'There will be things that people can't get,' at Christmas, White House warns
www.reuters.com
White House officials, scrambling to relieve global supply bottlenecks choking U.S. ports, highways and railways, warn that Americans may face higher prices and some empty shelves this Christmas season.

Not just the UK anymore, the strategic treat supply in the US is now under threat from the slow collapse of global supply chains.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      Nothing is going to happen. There will be a bunch of concern articles about "how to make do with less this Christmas". There will be a lot of hack Boomer cartoons and late night jokes about Santa having an empty sleigh. There will be some psychopaths who try to blame this on the dastardly Chinese.

      And then by February, there will be a new 🚨 BREAKING ALERT 🚨 that will distract everyone and we'll move on.

        • Blottergrass [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          "Nothing ever happens" is the single safest bet you can make in the casino of politics.

        • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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          3 years ago

          This ain't my first rodeo. Everyone's still a little on edge from Covid, but much like the post-9/11 era, we're slowly entering an exciting new reality that's just like the old one, but worse.

      • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        There will be a lot of hack Boomer cartoons and late night jokes about Santa having an empty sleigh.

        :sicko-yes: I can already picture the Kelly comics

    • supersaiyan [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      There might be old people volunteering to do some of these jobs for free. It did happen once already https://scoop.upworthy.com/seniors-slammed-for-volunteering-to-replace-low-wage-workers-for-free-this-is-horrendous

    • meme_monster [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      You won't go to the store because they won't have anything you need so the worker shortage won't appear because they won't need workers to service nonexistent customers.