There are two merging inflection points set to hit the public in a few days.
The first, is a much faster collapse in credibility for those who are pushing the vaccine benefit narrative. The second, the more widespread appearance of shortages for food and basic essentials. These two broad narratives are going to merge. CTH will outline the issues as they predictably surface. This outline focuses on the latter, the supply chain angle.
♦ The cross-border vaccination mandate protests by truckers are continuing in Canada and at areas near the U.S-Canada border. The vaccine mandate for the Canadian side began on January 15th. The mandate for the U.S. truckers begins January 22nd. Both groups are currently slow-rolling the protest in/around the border crossings.
A coordinated Trucker Protest on the Canadian side is scheduled for January 23rd {LINK}, coincidentally the same time as a protest rally in Washington DC by members of the healthcare industry. It is not coincidental that retail executives in the grocery industry are starting to prepare people in Canada for major grocery shortages {LINK}.
CANADA – “[…] “Independent grocers are in a myriad of communities in this country where there is no other grocery store,” Sands said. “If those stores close, you’ve got a food security issue.”
Meanwhile, stores are also experiencing a shortage of goods stemming from supply chain issues, including a shortage of truckers, packaging and processing delays and the Canadian winter.
Grocers rely on “just in time” delivery, meaning even transient issues like inclement weather can cause delays and shortages, Retail Council of Canada spokesperson Michelle Wasylyshen said.” (read more)
At the same time the Canadian media start to pick up the downstream consequence discussion – a shortage of products with Canadian retailers – the U.S. side of the equation begins to warn about price increases. This is all connected, yet few in corporate media will elevate high enough to see just how damaging the overall vaccine mandate is in this critical sector that touches everyone’s lives.
The crisis is NOT driven by COVID-19, this crisis is driven by government decision-making around COVID-19. The virus is not causing the immediate supply chain issue.
The virus has negligible impact on this issue. It is government intervention, rules and fiats under the guise of COVID-19 that is creating the crisis.
The media blames the former, the media ignores the latter.
…”Only 50% to 60% of U.S. truckers are vaccinated, according to an estimate from the American Trucking Associations.”…
The emphasis is mine:
BLOOMBERG – “New rules requiring truckers to show proof of vaccination when crossing the Canada-U.S. border are cutting into shipping capacity and boosting the cost of hauling everything from broccoli to tomatoes.
The cost of transporting produce out of California and Arizona to Canada jumped 25% last week as fewer trucks are available to cross the border, according to George Pitsikoulis, president and chief executive officer of Montreal-based distributor Canadawide Fruits.
“The lower the supply, the higher the price. Ultimately it’s the consumer that pays for this,” Pitsikoulis said Monday by phone.
Canada implemented new rules on Jan. 15 that require border agents to turn away unvaccinated U.S. truckers, a move industry executives warned could slow down supply chains that are already under stress. Canadian truckers who can’t show proof of vaccination will be required to quarantine when they re-enter the country from the U.S.
Shipping is expected to get disrupted in both directions, with the U.S. set to impose its own vaccine mandate on foreign travelers on Jan. 22. Only 50% to 60% of U.S. truckers are vaccinated, according to an estimate from the American Trucking Associations.
Bison Transport Inc., one Canada’s largest trucking firms, is poised to lose 10% of its freight capacity as a result, prompting the company to boost wages for cross-border drivers and offer signing bonuses of C$2,500 (about $2,000). Those costs have to be passed on to customers, Chief Executive Officer Rob Penner said.
“We understood that this would be a challenge for us,” Penner said in a Monday interview on BNN Bloomberg Television. “We have lost close to 10% of our overall capacity, with many drivers choosing to opt out prior to the deadline.”
Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Bison, which is owned by conglomerate James Richardson & Sons Ltd., has about 3,700 employees and contractors operating a fleet of 2,100 tractors and 6,000 trailers, according to its website.
There are already concerns large companies will be forced pay up to secure vaccinated drivers, pushing up freight costs, said Ron Lemaire, president of the Canadian Produce Marketing Association.
“I have heard anecdotally that truckers are looking to stop hauling perishable products as there are too many risks if they are delayed in their delivery,” Lemaire said by email, noting the association will be closely watching the impact on the supply chain.
Canadian importers rely on trucks to transport fruit that arrives from South America to ports in the northeastern U.S. A shortage of global containers and truck drivers is already causing shipping delays of as long as two weeks and having fewer available truckers will likely make things worse, said Larry Davidson, president of North American Produce Buyers Ltd. in Toronto.
