Talking about two very different systems I'm familiar with, one in rural America one in a massive American city area. City busses were severely cut for lockdown, keeping drivers safer so ok. Now some lines are gone. Rural service recently cut because of a 'driver shortage' (offering the same starting rate as the local McDonalds). The bus comes half as often, with riders now crowded in to each bus; no more closed-off seats to keep people apart, not any more. I never read the shock doctrine, but I heard someone say 'disaster capitalism' once. Are the busses ever coming back or did we just get done?
So, since nobody's actually doing anything yet, anyone that would be writing would be writing about a hypothetical years off into the distance. Besides, it's looking more and more like they won't even have to worry about no longer needing to justify it as a pandemic measure, because the pandemic is just going to stick around forever.
Its fucking maddening. Its like the coin thing or the graham crackers but its actually essential to life
I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you mean by the coin thing or the graham crackers. I'm not American, so please excuse my lack of context on those.
There were a bunch of shortages, those the two that immediately spring to mind, that I remember being really obvious last year, but nobody was talking about it, couldn't find any news about it. Maybe it was more that there was just so much other stuff going on that it was ecclipsed, but it was very dissonant not hearing about it but experiencing it totally.
Huh. I'm familiar with the coin shortage, we had money shortages in Canada. Not sure about graham crackers, but I did hear about toilet paper.
No classic brand s'mores for weeks in the height of summer