As the Coronavirus Covid-19 catastrophe pummels all aspects of every day life, it's difficult to receive information on just how horrible it is from all corners of the globe. And when we say horrible, we mean unimaginably terrifying beyond the scope of most human understanding.
A vast majority of the public remain in deep-seated denial about the virus, believing it is simply a temporary inconvenience, that it will evaporate in a few weeks and our way of life will just instantly snap back to the way things were in the Salad Days of late January, early February. This belief continues even though the over-whelming scientific data regarding Covid-19 shows that it isn't going anywhere anytime soon, that the heat of summer is not going to make it go away. The outbreak currently exploding in Brazil, a tropical country, should prove this point.
There is no snapping back to the way things were pre-Covid-19. That is already impossible by this point in time, with most of the world only a month into their self-imposed lockdowns. All economic data regarding to where the world is right now shows we are already in a Global Depression, with the outlook grim on when or if economies can be re-opened. Re-opening too soon ensures that the virus will explode exponetially, creating an automatic Second Wave outbreak, even with social distancing measures remaining in place. Studying the history of past pandemic outbreaks, the second wave is almost always deadlier than the first wave.
The most terrifying blips of news coming across the wire are items mentioning food shortages that many parts of the world are already experiencing. Most retail grocery chains are proclaiming publicly that it is panic buying that has been creating the empty shelves, but inside data is saying otherwise. The supply chain has been crippled globally, farmers have been unable to plant crops, and are finding it impossible to secure migrant workers to harvest any crops that are now ready. Many farmers and dairy producers are seeing crops rot in the field, or are having to dump milk because school and business closures have cut demand in half. Now, many of the meat processing plants across the United States are having to shutter production, as their factories have become hotbeds for the spread of Coronavirus. Chicken farmers in New England recently had to cull more than three million chickens, and several chicken processing plants have been forced to close. The importation of fresh produce from other countries has all but stopped.
Most of the above problems won't begin to truly impact shoppers for the next three to four weeks. Parts of the population are already seeing where all of this is going and are flocking to garden centers to purchase plants and seeds to grow in gardens to supplement their grocery supply. The new Victory Gardens will be the norm from here on out, as by late Spring/early Summer, most will realize the extent of the problem.
The other troubling part of when the food shortages begin to manifest, will be the social unrest and panic the situation will instill in the general public. The media and government will assure everyone that there is no food shortage, but as the situation continues on throughout the year and into next year, it will be obvious to practially everyone that this is indeed the new normal for life. There will be hunger across the world, and people will die from a combination of economic deprivation and or famine/starvation. As of now, there are predictions that the massive locust plagues witnessed in parts of North Africa, Asia and the Middle East in January will return again in the next several months, further endangering food production. Shifting climates have already significantly reduced food output around the world.
Global think tanks knew about this several years ago. You can read my blog post from 2016 about an official US government report funded by FEMA outlining the approaching food Apocalypse, with the computer data predicting the deaths of over a billion people worldwide at the following link:
https://beyondthenews.weebly.com/blog/how-it-all-ends-study-from-global-governments-says-food-crisis-to-begin-next-year-billions-to-die
As you can see, Covid-19 is only a small percentage of the problems facing everyone on the planet for the foreseeable future.