The weekend before the vaccine mandate took effect, the company had only one truck available to pick up 75,000 boxes of grapes in Philadelphia, he said.
“Thirty-six of 37 loads that were ready for pickup had to wait four or five days,” said Davidson, whose company ships produce across Canada. “We’re seeing the domino effect just continue.” (link)
Fresh produce CANNOT sit on docks and distribution facilities for FOUR to FIVE days.
Remember what I said about fresh products and the importance of manufactured and processed foods?
When fresh products start to become problematic, that ends up with a collapse on the other fork in the overall food supply-chain.
Pre-pandemic, retail grocery stores delivered about 40% of all food consumed, “food at home”, and restaurants, cafeterias, lunchrooms, bars, food trucks, fast food, hotels and other fresh-side venues delivered 60%.
The lockdowns, shutdowns, COVID restrictions and capacity rules shifted this food delivery dynamic to the reverse. We now have more than 60% food at home (grocery store) and less than 40% food away from home. That’s why the grocery store supply chains (including packaging) have been stressed from field to processing, to manufacturing, to suppliers, to distribution centers and to stores.
That retail side of the food equation has been working over capacity for almost two years. This shortage and capacity issue is what is compounding and driving inflation at the supermarket to levels we have never seen before….
Now, stop and think. The current trucker issue is going to not only hit the retail transportation side, but it is also going to hit the fresh side as we are in the time of year when we import fresh fruits and vegetables. Can you see the compounding issue now?
Stored food supplies (raw materials in frozen warehouses and deep cooled storage) are being drained by excess demand in manufacturing. Now fresh food supplies are being drained by a lack of rapid transportation that is absolutely critical.
FUBAR !
Resource Material:
Supply chain interruptions of this sort can and will be as catastrophic as power grid failures, not quite as fast, but catastrophic none the less. And perhaps cascading, in time the power grid could fail because of the supply chain interruption. If you think all that electrical infrastructure runs without maintenance and repair…think again. And if Joe calls in the National Guard to feed the cities, how long do you think they can supply 100 million hungry souls with deuce and a half trucks? Food distribution in Somalia was a breeze compared to what will go down in Chicago, Detroit or any major Blue metropolis, let alone all of them at once….remember Katrina? And FEMA?
Maybe the Brandon Administration wasn’t thinking things through?? /s
They don’t give a r@ts @$$ what happens in the cities. They never have and they never will.
Death becomes them.
We are just useless eaters to them.
Pelosi with her “…but WE feed the people…” BS – biggest hypocrite on the face of the planet.
Love your /s !!! It is all coming together just as planned, of that I am sure.
Wanted to throw something through the tv when Pelosi made that stunningly arrogant, elitist statement.
No Ms. Nazi, we feed ourselves through our hard work from which you and your ilk take much too much.
Liberals are not capable of thinking things through, they emote, and formulate their beliefs based on their emotions. They are totally incapable of logical thought.
I disagree. I believe this is all part of the plan – for full government (China) takeover of everything.
I agree 100%, they are not stupid. Everything they do is by design. The goal is to destroy the United States and her citizens.
“If you think all that electrical infrastructure runs without maintenance and repair…think again…”
Last spring we had a ten day power outage over much of northern Oregon due to a massive ice storm.
After the last of that was finally cleaned up and repaired, the power company began doing TV interviews and sending out PSA type stuff letting everyone know that:
1) the ongoing need for maintenance was already dicey because so much was not kept up in the proper way and that future, ongoing maintenance would be problematic and delayed…..
2) ….partly because so many linemen quit and they were have obvious problems hiring enough qualified personnel.
And, by the way, the National Guard can’t feed the cities in Oregon because they are currently assigned (open-endedly) to cleaning hospital rooms between one patient’s discharge and another patient’s admission. (That was just on the 4 pm news on CH 12/Fox….yup, National Guard serving as house maids….I suppose the actual hospital housecleaning folks are now administering anesthesia)
This is a slow implosion that extends across ALL areas of endeavor.
If people never followed the slow implosion that turned Rhodesia into the Zimbabwe of today—well, take a look. Kind of like Argentina but over in Africa. Massively wonderful agriculture production–destroyed. Completely destroyed.
Kind of makes me glad I never pursued the National Guard / Reserves.
Imagine all that training, so you can play housekeeping for a corporation, because your local fascist government encouraged firing all the capable workers over arbitrary and capricious vaccination rules. I would be furious that I would even be asked to support such a system.
“….I suppose the actual hospital housecleaning folks are now administering anesthesia)”
LOL. Nah. They’re administering “vaccines” and Morphine for “comfort care”.
