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Is this legit, wtf is going on?

Is this legit, wtf is going on?

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[–] • 9 pts

The USA feeds almost half the world.

There is no shortage of food.

Transportation, however, is another matter entirely.

Transportation is highly disrupted.

Just in time inventory management has all but collapsed. It is highly stressed at the moment.

Driver availability is an issue, as is rising fuel costs. Delays loading and offloading, etc.

This was always the fear related to Just in time systems.

Disruption in any single component fucks up the entire system.

Choke points in the system become clogged with undelivered supplies, leaving gaps and voids in other areas.

Back in the cold war days we kept three years of supplies in storage at all times.

Warehouses packed to the brim.

Nowadays warehousing is not for long term storage so much as flow through storage. It's just what you are expected to use up in the near future.

You can somewhat offset the disruption effect by carrying inventory on your end. Like stockpiling food in your house, for example.

I just moved out closer to the source of the food. I buy very little from supermarkets these days. Maybe once every other month or so. I still like toilet paper as much as the next first world citizen.

I haven't started gardening yet, but that too is probably going to happen.

[–] • 4 pts

My line of work we specialize (specialized) in JIT. Supply chains are fucked. No product, nobody to drive product that is available. Ocean lines backed up, air backed up. Fucked.

[–] • 0 pt

I suspect a combination of effects, but at least part of it is probably deliberate.

Real covid virus has a half life of 18 hours or so, at room temperature, in the shade. Say some Chinese worker coughs covid onto a product that is then sealed warm, safe, and dry, in a cardboard package and shipped overseas. After 21 days or so days there is no detectable trace of any virus contamination. So you keep the packages backlogged in the system, sitting in boxes, waiting to move. It has the same effect as a deliberate quarantine policy, without the official enforcement burden. No need to inspect every package either, just delay the whole ship.

Just like black plague times.

So what do you do if the virus is already in your country? Same thing, just gum up the shipping of everything back and forth. Delay delay delay, everything. This cuts any virus spread via surface contamination down to zero.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

I started trucking back when Just-In-Time was beginning. Companies used to have huge stockpiles of food and goods, but that warehousing costs were really high.

At about the same time, the Department of Transportation came up with the CDL and increased regulations on drivers. A perfecxt storm was brewing and it may soon hit the fan all due to government regulation crimping the transportation sector. Just-In-Time becomes Oh-Fucking-Well.

[–] • 6 pts

Mass fear has failed. They are moving forward with their next gain of function exercise.

[–] • 2 pts

So it’s actually happening….has anyone been preparing?

[–] • 6 pts

Probably not. The Libtards are in mass panic now. Most of America are stuck to our electronic devices, and not preparing enough. The short game is sitting and just complaining. The long game should be prepping, keeping a low profile, and getting out of the college towns, and moving out of the cities. Should of been is gone.

[+] [deleted] • 6 pts
[–] • 3 pts

The survivalists have their acres of land and farming techniques, they will do fine. The rest of the world is relaying the message that something should be done but hardly any of them are actually getting into the specifics of what to do and how.

The argument against doing anything is that it does not matter if you have food for decades, if it truly hits the fan, it will not be enough.

[–] • 2 pts

My gf hoards food like it's going out of style. Note, I didn't say eats it. That never happens since most of it isn't what I would want to eat on a good day. But on a bad day, sure.

[–] • 5 pts

If you'll notice, the shelves have been a bit empty ever since last year, and I've noticed certain products seem to be in shorter supply these days.

What's odd is the small, single-store place where my friend lives in PA never had an issue. Sure, some things weren't as well-stocked as before, but there was never any shortages, and the shelves were full throughout the scamdemic. Go to Kroger or Giant Weasel, and the shelves were bare regardless of the size of the town you were in.

That tells me the big corps are in on something.

[–] • 3 pts

what in the niggerfuck is a Giant Weasel?

[–] • 3 pts

Sorry, Giant Eagle. Those are the two biggies here in my area.

