Paul H :tinoflag: on Nostr: nprofile1q…kxvcz Had a friend who worked at Civil Defence maybe 15 years ago and ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq8p3dyh487mgegv63afnxrc30vx7va9uesvv625fz3j3x8s4qdawqvkxvcz (nprofile…xvcz) Had a friend who worked at Civil Defence maybe 15 years ago and they did modelling on what would happen to Wellington if there was a major disaster that cut off food supplies. It would not take long at all for the supermarket shelves to be empty, 2-3 days at most. But the interesting thing was who would be least affected. Turns out it is the middle-class. The worst off would be the poor, students, renters, and beneficiaries who tend not to stockpile food because of the lack of the physical space and, of course, of money to do so. The very well-off would also run out of food quickly because they tend to eat out more and store less 'staples' like rice, etc.. The increase in food delivery services since then probably acerbates the problem at both ends of the scale. The middle-class have enough financial resources to stockpile and the room to do so as they tend to own their own homes, and therefore could 'survive' for longer. As I say, that was 15 years ago so perhaps the modelling has changed. But it makes a lot of sense.