You can thank the Biden Cartel for all this. Groceries, gas, local utilities, fake covid and those dust only rated masks and don't forget that ONE cargo ship in the Suez Canal. Let me repeat myself, ONE ship that got sideways. Remember the Suez carries like 13% of the worlds cargo. And for what a few days halted the Canal? Making everything we buy nearly triple in price? Gas was $1.69 for E-10 and $1.99 for 100% gas in Oklahoma when Trump was in office. Back to lawn mowers.
The only place that the bum that warms the big chair in the white house makes any difference is in Wall Street where all of the desk jockies go beserk buying & selling stock options .
The Suez canal carries ALL of the freight to & from the EU into Asia Around 60 ships a day
So over 6 days that is 600 ships that were late and 40 that were suck there for the full 6 days
Those ships caused 12,000 ships to miss their slots at various ports around the world and this created havock because each & every one of them had thousands of containers that all had a slot on trucks & trains that were missed plus warehouse space that was empty then of course over capacity once the blockage started to clear.
Containers that were sent to the wharfs of course could not be uploaded because the ships they were going on had yet to be unloaded
If you had been in heavy transport you would have a better understanding of logistical bottlenecks
Add to that a worldwide container shortage because those 2,500,000 containers had up to 20 pallets in each one , many of which were hired hardwood pallets that again were scheduled to be elsewhere and not sitting off shore for 3 weeks because ports are already running 20% over capacity.
China closing down is what really stuffed things up for the USA as there is not single item made in the USA that does not use parts imported from China
Then of course there was a trade stand off generated by President Trump so US factories were already in short supply when China closed down.
Australian foundries got desperation orders from US companies because their regular supply from China was unavailable
That meant for the stuff that got made they had to use American sourced parts at 10 x the Chinese sourced parts price.
As for Covid being fake well that says a lot about your ability to look at facts objectively and make a rational conclusion
Some of my friends got covid , just like a cold , over it in a couple of weeks 3 died and one has Long Covid and will probably never be fit enough to work again.
HE offered me his treasured collection of vintage motorcycles that he can not hold upright let alone kick start .
You can believe what ever you like but don't try to spread total BS on this forum, take to Feaces Book where it belongs .
Take our summer vacation in Brazil another country with a government that said Covid was fake and spend weeks trying to count all of the graves .
Another motorcycling friend of mine was in Indonesia during their Covid crisis and made a fortune digging mass graves with a bull dozer for the unclaimed bodies .
Now the actions of various governments could have been a whole lot better including ours down here and the insistance on doing PCR's rather than screening 100% of the population was the absolutist stupidist things that most governments did when trying to prevent the spread of a virus but the virus was very much real.
Because we have a much smaller population & we did national lockdowns we were able to very successful track & trace each infection back to a single source .
Again a friends daughter was in one of the contact tracing teams that did this work, she put in 20 hour days and again made a motza in overtime .
The numbers will always be rubbery because there is a large section of BUSINESS that will attempt to cash in on every crisis so I have no doubt that hospitals may have exagerated numbers to get extra funding .