[+] [deleted] • 2 pts
[–] • 2 pts

The regular supermarket in mu neighborhood is stocked decently, and this neighborhood has more Jews than Tel Aviv. If there is a tropical storm, they run there like savages and empty the shelves. Amazon, however, has jack shit.

[–] • 2 pts

The local Big-Box store near me always has shelves where you can tell they're trying to hide they have no inventory.

The small chain where I grew up is stocked like there's no problem.

[–] • 4 pts (edited )

Part of it is politics and fear porn. You know, ......Aye, Corona...... Part of it is stupid shit like this. https://archive.ph/HpKt1 Part of it is supply chain issues caused by government. I play a very small role in getting your groceries to your favorite store. I dispatch a few trucks for a company that has a couple hundred refrigerated trucks (reefers) on the road. I'm seeing a breakdown in efficiency caused by a labor shortage that is in turn caused by COVID welfare. Far too many workers are collecting a gov. check instead of going to a job every day.

A normal 2-3 hour unload time for a typical delivery to a distribution warehouse like Kroger, Walmart or any of the others can stretch to 8-20 hours because in some cases they only have one dock worker for every three or four trucks waiting to unload. Truckers are losing money sitting still, and your hot dogs and ice cream don't get to the store on time.

Multiply this by tens of thousands of trucks trying to load and unload every day, and the supply chain starts to break down.

[–] • 1 pt

I want more people to make good money. But that convo as to why our wages are suppressed and ass is for another thread. But the corona welfare is the biggest factor in a lot of low/middle low end jobs not being filled. In Michigan unemployment is 362 a week, plus the feds 300. So youre looking at 662 or $16.55 an hour 40 hours full time. If some people were making even up towards $18 or 19 an hour, they are staying home because why not? You make a little less but get to play video games and watch porn all day!! Waahh hooooo!

[–] • 3 pts

We are not seeing food shortages in Europe, yet. It's more a case of the usual government war on real food (animals) and subsidisation of man-made crap.

I am curious at what level the shortage is being engineered in the states. Is it a case of government/corporations buying food to disrupt its supply? Paying off farmers to under-produce? Or what? Can't you just go direct to farms to procure whatever you want?

[–] • 1 pt

We were doing fine in my area until families got an extra $250/month per child for food stamps or something like that. The first week of the month, the shelves are pretty bare.

Seems as though they're trying to fatten up the welfare families even more.

[–] • 3 pts

jews

[–] • 1 pt

Thanks for your insightful input.

[–] • 1 pt

It may not be the detailed response you were looking for but all of your answers to the problem lies within that single word answer. I know, it sounds unbelievable... But start digging and you'll be amazed.

[–] • 2 pts

I keep telling people have 6 months worth of food in your house by end of August. Lockdowns are also coming again, and the next one is going to be much more strict.

[–] • 2 pts

One thing I can say for sure is that if the vaccinated start dropping dead, we'll all lose power and water. It's the sheeple who trend towards municipality jobs. We will be back in the Stone age. Stock up just in case.

[–] • 2 pts

Was at the grocery store today. Plenty o food weirdos.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I haven’t noticed any shortages down here either. Stores are throwing out food every day just like always. Of course, this is Texas. We have a few head of steer and some chickens .

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

I can verify this as true. Biggest complaint out these parts is Popeye's chicken stop selling cajun rice.

[–] • 0 pt

Yeah im here too. Now if we can just have electricity in snow storms.

[–] • 2 pts

The economy was shutdown for months. We are just starting to feel some of the supply chain effects. More importantly, those in power have a vested interest in making us more and more dependent on them. Nobody will care about the erosion of our freedoms if everyone is hungry.

So right now, today, start doing everything you can to become less dependent. You should have a generator and a chest freezer. You should have the means to protect your investment. You can start smaller by stocking up on canned meats, flour, rice, etc everytime you go to the grocery store. Buy things you already eat and they won't go to waste.

[–] • 2 pts

One can for normal food needs and two for the pantry.

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