The chickens have come home to roost, rural America. Maybe if you are far enough out in the boonies you won’t get sick, but you will get hungry. Unfortunately there’s two unavoidable, big issues working against you on that front this time around.
Everybody knows you’ve already lost the struggle against the corporate farming conglomerates. The cost of doing business is just so 21st century these days. You might be better off than the city dwellers in a supply chain crisis if you really are exercising self-sufficiency as touted in the early American vernacular. News reports across the country seem to indicate otherwise early on in this particular disaster.
As starkly disturbing as it is, overlook the death toll and tragedy in our hospitals and nursing homes for a moment, as food bank lines stretch to greater lengths all across the country. Next time around, when it comes to voting, be careful what you ask for.
