The price of everything

The Great Suppression

“Katie and Jim DiGangi, who run a dairy farm in Wisconsin, have spent the last several weeks dumping as much as 20,000 gallons of milk a day. In California, Jack Vessey, a lettuce and leafy green farmer, has destroyed 350 acres of his crop by ploughing his tractor through unharvested fields.

“The two farms are almost 2,000 miles apart but both have become examples of the damage done by the coronavirus outbreak to the complex supply chains that bring food from farms to tables in the US.

“As restaurants, hotels and schools have closed, farmers and ranchers who supplied them have lost customers. But redirecting their production to grocery stores has proved difficult because of the differing demands of commercial food operations and people cooking in their kitchens.."

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China’s Chernobyl

“An RBMK reactor uses Uranium-235 as fuel. Every atom of U-235 is like a bullet travelling at nearly the speed of light, penetrating everything in its path: woods, metal, concrete, flesh. Every gram of U-235 holds over a billion trillion of these bullets. That's in one gram. Now, Chernobyl holds over three million grams, and right now, it is on fire. Winds will carry radioactive particles across the entire continent, rain will bring them down on us. That's three million billion trillion bullets in the.. in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. Most of these bullets will not stop firing for 100 years. Some of them, not for 50,000 years.”

• Professor Valery Legasov (Jared Harris) in the HBO mini-series Chernobyl.
  
  

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Worst film ever

“Just put yourself into the mindset of any company.. Pick a great company that you’ve admired.. So I’ll pick one that I’ve admired for a very long time, for good reason: Workday. That’s a company that’s basically 10x’d their market cap. in the six or seven years they’ve been public, trading at an incredible valuation – cheap, now.. this is not to pick on Workday, but it’s a perfect example of what other companies will go through because I think this one of the best positioned companies.. They were – before all of this craziness – going to companies, the global 1,000, and basically saying: you need to upgrade two big parts of your legacy infrastructure – human resources management, and how you actually count all of the money you make, your general ledger.."

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Before Coronavirus

“I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candour and a decision which the present situation of our people impel. This is pre-eminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today.. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.. In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone..”

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933.

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