Posted on 04/30/2022 7:10:52 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
What we have witnessed so far is just the beginning of the story. The global response to the COVID pandemic during 2020 and 2021 created the most epic supply chain crisis in modern times, and now “black swan events” such as the war in Ukraine and the bird flu pandemic are making that supply chain crisis even worse. Unfortunately, more global difficulties are coming. There will be more war, there will be more pestilences, there will be more natural disasters, and even the United Nations is admitting that we are heading into the worst global food crisis since World War II. So if you think that global supply chain problems are severe now, just wait until you see what is coming next.
If you go into most major retailers today, you will notice that stock levels are lower than usual and there are some empty shelves.
But most items are still available most of the time, and that is good news.
Of course there are certain product categories that have been experiencing chronic shortages for an extended period of time. For example, supplies of canned pet food have been extremely tight for months on end…
The next time you go to the pet store don’t be surprised to see some empty shelves.
Many pet stores are facing a shortage on canned pet food.
Right now, there just aren’t enough cheap sources of chicken and turkey due to the bird flu pandemic, there is an ongoing shortage of aluminum, and there is a shortage of factory workers.
So the canned pet food shortage is not likely to be fixed any time soon.
Another shortage that is going to affect much of the country as we head into the summer months is the growing chlorine shortage.
I was not even aware of this shortage until a reader alerted me. Apparently this shortage was originally caused by the destruction of a manufacturing facility in Louisiana by Hurricane Laura…
While the pandemic takes its share of the blame, the even larger reason for the current chlorine shortage is that a major chlorine manufacturing plant in Louisiana was destroyed by Hurricane Laura in late 2020. A fire on the premises leveled the facilities and took nearly 40% of the country’s chlorine tablet supply with it.
The manufacturing plant is being rebuilt and is currently under construction; it was due to reopen by mid-to-late 2022, but those plans could be pushed back due to the ongoing construction material shortages.
I find it ironic that the nationwide chlorine shortage could be extended thanks to the nationwide construction material shortage.
Anyone that is trying to build a home knows how painful the construction material shortage has become, and I anticipate that it will only become more severe in 2023 and beyond.
Meanwhile, the nationwide baby formula shortage just continues to get even worse…
Janis Burnson is one of many parents having to work around a national baby formula shortage.
“Go around in our area, St. George, any stores I can, can’t find anything around here. I have friends in northern Utah, they’re having to send me stuff, so I’m having to pay even more,” she says.
One local reporter in southern Utah decided to check this out for herself, and when she visited local stores she discovered “bare shelves where baby formula should be.”
What a nightmare.
But at least we can be glad that things are not as bad here as they are in Europe.
Over there, widespread rationing of certain products has already begun. For example, it was just announced that Tesco is now limiting each customer to three bottles of cooking oil…
If record-high food prices weren’t enough. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has choked off the world of sunflower oil supply, forcing the largest supermarket in the UK to begin rationing.
The Guardian reports that Tesco, with more than 4,000 retail stores, placed buying limits of three cooking oil bottles per customer. It follows Waitrose and Morrisons, other supermarket chains that set limits of just two per customer.
This particular shortage is directly related to the war in Ukraine, and David Einhorn is warning that this war is making a whole host of our ongoing problems even worse…
The common refrain about COVID was that it sped up changes and trends that were already happening. We believe the same is true of the war. Inflation, supply chain problems, and shortages of energy, food, raw materials and labor were already issues that the war has now accelerated.
Sadly, he is quite correct, and at this point there appears to be no hope that this war will end any time soon.
Russia and Ukraine normally account for approximately 30 percent of all global wheat exports, and we were already facing an unprecedented global food crisis even before the war erupted.
When U.S. Senator Roger Marshall was recently asked about this, he openly admitted that a “worldwide famine” is definitely going to happen…
“Did you just say there will be a famine in Europe in the next two years?” Host Maria Bartiromo asked.
“This will be a worldwide famine. I think it will be even worse next year than this year. So if 12, 15% of the wheat comes from Ukraine that’s exported, and they’re having problems getting fertilizer, they’re having tractors in the field, all the diesel fuel is going towards their war efforts, right?” the senator said.
Prior to 2022, can you ever remember a time when a sitting member of the U.S. Senate publicly warned us that a “worldwide famine” was coming?
The good news is that nobody is starving to death in the United States right now.
But food prices are certainly going up dramatically, and the mainstream media is doing lots of stories about it. For example, the following originally comes from USA Today…
Kevin Tave stretches a pot of spaghetti for three days of meals. Esmerelda Cortez gets eggs and bread from the food bank so she can afford laundry detergent at the store. Donnie Whitfield buys generic cereal instead of the Kellogg’s he prefers.
Although unemployment continues dropping and wages are on the rise, all across the country, low-income people are struggling to put food on the table as skyrocketing inflation and high gas prices take a bigger bite of their already-small paychecks.