I’ll keep the necessities loaded!
I have repeat orders for about 8 items via Amazon every 3 months. These are items I have to use because of allergies, and are not available locally.
Today, I got notices that 3 of the items are “not available “, and “we’ll notify you when they become available “. They were supposed to be delivered the 28th. This has never happened in the 2 years I have been using this service.
So, the trucker walk out/slow down is obviously working.
I’ll have to check the labels to see where they are manufactured.
I’m having problem with online orders as well. Never seen this before with so many different items. I had issues last year with one or 2. But lately is too often that when I buy something, I’m not sure I will get it.
One of my sons is the Director of Food Services for a medium sized healthcare corporation in the NW. Their supply vendors are firmly established by contract. Out of their 153 biweekly food items delivered, last week, 57 of the 153 items were not available. This is really problematic when considering the wide range of dietetic items necessary on a daily basis. This week, 71 of the 153 were not available. This food supply deal is going to get really ugly really fast.
Wow… thank you for sharing this info. Seems we are seeing shortages go from spotty to serious and now toward critical. And still most people don’t seem too concerned.
Ordered a quarter cow and half a pig today. On receipt, I will have two large freezers full of meats and vegetables plus loads of canned goods, rice, dry beans, twenty pounds each of self-canned beef and pork, and pretty much all the food related necessities I will need. I am good to go for two years. I tell people to prepare, but they think I am nuts. I expect I will be feeding the neighbors with kids.
Your order could be laying on the railroad tracks in LA….just sayin’
what are you using for allergies? sometimes I feel like I am a broken record, but I had terrible allergies all my life until I gave up everything and just went with animal products. I eat fish and chicken and beef and pork and bacon, eggs etc. but no vegetables or grains or legumes (or fruit or sugar). I will sometimes eat onions and mushrooms. I cured my seasonal allergies and my eczema and numerous other problems. I think I was just allergic to it all.
Interesting! That sounds a lot like my way of eating. Are you doing keto?
Sounds like he’s doing Allergy. 😀
Oops sorry it’s —- she’s doing.
Hi Danielle,
I’m butting in, uninvited. My daughter has about 8 different food allergies. – all very common food items, found in just about every prepared food in the store. Hers are part of an autoimmune disease called eosinophilic esophagitis (EOE). We would not have found her allergies if we did not go to a really good allergy program at Children’s Hospital in Boston. The allergist there had us do the allergy testing, but made us go 2 wks without antistamines like Zyrtec and about 3 days without Benadryl before testing. When we did that, her allergies really popped out on the testing. (Her weal from the pork allergy measured 8” long!). Previously when she tested, they only had us stop all antihistamines for 2-3 days. The difference in test results was huge.
If you haven’t done testing, I highly recommend it, but the longer you go without antihistamines before testing, the better the results will be. That might at least open up your food options if you can find what you’re truly allergic too.
Also, FWIW, my daughter is taking Flovent for her EOE. She takes a higher dose of the normally inhaled steroid, but instead of breathing into her lungs, she just swallows when she does the puffs. This has allowed her to eat a nearly normal diet, allowing her to bring back 6 of her 8 allergic foods.
The point being is that a specialist may be able to help you find something to control the allergic response and allow you to eat a broader range of foods.
Food allergies are tough, particularly when you have many and their very common in many foods. Best of luck to you. I know how hard it is.
I learned about the Keto way of eating and living about a year ago and dug around the net to learn all I could, For me it was a matter of life it death as I had been in the Standard American Diet (guidelines promulgated by the American Medical Assn., American Diabetes Assn., and the FDA, World Health Org., etc.) These organizations have long been bought and paid for by Big AG and Big Pharma. Trust them as much as you trust the CDC.
I keep thinking that those in charge want for all of us to die. There are essential nutrients we all need to be healthy and stay alive. This is firmly established in REAL science. We need vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, and essential amino acids. These nutrients are simply not available in plants alone; my diet is very similar to yours, Danielle.
I suggest looking at some YouTube vids like “Low Carb Down Under”, and many more. There are many more that are less technical in language and depth.
Everyone should watch a documentary by the name of ‘Fed Up’ it is all about the corrupt FDA.
Another Amazon note.
One of the major Canadian food products is hard red Winter wheat, used for bread. GFS, a wholesale to consumer / small business food / restaurant supply store, had high gluten bread flour for $26 for 50 lbs today. On Amazon, the same product was $75.
The US will not run out of food, but selection and availability will drop, prices will rise, and inner city people will get angry because the .gov can not solve the problems they have deliberately created.
