Baby formula, sriracha, and now tampons? (among other goods) https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/sriracha-hot-sauce-chili-pepper-shortage-rcna32742 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tampon-shortage-supply-chain-pandemic/ What's the "real" deal here?? Can't blame China.
Peter Zeihan's new book will be released on the 14th of this month and may have the answers you are seeking. "2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it. America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going. Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Navy. The American dollar underpins internationalized energy and financial markets. Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers. American security policy forced warring nations to lay down their arms. Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe. All of this was artificial. All this was temporary. All this is ending. In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging. The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. Which means everything about our interconnected world - from how we manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all - is about to change. A world ending. A world beginning. Zeihan brings readers along for an illuminating (and a bit terrifying) ride packed with foresight, wit, and his trademark irreverence."
Service industry has a low number of workers coming back. Don't blame em'. But yeah, one of my local restaurants has had to frequently close due to not having enough kitchen staff.
re: the shortage of toilet paper when COVID first hit. It was said that when one person coughed, four people crapped their pants.
Especially in crowded contained cubicles breathing the same air with people who are angry to begin with....and you can make 22 bucks an hour washing dishes right now...
They are too old to work. We had too many workers because boomers weren't retiring, now more than half of boomers have reached retirement age, and we don't have enough people entering the work force fast enough to replace the boomers who are retiring and leaving the workforce. This was always going to happen, the pandemic just made it more abrupt.
