Supply Chain Woes

Every time I go to Costco, I notice missing products that are no longer available due to the supply chain woes. While we focus on exchanging viewpoints, often arguing and sometimes fighting amongst ourselves about racial inequality and the COVID-19 hoax, the real damage that’ been happening behind the scenes, is already done and it’s getting worse. Supply chains can be complex and delicate; wherein one broken component can end up disrupting and/or shutting down an entire system on a national or even a global scale.

 The main problem global supply chains are now facing can essentially be traced back to the human element that has been forcibly removed from the equation, which is leading to weak spots and accumulating breakdowns. Today, this might mean that Taiwan Costco no longer has the organic coffee that I like, which works just fine for companies such as Starbucks that will soon be buying up all of the bankrupt small coffee co-ops for pennies on the dollar to then have a global monopoly on coffee. Isn’t if funny how things just magically work out in favor of such corporations?

 Let’s just get to the point: as depressing as it may sound, food insecurity (not COVID-19) is a real and growing problem that is likely to cause a tremendous amount of suffering. Hundreds of millions of people around the world are increasingly faced with a much higher risk of starving and dying within the next 2-3 years due to supply chain breakdowns directly attributed to the COVID19 hyper-reactive stay at home orders, lockdowns and such. And it’s not just about starvation: consider all of the ancillary effects of food insecurity - hunger.

 

Thousands of cars waiting in lines at food banks all across the USA ought to be a wakeup call to people everywhere. Staying home won’t be fun anymore, once the cupboards are bare and there’s no more electricity. Keep an eye on big cities such as LA, and NYC to get an idea of what’s in store for many other areas. There’s a reason that those who are able to get out, are already doing so as fast as they can.

 Always remember: whereas so-called authorities or anyone else can and will often tell us what to do and threaten us for non-compliance, each one of us is ultimately responsible for deciding what we actually do. As the saying goes: as we create our reality, so must we walk through the consequence of what we create.

 I will not spend that much more time attempting to explain why we need to stop buying into the hyper-fear of COVID-19. Because, I think we’ve already crossed the line, wherein the structural damage to the world’s supply-chains has already been done. On the bright side though: if everyone were to suddenly decide to cooperate together equally as one to solve our problems, there is still a window of opportunity to lessen hardship and begin to make things right. Responsibility is sometimes simply a matter of saying, no to the characters disguised with titles of authority. As to when and where each will have the ability to do this (just say No), that is for each one to decide.

 In terms of visualizing what’s in store for humanity, simply have a look at what has already happened. A novel Corona-type virus was introduced, fear spread, governments ordered people to stop what we were doing and focus only on the fear. People obeyed out of fear because they were told that everything would eventually be Ok as long as they continued to obey. Meanwhile, farmers stopped planting (in order to obey the stay at home orders), factories cut back or stopped manufacturing, orders for goods slowed because people were no longer buying, farmers who were permitted to work decided to use less seed or stop planting altogether because restaurants were no longer buying their produce, which in turn created a self-perpetuating destructive supply-chain feedback loop - which I guess is the point that we’ve just reached.

 In short, even if all of the hype associated with COVID-19 were to disappear right now (which I’m sure it won’t), I guess we’re going to unfortunately lose at least one-hundred to one-hundred and fifty million people worldwide in the next 1-2 years (not from the virus, but from the hyper-reactive fear of the virus) from food insecurity and its ancillary effects. Supply chains take time to rebuild. Rather than me painting the sorrowful picture, use your imagination to visualize the worst you would be willing to do if your starving children. 

 The good news is that not everyone has blindly bought into the fear and not everyone is blindly obeying. Trump, the Q-team of caring beings backed by super-duper intelligence and the growing “Where we go one we go all” movement are not buying into the fear. Specifically, there is a plan and we the people are that plan. We simply require to reach a certain number - hypervelocity if you will in order to break free of our self-imposed chains.