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Environmentalists have been complaining about our ~50% rate of food wasted for years.

We might be very glad we have that surplus soon.
I think I underestimated what a mess quarantines might make for our food supply chains. Plants are shutting down over a single positive case, and lots of supply chains are shutdown. If we don't stay on top of this shortages might happen us due to mismanagement and sticky prices.
Prices are the way information is passed through our economy; without pricing no-one really knows how much should be made or where. Companies afraid of increasing prices, and employees not getting paid extra to risk coming to work, are two examples of how this can easily fail.
While Americans eat too much food the *amount* of extra food it takes to be obese isn't as high as you'd think. It's not like we can easily cut our calorie intake in half safely for months.

We're probably going to be fine... but it's a tail risk that could surprise countries.
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