like we are experiencing now go a long way toward getting people to start thinking right about who's responsible for your well being.
To where are all these quarantined people thinking they need to drive?
Thanks. I learned something new.
https://hillsidehomestead.com/2013/11/22/preserving-eggs-lard-beeswax-success-failure-promise/
Oh yes!
Make soda bread. In your Crock-Pot.
Because when one person sneezes 7 shit their pants. (courtesy of an Irishman via radiihost Jim Polito)
For most of human history, scarcity of necessities was a fact of life. Our ancestors would be rolling on the ground laughing at us for freaking about over not being able to buy soft tissue to wipe our butts with for a few days.
Normally, 1/3 of that stuff is true, 1/3 wrong, 1/3 lies. In crazy markets the 1/3 true is more like 1/20th.
It’s so bad, that as a professional adviser, I don’t even look at the stuff for fear that I might be tricked and then pass on to clients. It’s that toxic.
In extreme markets, the best action is to have been prepared before the event. In this case, I was. Not that it’s helping with price erosion, but at least my portfolios aren’t full of crap. I’ve got a big collection of dividend paying contrarian stuff.
“I think the major items of concern are more tied towards raw materials or packaging coming out of China that support the broader food chain,” Hernandez tells Make It, explaining the China is an important exporter to the U.S. and provides things like quinoa and spices.
I can live without Quinoa...
Or when the Chinee sent us toxic drywall? And our families got sick? And our damn liberal 'elites' hardly covered the stories because China was paying off all their friends in one way or another?No, but the damn 'elites' sure made a fuss about Trump calling this the China flu... Maybe we should buy press bimbos too...
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