We're having temporary inflation due to supply line issues. Remember that Covid is worldwide, and not ever country that's manufacturing our goods are up and running with any more efficiency than great American fast food places that couldn't find workers last year during lockdowns. They need to follow South Korea's example and get vaccinated at higher, faster rates.
This is, sadly, a backfire when you are shipping all our manufacturing jobs overseas. We can't control their disease response, and we have made ourselves reliant upon them.
Also, our ports are for shit. That's the reality. Long Beach and Los Angeles are massive, but they are old, and they are not efficient enough to deal with the massive amounts of consumerism over the past 18 months, people sitting at home with nothing to do but click BUY on amazon. So ships can't get enough unloaded even with 24/7 operation because of the logjam.
And, of course, they're not going to lose a ton of money getting to Florida. That involves Panama Canal and their fees in addition to fuel, labor costs, etc., and both ways because their operations are in the Pacific.
The solution is vaccination, and these new pills. The Pfiser one is 90% effective. The sooner that people can get together to work in a factory in Cambodia, or Bangladesh, or China, or Thailand the faster we get back to normal on supply. You can't close your eyes to it and deny it.
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