No one ever talks about it, but the supermarkets still have a lot of empty shelves.
Is it covid? Poor management causing workers to quit? Who knows. Lots of vegetables that I've never had trouble getting, are suddenly unavailable for the whole month... It's creepy.
The last few years are the tragedy of climate change and no one is really giving a shit. Its like everyone is expecting some kind of full blown apocalyptic event and not just gradual upticks in natural disasters causing gradual increases in shortages and failures of infrastructure. I think we've hit the point of no return in terms of having the luxuries we had pre-2020 bushfires. It fits the timeline of the things I read back in the 90s where they all said by 2020 things would start becoming noticeable. So far its mostly been only small-mid size towns that have been hit hard so everyone in the cities can ignore it, but its a slow decline from here. If we have shortages now with regular natural disasters, imagine how the 2030s/40s/50s are going to look.