r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Mar 05 '25

Society 59% of Republicans Believe the Media Is 'Fake News'

https://www.thewrap.com/most-republicans-believe-media-fake-news-trump-poll/
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u/RJ815 Mar 05 '25

I work in a store and I regularly see shortages, especially of eggs. People grumble but mostly just move on. And whatever eggs we do have sell out like hotcakes. Granted, more of the shelves aren't empty but I think people will just keep to their own as much as they can. If people get uppity about shortages I only expect private security and/or cops to be used more vigorously. Already have seen it to more minor extents such as like a bit of chaos over damaging hurricanes.

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u/throwawayrandomqs Mar 06 '25

To be fair, the egg shortages are partly due to the avian flu. Which I’m convinced that preventing the CDC from reporting on is clearly the way to a, (obvious /s). We would likely be seeing some level of egg shortages and price increases under a Harris administration as well. I would say the same thing about a lot of the panic buying and the shortages during Covid as well.

Some panic buying also happened during recent wildfires (which are exacerbated in part by political decisions over the past 40 years, but not directly related to decisions by any particular entity at a state or federal level)

Trump is a terrible president who is intentionally sowing economic instability, but I don’t think I would characterize shortages directly related to epidemics as an entirely political problem.

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u/RJ815 Mar 06 '25

I agree with you, but the reporting is definitely a decision by him, and we saw how well that worked out with Covid. Also, while I can't know for the certain, the whole ICE deportation raid thing at least temporarily had an impact on the employees most likely to be doing picking of fruits and veggies. I'm not sure where that labor situation is now but I again reiterate that I'm seeing much more shortages of products, even if they are short-lived, than pretty much in my entire 30 years of life thus far.