I hope you have your long term storage of staple foods, medicines, and other needed supplies on hand now, as they will be much harder to get soon.
John in Indy
I ordered Nido from Amazon two days ago..it’s on the porch now–I just checked.
Like Biden told us in October 2020 there’s no need to worry because some black woman will be able to stock the grocery shelf.
Canadian media now saying grocery store will close
Grocery store closures loom amid labour, product shortages
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/grocery-store-closures-loom-amid-labour-product-shortages-1.5744602
Talked to a grocer at Hy Vee today about sandwich ham which went from 13 to 17 dollars. He said it will get worse, Half the store is out with covid. they are working very long hours and are frazzled.
My monthly supply of dog food for my German Shepherd arrived today. Cost was $84 vs. normal $60. A 40% increase.
One of the things I did months ago was buy canned fruits. I hate canned fruits, but I had a feeling. Y’all might want to pick some up before there aren’t any left. I’ll be planting a fruit orchard with several year old trees, at not a pleasant price, this spring. Whatever it takes to not be dependent on this sad, sorry, excuse for government failure.
#FJB
The farther north, the more you are in small town and village Canada, the more expensive imported foods are. Food like that is super expensive in the far north.
Trudeau’s attack on truckers combined with lockdowns in Canada will force Canadians outside the cities, mostly white people to eat local without any expensive luxuries.
Anyone have any idea how Alaska will fare? I don’t know if most of their goods are shipped, flown, or trucked in, but if the majority is trucked in, things could get interesting. Alaska was already very expensive, with lots of things not available that we take for granted in the lower 48; the lack of truckers will only make things worse….
Matson provides twice weekly sailings from Tacoma to Anchorage and Kodiak, and once weekly to Dutch Harbor. Here in Honolulu Matson sails from Long Beach, Oakland, and Portland. Haven’t heard of any schedule disruptions at this point, but our media isn’t the most on-the-ball either. But the coconut wireless works pretty fast to create panic buying so if something is up it would become obvious pretty quick. Note that per the “Jones Act”, shipping between US ports must be in US built, US flagged, and US crewed ships. (IIRC Trump authorized a waiver for Puerto Rico.)
Can anyone tell me, please, if these vaxx mandates are in violation of international commerce treaties?
Probably a dozen violations at the WTO. They will get around to enforcement promptly, in about 12 months or so, but only after a few strongly worded letters and threats of fines.
More like a couple decades or so.
Over a year ago I posted to have enough food, cash, precious metals and the guns and ammo to keep them secure. I have been canning hundreds of jars of meat and vac packed hundreds of pounds of rice, beans of different varieties, split peas, sugar, salt, spices (the list is quite long). I have filled the freezer with meat. I have purchased over a hundred bars of soap, dozens of cans of coffee, dish detergent, dishwashing machine detergent, clothes washing detergent, vitamins, razors, deodorant, printer paper, kitty litter, cat food and ANYTHING I consume with any regularity. 5 gallon gas cans filled along with 5 gallon propane bottles, I have spent a small fortune in the recent months. My savings in the bank generates almost zero interest and I will make out just fine with my stored items as it is better than money in the bank. I have run out of room at my home to store anything more. I have enough toilet paper to supply my small town for awhile. If You aren’t ready, You better get as ready as you possibly can.
Considering inflation, you’re getting a higher rate on the food you have stores than on the money in the bank.
man, you sound like me. I started in 2008 and just kept adding. Rice in 14 buckets. 4 freezers and one bedroom with shelves stacked.
I can’t afford to do what you have done. Am I the only one?
No you’re not.
These times will give everyone , who is able, the opportunity to demonstrate genuine Christian values.
Kindness, compassion and generosity.
And with that one word of friendly advice.
KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT about what you have.
Or some enterprising soul will relieve you of ALL of it with extreme prejudice .
Set aside some food to be a gift/stolen and hide the rest.
Do not give good at your doorstep, go to a drop spot with security.
Sprouts do not require much space and are packed with nutrients. The seeds are tiny and simple to store snd sprout.
Bull Sh$t, Trade with Canada will have minimal effect for us. Furthermore, Truck Companies will just use their jabbed drivers to go to Canada.
Ummmm… No.
I just read a line from an injected trucker and he said, if I’m asked to sit this out, I will.
It is covid and the resulting lack or workers that is causing much damage in the short-term, which will not be rectified for at least a year.
You know not of what you speak.
WTF is a “Kevin”? Male Karen? Maybe just unisex idiot.
