Been Here Before

I’m leaning hard on what my parents taught me about making do in times of scarcity - like during the Pipeline period where there was no food in the stores for weeks at a time. At one point, what little meat in the stores was rotten - and Mom just turned to me, shrugged, and said “Looks like we’re going vegetarian for a while” and aside from the occasional cheese omelette, and lots of canned salmon out of Dillingham, we were.

Growing up in Alaska back in the day was a lesson in making do. You had to. Doesn’t matter how much money you had if what you needed simply isn’t available. My parents both had high powered professional careers, but that didn’t matter the day 15 year old me had to square off with a full-grown man over the last 100 pound bag of dog food in town.

Yes. You read that right.

I had a big dog who inhaled his food. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The problem then was a broken supply chain that had collapsed under a massive population growth due to good paying jobs on the Slope.

Now it’s a broken health care system that has pushed just-in-time inventory management beyond its capabilities. Made worse because while we are all in the same storm, we can’t all be in the same boat - six feet apart.


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