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I wouldn’t say “fine”. It would be a year without summer, and the loss of life due to starvation would be rather severe.

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Would starvation be a problem? Don't most countries have food reserves for these cases? At least enough food for one season?

Ha ha ha ha ha where is the profit in that?

You are unsure where is profit in having alive workers/military/etc?

Leftist radical.

Having a supply of something that is suddenly supply constrained is pretty much a literal definition of how to make a profit. No need for a ??? step on that one. Of course you will take a storage cost loss for potentially thousands of years first.

We didn't have toilet paper because some people freaked out, you think there's a maintained warehouse of perishable supplies? Or just a big vault of cans somewhere?

No, nations do not have the means to feed their constituents in a nation ending disaster. It's easy to move food from Florida to California in a state sized crises, but the logistics of maintaining a just in case food supply for hundreds of millions distributed around the country? It's a safer bet to assume you'd die in the disaster than to convince people to plan for the future.

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