We need to CHANGE the NARRATIVE !! Whenever addressing a “covid issue”,such as the mandates, we must CONSTANTLY state that all of this is for a virus that 98% – 99% survivable. Plant a positive picture. Help people realize this is not the doomsday plague.
start an example – of pretendin you were dumb, and misled, and tricked into falling for A B C.
thats how you slide past people’s defences.
I so miss cnn’s anti-trump “death count!” now Joe Frauden was fake installed. Wondering if we will hit the “grim mileatone! ” of 1,000,000 dead in U.S. at the end of the 2nd year or the beginning of the 3rd?… 1 million, out of 360 million…. over 2 (or 3!) years…
Don’t forget about dried foods; MyPatriot Supply, Augason Farms, and others that still have survival meals that will last for 25 years.
Nuts, beans, rice, seeds, pasta, etc., stored in the freezer will keep for a very long time and most of these are not expensive at all.
Got a three month supply.
Check Augason Farms’ website. They’ve stopped taking orders in Nov. and everything is “out of stock”. They say that they are selling to select retailers for store sales, but I suspect that their products are hard to find even in those outlets.
Holy chit. Everything on their website is out of stock! I am going to spend at least $500 tomorrow on groceries and water. I want at least 50 gallons of water jugs. Right now I have 10. Come to think of it, I should probably spend $1000. Last week I went for groceries at the Ralphs in Manhattan Beach, CA which is South of LA near the beach and for the first time I noticed some items were out. Chicken was all out for example. Time to stock up.
Garden seeds, seed potatoes, fruit and berry trees/bushes are becoming a premium, some places are already out of certain items.
Nuts, beans, rice and pasta do not need to be stored in a freezer. A cool dry place in more than sufficient.
Was just in my local QFC ( higher end Kroger) store…Seattle suburb. They had a huge professionally printed sign in a stand as you walk in. It said we’re experiencing some food shortages due to the winter weather but be assured we’re working to get your favorite items back on the shelves as soon as possible.
Of course they can’t be honest and say it’s 95% politically induced because they’re in on the big lie. These people are so sick and I guarantee you 99% of the people who walked in believe what the sign said.
They could be honest. They choose not to be.
People need to start mentioning the Trucker Vax Mandates when you’re shopping in these areas w/ a lot of braindeads.
And yes, I know that having a casual convo w/ a stranger is harder in the PNW than most places. in the States. But it wouldn’t hurt to bring it up when you’re standing in front of an empty shelf w/ another person.
I should also add:
Even the Dem Voters I know who I have mentioned this to, all vaxxed and boosted, ….”get it”.
They understand that mandating a Vaccine – on people who spend their whole day isolated in a cab – at risk (certainty?) of taking down the Food Supply for all Americans, is a *terrible* idea.
And I doubt the Dems I know are “smarter” than the ones you see in the Seattle area stores. hehe.
Struck up that very conversation yesterday at Grocery Outlet (Everett, WA – about 40 miles north of Seattle.) To my great surprise, not only did the cashier agree with me, but…her husband is French-Canadian and emigrated here four years ago. He came to the States when Canada went full socialist. Poor guy, little did he know…
In any event, I got a pleasant earful from the cashier over vaccine mandates, the truckers, and hoping American truckers will follow suit later this month.
You just never know where like-minded people will be. Even here in the PNW:)
Oh yeah, they’re out there.
But, even for people that are HUGE Vax Mandate supporters, they still get the stupidity of Mandating Truckers.
I mean, even to *them* it doesn’t make sense! Not if means they’re not gonna eat.
I bring these things up all the time in the PNW. I refer to bread lines, rationing and constantly mention we are being told to wear mask and social distance to discourage sharing information with one another. I refuse to wear a mask and haven’t for well over a year.
I’m also in the PNW, 70 miles from Seattle. When the mask mandate was announced I noticed the same day Costco had a professional sign and stand at the ready. They are all in on it. They also imposed limits on many items. Every chance I got I used the term ‘bread lines’ and ‘rationing’ just to try and wake people up.
I was a little paranoid so I stopped at Sam’s after work and picked up 10 lbs of 90/10 beef and 10 lbs of 80/20 and 10 lbs of bacon. They weren’t that busy, unusual for after work but I think Covid cost them a lot of customers (there were lines and stupid hours and mask nonsense and low stock while BJs and Publix had plenty of everything). But there was plenty of food today. I’m in Jacksonville, FL.
It’s not paranoid. Your spidey senses are up. Follow your instincts.
Not paranoia. Prudence.
I wonder if US produce prices will come down temporarily, especially near the Canadian border
A fellow Cdn friend (I live in the U.S.) communicated to me that the Cdn truckers and their protests are an embarrassment! It was clear to me that anyone who isn’t vaccinated in Cda is labelled a selfish, social-reject!!!
