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Eventually the supply problems of the centrally planned economy became so chronic that crops rotted in the fields, and Soviet fishermen watched catches putrefy in their nets, yet the shelves of the Union’s grocery stores remained bare.
Not entirely unlike what happened to farmers as the supply chain in the US struggled during Covid-19.
“Despite the growing atmosphere of alarm among the physicists at the burning reactor, the government commission and the Politburo remained determined to conceal the news of a possible meltdown from the world beyond the thirty-kilometer zone.”
― Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
― Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
“The fact is,” he says, “we are really no better prepared for a bad outbreak today than we were when Spanish flu killed tens of millions of people a hundred years ago. The reason we haven’t had another experience like that isn’t because we have been especially vigilant. It’s because we have been lucky.”
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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