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Sent an e-mail to family explaining our emergency family plan. Used Google doc to create one more vehicle to reach each other in case of an emergency.

It's official, the pandemic has reached north America. Elderly people and young children are to stay home until further notice. Thank goodness DART, Domestic Action Reliable Today, is mobilized and ready to go. In anticipation of this next pandemic, volunteers have their lists of the community's most fragile population. Meals are being prepared and delivered by this heroic group of people. If not for their efforts, elderly and mothers with infants would have to expose those fragile immune… Continue

It's April 1, 2020, and the socioeconomic gap has widened. The people on the government roles for assistance have outpaced the government's ability to provide money or services for all of them. On this day, a new business model has opened its doors. "Barterers R Us" is open for business to provide an exchange of goods and services for those who have time and talent, but are without the economic means to supply their own families with basic needs. Perhaps a family has grown more vegetables than… Continue

Is bartering obsolete? At any given time, somewhere in the world barter is very much being practiced. In Germany after both world wars, bartering rose again as a system to replace the collapsed monetary system. In third-world countries, there are several which don't have a system beyond barter to depend on. In many cases of bartering. People will accept things of intrinsic value for their own products or services with the intention of retrading them in the future, and not for their own use. The… Continue