Baby Formula & Why We Need A Functional Society
This was originally posted on Facebook on May 19, 2022.
Back in the old days, babies just died if there was a problem between them taking breast milk, or breast milk coming in for the mom.
A zillion reasons it could go wrong. Often it just did. And there was just death.
The confusion, ignorance, and rather breathtaking judgment today from many could be partly because we don't collectively remember those days.
In our modern, cushy lives with functioning infrastructure and innovations like mass produced baby formula… we forget what life was like before.
Until you have a moment like this.
Once again, I say to people who are casual about suggesting we should burn everything down and just start over, or casual about the potential collapse of a society... what we're seeing now with a shortage in baby formula are the kinds of things that would be massively amplified if society were to fall apart.
Right now we have increasing hospitalization of babies.
If society were to destabilize, we would have a whole lot more trouble, illness, and death. And as usually happens, the people who have the least would suffer the most.
Systems matter. Supply chains matter. Businesses matter. Infrastructure matters.
Food inspection matters. Government matters.
As much as there were failures in those pieces during all of this... if we didn't have any of those things it would be a much bigger mess.
All of which is why I would like to keep a functional society and a functional democracy.
And why I'm willing to fight for both.
I think we can keep them. I intend to.
And yes: I can totally tie about anything to the importance of a functional democracy. And government. And society.