Hate to say it, but this is the beauty of Independent Truckers telling their government to F*ck OFF with their vaccine mandates! SO (as usual) the government tries to force people (against their will – and against Article 1 of the Nuremburg Code) to take a jab KNOWN to Kill, Maim and damage human beings as an experimental drug.
The government has NO plan to keep supplies moving – only demands that will shut down everything required to keep a nation (both of them) supplied.
So, the buck stops at the heads of these nations – whatever catastrophe it brings rests solely with these administrations. No truckers – no food – no food and you will eventually have rebellion. Perhaps that is EXACTLY what they really want – the people be damned.
One trucking company with 153 truckers is closing shop and moving to US!!!
Until the normies suffer, none of us will be free. Let it collapse – most Americans are overweight anyway.
I’m wondering how much of the trucking transportation problems railroads could pick up. Railroads serve most ports all over the country and span from Mexico to Canada. It seems to me railroads are in a good position to help out here. And the railroad engineers don’t have to be vaccinated as they hand oner the trains at the borders.
Anyone have thoughts on this?
Railroads are operating at maximum capacity already. So they are of no help.
And getting looted at 90 cars PER DAY – just heard this today!
Knew they were being looted but had no idea to that extent!
Railroads don’t distribute.
That’s a little unfair. Buffett’s company has owned rail roads for 20 years. Hauls a lot of coal too. Climate Change fools not happy with Buffett.
Check out Union Pacific railroad theft’s in Los Angeles.
Trains can’t get to your grocery store, that’s where trucks come in.
Touché!
Berkshire Hathaway is certainly benefiting from the increase in rail car demand. Follow the money as always…
Back in the day towns were serviced by the branch lines off the railroads main line. Lumber, food, commerce were delivered by the branch line and product was delivered locally out of rail cars. All those branch lines are now hiking trails.
Refresh my memory, please.
There was something in the past that denigrated truckers, which prompted the slogan of:
“If you’ve got it, a truck brought it”.
What & when was that?
It did — for a very short time — cause people to stop & think about the importance of truckers.
The time was fleeting, but the impetus was important.
So, does anyone else remember this?
If memory serves me correctly, the first time I saw that was when the independent truckers went on strike in the 1970’s.
You are right–it was when the govt required ?? on all trucks–I can’t remember what just now.
Timing is everything.
Just note how the trucker mandates are going in just weeks after Omicron hit, infecting millions of people who spent the last two years in existential fear – and now they have survived what they feared. Then there’s those of us who figured out the odds and the scam a long time ago.
Collectively, that is a critical mass of people who, at least during this is window in time, are not running around afraid of something they can’t see. That freed up portion of the emotional or animal mind can now focus on a much more visible fear: starvation. And, once that hits for a week or so, a different one: their fellow man.
TpTB will do their best to spin it as consequences of Omicron, but I don’t think the neurolinguistic magic is going to work this time. CNN lost its audience, and no one ever respected Boot Edge Edge ever.
At a time like this, people want a strong leader, and Alfred E. Neumann Jr ain’t it.
There will be a crisis moment. Will it go the way the WEF thinks?
A couple of other coming things to note.
According to Ryan Hall Y’all, we are about to have weeks on end of clippers and Nor’Easters making for hazardous winter travel. Icy roads, accidents, and more chaos for delivery of goods and food.
The stock market is down hard today, down 13 of the last 15 days, and Friday may be catastrophic possibly.
I remember when Obama won. In the blue area I was in at the time, the consensus was that the US was just too darned racist to elect a black man. I disagreed. I could see the almost nuclear impact of the drop in the market. All the retirees got very scared. Change suddenly became very desirable.
Getting back to the timing of the mandates. During Delta, a lot of people/sheep would have said of course let’s do that.
Post Omicron, and with some counter “nudging ” going on possibly, a whole lot more folks will think “That’s insane, we are starving, and get aren’t letting food over the border because of a head cold?”
And they will turn. If things play out well, they will turn on the regime, in an irreversible way.
We can hope. In the meantime, it is shaping up to be rough for at least the next few months.
Get out of cities.
Vaxxed and Boosted person I know, hard Dem, teenage kids and husband vaxxed (kids not boosted, thank God) reached the Breaking Point this week.
Said she was “Sick of it, OVER it. DONE. ”
I can promise you that if her family goes w/o the food they WANT to eat (no .gov American cheese , thanks) that will be the last straw.
