I am in manufacturing, current situation is not good. We are experiencing rationing, the price of poker has gone up significantly since the first of the year. Elections have consequences!

this has less to do with elections and more to do with covid. Deep freeze in Texas didn't help on the plastics side either. Pretending covid was a farce for 6 months didn't help. Lots of factors that are f'ing up the supply chain for furniture, cars, parts. All kinds of things. I cover retail across the US and see this every day.
https://hbr.org/2021/03/the-latest-supply-chain-disruption-plastics

"Pretending covid was a farce for 6 months didn't help."

I'd be interested in hearing more how you formed this opinion.

I think if anything if we took it for what it really was/is by statistics we would be in a better situation.


As far as elections go , I do think it's related in that our lovely friends on the left can't seem to let it go away.

Well, having some of the highest infection rates in the developed world certainly didn't help. I don't put it all on Trump. The populace was a big part of the problem too. As to who can't let it go, HELLO check recounts in Arizona and potential ones in Georgia. We're at the stupid stage now. Both sides.

I'm politically right leaning and generally vote Republican so don't put me in some leftist bin. But I know that covid, deep freeze, canal blockages have had WAY more to do with shortages than Biden being in office for 4 months. These shortages have been building for a long time. I recently worked with a mattress manufacturer on a digital transformation project. I'm an enterprise architect and do business strategy and IT alignments. Trouble is even if I can get more people to their stores and web site, they can't get the mattresses made. This isn't new, it's been a year+ long struggle. Even with hotel demand for new mattresses way down they still have significant supply challenges. I'm not smart enough in supply chain to know all the challenges, but I do know my customers have been dealing with them since last summer and the deep freeze and canal blockage made things much worse.

Well, having some of the highest infection rates in the developed world certainly didn't help. I don't put it all on Trump. The populace was a big part of the problem too. As to who can't let it go, HELLO check recounts in Arizona and potential ones in Georgia. We're at the stupid stage now. Both sides.

I'm politically right leaning and generally vote Republican so don't put me in some leftist bin. But I know that covid, deep freeze, canal blockages have had WAY more to do with shortages than Biden being in office for 4 months. These shortages have been building for a long time. I recently worked with a mattress manufacturer on a digital transformation project. I'm an enterprise architect and do business strategy and IT alignments. Trouble is even if I can get more people to their stores and web site, they can't get the mattresses made. This isn't new, it's been a year+ long struggle. Even with hotel demand for new mattresses way down they still have significant supply challenges. I'm not smart enough in supply chain to know all the challenges, but I do know my customers have been dealing with them since last summer and the deep freeze and canal blockage made things much worse.

Rely on China and we will be owned by China, if we can’t start making products in this country again, we all will be in a bad situation. This shortage is just the beginning, it’s not the middle or end, it won’t be good.

wisdom , at least turn Mexico into our manufacturing hub