Wuhan Flu: The Supply Chain Is Not OK

Wuhan Flu 31 Comments

Financial Post: Canadian farmers are warning that their fields could fall fallow and their crops left to rot this summer, resulting in potential food shortages and higher prices.

High River Cargill plant that processes 40% of Canada’s beef closes.

More on that here.

Chicken farmers to shrink national flock by 12%

…all employees at the United Poultry Company Ltd. in East Vancouver have been told to self-isolate following the discovery of an outbreak at the plant.

31 Replies to “Wuhan Flu: The Supply Chain Is Not OK”

  1. I suppose CERB could be made conditional, you want support, come sleep in a barn and pick cherries for a month. Or maybe lettuce. Consider it good character building.
    Hell I might even go do it just for fun.

    2. Do you realize that “Morocco Mole” is character of a cartoon produced in the evil running dog capitalist “Trump Land”?

      Better go and confess your sins to your local Human Rights Tribunal before your PM (Poofter Manlet) sheds a tear over your indiscretion.

  6. There are a couple of issues here. First, people cooking at home are eating different foods than they would were they going out for a meal. I know we are; it’s stews and soups where we would be having wings, steak sandwiches, and wraps on our pub nights. That means a demand for different proteins. If others are doing as we do, then there’s going to be a major shift in the marketplace. We’re already seeing it in the availability of different foods and are buying strategically.

    Secondly, supply chains that have been set up to supply the “commercial market” – pubs, restaurants, universities, schools, etc – aren’t that easily re-tooled to package the smaller quantities being sold in the local Co-op. And, sadly, the margins aren’t there to warrant the re-tooling. So that food’s not entering the supply chain.

    However, I do have questions about the first article; the “millions and millions of dollars” supposedly invested in a single cherry crop does NOT make sense. And comments like that make me doubt the spokesperson’s veracity.

    1. I can just imagine Butts telling Trudeau, more soup less beef, save the planet from climate change Justin

    2. Thanks Frances, my thoughts also.
      I am buying a lot more frozen meats then before, as well as canned vege’s.

      Also, Campbell Soups just had their biggest March evah! Usually at this time of year they are laying off employees and going into their quiet season. Well they have actually been hiring, and March 2020 beat November 2019 in production. Never happened before.

      Kraft dinners have more then doubled their output –

      https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/major-food-producers-say-plants-running-24-7-to-keep-up-with-canadian-demand-1.4902744

    3. “millions and millions of dollars” supposedly invested in a single cherry crop does NOT make sense. And comments like that make me doubt the spokesperson’s veracity.

      There’s a hefty amount of Gell-Mann amnesia going on at SDA these days.

    4. “millions of dollars supposedly invested in a single cherry crop does NOT make sense.”

      That’s right, Buying land, planting cherries, waiting for years and hiring Mexicans to prune and thin them is all free.

  7. “The High River plant is one of several slaughterhouses in North America to close or slow its assembly lines because employees, who work elbow to elbow, have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.”

    Yeah, these infected people are Philippinos. Please tell us Justin, how diversity makes us Strong just one more time mmKay?!

  8. Canada has no vaccine, nor does it have amounts of Hydroxychloroquine to use a prophylaxis, and no word how long either of those will take. All a workplace can do is develop small herd immunity, step by step. In two weeks+ those infected will recover and have immunity. Keep repeating until it’s done, but don’t shut down.

    Keep the others working on the slower schedule that fewer workers can handle. Then keep that up until all the workers, who are young (!), recover quickly and don’t get hit hard by Corvid-19. Pay them bonuses for when they come back.

    Alberta has tested 100,000, more, as a percentage of the population than any other province. So, they are diagnosing, most likely, asymptomatic cases and some who are. That’s the down side of testing. It can slow down how long it takes to develop herd immunity. The young are key to building up herd immunity.

    Flattening the curve is not killing the thing off. It’s slowing down the process to avoid overwhelming the health system at one fell swoop. But the 60-80% of the herd has to get there.

