You can bet silent and/or out-loud prayers go up each time some media outlet interviews a health care pundit who declares “there’s no evidence” of novel coronavirus (COVID 19) transmission via foods from plants or animals.
However, food production hasn’t dodged the COVID 19 bullet.
Local, state and federal governments are increasingly screwing
down restrictions on the general population when it comes to “social distancing”
– I hate that phrase only slightly more than “out of an abundance of caution” –
and everyone is getting a lesson in what
I’ve come to call “ripple-effect” economics, whether they want it or not.
