Post Sit X.

[Jace]

We seem to have had shortages of things several times in the past couple of years, mainly due to rumors spreading like wildfire and people doing whatever it takes to get hold of whatever is supposedly going to run out.

I remember having to bodily extricate my heavily pregnant wife from a bunch of grannies intent on getting the last bottle of soy sauce from the supermarket after the Fukushima earthquake. Why would people want soy sauce? After the earthquake people were afraid of radiation. When someone pointed out that radiation sickness is treated with iodine, people went wild trying to buy up iodized salt. When that ran out, the started on soy sauce (as that is salty). We have had similar shortages of water twice since then, after tanker trucks hauling cyanide and another poison overturned into our local river / water source. Again, people were fighting for water in the supermarket, regardless of the fact that the govt didn't bother to notify anyone of the contamination until the next day, and that even 20 tons of cyanide in a river the size of ours would be diluted pretty much to nothing in minutes.

Does it make sense? Not in the least, but provided an eye-opener into what will happen if / when there is a food shortage.

Note: I've tried to use these circumstances to illustrate to the family why I want to stockpile food and water, but alas, they still think its a waste of time and money.