Needless to say, as conditions deteriorate it is not a good thing for Joe Biden’s approval ratings…
During Joe Biden’s fifth quarter in office, which began on January 20 and ended on April 19, an average of 41.3% of U.S. adults approved of the job he was doing as president. The latest average is essentially unchanged from the 41.7% in his fourth quarter but significantly lower than his first three quarterly averages.
But what most Americans don’t understand is that it is too late for a political solution to this crisis.
No matter what Joe Biden and his minions decide to do, they are not going to be able to prevent the nightmarish conditions which are rapidly approaching.
As Senator Marshall admitted, there will be a worldwide famine.
There is no avoiding that now.
These are such troubled times, and they are only going to become even more troubled as the months roll along.
Never forget that famines are alway man-made.
Oh, give it a break, will ya?
Stock up on bleach? I read where they too have a pull-date.
Anyone who says these supply chain issues started with the COVID fiasco has no idea what the hell he’s talking about.
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Curse these communist bastards and their opportunistic manipulation of a mild pandemic into an artificial disruption of everything, including “supply”.
That includes all the commie traitor sheep in this country who live next door to you.
I’ve been stocking up on flour when it’s on sale, which it still is occasionally, along with other staples. My perception is that bread will become harder to find and more expensive - the better breads have already gone up about 20% in price. Last year, regular sandwich bread was $1.00 a loaf. As things get tight, bakeries will be careful about overproduction, which means empty shelves. Might be a good time to get a bread machine.
I’m not sure what happened, but all of the cracker brands I can find at the store taste like communion wafers. Not to throw shade on communion wafers but crackers seem to either have changed the wheat they use or changed something.
Fortunately, I ordered some through Amazon (Happy Belly) and they are delicious.
A billion and a half people are facing 5 years of chronic Starvation due to the shortage of fossil fuel fertilizer.
Bread: Make cornbread. Not the same but will do as a substitute.
Order bags of rice, dried beans and stock up on those Happy saltines. Canned tuna and all sorts of non-perishables.
Though often sold in large containers that might lead you to believe it can last forever, bleach — a sodium hypochlorite solution — does expire over time, eventually degrading into plain old saltwater.
Amazing how "black swan" events seem to never happen to competent and ethical adminstrations. The incompetent and corrupt one seem to get tons of them. Maybe it's because they are ... incompetent and unethical, thus unable to handle them, and not because the events are really world shaking.
In other unrelated news, According to the new Ministry of Truth, 81 million people voted for Biden.
I stopped by a local grocery yesterday morning and found it very well stocked. No apparently shortages and no ‘limit’ signs.
I did notice that my preferred store brand of coffee was in a smaller can. I said to the check-out lady, ‘these cans must have been out in the sun, because they have shrunk.’
Formerly, the can was 34-oz, now 24-oz. A 10-oz shrinkage. The price was about 20-cents higher, though, meaning the cost was around 50% higher than a few months ago — 23-cents per ounce for the 34-oz but 33-cents per ounce for the 24-oz.
I have noticed this spring that my grocery check-out prices are running about 25% higher than 6 months ago.
Some of us still remember the great shortages of the mid-70s: sugar, paper, antifreeze, etc.
Putin’s fault. Trump’s fault. Manchin’s fault. Sinema’s fault. Sunspots. Everyone but Biden’s fault. If only we had passe “build back better” everything would be just fine.
Start shooting these bastards. This government has deliberately turned against it’s own citizens.
By opening up the southern border Biden has deliberately and with malice afore thought put every American citizen at risk of death or serious injury.
He has deliberately and with malicious intent abandoned his duty to ‘’preserve, protect and defend The Constitution of The United States.
That means We The People’’.
Joe Biden, “The Delaware Douche Bag’’ means to kill us all.
And he will use his Homeland Security and ATF armies to do it. They are very well armed and will have our social scores when the time is right.
Start shooting these bastards. This government has deliberately turned against it’s own citizens.
By opening up the southern border Biden has deliberately and with malice afore thought put every American citizen at risk of death or serious injury.
He has deliberately and with malicious intent abandoned his duty to ‘’preserve, protect and defend The Constitution of The United States.
That means We The People’’.
Joe Biden, “The Delaware Douche Bag’’ means to kill us all.
That’s why people need to wake up and see what’s happening and vote the bystard Demonrats/RINOS out in November. Make Trump Speaker, impeach the dumb and dumber from office, Trump resigns and BAM! He’s baaaaack.....sooner rather than later. Don’t tell me it can’t be done!
How long does it take? Can you buy the powder and make your own as needed?
To mix chlorine bleach, combine 5.25 percent sodium hypochlorite and 94.75 percent water. To mix non-chlorine bleach, combine equal parts hydrogen peroxide and water. Pour mixture into the plastic container, and secure tightly.
https://www.hunker.com/13423846/how-to-make-chlorine-bleach
Is that H2O2 regular 2% you buy in the store?
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