    You think one shelter-in-place is bad. A 2nd and a 3rd, at levels of the first, and you’ll have to reinvent an economy.
    If Alberta, can test replacement applicants for serum anti-bodies, they can ease the process somewhat.

    This is not a risk like losing an arm on the Rigs, or inhaling H2SO4 and frying your brain or dropping dead. It’s safer than east coast fishing boats were and farming with animal power. Man-up. We have to relearn risk management.

    Politicians are scared of blow-back and panic. When grocery stores can’t stock meat, dairy, eggs, cheese, then watch the reaction.

    The “experts” should have explained the concept of small herd workplace immunity. They would have, if they truly understood what the word “essential” meant.

  10. Minnesota has had several processing plants close due to infections also.

    My question is, “If these workers are infecting each other on the job with the Wuhan Pneumonia/ Chinese Coronavirus, how many other infectious diseases can they pass to each other, and the products they are processing?”

    I visited several grain processing plants back in the 1990’s, and they had us in protective clothing when we visited the working floors, with caps, masks, coveralls, etc. How can these employees pass the virus on the meat processing floor? Are their supposed protective clothing that ineffective that they infect the person standing next to them? Or are they passing it to each other in the locker rooms, bathrooms, and lunchrooms?

    They need to solve the real infection problems to stop the spread.

    1. That was some hunger strike. We are betting Rotten Ronnie was sneaking into her tent disguised as fish broth. The more her diet switched to fish broth, the bigger her ass grew – maybe the Pinocchio effect.

  12. When the food runs out so does the government edicts. All bets are off because hungry people will take what they need and there are not enough police or military to stop them. Politicians who have created this mess will be the first to have their food taken.

    1. How many bets that the Liberal elites have an escape plan like the Nazi’s during Operation Odessa at the end of WW2?

      I’m betting Turdeau has a plane fueled and manned 24/7 to take him to the Aga Kahn Island first, then on to either China or somewhere EU to stage a future reemergence .

  13. “Politicians who have created this mess will be the first to have their food taken.”

    I’ll have to disagree, I’m betting the Blackfaced Feminist has a very well stocked pantry and plenty of well armed guards in and around his Virus Bunker, just encase the “little people” start loosing their place!

    1. Paul, there will not be enough armed anything to stop the rage of a starving populace.

    2. When the guards get hungry and aren’t getting paid the Shiny Pony will lose the pantry PDQ.

  14. There is a story that recently appeared in the Kingston Whig Standard. Property standards officers raided 5 homes and found 88 Chinese labourers living in them. The houses in residential neighbourhoods had essentially been converted into barracks.

    The men were/are employed in the construction of a new baby formula plant in the area. Ontario’s Liberal Government had given the Chicomm corporation over 24 million of our tax dollars for … wait for this….the creation of 277 Canadian jobs”.

  15. “These systems are so efficient and so well-run, and as soon as we start mucking around, we’re going to have….”
    In other words, the costs have been so paired down that there are no life boats on the Titanic. There is no redundancy in the system.

    Also, I like the near 100% import of labor. Nice. Corporate squeeze for profits to managers, investors( Chinese), taxes to government hacks, squeeze on farmers and consumers( ie, Canadians).
    But at least Canadians can via bailouts expect more taxes.

  16. Wait till the Ontario Federation of Agriculture gets into full howl.

    It will sound like a reading from the Book of Lamentations.

  17. “In recent days, the sequencing of new cases has revealed a surprising new possibility. A series of cases in British Columbia carried a genetic footprint very similar to the case of the Wuhan traveler. That opened up the possibility that someone could have carried that same branch of the virus from Wuhan to British Columbia or somewhere else in the region at nearly the same time. Perhaps it was that person whose illness had sparked the fateful outbreak.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/coronavirus-sequencing.html

    NYT leaves open the possibility that a BCer brought the ChiCom Killer Virus to Washington state. Why take responsibility when you can blame Canada?

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