This is someone who wore masks everywhere, took tons of Covid tests, followed every rule to a “T” All. The. Time.
Tempted to send her this twit, but she wouldn’t believe it cuz it’s a “right wing” article. Seriously, that’s how loopy she is.
Who knows, maybe by next week, she’ll believe it. heh.
LOL
Soon, Fauci will be so reviled that the reaction Kari Lake got the other night at the rally when she said she would like to put him in jail will seem mild.
I’m waiting on the day when I can reply to a certain email once the bubble has well and truly burst. By that time the person who sent it will deny ever having adored this psychotic mass murderer.
Petty of me, but I am holding on to the proof of extreme idiocy.
This guy is nothing but a murderous, pathological lying psychopath.
But I repeat myself.
And at this point, ANYONE WHO STILL BELIEVES anything he has to say is so totally brainwashed, or so fully immersed in fear, that there’s no coming back, IMHO.
He “misspoke”.
It’s actually phase one of THE GREAT RESET (but he can’t say that openly).
Anyone catch what this puke had to say about “misinformation” while he participated in the WEF?
I’ll try to find a clip.
I read an article yesterday that United Kingdom’s leaders are going to end everything tied to the fake pandemic, either in March if not sooner. They are lifting all mandates, masks, lockdowns, vaccines, everything tied to what is destroying the world around us. I never knew there were so many people who live in fear of everything in this world. Sad, isn’t it?
Just returned from a Publix in NW Ocala FL. This is a fairly wealthy area, a lot of wealthy horse people, big farms, and the people who service the horse industry, thoroughbreds and sport horses. Right now is high season, when the snowbirds bring their horses south to compete all winter. The population easily triples here from December to April.
The store was hopping, there were few parking spots. All shelves were fully stocked, fairly deeply, except for a few items: beef, chicken, bacon were mostly empty, as was the maple syrup and milk shelves. Some items of butter were out but filled in with vegan butter which I haven’t seen that much of until now. The bakery was offering 5 pkgs of greenwise bagels for $10; usually the cost is $3.39 per pkg, a screaming deal. Also several varieties of canned tomatoes were bogo, as were some pasta items. The supergreens pasta was completely missing from the shelves. The paper goods aisle had scant pickings but there were some items. Dog food was less than half the usual display. They filled in with dog toys, beds etc. A bunch of new products have shown up. Instead of just one type of potato gnocchi, there were 7 varieties.
All in all the store was well stocked except for meat.
Just pulled the trigger on a new printer to replace one that is about to croak. Looking at the model we want, only ONE in stock within 100 miles of our place (KC metro area).
Atlas seems to be shrugging quite a bit these days.
Don’t forget ink cartridges. My local stores are limiting purchases to just a single cartridge, per color. Online sellers have doubled or tripled the price.
I’m in Canada. They are waking up. As much re the dangers of food insecurity as well as the damn vaxx problems. But still, not enough people yet although the movement is growing.
A few days ago, I bought foodstuff that I normally buy with Made in USA label, stocked it.
So now’s not a good time to get that Coors shipped to Atlanta?
I have the Trans Am all gassed up and ready to go!
A vax mandate on foreign travelers? So the border will be secured as well?
Air Travel Disruptions because of 5G begin tomorrow (Wednesday, January 19th); can you say PERFECT STORM???
Another disruption that will start tomorrow is that of the airline industry due to the rollout of the new C-Band 5G service. The issue involves older digital altimeters that are not shielded against C-band radiation and can potentially be disabled by it. Any plane coming in for an instrument landing during poor visibility conditions could find itself in a lot of trouble and that’s a risk that airlines are rightly refusing to take.
Under the current plan approved by the Department of Transportation, only 50 airports in the entire country will be “shielded” from the C-band radiation. For the thousands of other airports, airlines will be forced to pick and choose which planes with newer altimeters can be sent to the rest of them. The planes with older altimeters will be restricted to flights that are only between those 50 airports. This is going to lead to massive disruptions and delays.
Airlines warn of ‘catastrophic’ 5G aviation ‘crisis’ on January 19 – https://libertyunyielding.com/2022/01/18/airlines-warn-of-catastrophic-5g-aviation-crisis-on-january-19/
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Some international carriers are suspending or reducing flights to the United States until further notice:
International airlines suspend some US flights over 5G issue: Several international airlines say they will cancel flights into the United States starting Wednesday amid uncertainty about interference between new 5G cell phone service and critical airplane technologies. Emirates, Air India, All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines all announced service cuts citing the issue. – https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/18/business/airline-cancellations-5g/index.html
When those towers are turned on, I suspect we will see an increase in ‘sudden’ and ‘unexpected’ deaths.
seems they have a plan – a horrific plan – but a plan nonetheless….
teens allowed to drive big rigs in new federal program
https://abc7chicago.com/teens-drive-big-rigs-semi-trucks/11483898/
Is there a way for smaller trucks to be at the border and unload? Distribution done that way?? So the trucker has no inspection for having a death shot??
