CAPITALISM: Why there will soon be tons of toilet paper, and what food may be scarce, according to supply chain experts.

“All the grocery stores are going to have pallets of toilet paper sitting in the aisles, and nobody is going to buy it, because who needs to buy toilet paper when you’ve got a year’s worth sitting in your garage?” Daniel Stanton, a supply chain expert and author of “Supply Chain Management for Dummies,” tells CNBC Make It.

But what about food?

Even if the COVID-19 pandemic stretches over months (President Donald Trump said it could last until August), there will be no big food shortages, especially on staples like milk, eggs, cheese, bread and meat, according to three supply chain experts who spoke to Make It.

But your favorite brand or the exact kind of fruit you want could be scarce.

“The brand that you normally want may not be available. But, hey, there’s some other kind of pasta. Or instead of rice, we’re going to have potatoes for dinner,” Stanton says.

“The U.S. produces a huge amount of food. We’re also an exporter of food, so we’re going to be okay,” he adds.

The VodkaWife™ and I aren’t quite preppers, but we keep enough dry foods and frozen meats on hand — the basement chest freezer is seven feet long — that we haven’t had to sweat through a crisis yet.

WELL: CNN Report on Test Kits Refutes Biden Statement—and Its Own Fact-Check: Biden picked up false claim that Trump admin turned down WHO test kits.

A new CNN report refutes its own correspondent’s approving fact check of Joe Biden’s claim the Trump administration “refused” the World Health Organization’s offer of coronavirus testing kits.

CNN fact-checker Holmes Lybrand rated Biden’s statement at Sunday’s Democratic primary debate to be correct at the time. But CNN reported Wednesday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and WHO never discussed the latter providing tests to the United States, and WHO did not offer it tests.

WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic told CNN this was not unusual, since the United States has the capacity to manufacture its own diagnostics. The CDC developed its own version of the coronavirus test on Jan. 17, the same day WHO published a German protocol for countries to use in manufacturing their own tests.

While the United States has struggled to test for the virus on a mass scale, that still contradicts Biden’s comment on Sunday, when he told debate moderator Jake Tapper, “Look, the World Health Organization offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them. We did not want to buy them. We did not want to get them from them. We wanted to make sure we had our own.”

Lybrand wrote in CNN’s live fact-checking blog of the debate, “Biden is correct. The U.S., along with other countries, chose not to take test kits from WHO — and instead decided to make their own.”

Lybrand’s fact check has thus far not been updated.

PolitiFact rated the same statement by Biden “Mostly False” in a report on Monday.

Reminder:

But occasionally they slip up.

IT HELPS THAT THEY HAVE SO MANY POLITICIANS AND JOURNALISTS ON THE PAYROLL: Blame China: Beijing is successfully avoiding culpability for its role in spreading the coronavirus.

HAVE YOU TRIED TURNING IT OFF AND THEN BACK ON AGAIN? NASA Fixes Mars Lander By Telling It to Hit Itself With a Shovel.

HE REALLY IS A NATIONAL TREASURE: Buzz Aldrin has some advice for Americans in quarantine. “Buzz, what are you doing to protect yourself from the coronavirus?”

‘HARD TO GO LOWER:’ Rick Wilson gets slammed for ‘sick’ hashtag-take on Melania Trump’s coronavirus PSAs. Quite a ratio as well:

Earlier: Never Trump Rick Wilson Says the Quiet Part Out Loud, Hopes Trump Supporters Pay ‘a Terrible Price’ Because ‘You Deserve It.’

THEY FOOLISHLY BELIEVED NEWS STORIES SUGGESTING THAT THEY WERE IMMUNE: Younger Adults Comprise Big Portion of Coronavirus Hospitalizations in U.S.

GARBAGE PEOPLE, GARBAGE MAP: SPLC Releases Fear-Mongering ‘Hate Map’ Amid Coronavirus Outbreak.

