Unfortunately, we really cannot rely on BLS data, Commerce data or general information from the mainstream media to get a pulse on what’s really going on with products and prices on Main Street USA. Factually, your ground reports have consistently been the accurate reflection of what’s happening in the various states and regions around the country.
With that in mind, what’s the latest situation in your area with COVID rules, prices on stuff you buy every day, and the availability of products and/or services in your community?
Specifically, people would be interested to know what the climate is toward the COVID rules, regulations, masks etc. in your city, town, hamlet or local community? How are things overall?
What’s the impact of inflation and supply chain disruptions like around you? Gas prices, grocery prices, home heating or energy prices etc.? Also, if you are having any difficulties finding products that you normally purchase? What are your family, friends and neighbors saying about it.
In short, how are things around you this holiday season? Use the comment section to provide an update on your general area. Your ground reports are always insightful and provide a good & accurate sense of how things are going on Main Street.
#FJB
Prices are up in our suburb of Kansas City, but we have not had severe supply issues. It may take a trip to a couple of places, but we can generally find what we need. I continue to be overwhelmed by the generosity of people in our local churches. Many families adopted for Christmas in spite of the higher prices. Much love still alive in the Midwest in spite of such a toxic culture.
In LA CA I have not seen a green or greenish banana for a long time. All the bananas are full yellow or very slight green on the stem area. I like to buy my bananas on the greenish side.
That’s interesting. We visited Galveston 2 years ago and took a boat tour. They mentioned that most of the bananas – some very high percentage – come into the USA through Galveston. So your inability to get green bananas could be a pretty accurate “tell” about supply disruptions,possibly/likely those between Texas and California.
I read somewhere that Dole has not had disruptions because the company has their own ships.
My neck of the woods? That would be the central high country of Arizona. Haven’t seen shortages. Was able to buy whatever I wanted for presents. Gas has gone up, but use discount from local grocery chain. Most people not wearing masks. Have seen a couple of terrified elderly women over my unmasked face. That’s troubling. We still get good prices on food by watching sales, which we’ve always done. Energy has gone up, but not too bad. Everybody is happy to celebrate Christmas. We had a party here a couple of weeks ago and nobody cared about Covid, masks or vaccines. We all had a good time. Things are pretty mellow here.
In our tiny little town of 2500 in Leflore county, OK, we are yet to see shortages.
Plenty of food and great produce sections, even in our smaller local grocery store.
The Wal-Marts in our general area are the same.
I don’t think gas has hit $4 per gallon yet.
Some friends and family have asked me about the difference between our flyover country and other areas.
Frankly, to be honest, I don’t know other than that we have a lot of local producers.
Anyway, ground report from conservative Oklahoma.
We have no covid restrictions or mask mandates in our area.
I am close to our town and area LED. They have sworn not to enforce any such restrictions.
I stay in touch with our governor’s off on a regular basis to keep in touch about their contingency plans to deal with federal stuff. I think they are on the right track.
Btw, I stay in touch with Gov. Desantis’s office to encourage them to hold the fort.
And this may shock some of my conservative friends, but I’ve communicated with Joe Manchin’s office to encourage him to not let the dems bully him.
Regardless of thought about him, what can it hurt to contact him and let him know some conservatives are pulling for him?
Same for Krysten Sinema.
Nothing ventured is nothing gained, right!
Do your part when and where you can, small or large.
Many small parts added up can become a much larger part and significant.
To say, give up, there’s no hope, is the worst position to take.
To take that position is to lay down, give up and die.
Hell NO!
Thankyou from a WV resident
Your quite welcome.
Never lived there, been through there, a beautiful state, so kinda know how you think.
I think Joe does too.
I’ve let his office know that I am a conservative, but I am pulling for him.
I know he considers his constituents, like you, and knows he better do the political math.
I am one of the conservatives pulling for and praying for his protection if you know what I mean.
Any suggestions for a good spot to move to in WVA?
Maybe this will help give you some info.
Report: Best and Worst Places to Live in West Virginia in 2019
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/report-best-and-worst-places-to-live-in-west-virginia-in-2019/amp/
My sister lives in Bridgeport WV, and I can vouch it is beautiful, good schools, good people, modern shopping, about 1 hr south of Pitt PA.
The shale boom has treated the area well, much better than it was back in 2005. But wealth is concentrated, the rural parts of the state are *very* poor, and they have bad drug issues imported from OH and IL.
Just do east TX, Tyler/Longview area.
Hinton, at the South end of the New River Gorge is really nice, and land and houses are inexpensive. Other areas of WV are actually paying telecommuters to relocate to WV!
I am flying out to Oklahoma early February to drive around and pick a spot. Looking at the Ardmore area.
Currently in Central California about 1.5 hours east of San Francisco is turning into East Bay San Fran area. What used to be a conservative area is no longer. Our Republican Rep. Jeff Denham got voted out for some limp dem. I think he is related to Nancy Pelosi. Gas is $4.59, prices on everything up, restaurants are really raising prices. Most people are wearing masks but I am not normally bothered about it. About 1 in 4 are not wearing masks in the store. Store shelves are a bit thin with occasional product outages. Very anti gun, lack of common sense area. Schools are all masked up. Born & raised in California. I am shocked at the number of people that I talk to that are in the process of leaving. It seems like everyone is leaving Cali.
Our great conservative state would welcome you with open arms.
I am on the east side of tornado alley. The Oklahoma City area (Moore 318mph) has had more EF5 tornados than any area.
Ardmore has had less than average statewide, but higher than national average. They haven’t had a bad one in a long time IIRC. I think 1984.
It’s a friendly place.
Me thinks you will find it quite inviting and meet some good neighbors.
I wish you the best in a resettlement.
Kind of amazing…
The dust bowl when okies went to California…
Turning around!
I’m an Okie living in CA. If I moved back (and I would in a NY second), I’d move to Edmond. My brother lives there. It’s close enough to OKC but still feels very much like a small town. I love it.
I was born and grew up in Muskogee. 🙂
My folks live in Tahlequah. Good part of the country to raise kids.
Yeah, it really is. Good neighborhoods, decent schools, a university nearby. Last time I checked no CRT in the schools or the university. If you are looking for a place to disappear into NE Oklahoma is a good place to be. Nice people there who are the antithesis of urban.
It is. NE University has been quite good. Don’t about today.
We used to go to Lake Tenkiller every summer. Haven’t been in several years, but it is a beautiful area.
Oh my gosh!
You’re an Okie!
Been to Muskogee and had a good experience there some years ago. It is one of the 2 VA centers we can go to. Fortunately, the VA is building a grand center in Ft. Smith, AR that is only 20 miles away.
I grew up in New Orleans in its better day, Tuba Skinny and blues in the French Quarter, but ended up in a very conservative small town in Oklahoma, about 1200 population.
One night when I was about 15, a big Mardi Gra parade night, I got stuck in a crowd in the French Quarter and had to call my dad at 2am and tell him where I was. A bar on Bourbon Street where a big black woman was belting those blues. She was actually pretty good. That was my first experience actual, physically hearing blues.
Dad never beat me up over that. I got separated from friends because of the crowds.