Just asking for a friend.
A better transportation idea may be to utilize the millions of illegal immigrants poring through the border. They don’t need jabs or papers whatsoever
I saw this in the twitterverse,, and I think it is a thing.
Nine meals from anarchy. Look for yourselves.. but here: https://internationalman.com/articles/nine-meals-from-anarchy/
I have tried to give a heads up to my friends…
https://gab.com/groups/51056
Supply Chain Pain
just wait a year. then, the quackcinated will be doing the Pfizer jig and the so called authorities will be begging for pure bloods to haul the freight.
The Revolution will start when Starvation of McDs begins. Sad but true.
Food is definitely the most urgent shortage, but it may not be the worst one. Tech parts have been scarce for more than a year, and now are starting to become non-existent. So you run on old hardware a while longer… no big deal, right?
Waits for server hard drives are occasionally hitting up to a month long at this point. If you lose a drive in an array, no big deal. Your order a replacement, slap in one you already have on the shelf, and the array rebuilds itself.
When your supply on the shelf runs out, you are waiting on pins and needles for that replacement drive to get delivered. If you lose another drive in that array before it happens, poof, you lose the entire array. 100% data loss.
Sure, you have backups on offsite media, because you are a competent SysAdmin. But your array is down. What are you going to restore to? You have too much data to create a smaller drive pool and try to restore to that.
This scenario puts you 100% offline, with no data recovery for a long, long time.
“It can’t happen to me. I’m using the cloud,” you say. But this scenario is what your cloud service providers are facing. This is how they are being affected.
Everything is fine, for now. And it will continue to be fine right up to the point it isn’t fine. You will go from fine to nothing with no warning.
Your data won’t be lost. You won’t lose anything. You may just not be able to access any of it for a month, or two…
How long can you or your company survive without email, SharePoint, EMRs, saved deliverables, proposals, project plans, payroll services, or a million other things people use the cloud for currently?
You should pray you don’t have to find out first hand.
Omicron has proven the virus is dwindling but rather than rejoice and start removing restrictions, current first world governments continue to push vaccines that obviously do not work. Now, pushing them on people who feed nations. Do people think G7 leaders are really working for their people? WAKE UP, these people are not only stealing from you, they are killing you. These people are not gods nor do they have control of your body. ENOUGH
All of these idiot politicians, digging their own political graves right now, can’t see the coming storm that will take place in early November at the mid-terms. For the past year, none of them made a single good decision. Time to clean house!
Just hire illegals to drive the trucks accross the border, they don’t need to be vaccniated.
I have no doubt that is exactly what they will do using Amazon vans and trucks.
Say what you want about Donald Trump, absolutely none of this crap would be happening on his watch.
Zero.
Trudeau is willing to make everyone suffer to force people to take boosters and jabs. He has pre ordered millions of jabs to 2024 that need to be used or he will look crazy. Canada is f#&@ed with a nut and a group who insist they are the only smart ones in office. Al those who are old and dying must save us from tyrannic leaders. We need the strong to follow up.
No mean tweets has turned into no eats!
Thanks to Sundance’s warnings over the past few months, me and mine are prepared to ride out a food shortage that lasts a couple to a few months. It is not too late for anyone to do the same.
If a city has had a food shortage for a week, and if people think the shortage will last much longer, then that’s dangerous. Trucks that deliver food to grocery stores might be looted – either during transit, or during unloading at the grocery store.
Guards might be needed, to protect the food from looters.
As we can all see with heroin, fentanyl, and meth, US consumers get what they want. Food prices will rise, truck drivers will get a pay raise, the governments will change the rules, new importers will cross the borders illegally. I spent a lifetime writing about business and finance. I’m not wrong. The demand will create supply.
So then everyone will buy in bulk and fill up their freezers, so then there will be some kind of event and the electricity will go off and everything will melt, so then we are you-know-what.
I know peppers say grow your own but I do not think that many people either have a clue, or are there yet, or have any place to grow anything (and have not yet thought – buckets).
This is doom and gloom but….
This is all planned, they want food insecurities, they want riots
Remember, Biden has the F-150’s and we do not
Just don’t do it, when they get hungry enough the BS will end – one way or another.