CLINICAL TRIAL: The Use of PUL-042 Inhalation Solution to Reduce the Severity of COVID-19 in Adults Positive for SARS-CoV-2 Infection.

Between this, Chloraquine, and Avigan, among several others, it looks like there may be some useful treatments forthcoming.

THIS FROG’S TOES ARE MIGHTY WARM:  Scientist with 4 Degrees from MIT Warns ‘Deep State’ Using Coronavirus Fear-Mongering To Suppress Dissent.

Our homegrown authoritarians have loved the Chicoms for a long time, and wished they could do the same here. Note that not only were things not okay in China, we’ve strong indications they’re still NOT okay.  Meanwhile those of an authoritarian bend are instigating panic and then using it to put their boot on your neck. If you like the fash boot on your neck, you can keep the fash boot on your neck, but do it elsewhere, because for me and my tribe, I’ll say no.

REMEMBER YOU ARE AMERICAN. AND THE WORLD AIN’T SEEN NOTHING LIKE US YET:  The Gateway Pundit Reader Offers This Message of Hope – “You Are Good – Never, Ever Forget That!”.

They will fail. They have failed.

But YOU must defeat them. That means standing up to the lies. Facing the truth, calling out the panic with calm and resolute strength. Being bold in the face of the cowering simps on the TV screen and in the newspaper columns. Speaking out with authority, facing facts, and sharing those facts with others.

Fact: You’re going to die.

Fact: Just not today. And almost certainly NOT from the Wuhan Virus.

Fact: America will get through this. Because YOU are an American. YOU are brave, and strong, and kind.

You just need to be reminded of that from time to time. It’s so easy to forget, when you’re force-fed a diet of how rotten you are. From people who are rotten to the core.

They are evil. You are good. Never, EVER forget that.

ALL THE PETTY AUTHORITARIANS ARE PUTTING THEIR FASH BOOTS ON AND STRUTTING IN THE LIGHT OF DAY. REMEMBER THAT TOO:  Fresno Emergency Order Takes Aim At Guns.

AND AFTER CAME THE GUILLOTINE. MADAME GUILLOTINE WAS GETTING HUNGRY:  Same Panic, Different Century?

WELL… THAT’S NICE TO KNOW. DID I MENTION I FEEL FINE AND I THINK I’LL GO FOR A WALK?  Coronavirus Might Be Worse for People With Blood Type A .

IT IS SOMETIMES HANDY TO HAVE THESE COLLECTED IN ONE PLACE:  All the Establishment Media’s Dangerous Coronavirus Lies.

I FEEL FINE. I THINK I’LL GO FOR A WALK:  Coronavirus: Always look on the bright side of life *UPDATED*.

SHE’S NOT ALONE. SHE’S SO NOT ALONE:  Coronavirus Inspires Clowns to Self-Identify.

Having glimpsed the horror and treason beneath the masks, don’t forget. Don’t let them put the mask of reasonableness back on. These are not reasonable people. These are not patriotic Americans. These are certainly not “smart” people. And as for principled… pfui.

STATISTS GOT TO STATIST:  Elizabeth Warren exploits coronavirus crisis to push unrelated corporate reforms.

IT’S OFFICIAL! SATAN INVITED ALL THE LITTLE DEMONS FOR A SKATING PARTY:  CNN’s Dana Bash Praises Trump’s Handling of Coronavirus: “Kind Of Leader That People Need”.

LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO! YOU BROUGHT IT ON YOURSELF!  CHINA, THE DRUNKEN ABUSER OF THE WORLD:  China Blames America for China Kicking Out American Newspaper Journalists.

POSSIBLY:  Edith Wilson Redux In Biden Cognitive Issues?

IT’S ALWAYS MORE COMPLICATED THAN IT LOOKS, AND RIGHT NOW WE’RE IN THE FOG OF WAR:  COVID-19: interesting data from Korea and from the Diamond Princess.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Italy reports 475 new coronavirus deaths in just 1 day.

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