But hey, I moved up to a larger town in Oklahoma of 2500 years later where I live now. I love it!😁
I left my heart in Okfuskee County. : )
I tried to get this over on the open thread. My link didn’t seem to take, so I will post it here and try it over there again.
Maybe 1 out of 2.
I know you have to this from Merle Haggard.
Yes thank you for all that you do Solomon!!! You are an inspiration friend!! God Bless!!!
Equally, so are all of you that I am thankful for connecting to.
Call it an online Christmas family and gift!
Grateful I found it! 🤗
And God bless you back tenfold!
Supply chain status in SC. Struck a deer with my car the first week of November, wasn’t able to get in to a body shop until December 20, and have already been told that one particular part will take until January 12 to arrive. That’s 2.5-3 months of car payments and insurance payments up in smoke. I’m not going to say FJB, because as far as I’m concerned Biden can F himself since I’m paying for the privilege.
Well said, Fozzy
Here are some issues that need to be considered.
For all of the valuable information that can be produced on this site with one would think an eye towards persuasion and dissemination, things like that figure to work against forwarding for a whole host of people. It also figures to work against what could otherwise be seen as useful content for the sake of content and lead to many dismissing the valuable information based on things like that.
There is the other aspect of people coming together on a spiritual level and appealing directly to God for help at different times here, yet including things like this consistently. If like Hebrews 4:16 indicates, believers “should come with boldness to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need”, it behooves them to come in the proper manner and keep that as a continual priority.
Col. 3:8 — “But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.”
Eph. 4:29 — “Do not let any unwholesome word go forth out of your mouth, but only good, for edification of the need, so that it may give grace to those hearing.”
Eph. 5:4 — “Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.”
“F” stands for “Friend”. You my dear sir have a filthy mind.
The spiritual/physical equation is:
Denominator is the spiritual.
Numerator is the physical.
Otherwise, the spiritual is the foundation.
Breitbart said politics is downstream of culture.
I’ll take it a step further as a wonderful friend said years ago; culture is downstream of the spiritual condition of a person or a nation.
He said the spiritual always leads the physical, not the other way around.
If the spiritual of a nation is good, the physical aspects, whether they be politics, government, culture, academia, would follow.
The book of Judges reflects that thought.
The book of Judges spoke of lamentable times, reminiscent of before the Flood:
“everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (cf. Judges 17:6, Judges 21:25). That is what prompted the warning of issues needing to be considered.
If those in charge now believe they are doing what is right, at least in their own eyes, then Heaven help them!
Jesus was known to flip a table or two
This is not the first time I posted thoughts like those above, and it’s interesting that it’s also not the first time that a reply like this has been made about Jesus and the money changers. There was nothing said against strong, decisive commentary and action, making the example of how Jesus addressed money changers in the temple look like a strawman as far as the point being made. The point specifically had to do with the references to things spelled out in Scripture like filthy communication out of the mouth, coarse joking, and so forth. Scripture is going to speak for itself, and people can either focus on those points or not, but need to be circumspect if they actually believe and / or verbalize that such things are not a vice given what is written.
And speaking of the money changers and the Pharisees, recall how it went in Biblical history for people to be doing one thing as far as calling to God and expecting help but were doing what they thought was right in their own eyes. That includes seemingly exempting themselves from certain parts of commandments and doctrine when they felt like it, asserting that they had a really good reason to, or maybe thought God would be fine with it since it didn’t seem as bad to them as what others were doing – – or didn’t particularly care.
In the foxhole, there are chains of command, and commands and orders are to be followed. If everybody’s just sitting there doing what they want, see how well that goes. That especially goes for people who ask for God to be on their side. The time for half measures is well past being over, and those who want to get serious about things need to set aside every weight etc.:
Hebrews 12:1-2 — “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
God wants to lead His people down the right path. As we are to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, any hoped-for results figure to begin by His people seeking that. Thus, right now, it is important to think of how all of this will be accepted before the throne of God, to sincerely care about the answer to that, and to act accordingly.
<Struck a deer with my car the first week of November, wasn’t able to get in to a body shop until December 20>
That’s not too bad…I heard the deer is still waiting to see a vet 🙂
🤣
Thanks for the laugh, Wordman!
I feel for you hitting a deer.
Did it twice, both costly.
But that was back in the 90s when you could simply file an insurance claim and get it fixed in a few days.
I think that kind of quick service is long gone.
Nothing like a deer in its mating season running down a slope when you’re on steep grade going up a skyline drive.
‘I think that kind of quick service is long gone.’
Hope you were at least able to get the deer to a processor and have some good eats in your future!!
Unfortunately, I was 500 miles from home, heading in the opposite direction. Next time.
In San Diego, they renewed the mask mandate. When I go grocery shopping only I and maybe one other person are not wearing a mask – everybody else is complying. However, nobody says anything to me about it. I can find most of what I need but I’m starting to see some empty shelves and certain things not available. I’m afraid it will happen suddenly – like with the toilet paper debacle. Gas is around $4.80/gallon. Christmas cards sold out weeks ago. The left-wing newspaper is filled with non-stop covid scares and warnings. It’s been unseasonably cold here and I’m terrified to see my next energy bill.
We are in Oceanside ( San Diego) Starting to see some items not available…pasta, frozen meals. Produce is plentiful. Gas prices are inching up to $4.75. And most people and young kids are back in face diapers though no one says anything to me not wearing one. Not Vaxxed or boosted either.
Will continue to live free and looking forward to our move out of SoCal coming Spring. Heading to middle east Tennessee..Yay!
Moved from the San Diego area going on 3 years ago. Could see trouble coming ever since there was a big angry protest when leaving a 2015 Trump campaign rally at the convention center. Moved to rural East Texas. Gas had been about $2 for quite a while and is now about 3.40 while the price of everything else is going up especially meat. Given our location, gas and beef should be bargains if we lived in sane times. The only shortage we’ve seen is that Christmas decorations ran out in early December which I’m happy about because it means that people are giving the old FJB/LGB to the occupant of the White House and celebrating no matter what the Grinch has stolen. He can’t steal Christmas. Masks never hit anywhere near the % of what you’d see in Dallas but pretty quickly after Abbott’s “declaration” against masking happened it went down to about 5% wearing unless you go into “the big city” of Tyler (p0pulation 110K or so) and then it’s maybe 25%. I’m not counting national chains that make their employees mask. We had a spur of Covid cases when Biden opened the border and everyone I talk to agrees that’s the reason. Still see Trump signs including Trump Won to this day and even LGB graffiti and let me tell you graffiti is rare here. Tons of American flags and Texas flags plus lots of conservative bumper stickers. Tons of guns and almost no gun problems. People are generally courteous and lot’s of Sir and Ma’am. Kids can play in the parks. Let’s just say we’re happy to be here.
Drove to Western Illinois to pick up a side of beef. You wouldn’t believe all the Trump signs I saw. Nobody wears a mask once you pass the first farm.
that is very good to hear.
thank you!
Just wondering whether your local TV stations run those infinite CoVid case/death tickers or if they stopped mysteriously on 1/21/21 like they did on the east coast.
oh YES! and of course, they are all PFIZER commercials.
