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I was wondering about this just earlier today - more specifically, how one eats. I'd be just fine for some days. But by the end of a 2-week quarantine, I'd be

I was wondering about this just earlier today - more specifically, how one eats. I'd be just fine for some days. But by the end of a 2-week quarantine, I'd be eating much more poorly than I would the first week. And I'd be lucky: I have a well-stocked kitchen. I eat a lot of beans and lentils and rice and have all three around. There is pasta here. I make bread most days: I'd certainly have to ration the dried yeast, though. I'll run out of milk and vegetables (I don't use a lot of frozen ones). If the timing was wrong, I'd run out of flour. Other folks would fare worse, though. So much worse, just because of what they have in the house. I'd definitely run out of canned tomatoes, even if I used only half. My food wouldn't taste.. wonderful, per se, but I'd survive. But I'd be lucky: I have this stuff around. Not everyone does and lots of folks would be learning to cook with weird stuff. Some folks simply wouldn't have food.

chvid 7y ago
There is no one, even in China, who dies of starvation because of government lockdown.
- Broken_Hippo 7y ago
  To be fair, I was more curious about the mechanisms in place to avoid it. A google search just had advice on stocking up supplies (for most). I'd really like to believe this - and I hope it is the case. But geez, we let folks die of starvation on the best of days. We let folks eat literal trash. We let folks have cases of malnutrition, too, without fixing things. The only thing I think that saves folks in the states is that during a lockdown, it is the government's responsibility to do stuff - but I'm not really convinced so many governments have stuff in place.
  - throw343245 7y ago
    There are a few vlogs of people in Wuhan. I particularly like this family, as they show what they cook everyday. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsa3H2gvWgP5mm4OUcu7rLA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsa3H2gvWgP5mm4OUcu7rLA Early on, when they could still go out, the husband would visit various supermarkets that were open and before you entered, the greeter would take your temperature. Then when the lockdown intensified and the people were restricted to their apartment complexes, designated sellers would visit the apartment complexes every day at a specific time so you could buy things. I was surprised to see so many fresh vegetables.

chvid 7y ago

There is no one, even in China, who dies of starvation because of government lockdown.

Broken_Hippo 7y ago
To be fair, I was more curious about the mechanisms in place to avoid it. A google search just had advice on stocking up supplies (for most). I'd really like to believe this - and I hope it is the case. But geez, we let folks die of starvation on the best of days. We let folks eat literal trash. We let folks have cases of malnutrition, too, without fixing things. The only thing I think that saves folks in the states is that during a lockdown, it is the government's responsibility to do stuff - but I'm not really convinced so many governments have stuff in place.
- throw343245 7y ago
  There are a few vlogs of people in Wuhan. I particularly like this family, as they show what they cook everyday. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsa3H2gvWgP5mm4OUcu7rLA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsa3H2gvWgP5mm4OUcu7rLA Early on, when they could still go out, the husband would visit various supermarkets that were open and before you entered, the greeter would take your temperature. Then when the lockdown intensified and the people were restricted to their apartment complexes, designated sellers would visit the apartment complexes every day at a specific time so you could buy things. I was surprised to see so many fresh vegetables.