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Alert, Not Alarmed: Seventeen Countries, One Map, No Soup
Over the weekend Ocado ran out of about forty varieties of tinned soup. Iceland reported tinned goods up forty percent. Maplin said torch sales nearly quadrupled and radios almost doubled in three days. Meanwhile the British Retail Consortium was standing slightly to one side explaining that food availability is completely fine and the shops are well stocked.
So there was no shortage. There was a map.
On 28 October, Newsweek published a map of every country currently advising households to keep emergency supplies. The map is accurate. Every country on it really does give that advice. And the…
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