Wow, I love the things you learn on CTH! I never watch local TV so this was news to me. Do you think they stopped because no one is actually dying either with or especially from the Moronic?
Posted earlier that my natural gas bill for same month, same temperatures, same usage, is up 51.2% from last year same time.
Thanks for NOTHING, Brandon!
You think you will destroy us, all you commies, but Jesus Christ will reign as THE final Victor, King of Kings!
Merry Christmas!
My congressional Rep. (PA05) was just carjacked on a tour of FDR park in south Phila. If the Republicans cannot make a winning ticket from this news they deserve to stay in the minority.
Gave me a chill, because back in the early 80’s I was in a band that used to rehearse in a house not 3 blocks from there.
Compared to two years ago, our meat products SUCK here in SW Missouri. Used to be top notch, absolute gold standard. Now relegated to barely OK on a good day. Gas prices like most places, not great. $3+/gal for gas that won’t ruin your engine. Prices are way up for sure. You never know if a certain commodity is going to be easy to find or even available, and at what price. We are in a prime trucking nexus and yet here we are. I suspect that we’re actually doing well compared to surrounding areas.
From Coral Springs Fl: no problem finding products in the supermarkets and general merchandise stores. Lots of masks but many guys are sporting the Amish look if you know what I mean. Restaurants are busy no empty storefronts. So I guess we’re ok. God Bless America! My grandson has been playing basketball every Saturday. Schools have been open for in person classes. No one is forced outside for lunch. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Don’t forget those J6 political prisoners. Send them a Christmas card or a note of encouragement.
I can’t wait to get back to Florida 🙂
Robert- to know that there are places that are still normal makes me literally cry.
I live in Ground Zero- Chicago- and we are under relentless pressure.
Now the vaccine passport will be enforced starting Jan3- to enter everywhere, stores, gyms, everything but the grocery ( for now).
The shelves are exceptionally well stocked in my area and I’m not complaining.
Prices are higher across the board but bargains are still around. I picked up a 4 lb prime rib roast on sale for $33 at Kroger. It’s changed my Christmas dinner menu from ham (I’ll keep that in the freezer) to the prime rib. Fresh veggies are all more expensive so those are my splurges of late.
I anticipated higher food costs so have been buying deals on meats and frozen veggies and slowly filling the chest freezer. I’m also stretching meals by cutting our portions slightly. My husband hasn’t complained so it’s all good.
Everything price wise is still going up. Some shelves empty of certain brands so I make due with what’s available. I have noticed that the retail chains in the past 2 weeks have been getting in larger shipments and aren’t spreading their products to make the shelves look full. It’s still hit or miss in the frozen food aisle on the grandsons favorites but again I make due. We haven’t had mask mandates except school or federal buildings. Our holidays haven’t changed at all the entire pandemic. Expecting a house full again for Christmas. Even my favorite steak marinade is back in stock even though I can’t afford the steak anymore! Merry Christmas treepers.
The idiots in Congress and the White House are using “supply chain issues” to drive up prices and fear tactics to support their Hunkerdownat Home Hailmary play to pay people to do nothing until minimum wage hits at least $15/hr. What all those people who will gladly celebrate that minimum wage milestone overlook is that, while minimum wage has nearly doubled, consumer prices will have at least tripled. Sadly, they aren’t smart enough to understand one step forward, two steps backward! At least they will be overjoyed that they are making more per hour. THAT’S what a modern education system delivers!
El Paso, Texas
Just remember it is democrat, I was in Sams this morning, while waiting in the long checkout line I noticed two other people that were not wearing a mask. Masks are everywhere even when walking alone outside. The shelves do not look as full as usual but I have not heard of shortages. Gas is $3.25 a gallon. The price for everything seems higher.
Bummer. I was in El Paso for about a week some years back and kind of fell in love with the area.
Sams club mobile app has a scan and go feature. Absolutely game changing, never wait in line again
Nashville area, stores are generally well stocked, some sporadic unavailability of various foods, mostly meats, eggs, soft drinks. Prices are inflating, I’d say average of +15% from last year this time. Job market here is booming. Housing prices are through the roof. Commuter traffic on the freeways is surpassing pre-pandemic levels. Coivd is mostly over here, almost nobody is wearing masks, nobody cares. Restaurants are crowded, sometimes more than 1hr wait. We were given a wait time of 3 hours last weekend when I tried to take my family out for my daughter’s birthday. Some school districts are desperately clinging to the see-saw of court decisions on mandates. Most will reluctantly adhere to a ruling to eliminate mask mandates, and conversely be immediately overjoyed and implement immediate policy changes when a ruling upholding a mandate comes down. So, a lot of work left to do here with out of control leftist school boards.
Merry Christmas! and #FJB
I heard two young women discussing housing costs here. The prices they were talking about were incredible for small town middle America.
Merry Christmas and FJB for sure.
Our property taxes will probably double next appraisal and the house sure hasn’t doubled in size!
Regarding soft drinks, my son is a mechanic in the beverage industry, and difficulty in getting parts for the bottling machinery is slowing down operations.
I’m both amazed and disgusted. Our country was built with machinery built in both the East and Midwest. Now we whine about not getting parts from overseas.
Turning the Midwest into the Rust Belt was the dumbest, most evil and negatively consequential action taken in 100+ years.
All these “parts shortages would be nonexistent if we had skilled machinists working in fabrication shops.
Screw the college indoctrination camps.
Let’s see some real skills taught to all these young men who are floundering in the feminist-dominated culture because males are genetically created and tuned by our Heavenly Father to excel at making things, creating things, and building things.
👏👏👏👍
Outstanding Comment GB Bari!
I live on the north shore of Nassau County, NY on Long Island. Last week, the occupant of the Governor’s Mansion decreed mandatory masking in all indoor public places. There is widespread compliance (I live amongst many sheep) but also obvious non-compliance (including myself). I have refused to wear a mask, and have gone about my daily errands as normal, and aside from some dirty looks, have not been confronted. It’s clear that the plandemic is over here, even amongst the most devout Covidians. I have heard that our incoming (GOP) County Executive will drop the mask mandates when he takes office.
We have had no noticeable shortages throughout the supply chain crisis, at least as far as I have seen. Filled up on gas last night for $3.36/gallon, probably up by 1.5 times what we were paying last year. The only national political issue that really matters around here is VACCINE MANDATES, and any candidate – local, state or national – who supports them will be wiped out. Trump’s pushing of the vaccines has cost him enormous support. The preferred 2024 GOP candidate for president around here, by far, is Ron DeSantis.
I could see DeSantis if he would pick Trump as VP. DeSantis could never be impeached. He could then delegate the authority to clean up the DOJ and CIA to Trump.
I am in the northern suburbs of the NY Gulag, about 50 miles north of hell hole NYC.
Mine is a small town of about 10k people and except for some great delis and gas stations, all our shopping is in Westchester.
Muzzle masks have made a comeback in the big stores and in the shopping centers.
Many people never stopped wearing them. I
have always refused to
wear one but I am not being hassled as much as before.
