Maybe this coming shortage is what America needs?
Forget vaccine mandates, inflation, and public-school indoctrination. Something more terrifying is coming. **BURP**
As things get weird around the globe (going on two+ years now), protests come and go.
The media matrix provides little to zero in-depth coverage on protests occurring outside of the U.S. Often, the sell-out media completely ignores international protests. But as News Detectives noted a couple of days ago — countries like France and England are protesting issues such as inflation (cost of living) and vaccine mandates. At the same time, America’s northern neighbor started a grass roots social media protest using the hashtag #TrudeauMustGo.
Meanwhile, the people of the United States rarely organize or come together for anything—even when their livelihoods are being destroyed. Lock down businesses? Meh. Whatever. Forced to wear a mask? Pfft. We ain’t getting off our duffs for that.
Americans complain on social media and feel like that made a difference.
One American exception is the New York City public school teachers protesting vaccine mandates, but that’s a small, city-level example that did not capture the country’s attention to create a chain-reaction of unified protests from coast to coast.
The highly divided U.S. has yet to see large scale protests on anything practical or economic. America only gets aroused to protest left-wing causes like police brutality, racism, anti-Trump sentiment, and abortion access. The protests happening in Europe, Canada, and Australia tend to focus on broader issues affecting all sides—economic issues tied to the common people’s pocketbooks. The truckers in Canada and the Dutch farmers are two well-known examples.
Americans were able to follow the Canadian trucker strike and the Dutch farmer protests thanks to social media—not mainstream news “reporting.”
It’s hard to pin down why Americans are less prone to protest…I’m sure there are many factors. Perhaps one simple answer is that we still have it pretty good compared to other systems of government?
I know, I know—that meme is a simplistic illustration that only opens up a bunch of rabbit holes.
I’ll stay focused on this new potential threat to the U.S. that is now on our economic radar—and this one might actually induce an emotional response out of the middle class.
Due to supply chain factors, something horrible is coming soon.
Maybe this news will finally wake up Americans to what’s going on with the Great Reset? Will Americans finally say, “enough is enough” and take action once their glass of golden suds is empty?
Golden suds?
~ A Brewing Beer Shortage
Americans can endure shortages of toilet paper, gasoline, and reasonably priced steaks. They can be threatened with unemployment if they don’t allow an experimental substance injected into their arm. Americans are cool with that.
But take away their beer?
Oh, the horror.
Things could get really interesting here in the States over the next few months as the scariest supply issue of all supply chain issues is about to become reality.
From Forbes: Over the past few months, many U.S. breweries have struggled to find CO2 because of pandemic-related supply chain issues. And now, a carbon dioxide contamination issue in Mississippi could lead to a beer shortage in the USA this fall.
Yes, you heard right. In this era, of trying to reduce emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere, we are actually going to have a shortage of the CO2 that provides the carbonation so loved by millions of concerned beer drinkers. The contamination issue has also been compounded by train strikes in the mid-west which caused delivery problems for the limited supply that is available! Breweries in the U.K. and New Zealand have reported similar shortages in a global beer market that is projected to grow from $768.17 billion in 2021 to $989.48 billion in 2028 at a CAGR of 3.68%.
But CO2 shortages are not the only issue threatening the beer industry: Like any other industry, brewers are seeing rising prices, difficulty sourcing raw materials, and is significantly affected by ongoing labor shortages.
I was not the only person to shift to at-home drinking during the pandemic. The increase in sales resulted in a spike in demand for aluminum cans, which caused prices to soar and supply to be at a premium.
A poor north American barley harvest in 2021, combined with hot weather and a war in Europe could also impact costs and production volumes in 2022.
Could a beer shortage be what America needs? Is this the unifying cause that awakens the sleeping masses and prompts everyday working Americans to stop being passive sheep and say, ‘that’s it! We’re not going to take it anymore!’?
