Illustration of supply chain. Image courtesy of Adobe Stock.
There are lots of reports out with tidbits of information which combine to paint a picture that the tangled supply chain is not going to untangle anytime soon. For your consideration:
New system to allow cargo ships to register a scheduled arrival time will make it look like the number of ships waiting to unload has decreased.
Big increase in the number of people who started their own business since start of the pandemic, becoming self-employed.
Your favorite restaurant may stop taking delivery orders during crunch time.
Pay and working conditions for truckers are horrible – no wonder there aren’t enough of them.
So many reports are pointing to the damage caused by government actions during the pandemic. I can’t possible discuss all the news. Here are a few articles for your consideration
Lack of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of malaria in sub-Sahara Africa has caused the death of 47,000 more people than would have died otherwise. Government actions are killing people.
Governor of New York orders elective surgeries be halted because hospitals may become overloaded. This will kill people from lack of treatment.
A medical doctor indicates we will deal with increasing Covid infection rates by repeating the steps that didn’t work before.
It will take five or 10 years to identify all of the excess deaths which were directly or indirectly caused by government actions to shut down the economy in 2020.
The current data point is 47,000 people dying because of malaria who would have otherwise lived apart from the government lockdowns across the world.
This sign is becoming more common during business hours. Image courtesy of Adobe Stock.
My wife and I are seeing firsthand the impact of turmoil in the employment market to include restaurants that have to close for the day because no staff showed up to work. One restaurant is making up stories about masks being government-required.
This discussion will highlight disruptions I have seen in our local community in the last month. We will discuss separately the wide range of government actions which have caused this turmoil.
The amount of money Congress has pumped into the economy in an attempt to fight the Covid pandemic is staggering. Don’t quite have enough adjectives to describe the amount of money that is forced into the economy without any corresponding increase in production.
The amount spent directly on the pandemic is more than four times the annual budget at the federal level.
This is one of the primary reasons we are seeing inflation rates running at a thirty year high.
I’ve pulled together the amount of money appropriated by Congress in 2020 and 2021 which are focused on fighting the pandemic and stimulating the economy. Here is my tally, with amount of funding in billions of dollars, date Congress passed the legislation, and name of the program:
Typical private jet during four hours in the air will emit about as much CO2 as an average person will generate during an entire year. Image courtesy of Adobe Stock.
The demand for private jets is soaring. Those jets generate massively more CO2 emissions that any commercial flight.
The ruling caste, who think they rule over us, have no hesitation to use heavily polluting private jets to scoot around on their planet hopping fun times.
The double whammy of Covid pandemic and government policies in reaction to the pandemic continue to hammer the educational sector. Unsettling thing is to consider these articles only discuss the current impact and not the long-term destruction of education for all students from pre-K to grad school.
Articles for you to consider:
Columbia University settles for a refund of fees their class-action lawsuit claiming refund of fees and tuition.
Freshman enrollment in colleges and universities continued to decline in fall 2021. The anticipated return of students who skipped matriculation in fall 2020 has not happened.
As an indicator of what is likely happening in all primary and secondary schools across the country, Washington state public schools estimate enrollment for the next two years will be down another 4.5% from their February 2021 estimate.
TaxProf – 11/27/21 – Columbia Settles Covid-19 Class Action Tuition Refund Suit For $12.5 Million – Looks like Columbia University got off easy. Students there established a class and were suing for refund of tuition and fees because they were prohibited from in-person classes and instead attended an Ivy League school on their monitor.
The bad news just keeps rolling in regarding the Covid pandemic, or perhaps we should now refer to it as endemic. It’s beginning to look like there’s not a whole lot we can do to stop or even slow the pandemic. We continue to see reports showing horrible side effects of the economic and social shutdown.
For your consideration:
There have now been more deaths coded to a Covid cause in 2021 than in 2020. Keep in mind this is with widespread vaccinations.
An actual scientist with experience developing vaccines points out that it is almost expected that we will see situations like in Gibraltar there there is an extraordinarily high vaccination rate and simultaneously an extraordinarily high infection rate.
The number of deaths from drug overdoses has skyrocketed since early 2020. Hmm. What could have caused that? Is there something that happened in, oh, say March 2020 that might have led increasing number of people to abuse drugs?
There have now been more Covid deaths in 2021 with widespread vaccination than in 2020 without any vaccinations.
On 11/22/22 the John Hopkins database reports 771,118 deaths from coronavirus.
On 11/22/21 the CDC reports the following death tally of “all deaths involving Covid-19.” This category is defined as “Deaths with confirmed or presumed Covid 19, coded to ICD-10 code U07.1.” Their account:
The list of high visibility public officials who do not feel the need to lower themselves to follow the rules mandatory for you and me just keeps growing.
For yet another weekend, protests were taking place around the world against mandatory vaccinations, useless lockdowns, and the Bitte Deine Papier (your papers please) vaccination passports.
News reports for today:
President of American Federation of Teachers blows off mask requirement during panel discussion. Oh, Sen. Schumer boogies the night away sans mask even though legal diktat requires it.
