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Re:Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage by Manuel_D on Saturday May 14, 2022 @08:01PM (#31383935)
It's easy to see in hindsight that a certain item should have been stockpiled in anticipation of a shortage. What's hard is predicting what's going to be a shortage years into the future. Petroleum is an easy choice since energy is almost always in demand.
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Re:Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage by elcritch on Saturday May 14, 2022 @08:10PM (#31383987)
And then there's cases where there was good foresight in stockpiling certain essentials in some wiser countries, but then they go and decide to stop stockpiling. The craziness! ;) (see https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50402048 https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/11/21/defending-switze...)
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