That U.S. rail strike may still happen and cripple supply lines.
Here, in Edmonton, there has been no children’s Tylenol since summer and, today, one of my eye meds is unavailable till Nov. 8!
Can’t imagine how people with more serious conditions are managing when they can’t get their meds, likewise.
Food-wise, empty shelves everywhere. One has to be happy to get whatever one can get and learn to live with non-first-choice substitutions. A sign of the hard, diminished times. People have to learn to live without and with less.
Daily and significant adaptations are becoming more and more necessary as countries lurch steadily away from democracies toward autocracies all over the world.
Remember the good old days before Brexit and Trump? Before 2015. No, normal does not live here anymore and may never return.
*One feature that Canadian and local media are missing lately is a regular report on what shortages on products and services across the board are currently happening or projected to happen so that consumers are aware of these significant social changes.