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If your memory doesn’t include the global pandemic that shut down global supply chains then I wouldn’t be calling attention to it. Of course prices went up.

GenerocUsername 4y ago
Problem with citing the pandemic is the dissonance that red folk were very against shutting things down for just this reason. Meanwhile resurgence of COVID proved the shutdowns did little on a 5 year timescale
- oneoff786 4y ago
  That doesn’t sound like a problem
- pas 4y ago
  Folks gained some immunity (and experience in dealing with COVID) since the first few waves. Plus at best there was a big slowdown, but there was no serious shutdown, many people still worked and got COVID, eg. people who would have otherwise worked at the port. (Though even a serious lockdown doesn't help much. (We saw this in China.)) And mask wearing was so far from ideal that it was not able to seriously decrease the transmission of the disease. Aaand of course the boosters could have been much much better (containing new variants): https://www.slowboring.com/p/were-getting-an-omicron-optimized https://www.slowboring.com/p/were-getting-an-omicron-optimiz... What's true is the shut/lock/slow part made no sense after we got the vaccines, and it's also quite obvious that there was just not enough stockpile of basically anything to do a ~1 month lockdown to stop the spread of the disease. (And the moment the first international plane landed it would have started again.)
xyzzyz 4y ago
Yes, of course the prices went up due to frantic actions taken by governments in the course of the pandemic. My point here is simply that blaming the inflation on war is simply trying to shift our attention and absolve themselves of responsibility.
- oneoff786 4y ago
  No, it’s just showing that costs are going up because things are harder to produce. Simple as that.

GenerocUsername 4y ago

Problem with citing the pandemic is the dissonance that red folk were very against shutting things down for just this reason. Meanwhile resurgence of COVID proved the shutdowns did little on a 5 year timescale

oneoff786 4y ago
That doesn’t sound like a problem
pas 4y ago
Folks gained some immunity (and experience in dealing with COVID) since the first few waves. Plus at best there was a big slowdown, but there was no serious shutdown, many people still worked and got COVID, eg. people who would have otherwise worked at the port. (Though even a serious lockdown doesn't help much. (We saw this in China.)) And mask wearing was so far from ideal that it was not able to seriously decrease the transmission of the disease. Aaand of course the boosters could have been much much better (containing new variants): https://www.slowboring.com/p/were-getting-an-omicron-optimized https://www.slowboring.com/p/were-getting-an-omicron-optimiz... What's true is the shut/lock/slow part made no sense after we got the vaccines, and it's also quite obvious that there was just not enough stockpile of basically anything to do a ~1 month lockdown to stop the spread of the disease. (And the moment the first international plane landed it would have started again.)

xyzzyz 4y ago

Yes, of course the prices went up due to frantic actions taken by governments in the course of the pandemic. My point here is simply that blaming the inflation on war is simply trying to shift our attention and absolve themselves of responsibility.

oneoff786 4y ago
No, it’s just showing that costs are going up because things are harder to produce. Simple as that.