Newsmax.com  April 10, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic caught us, as both a species and a nation, with our pants down. It should not have. “Pandemic” is a word common to most. We’ve seen it in movies, read about it in fictional novels and have been ravaged by them multiple times in our history. 1918-1920 Spanish Influenza. Dark Ages Bubonic Plague. The H1N1 Swine Flu was only a decade ago! 

Merely a few generations ago, before modern manufacturing and use of preservatives, our ancestors dried, smoked, canned and stored food. I know that short of a major worldwide disruption worse than this current one, with few exceptions, people will probably not be going back to those methods. However, we have an advantage over our long-gone relatives…