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| Vaccine Passports, Food Insecurity and the Law of Unintended Consequences |
| 2022-01-14 |
| [Last Refuge] The axiom of "the law of unintended consequences" has never been more appropriate than right now. In the background, as you are reading, there is a looming storm that is going to soon surface in the food supply chain, and the regional vaccine passports are going to make things worse. To understand what is happening, it becomes necessary to give a more specific background on how the things work inside the supply chain that has been disrupted by government intervention. This is complex, but I hope to make it understandable for the average person. How do we avoid supply chain chaos? My response seems counterintuitive to those who do not understand this unique issue. Effective immediately, or at least as soon as possible, every venue that can provide food on a commercial basis must be removed from all COVID regulations, including vaccine passports. Restaurants, school lunchrooms, cafeterias, industrial kitchens, hotels, bars, food trucks and every possible venue for the delivery of freshly cooked meals must immediately be reactivated, and all terms and conditions for visiting those venues, like "vaccine passports", must be cancelled quickly. If they are not, and worse, if the restrictions expand beyond current status, there is going to be a worsening retail food crisis as the total food supply chain begins to collapse even further. |
| Posted by:M. Murcek |
| #4 You misspelled 'Intended'. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2022-01-14 18:07 |
| #3 I'm seeing the cascade reach the back end of the chain now. Got a postcard from my municipality this morning that said "Effective immediately, stop putting glass in your recycle bin. Put it in your trash." Glass recycling demand is down because packaging needs are down. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-14 09:38 |
| #2 We saw the first examples of this in the Spring of 2020 - the shortage of toilet paper, but restaurants had excess and were handing out a roll of TP with your carry-out order. So we should expect more shortages in the big blue states, with their increasing restrictions, not so much in Texas and Florida (etc.) |
| Posted by: Bobby 2022-01-14 09:22 |
| #1 Supply chains already collapsing and only going to get worse. China's major manufacturing cities are shutting down again before the Olympics, so no more cheap Chinese crap for you. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-01-14 09:13 |