Gas prices are way up to $3.40/ gal. and that is the low end.
Food prices are up too especially meat, fish, poultry. I shop at the Hispanic grocery stores where produce comes fro SA and is usually good and cheaper than the big box stores.
Even the devout Covidians are getting sick and tired of the endless BS. There has been major rebellion in the schools as parents found out about the filth that is being promoted.
The Government is going all in with the school kids who are being totally abused with the masks.
Parents are rising up and demanding that their kids be allowed to breath but the almighty teachers union is running the prisons so it is masks all day, no exceptions.
Any parents who can remove their kids from public schools are doing so.
However Catholic Church schools are just as bad, maybe worse.
A dear friend of mine just died from cancer because she wasn’t injected and didn’t want to get hassled by the doctors so she skipped her exams. I blame Dr. Mengele Faux Chi for her death.
Regarding mask. Don’t wear a mask.
Last year got a little bit harassed, got the nasty looks and people crossed the street when walking the dog without a mask.
Now they look away as if they are ashamed about their mask dependency.
Makes me feel good. 😁
I wish I had had the foresight to have bought the old fashioned Halloween masks in October. They would cover your face almost completely, your nose (mostly except for the holes to breathe) and your mouth (except for a big hole to breathe). No one would recognize you. Good thing then would be that if they wanted to check your ID to see who you actually are, THEY would have to ask you to REMOVE YOUR MASK!!
One other thing about living in a Blue Commie Gulag like Nueva York- I think that we are getting a certain amount of protection from the worst of the shortages by virtue of the fact that Up Chuck Schumer is our senator plus there are many other powerful Commies who want to protect their own interests.
Having the Port of NY and NJ is also a big factor. There seems to be no shortage of CCP goods in my neck of the woods. The dollar stores are filled with crap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_New_York_and_New_Jersey#Container_terminals
Sorry for your loss Seneca. You have pinned the tail on the correct donkey.
Best wishes from a fellow NYer.
Thanks for your kind words my Friend!
I echo what George Friend wrote. Sincere condolences for your loss of a friend. It does sound like you are in a unique location both benefitting from your powerful state and congressional politicians as well as also being harmed by the same politicians’ totalitarian mandates.
Thanks, GB- what little “protections” we might get from the sleazy politicians doesn’t compare with having to deal with their never ending illegal “mandates.”
👍
Upper Nevada is seeing high inflation, not to bad on supplies, but hard to find frozen bagel dogs anywhere – go figure it’s the only thing my granddaughter loves. The one thing I really noticed is more and more people are dropping the masks or keeping them underneath their chins. COVID fatigue is growing huge.
In Logan Utah still haven’t been asked to show my vaccine records. Going maskless is the norm. Shortages aren’t bad, but housing costs are thru the roof. Go to the gym and don’t wear a mask. The stupid thing is that people feel the need to tell me they have c19. Like I am going to care that I saw them a few days before. I am not going to sit home when I am not sick.
Also posting about Orlando, since I spend a lot of time here in FL too. Prices inflating, stores generally well stocked. Life appears very normal here. From what I see, a little more concern here with masks and covid avoidance than in Nashville. Housing prices continue to rise, a lot of folks moving here from out of state. Even leftist Disney is relocating their headquarters from CA to here in Orlando, building a huge new facility East of Orlando. Restaurants are crowded, theme parks look like pre-covid crowd levels, with a lot of people ditching the masks as they’re no longer being required.
In San Bruno, CA near Tanforan Mall, the Gas price was $4.99
Canning jar lids zero available for past 18 months
Butter up a $1 per pound
Bacon up $3 per 10 ounce pack
Stew Steak up $4 per pound
Altoids Arctic up 8 cents
Bread up $1.48
Peanut butter up $1.25
North Florida Aldi shopper
Just to add. Geek squad repairs requiring parts have an average 3 to 4 month backlog
Capital of New Calif..I mean Mexico
There has been an ongoing random shortage of Fritos, usually only honey Fritos available.
Shelves often seem rather bare of goods but nothing I’m longing for.
Increasingly people are disobeying the mask mandate and Im predicting major defiance by the 15th.
I have this feeling that once the new year and Omicron rolls in everyone here will have had enough. I hope so.
Casper Wyoming, wife about wet her pants filling truck with gas $ 65 dollars usually $40 . Same supplys we buy every other month realize town is hour an 45 minute drive to store. Was $145 more this month same groceries we just restock what we eat . scary.
I won’t share exact locale but you can guess the state from my signature. Biggest issue in this area is lack of employable labor. Coal mines are quietly rocking it as prices skyrocket. Real estate is hot with escapees from the coastal cities. Lumber is outrageous at big box stores but locals are taking up the slack with small sawmills on property. Bison is up 15% yoy, turkeys going for $1.19/lb, produce is still reasonable but overall food bill is elevated.
We are in a lingering fall with no significant winter hit yet. Next week looks like things change. Need some moisture in this area.
This is the land that covid forgot. Went to a doctor yesterday, receptionist handed me a mask, I used it to protect my palm. Great convo with the nurses about the stupidity of it all.
Ruralish downstate Illinois here. In a practical sense life is fairly normal. Prices are higher. A state mask mandate is in place but most around here ignore it. In an overall sense, though, the world and “what is” just seems to have a palpable heavy darkness. My household is doing our best to live our best but these last couple years have really done a number.
I feel you on that heavy darkness. I feel knowing what we do here due to SD makes us more informed and realistic about the challenges we face. We are awake but there is a burden with that .. we must remain faithful, focused and continue to throw sand in the machinery.
So we live in southern New Castle County Delaware- I will say a mix of republican/dems here. Today I scored my prime rib for Christmas- $14.99 down to $7.99 a pound. Beautiful hunk of beef. Gas not bad too. But last 2-3 weeks the mask complying people have ramped up significantly in grocery stores & drug stores. I don’t get it. It’s like people are going back in time to spring 2020. I see local high school students walking home after class masked outside!! What! Things going backwards here in Delaware.
They are blasted with “covid cases are way up” with no context that symptoms are way down.
We are taking the common cold and treating it like Ebola.
Western PA in Red Country here. Have to have a door rebuilt, and went with my contractor to order cedar. Have no idea what it would have cost a year ago, but I quipped too bad that we all didn’t run out and buy wood last year instead of toilet. Had everyone laughing. Which is a good thing.
Have an Aldi’s, a Giant Eagle, several other smaller stores, and local meat producers to chose from. Of all them the Giant Eagle can’t/won’t pay a decent wage to their workers (as I heard from one last year). So the checkout lines are very, very, long. Even the self checkout lines require help, and it seems none is available. That is where the prices are highest. Go figure.
In SW Florida….I went to Apple store yesterday and had to make an appointment to come back today. Yesterday nobody had a mask. I walked in today and a guy told me I had to put on a mask. He was dressed different then the Apple people so I said something unkind. He told he he was security and asked if I wanted him to get a manager. I told him I would put one on under my chin. I made my purchase and left. But the nonsense is starting again.
I have noticed bare shelves for certain items, but it might just be a coincidence. There is a medicated shampoo I use. I cannot find it anywhere.
Overall, while the BS is starting up again, I think it will be really hard to get a majority of Floridians to comply.
I’m in a mostly free area for customers, but with pockets of bizzes small and large requiring masks, which I hard-pass on. However, many/most businesses, especially chains, seem to co tinge require their employees to wear masks or get fake-“tested” regularly. So, daily employment conditions are worse than customer conditions.
While the governor and legislature in my state are viewed more positively than most others, they refuse to put a blanket end to the unsanitary and altogether dangerous practices of masking and “testing,” which, of course, are unconstitutional. Their job is to secure our freedoms, and, while “papers, please” will be outlawed, there is still a monster fail by them when it comes to employment conditions.
Inflation is ever inflating. Gas has gone up 70% since last Christmas. While we’ve been hearing that gas recently went down 8-12 cents per gallon, thanks to the Joey gas release, our local gas went down a whopping… 2 cents per gallon.
While fresh fruits and veggies haven’t been hit much yet, pet food is up 10-15%, frozen foods 20%, and fresher refrigerated goods 15%.
All of that said, keep the faith everyone. If we act righteously, by God’s grace, we are the solution as his vessels.
Reporting from SW Ohio in the tri-county area…
Specifically, people would be interested to know what the climate is toward the COVID rules, regulations, masks etc. in your city, town, hamlet or local community? How are things overall?
I stay out of Hamilton county and downtown Cincinnati for the most part so I can’t tell you what the urbies are doing. They can sit and spin for all I care. Outside 275 few wear masks in public spaces unless its a govt. controlled, or govt. adjacent, facility. Most people out and about are pleasant, polite, and talkative. I’m not the most approachable person so really this is actually encouraging.
What’s the impact of inflation and supply chain disruptions like around you? Gas prices, grocery prices, home heating or energy prices etc.? Also, if you are having any difficulties finding products that you normally purchase? What are your family, friends and neighbors saying about it.
Unfortunately, do to circumstances, my family has been living off of take out and the costs have been exorbitant. I’m trying to get that under control, but then I had to fight off a mouse invasion in my kitchen. Little %^*W&#&# are persistent. Coupled with work end of the year, holiday mania, kids out of school, yadda yadda yadda. I have blown the food budget out of the water. When Chik Fil A costs your family of 4 $35 then things aren’t so great. A “good” meal? $75. Somehow O’Charleys has kept their prices low, but then quality everywhere has started to suffer. I’m no great cook but it’s starting to get to the point that what might have been a once every couple of weeks treat of a meal a couple of years ago is starting to look like I could have made that better, and probably slightly cheaper.
Since I work from home and most of my driving revolves around transporting the kids places, going to a store for something specific, or long distance travel for family, so I tend to fill up weekly. Prices seem to fluctuate a little more for me. I thought I saw a pump that had regular for $2.84 this evening.
The hardware stores like Menards seem well stocked and I while I haven’t been in WalMart or Kroger (starting to think of ditching Kroger over their mandate crap) in a bit I didn’t notice any excessive holes. Was in a Whole Foods but not Whole Foods grocery store for some goodies tonight and it looked decently stocked. I didn’t pay too much attention to the prices because everything in that store is always at a premium. Cabelas and Bass Pro still look like they have been raided in everything but clothes and shoes. I’m starting to think there are conspiracies around guns and ammo. Apparently fishing gear as well. I thought I’d get an early jump on filling my fly box for winter/spring trout… slim pickins in a jumbled up display. The Gun Library was filled with police trade in .40 cal Smiths, some AR-A-Like shotguns, and TriStar import Turkish guns made up 70% of the display. They had a few nice guns (a Volquartsen Mamba $1000+ .22LR pistol) in the cases but nothing I need. Ammo is still a joke. Saw some Blazer aluminum cased .45 RN CP that was $54 for 50 rds… Prices are all over the place on guns too. Some things like hunting revolvers are going up, other things like .22 pistols and shotguns are going down. I feel like there are a glut of import shotguns out there. ARs have dried up surprisingly given the stock the country seemed to have pre-COVID, unless they are some boutique maker no one wants to pay for.
Our kids are still mostly into toys not video games so we could get most of what they wanted. All the adults want adult stuff. We don’t tend to gift worthless baubles to each other or even try to guess. No one needs to waste the money or clutter the other’s home.
Hi! I lived in Liberty Township from 2003-2019!
Right on! We were just over that way for Santa pics.
4 lb standing rib roast $80.00 in Chicago area. Closer to $50 same time last year.
My latest trash bill increased 23.5% – Don’t tell me FJB’s energy policies aren’t the cause!!!
California: I paid $4.64 for diesel. Mobil was $4.99 for unleaded.
For whatever reason, prices of fish are very high. Currently, salmon is over $20 per pound. Bacon $8.99 per pound.
We are trying to build in another state (good riddance CA) and there are shortages of trusses. The refrigerator is on order and will be delivered in just under one year. Ovens are back ordered 7 months.
Just remember, the government is your friend.
Tami, I hope your move from Kalifornia is as happy as mine was.
Best wishes on the new home. Shocking that appliances have such a wait time.
Hi All,
Here in Central Aus, there are a few things that we can’t buy, but really it’s all pretty good.
HOWEVER, we are expecting the other shoe to drop shortly -an additive to diesel for our trucks is ‘out of stock’ which means that all road freight around the country is going to grind to a halt. Another industry, shut down because it was ‘cheaper’ to use the slave labor in China.
The thing that is driving me spare is that this is national security & our doofus of a PM, continues on his merry way, pretending that he is not overseeing the crushing of The Australian people, economies & families. We really need to bring back Capital Punishment.
On the CV front – tomorrow is the deadline to be vaccinated. There is also a case due to be heard in the NT Supreme Court tomorrow to halt the mandates – a group of NT businesses have bought the action. Who knows what will happen there.
On another issue, I’m currently composing an email to my Specialist to advise him that I don’t need his quackery driven by politics and not individual health concerns anymore.
Other than that, we insist on being happy & upbeat. My Christmas shopping is done, aside from a couple of figs and some cream, we are all good for the big day.
Can I take this opportunity to wish all Treepers, SD & crew the very best of wishes & peace for the Christmas season. Pray, be joyful and laugh – they are the 3 things that they can’t take from us.
I hope you have your packets of seeds ready? If you grow a good cover crop you won’t need fertilizer. Sounds like your food haulage trucks are about to hit standstill?
Merry Christmas to you, as well.
I often think of Australians and pray sanity returns to your country and the world in general.
Southern CA. Ordered takeout, $25 for about 800 calories worth of chicken wings. Year ago was $18.
I guess the owners looked around and noticed every third car you see in this area is a Lexus/Mercedes/BMW/Tesla/Land Rover/Maserati and figured those people are his market, and the’d keep paying up. Probably isn’t wrong.
I guess this is the service-driven economy we were promised. Adios middle-class.
you’re lucky you even have wings..I only like ..bone in..and there are a lot of places that are out..others no issues..has to be the supplier.
Mail delivery is quicker this holiday season than last year in Northeast Ohio … perhaps because the normal mail isn’t competing with tardy mail-in ballots this year.
Churches in my diocese are “strongly requesting” but not outright mandating masks, so enforcement mainly depends on the temperament of the pastor. One church has about 99% of people wearing masks, while another only a few miles away has about 50% wearing masks. To worship more peacefully, I’ve gotten into the habit of driving west to a neighboring diocese (more rural and conservative) where you walk into a church and it’s like pre-pandemic days (very few masks and people are polite either way), with the added plus that the sermons are awesome, the people are friendly, the singing is enthusiastic, prayer is reverent.
Where I go to Mass in our diocese in Northeast Ohio, no one wears a mask except the priest when he is distributing Holy Communion. It has been like this for months.
However, where I grocery shop, most of the customers are wearing masks and step aside for me, the maskless one. So sad.
Happy, we are spending our first Christmas in Dunedin, Florida, after moving from NYC area this summer. Local Publix has holes on the shelves but nothing we really need is lacking. Gas up about $1 per gallon from what we were paying back home a year ago. Bought new car, for cash, before prices soared. Most other prices up from when we arrived but lower than NYC area. I am laying in supplies of essentials to prepare for next supply-chain crisis. Few masks except on personnel in stores and in doctors offices … some make patients wear them, but not all. God bless Ron DeSantis.
Outside of Knoxville, TN, also sporadic shortages of some items at stores, meat and seafood prices up plenty, gas now at 2.99 per gallon. Refrigerator is dying and cannot get replacement I want until mid January. Ordered under counter ovens (kitchen remodel) and will not be available until June /July 2022. We have natural gas heat and it has not increased. We also heat with a wood burning stove in the basement and have for years. I also buy the sales and have two freezers. The majority of people are not wearing masks, several of my friends who took the jab regret it and will not be taking boosters. There are still some radicals running around but you can’t fix stupid. Thankful we live here.
I’m far from my free state of Idaho and in the middle of crazyville in Commiefornia. Gas is outrageous a fill-up will bankrupt you. I haven’t been to the store or anywhere bcz I refuse to muzzle. Most everyone is obeying with some dissenters – too many lunatics outdoors with masks that I can’t handle. Most normal people like me are non-maskless and ok with it and others.
I was at airport yesterday – a day trip to Las Vegas for a meeting – no lines at TSA going or coming back but I avoided the counter with no luggage. Counters were packed. I could tell there is mask fatigue bcz all the restaurants were packed with non maskers.
Here in caliexico there have been shortages of Almond Kisses, kale & cucumbers (produce) bcz those weren’t in store when BF went shopping.
I ordered most Christmas presents online and they have all arrived promptly without any problems.
The garbage collectors here in San Diego are on strike so there is no “commercial” or recyclable trash pick-up so that’s special. Once they get their raise’s I am sure that will go up. Utilities are already high.
NKY area here, 15m south of Cincinnati. Reg gas is currently $2.75 occasionally jumps to >$3. Food prices have gone up significantly especially protein. @m@zon has put a huge Air Hub at CVG airport, just started ramping up the flights to finish at >100/week. 2k additional jobs. Rumors of several 3 story tractor/trailer parking garages for rigs to sit until @m@zon whse have an open door for them. FedEx warehouse pkg workers at $26/hour, but it’s meat grinder level work. All NKY employers are looking for workers, Big housing boom area, housing prices are increasing 5-10%. I’ve been trying to get someone to remodel a bathroom, but too much easy new construction money for the little jobs.
From Lincoln, NE: During the early months of covid, our democrat mayor put a mask mandate on the city and the county health commissioner extended it to the county. At that time (mid-2020), most people wore masks in public places, very few defied the mandate. The mandate was lifted last summer, then re-instated last fall when Delta cases began to increase. Since the reinstatement, less than half the people in stores have been wearing masks. I visit a C-store daily where virtually no-one is masked. Yesterday, the mayor and county health commissioners cancelled the mask mandate, citing the “high level of vaccination in Lincoln and Lancaster County.” LOL!!! Yep, cancel the masks-that-don’t-work-mandate because of the high level of people who have had the vaccines-that-don’t-work. Truth is, everyone was ignoring her mandate.
Here in Colorado Springs, no issues getting things at the store. Stuff we order arrives in a reasonable amount of time. Prices are noticeably higher at the grocery store, especially meats.
The house we’re building is going to cost 15-20% more than it should. But, our house is paid off and housing is through the roof, so they’ll offset I hope. Housing has been hot here for a few years.
IKEA in Denver has forced masking, so we don’t shop there any more. Manitou Springs has huge signs threatening fines. I emailed them that we spend $500 Christmas shopping in Old Colorado City (a mile away) instead. The email actually went to the Chamber of Commerce, and the nice lady told me it’s the Town Council’s fault. I simply replied that business owners could crush the town’s tax revenues if they wanted to.
But they want their politics, not my money, so I shop elsewhere.
Very few people wear masks otherwise. The military bases require it, but I don’t work there. Government contractors that are DC-based require them. Local companies don’t. Some people wear them voluntarily, but that’s their choice. The Democrat Governor (Polis) declared the emergency is over, and said if people don’t want to get vaxxed, that’s on them. (which is really all people want…medical control over their own body).
I was in northern VA for 2 weeks on business travel, and those lunatics are wearing masks everywhere! Lol. There is no mandate to do so, so I didn’t wear one. But it’s hilarious walking into the grocery store and people are masked up like ninjas…and they just stare are you.
My colleagues and I had a good laugh about how laid back things are at home.
We have a fairly inflation resistant lifestyle…we cook at home from raw ingredients most of the time. My job let’s me work from home, so gas isn’t killing me and the Kroger fuel points are a 20% discount (you can build up a lot of points if your truck needs gas once a month). We don’t eat out, and there’s very little we need day to day.
I thought IKEA in Denver would have forced masking, so I went there a couple days ago prepared to make a scene, but nothing happened. In fact I think about 30% of everybody in the store was unmasked. I am in one of several metro counties that recently reinstated mask mandates with the intent of making them vax passport mandates. But I did all my Christmas shopping maskless and there were only a couple stores that said I had to leave. The library knows not to bother confronting me and my family (though we seem to be the only ones daring to refuse there), and even the recent school board meeting accepted that all us parents were medically unable to tolerate masks and let us in.
I haven’t been in downtown Denver recently, but the suburbs all seem to be agreeing not to care what anybody else wants to do with a mask or not. Actually from other comments here it sounds like a lot of the Denver metro area might be more normal than Florida and Ohio and such places that have the reputation of fighting back. Three local counties just pulled out of a 75-year-old health board association mainly because of public pushback about mandates.
Almost nobody in our church wears masks. The local news tried to start shaming businesses into enforcing the mandates, but the articles to have mostly dried up, and the businesses are not responding with “we’re so sorry” but rather, “Hey, that other industry has unmasked people all over the place, why are you picking on me?” Seems to me like a mandate that nobody is supporting, but most people aren’t quite willing to directly fight it. The officials somehow know the emergency will end January 2nd and originally I thought they would just extend it at that point, but now I suspect the mandate will quietly evaporate January 3rd.
I didn’t want to waste my time driving 40 minutes north and went by what the website said. If they want my business, all they have to do is say they don’t require masks, but don’t mind if people want to wear one.
We haven’t been down on 16th Street Mall in many years. I used to love going to LoDo at Christmas but stopped going when it was feeling unsafe walking around with my kids.
The problem with the mandates is all the people from places that don’t have them. I don’t even carry a mask on me or in my car and haven’t for months.
As far as Church goes, we regularly attended mass weekly and rarely missed Sunday mass until the Catholic Church folded like a cheap lawn chair. We recently started attending somewhat regularly during Advent, but it’s clear that there is a schism between the people and the priest. He started at the same time the lockdowns did. Being a new priest is tough enough, but how he handled it was horrible. He thought if he just did mass and pretended that 60 people in a church that seats 800 was “ops normal” that nobody would get upset. He never brought up covid, ever. He never brought up the lockdowns, ever. He never addressed the ridiculous appointment system, or the fact that everybody leaving mass would head to a local restaurant where they were allowed to crowd into booths maskless and eat.
But go to mass and sit within 25 feet of another parishioner and no choir? Apparently a death sentence.
The Church’s behavior was a disgrace, and I still am forcing myself to go.
Sunday was the first mass in my entire life where the priest mentioned he was celebrating his anniversary (22nd) and nobody clapped at any time. Later, when he recognized one of the deacons, people clapped for that.
Interesting report. At our Protestant (Brethren) church, for a long time all the sermons seemed to be directed at submitting to authority. We started asking, what about standing up for the oppressed, and what about that in the US, we the people (actually the law, as in the Constitution) are the authority? And if we are supposed to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s (the coin with Caesar’s image on it), what about that we have to render unto God what is God’s (ourselves, with God’s image on us), and what does that say about “Caesar’s” right to tell us what to inject in our bodies? It feels like some, not all, people in our church have recently realized that we’re not supposed to obey governmental authority if it’s going against what God says.
Portland, OR here.
I haven’t noticed any real supply issues or empty shelves. Anything out of stock is usually replenished within a few days.
Food and fuel prices have gone up. Gas is around 3.50 a gallon here, and food is about 10% more expensive. Locally-sourced food products don’t seem to have been impacted as much.
The most noticeable difference is that many businesses are short staffed and “help wanted” signs are everywhere.
I have a friend who works in HR and we discussed vaccine mandates over lunch the other day. According to her, many businesses are reluctant to implement them due to labor shortages. A lot of them have remained silent on the topic.
For the most part people are still wearing their masks, but now I’m starting to see the occasional person ignore the mandates. This might not seem like much, but in an area with virtually 100% compliance it’s pretty significant. Once outside of Portland, though, a good chunk of the population ignores them.
Our governor is talking about making the mask mandate permanent and there’s been significant opposition- even the local news outlets, which have been supportive everything COVID until now, are critical of her proposal.
It seems like even Portland is starting to have enough and the tide is slowly turning.
Central Willamette Valley, Oregon
Home heating (natural gas) rates for me went up 35% last month. Daytime thermostat at 68 max; nighttime at 60 degrees. Lots of log splitting going on. I have a 5T splitter which keeps me busy and makes me happy.
No cash available for months now in the machines of the self checkout lanes at Walmart. When I inquired re the reason for that last summer, was told that the banks just don’t have enough cash to provide it. (Only debit cards accepted, and no “cash back”)
Vehicle fuel/regular is $3.49 a gallon. Last January it was 2.25.
Lots of empty spots on shelves and camouflaged empty spots by having much higher volume of products they DO have available….in other words, 4X as much of a product than is needed is spread out, to avoid the empty shelf look for something they don’t have.
I stopped buying groceries for the most part about three months ago because I had been deliberately stocking up ever since the pResident was installed last January knowing that inventories would be down and prices would be up.
Family members are looking in 500 gallon propane tank to supply themselves and possibly friends who are working together to be able to sustain/support long term generator useage. Looking to pick up a third freezer also.
PGE (electricity) has been desperately looking for more employees and begging for people’s “understanding” because their staffing is way down and they can’t find anyone to work.
Trimet (bus company in Portland) is very tightly stressed on staffing and can’t find enough drivers. They are cancelling many routes and simply not filling schedules. A family member who works for them has been driving shifts as long as 14 hours. Good money, obviously, as long as you don’t drop dead.
No family members have been shot and none will be.
Stocking up on all petroleum supplies to sustain/maintain vehicle operation for three vehicles and tires replaced on vehicles. Family have paid off new vehicles in three years instead of five just to clear the decks for the dark winter the pResident has promised.
No jar lids (for canning [as in Mason, Ball]) available for many months now. I purchased a few of the last that were available last spring.
Stocking up (getting ahead by reducing usages, etc) on three RXs, bearing in mind that it is not impossible that Oregon physicians will begin refusing to see (or will not be allowed to see) unshot persons. (Oregon’s “state of emergency” was extended just yesterday–now into next summer). By juggling dates, reducing usages, and finding OTC substitutes, I’m about 3 years ahead on a couple of RXs. Can’t come up with a replacement for the third.
Small Christmas trees (about 4-4 1/2 ft) are $45; mid-size ones $55; tall (6 footers) are $65.
“No family members have been shot and none will be.”
just an f.y.i. – that means something very different in chicago….! 😳🥴
. My choice re the wordplay is/was not incidental.
I was in a Walmart the place was near deserted and there were huge piles of inventory in boxes that couldn’t be displayed because there was no room. Section after section was like this too. Livonia MI nobody buying
Just for something different, I’m attached to a large AF base in N. Italy. Prices on everything home related are up on order of 20% and the Italian have lost their minds on the CV19 coverage on the news. Far as masks and such goes, pretty much everywhere except in the home or when at a restaurant eating. Everyone seems proud of their “Green Pass” yet many private places don’t even bother. There are no real shortages of anything. Gas is near 10 dollars equiv per gallon equiv. I run diesel and it is opposite of the US, much cheaper. 1.60 euro per litre. Fortunately my car goes 65 miles on about a gallon. For comparison, meat if bought on base thru the system is very expensive. 2 bone rib roast was $62 yesterday and everything in the commissary is up. It is much cheaper shopping downtown. Just for giggles… wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas.
In Rapid Valley area of Rapid City the gas is 3.20 a gallon, down about 12 cents in last two weeks. Mind you I found that this place was usually the cheapest by about 5 cents compared to other places.
However, everything else is making up for it, especially if you need to fix things in your new/old home.
Might be me but I don’t remember the cheap hamburger being a bit over $4 a lb. I just finally started doing real cooking and planning of meals since I have the items to do it with now. Unpacking is so much fun..
If you want to buy any type of household item, furniture , electronics, or ?? ask “is it in stock” or you might have a 60 day to 6 month wait for the item.
The track lighting I had ordered 2 weeks ago and was supposed to be in any day was back order to beginning of Feb. When I went to the store the next day to see what else there might be available to my liking they were now back ordered to end of February.
The couple of times I’ve gone down toy aisles in various stores I’ve found them about 1/2 empty.
However, I can say the friendliness, graciousness and politeness of South Dakotans has made up for it all. You can’t put a price tag on the feeling of finally being back in America after over 18 months of Oregon’s tyrannical Governor Brown’s numerous mandates.
Spending less money this year but other than that all is well in The Free State of FL. As you know we didn’t have much of a drop off last year.
Active cases exploded in December from under 200 to over 2600 today in a county of about 100,000 residents. There were 8 deaths in December, up from 39 total. Seven of the eight deaths were fully vaccinated individuals:
https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/NMHhk/8/
Lines at the pharmacy are very long. Antibiotic prescriptions are slow to arrive. Insurance will not cover Ivermectin prescribed to appropriately treat conditions other than Covid (ie. severe parasitic infections)
Doctors are strained and having difficulty making referrals to specialists. Hospital is at capacity according to doctors.
Monoclonal antibodies are being administered by the local hospital on an outpatient basis.
Link to full Tompkins County NY Covid Data:
https://tompkinscountyny.gov/health/factsheets/coronavirusdata
Looking at the explanations regarding hospital data under the graphs, “vaccinated” means fully vaccinated. Less than that standard is unvaccinated.
Hospitalized numbers are for hospitalized with, not necessarily hospitalized for.
Information re vaccination status reflects vaccinations given by the Cayuga Health System. A hospitalized patient who received the jabs outside the system would be deemed to be unvaxxed. This is the situation in at least one other hospital system in NYS. Your unelected governor having her hissy over false assumptions about the unvaxxed in the hospitals.
The spike in vaxs in late Nov/early Dec reflect employer mandates. Any illness/hospitalization within 2 weeks of 2 jab is counter as unvaxxed.
40 week lead time on furniture not in stock at a regional furniture store.
In fact, the vast majority of deaths in Tompkins County NY since September, were fully vaxxed, according to the graph linked above.
Berserkeley CA here. My car requires premium fuel and the cost is now $4.95/gal, down from a maximum of $5.07 a few weeks ago, so Brandon is right on that account. Big deal.
Masking everywhere indoors. Most live music venues require vax proof except for one prominent jazz club. Mask compliance inside shows vary considerably. I’ve been to some pretty crowded shows where everyone is masked, but they’re fooling themselves if they think that if in fact there is an attendee with nasal passages full of SARS-CoV-2 that the masks would actually stop transmission.
I see plenty of people wearing masks outdoors and a few in their cars.
Adore the name Karen;
Would be happy to see people stop using the beautiful name as a negative.
There are a variety of ways to express a complainer
Other than using a name, so many are PROUD TO HAVE!
That’s all.
Sorry for the hijack.
Milk: $3 for a 1/2 gallon … 1 gallon = $5 (a full galon was maybe $3 two years ago)
80/20 ground beef: $6 a lb ($3 a lb two years ago)
At least we can travel in OK without showing papers and submitting to experimental medical procedures
Stone cold angst and hatred = $0.00 (I got shitloads to go around anymore, come get some)
Southeast Pennsylvania here .
Inflation is real. Prices up on most everything.
Also, they out of something Everytime I shop, but for the most part no issues with low supply yet.
They seem to be keeping fresh produce out longer than they should (soft or browning). So maybe supply chain issue with fresh fruits and veggies exist.
Oh, and ..
People are done with covid.
Hardly any covid signs, very few masks. It almost feels like pre covid days.
Local McD’s in Orange County, CA. “Now Hiring, to start $18-25/hr”. In N Out Burger $18-20/hr. Taco Bell- $18/hr. All high school and college kids. A Double double is $4.85. Fries $2.10. Shakes $2.75. Any fast food meat product seems to have doubled in price in the last two years.
2 McDoubles $3.50 Two Double Cheeseburgers $4.80. ( my grandkids don’t know the difference)
Arco Reg 87 is $4.39/g. Chevron is $4.89. Local Costco is $4.16/g, but you can imagine the lines!!!!
Choice Standing Rib Roast is $6.99/lb. Prime $14.99 (With a lot of garlic and a rotisserie, Choice is fantastic!)
Bacon- $7.50/16 oz. Costco- $22/ 4 Lb’s
Smithfield spiral ham- $1.49/lb.
Butter $2.50/lb.
I buy everything on sale and freeze/store
Labor shortage everywhere here in service positions. Lead times for any auto part is over 6 months. Can’t get deep cycle batteries til Summer 2022. Local Chile’s only open a few hours in afternoon. No staff to support it. Hiring signs in many of the local shops.
Trump stand on a main drag. “Don’t blame me, I voted for Trump” flags being sold and flown. 2024 Trump flags as well.
If you want to wear a mask, you wear one. If you don’t, you don’t, but you are respectful and keep a little distance. Everyone is very courteous. people are smiling and sick of all the crap. Everyone hates Newsom, Pelosi and Biden.
Housing prices are ridiculous. 1600 sqft 3 bed on .25 acre runs $800-900K
Homeless are a problem. They seem to be sleeping everywhere.
People are walking at all hours around the neighborhood. Many couples! Almost everyone says Hi!
Almost every other car is a Tesla or a Suburban or a BIG truck. ( Some have kangaroo frontal grates- Go figure! It is CA- no one bats an eye for that kinda stuff out here))
Citizens are rallying around the School Boards and are VERY anti-CRT. One new Board member is one of us, and we are getting the real scoop of what’s going on. There have found that there are some rogue teachers that go beyond the known curriculum. And they are being confronted. Board meetings are intense, but respectful. There is nothing like the light of transparency. There is also nothing so refreshing as to see a roomful of angry mothers ripping on liberal teachers.
Merry Xmas to all of you! Enjoy the time with your loved ones. These once a year get togethers remind us of all the past joys. Those memories are treasures and good for the soul. They keep us going. Create some new ones this year!!!!
The whole supply chain crisis is manufactured to get minimum wage to at least $15/hour. Democrats are so transparent on some things. If you can’t get that wage hike legally, you manufacture a crisis and POOF, there it is! The real supply chain problem is that OUR tax dollars are paying people (citizen and non-citizen alike) to sit at home doing nothing but sucking on the taxpayer’s teat! It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see through their pathetic plots. Democrats know that the people who actually pay taxes (AKA the middle and upper classes) don’t want it and won’t tolerate it to be legislated. Enough spending money WE don’t have. You want BBB passed, then start on 1/1/22 by deporting illegal aliens en masse. That would give you more than enough green money to piss away, just on a different program. I realize that will never happen since those EVs won’t vote (at least not until you Demons figure out how to get them registered and to what address!!) but WE THE PEOPLE are going to have to be more emphatic about our hard NO! The push to dumb down American children via “edumacation” is working. Young people, for the most part, are ignorant of economics. Young people, for the most part, are ignorant of American history. Young people, for the most part, are ignorant of the Constitution. Young people, for the most part, are ignorant of monetary policy. Young people, for the most part, are ignorant of how they are being manipulated by the media, corrupt government officials and “educators”.
What you are seeing in Orange County is by design. Your comments on transportation only go to support that~
They got their $15 min wage but inflation has killed real wages.