{"id":12252,"date":"2020-03-18T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12252"},"modified":"2020-03-17T11:19:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T18:19:12","slug":"remembering-who-is-keeping-us-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/remembering-who-is-keeping-us-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Who Is Keeping Us Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tried an experiment yesterday. I went to four large supermarkets in Fresno County, the nation\u2019s largest and most diverse food-producing county, and looked at both checkouts and shelf space. The two big sellers seemed to be cleansers of all sorts (bleach wipes were all sold out, for example) and staples such as canned soup, pasta, and canned fish and preserved meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I drove in about a 50-mile circumference to look at local farms \u2014 vineyards, orchards, row crops, dairy, etc. \u2014 and packinghouses and processors. There seemed absolutely no interruption at all. Farmers and workers were on tractors, packing houses were bringing in late citrus for cold storage, and lots of people were harvesting winter vegetables in the field. Machines were fertilizing, spraying, and cultivating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The point is that in our age of necessary shutdowns and staying home, one thing we must do is eat \u2014 and eat well to stay healthy. And that means lots of people have to go to work and produce food and transport it to the major cities, and not always in isolation on the south 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmers do a lot more than just drop a seed in the ground and then by rote watch it sprout into a corn stalk, as one of our nation\u2019s richest and most influential figures lectured us not all that long ago. For millions to subsist at home, to force the virus to sputter out, they must eat, as well as have power, running water, law enforcement, and sanitation. And that means millions of Americans must go to work as usual and sustain the elementals and existential forces of American life for 330 million, usually out of sight and out of mind, as we concentrate on the required quarantining of universities, offices, bureaus, sporting events, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/remembering-who-is-keeping-us-alive\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review I tried an experiment yesterday. I went to four large supermarkets in Fresno County, the nation\u2019s largest and most diverse food-producing county, and looked at both checkouts and shelf space. The two big sellers seemed to be cleansers of all sorts (bleach wipes were all sold out, for example) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3bC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12090,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/dream-team-redux\/","url_meta":{"origin":12252,"position":0},"title":"\u2018Dream-Team\u2019 Redux?","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 10, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There was a lot of pre-hearing hype about the Democrats\u2019 supposedly stellar academic experts, sort of analogous to the giddiness about the \u201cdream team,\u201d \u201call-stars,\u201d and \u201chunter-killer\u201d legal eagles that Robert Mueller supposedly had assembled to pick apart the Trump carrion \u2014 and they\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":841,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obama-off-the-cuff\/","url_meta":{"origin":12252,"position":1},"title":"Obama Off the Cuff","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Conservatives caricature 24\/7 Barack Obama\u2019s reliance on the teleprompter. 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