>This seems like a worst case scenario, and it still seems like an overblown issue. These are not overblown to people like military and civilian planners, who'

>This seems like a worst case scenario, and it still seems like an overblown issue. These are not overblown to people like military and civilian planners, who's jobs are setting up things during the good times so their country gets through the worst times like a global catastrophe or a world war. Having food security for years is essential for that. A pandemic like Covid-19 can severe supply chains for months. Their jobs is imagining what a Nipa virus pandemic or a world war could do. FWIW I have no particular opinion other that "huh interesting" about vertical farms and no idea about their role food security planning.