Picked up lunch at KFC yesterday. My go-to meal is three-piece chicken tender with one side and a soda. Yummy.
Had quite a shock at the price.
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So many articles are describing the deterioration in the supply chain. Lots of comments on twitter show pictures of grocery stores in the United States with a fraction of the stock you would normally see.
Government policies, such as forced lockdowns, work restrictions, flooding the economy with trillions of dollars, and travel restrictions are increasing pressure.
Just a few of recent articles describing increasing troubles:
The level of flaming hypocrisy emerging from #10 Downing Street is growing so fast that I wonder if the issue is actually hypocrisy or instead a belief that the Covid virus is not actually dangerous.
Back on 12/17/21 I discussed Flaming hypocrisy: “It’s good to be the king” of Netherlands or Prime Minister of England edition.
In December news reports said that Prime Minister Boris Johnson attended a pizza and wine party on 5/15/20, just a couple months into the pandemic. He claimed he was there only a few minutes.
Then on 12/18/20 somewhere between 40 and 50 people had a Christmas party at #10 Downing Street.
Journalists (plural) attended but kept quiet about the event. Of course. They wanted to protect their sources and they knew they are part of the elitist elite who are also exempt from Covid rules.
I discussed this on 12/16/21 in my post Still more flaming hypocrites get caught, this time including Prime Ministers of England and Finland.
The Prime Minister’s press spokes-liar at the time, Allegra Stratton, is on video laughing in a mock press conference that they would call this a “business meeting” and therefore could continue partying.
Just to be clear, multiple staff working for the Prime Minister were laughing at us because they can get away with whatever they want.
Oh, at the time the Prime Minister staff was partying hearty, Christmas parties were explicitly banned. In addition, no more than two people were allowed to get together, even indoors.
Senior leadership were laughing at you and me. Well, not me because I am a free American citizen not personal property subject of the Queen.
The story has gotten a lot worse for the Prime Minister in the last week or so. The extent of flagrantly ignoring Covid restrictions has expanded.
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News keeps rolling in about senior Fed officials trading stock when they have extremely valuable inside information. Tally grows of federal judges who did not recuse themselves when they had a financial interest in a case they were hearing. Oh yeah, Chief Justice Roberts of the Supreme Court had his own failure-to-recuse oopsie.
This round of lack-of-integrity-by-senior-officials news reports, federal edition:
The supply chain for everything is tangle up to the extent it will take lots of time to function normally again.
Two articles describing the depth of issues:
American Thinker – 12/11/21 – We broke everything in the name of Covid – Author ran a large IT department at one point in the past. Every few years they had to shut down the entire computer system so that the factory could go through maintenance of the electrical system.
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Might want to not tell your vaccine hesitant friends and family about this discussion.
I have been tracking a lot of data about Covid since the start of the pandemic.
Why? The data is subject to interpretation, misinterpretation, delays, and manipulation.
So again, the question is: Why?
Publicly available data is what our supposed leaders are using to make decisions. By watching the public data we can maybe guess what they are about to do to us.
Anyway, I have been watching the data. Also have a large number of graphs set up so I can better see data and trends.
Something weird is happening with the vaccination.
Fully vaccinated people are getting sick. Lots of them.
People I know who are vaccine hesitant are noticing.
This is where hard numbers come into play.
I don’t know what these numbers tell us about what may happen soon, but the picture I see is distressing to me.
One set of data I have been watching is from North Dakota.
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There are a lot of indications the inflation rates we’ve seen in the last year or so are going to continue. My guess is we will see higher inflation in the next year than we did in 2021. Author of the article discussing PPP says he expects a shock in the CPI sometime in the next few months.
Merely a few recent items pointing towards sustained and even increasing inflation:
Dollar Tree is now Dollar and a Quarter Tree – Bought a couple items at Dollar Tree. They all rang up at $1.25. Glanced around the store noticing all the signs said $1.25.I asked the clerk about it and he said everything in the store is now a dollar and a quarter.
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Evidence has been present for well over a year that remote learning, economic shutdowns, and general panic is causing severe harm for kids.
In spite of this our so-called leaders in the political realm, public health world, and educational circles have started another round of school shutdowns.
Even The New York Times is catching on to the devastation inflicted on children. The New York Times!
It is well past time to stop the destruction we are inflicting on children.
Merely three of a growing string of articles pointing out the destruction willfully visited on school children: