I do not know how better to emphasize the points other than to be direct and brutally honest. Sometimes you just have to call the baby ugly. The window to prepare for the incoming crisis of our lifetime is now down to two weeks. Hopefully, that is specific enough.
As we have discussed on these pages, the interventionist policies and regulations from the people creating the COVID response (writ large) have been fubar from the beginning. {Go Deep} When they shut down the restaurants and hospitality sector (2020 lockdowns), the advisors and bureaucrats triggered a cascading series of events inside the food supply chain {Go Deep}.
Every policy implementation since then has made matters worse {Go Deep}
Adding to the supply chain and inflation crisis, in about a week the vaccine mandate and subsequent commercial passport means 30,000 cross border truckers are about to get shut down from operating between the United States and Canada.
“70% of the 700 billion in trade between Canada and the US is moved by truck. This will have a dramatic effect on supplies and services reaching their destination and getting in the hands of those who need them. One needs to look no further than the recent UK fuel shortage, where the military had to be brought in to deliver fuel as a result of a lack of truck drivers. We are already seeing shortages, if these shortages reach critical levels on items such as fuel, food, blood, medicine or medical supplies, we will see real long-lasting damage.”
~ Mike Milliam, President of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada
As noted by those following the issue(s) closely: “Starting January 15th, 2022, truckers must show a proof of vaccine to cross the Canada/US borders. Since March 2020, drivers were considered “essential”. They could cross the border without a covid test or the vaccine. Under Biden/Trudeau administration, this is about to change”:
22 000 truckers are about to lose their job. But this estimate is from the Canadian Trucking Association. The Private Motor Truck Council of Canada (PMTC) estimated this number closer to 31 000 truckers.
We are looking at a meltdown of the supply chain, or at least some severe disruption.
Get everything you need now. Inflation is about to get real. (read more)
CTH readers are already well versed in the domestic side of this issue {Go Deep}. When you overlay the USMCA aspect and recognize the critical sectors of the North American economy that are reliant upon each other; and when you realize that no one outside of the blue collar crews who have specific expertise in applying commonsense to this equation are talking about it, then you begin to realize what is obviously about to hit, and yet all will claim they never saw it coming.
We have approximately two weeks left. After that, I genuinely do not know what things will look like…. but I do know it will not be good. We are in very uncharted and unstable waters.
Act as if… or be acted upon. Ultimately, this appears to be our choice right now.
If we are wrong, then we will breathe a sigh of relief. However, if we are correct….
….. FUBAR!
For the US, the impact of this will be largely loss of income. For Canada, which has to import a much larger proportion of its goods, and the chief source of those goods is the US, the impact could be catastrophic. These “progressive” governments are cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
Thanks to Sundance we are pretty well prepared.
The only thing I’m trying to understand is the financial aspect. Do I take the cash out of the bank. Do we cash in the 401k. We have an account in a small community bank but there is a credit union in my tiny town also. Just looking for suggestions.
on a rather ironic note, we registered our Jeep and got new tags in our new state. The tag is BBBJ😳
In other words you have to be prepared w/enough stuff that would maintain two, or three households, plus what you use regularly every day now. At least that is how a friend put it to me that has a beach house that they keep mostly stocked so they can just go w/out having to load up each time they want to hit the beach.
Biden and Trudeau are both communists. Just as every individual in their Marxist administrations are.
Neither Biden or Trudeau had to do what they have done. They continue to demolish their countries.
Sometimes, violence is the answer.
the company I work for gets most of the aluminum we use for extrusions from canada.
I would be upset about this but they seemed pretty happy about laying off unvaxxed people come february 9th.
so, I’m almost at the “let it burn” part of not actually caring about people who brought this on themselves.
Shortages every where again. Cash hording will be next
Commiecrat actions in full swing. Biden needs stopped but we have no justice system doing their real jobs. They’d rather harass parents questioning school boards.
It’s True, Trucks are the cheapest, and preferred, method to move the lionshare of merchandice, materials, and supplies across our borders. There is a considerable amount of cross-border traffic via rail cars, boats, barges, ships, and aircraft. Obviously these methods at this point in time are limited to what they can move and how much can be handled per day. The One thing stands out to me as a saving Grace if you will, is the INDOMITABLE AMERICAN SPIRIT of Getting Things Done When a CRISIS APPEARS. I Believe that our Canadian Brothers and Sisters would follow suit, and do whatever is necessary to move as much vital materials as possible, in as short a time as possible. In fact I would wager that the WORKING MEN AND WOMEN from BOTH Sides, have not been sitting on their hands, in the corner worrying. They too have been planning/scheming on how to subvert the IRRATIONAL POLICIES and OUTRIGHT STUPIDITY of the Butthead Politicians. Yeah, this does mean less for a while, and at a higher price. BUT I Think this is going to be another absolute Charlie Foxtrot for the Megalomaniacal Elites around the World. IMHAO, This STUPINDOUS DECISION Will Comeback and SLAP THE TREASONOUS TWOSOME (OBiden and Trudeau) UPSIDE THEIR HEADS QUICKER THAN THEY COULD EVER IMAGINE. SERIOUSLY, I can’t believe that these Criminal Politicians on bothsides of the Border are still walking around free as birds on the beach.
It’s interesting that this doesn’t pertain to US / Mexico.
This is a great lesson that it is very important for long-term food security for your family to find a way to produce and store as much of your own food as you can. Some families are selling their homes and using the equity to create family farms where they can produce all their life-sustaining food, water and power — instead of being dependent on untrustworthy systems.