Summary
Democratic lawmakers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, criticized Trump for failing to address rising food costs despite campaign promises to lower prices “immediately.”
In a letter, they accused Trump of focusing on mass deportations and January 6 pardons instead of tackling grocery inflation, which rose 1.8% in 2024, with egg prices up 36.8%.
Trump’s administration defended its actions, citing efforts to reduce inflation by cutting energy costs.
New COVID (bird flu being ignored and all)
Lots more dead people
Less demand, lower prices!
wait, what were we talking about again? Ah yes, killing more minorities.
And that’s where the model fails. Whatever new pandemic (or maybe USdemic only, as other countries still do vaccines) hits, there is a good chance it will hit those producing food the hardest - they are at the bottom of the chain, they have to work every day to pick and process food or it may go bad, and they cannot do this from the safety of the home office. Besides, the last pandemic has already shown that some employers consider protective measures as a waste of money. And if the new USdemic really is a bird flu variant (apart from the H5N1 there is now another strain H5N9), it is quite likely that it starts its foothold in the farming communities as a bonus.
So food production is not unlikely to get hit hardest, which might actually completely wreck the “less demand” part.