Subj : RE: Are you Ready for the Recession/Depression?
To   : ALL
From : debian
Date : Sun Jul 17 2022 23:02:31

Where I work, we went into a hiring freeze 3 months ago and our orders (and the quantity of product per order) has dropped significantly. We have gone from several massive orders that would take all employees atleast 1 week to fullfill to orders so small that they are fulfilled within 2 - 3 hours, then were down the rest of the day. We had an event happen at work the other day where ~60% of the workforce called out (they REALLY didn't want to work on saturday) and as a result, we really struggled to produce product. We will be working one more saturday this month and I suspect this will happpen again.

I work at a company that produces protein bars, so my guess is that people are having to choose between a protein bar and actual food. I would think that the factory should retool and produce the compressed cereal bars (like the bars found in sailor rations), or produce some other type of food that someone could put in their emergency kit. Yeah, you could do that with a protein bar, but those bars have no nutritional value (even the cereal bars don't have much nutritional value either, but they will hold you over in an emergency). 

I am debt free presently and am room mating with family who have also paid off their debts, so when our jobs evaporate, we won't be as negatively impacted. We also had a pretty good harvest in our garden and 6 of our chickens are giving us eggs on a daily basis. 

I just got my hands on some corn and tomato seeds (heirloom) and will be starting those in the spring. 

They are ramping up the covid hoax on the TV once again and are cooking the books on the covid cases ... again. Either we are going to see another round of lockdowns, we will see tighter mask mandates (either you wear the mask,or take the vax if you don't want to wear it), or its just another credible threat and nothing will actually happen. Will have to wait and see on that.

Where I live in Idaho, there is plenty of farm land near by and farmers markets abound here. Creating a local supply chain shouldn't be as difficult as it would be in other areas. 

How ya gonna do it? PS/2 it!

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