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That's a dream. Money don't feed people. Foods do. And human activity necessary to feed a billion people sitting at home will require another billion to do the
by habibur 6y ago
That's a dream. Money don't feed people. Foods do. And human activity necessary to feed a billion people sitting at home will require another billion to do the production, distribution and organization in a timely manner.
And the whole point of lockdown was to prevent people from performing these movements.
I don't see a good solution here.
- sudosysgen 6y agoThis is really not the case. You buy food from farmers, who can keep money, and you use existing government capacity to distribute it. It's been done before and can be done still.
- ticviking 6y agoBut then the laborers who process the food have to go to work. And often work in close quarters in factories where it's easy to spread the virus.
- sudosysgen 6y agoA lot of food processing isn't strictly necessary. People can be expected to cook or live off existing stock for 2-3 weeks if they do not work.
- ticviking 6y agoSpend some time volunteering with local emergency preparedness teams and you'll get a better sense of just how much of the US food system is essential "just in time" The more urban a place the more "just in time" everything is because the space is more valuable doing literally anything other than warehousing calories