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You make it sound like a bad thing. The curve was flattened, millions of lives were saved, and life goes on mostly as before.

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Except that you cannot buy a graphics card anymore.. or a car.. and food is expensive.. and fuel too.. and blue paint also.

Graphics cards don’t really have anything to do with the pandemic. It’s more to do with scalpers and crypto clownery.

Some countries have had absolutely disastrous bouts of covid this past year (like Vietnam) and it screwed up supply chains a lot. Companies canceling orders because of expected drop in demand that didn’t happen are all rushing to put those orders back in, and it turned into a mess. There are plenty of factors at work here because each country that contributes to the chain had some different sort of problem.

I have a home, two cars, food, and blue paint. I’m not rich by any means, but my life has never been more abundant.

A coworker gave me a graphics card, too!

Do you have cake you can hand out too?

I could probably make that happen if I really wanted to.

Gas is getting to 2008 levels where I live, surely you would notice that if you have two vehicles

It's getting up there, but still has a way to go before it hits the high ($4.05) from 2008.

https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/xls/pswrgvwall.xls

Adjusted for inflation that's about $5.15/gallon.

I’m working from home, dog. Day care is 2 miles away. In spite of a bicycle shortage I bought an ebike and a child seat and take my kid to day care that way!

I don’t even really like working from home(been remote since 2018) so when I want to go into the office I take the train into the city.

Nope, haven’t noticed since everyone is WFH now.

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