Shortages and Looming Hyperinflation, Factories shut down, Unemployment, Freezing In Your Homes ...

We already see the soaring prices, empty store shelves, shortages of critical products, factories shutting down, essential services shutdown, workers unemployed, people (going to) freeze in their homes, disrupted global supply chains and we're only at the beginning of this crisis. Europe and China will be the first to go down, followed by the US (and the rest will follow like domino stones). This was totally avoidable. And how could this happen? COVID-19? Yes, indeed. But it was not COVID-19 by itself, which caused this. It was caused by the policies of the governments (shutdowns, tax-free payments and green energy mandates), which caused this. But before the COVID-19, this disaster was already 'on the agenda' for years. The real reason is because of bad government policies pushed by progressives.

The progressives were demanding to shutdown energy producing industries based on fossil fuels and replace it with renewable energy (wind and solar). The reason was their claim of global warming and climate change. This type of technologies is not mature enough (or didn't exist) to generate the required constant 'stream of energy' for society and it depended on the available wind and sun. And guess what? The governments and industries gave in and focused on renewable energy, which can't deliver the high demand because of the lack of technology. Talk about being woke.

COVID-induced global supply chain crisis

The International Chamber of Shipping, a coalition of truck drivers, seafarers, and airline workers, has warned in a letter to heads of state attending the United Nations General Assembly that governments need to restore freedom of movement to transportation workers amid persistent COVID-19 restrictions and quarantines. If nothing is done, they warned of a "global transport system collapse" and suggested that "global supply chains are beginning to buckle as two years' worth of strain on transport workers take their toll," according to the letter.

This was totally avoidable.

COVID-induced policies for vaccination mandates

In the US, the Biden administration mandated that all federal workers need to be vaccinated, including the workers of companies with more than 100 workers. The result is mass termination and voluntarily quitting the jobs of millions of people. And that means that some hospitals are likely to shutdown (because of lack of personnel), health services canceled or suspended, shortage of hundreds of thousands of drivers, teachers, pilots, researchers, factory workers, etc. And if that couldn't get any worse, the vaccination mandate for the US armed forces might mean that more than half of the US army will be forced to quit or fired. Good luck with that. This was totally avoidable.

Green energy mandates and wokeness

Especially the European countries (but other countries too) have chosen to forsake existing reliable and abundant energy sources like coal for unreliable wind and solar. Everyone knows that there are days there is no or a little wind and nobody can predict when that is. No wind means no electricity. Solar relies on the sun and everyone living in (Northern) Western Europe knows that there are not many days with sun. You don't need to be genius to know that this will go wrong. Indeed, now they are seeing soaring energy prices because the wind hasn't been blowing as much as usual lately and this is only the beginning.

No technical oriented civilization can survive without energy. It's the core or foundation of society, the base, where everything else is built on. When energy is threatened, the rest will collapse or disappear.

This was totally avoidable. To make things more interesting, there are energy troubles in India and China. In China, they are short of coal for utilities. Power is being rationed and don't worry, they will not send it to Europe. China is (no, was) a low-cost exporter of manufactured goods, but it's facing serious electricity shortages, hampering the production. After the economical debacle of Evergrande, the energy crisis will be much worse, according Bloomberg. The economical shock will be devastating.

You can blame the electricity shortages on the green energy mandates:

Remember this madness of Obama and Hillary Clinton?

And it worked! It worked in the US and also in Europe. Can you imagine how stupid people are? Everyone could see that those policies are based on fantasies and not realities! Or do they also believe in those little green men from Mars? In the US, we might remember the problems Texas had last winter, when the extreme cold froze all the windmills and solar panels became useless. With as result, Texas couldn't deliver the rising demand in electricity for its citizens. In Europe, they had shutdown the coal mines and thermal power stations. They used computer models to predict the global temperatures. The boneheads. It never worked. In China there is a different problem. Originally, China received the majority of their coal from Australia. But Australia got in trouble with China and China placed a boycott on Australian coal. The stupid thing from China is that they didn't look for alternative deliveries, with as result that they now have a serious energy problem. Bullying doesn't pay off, it seems. And trade has its own (natural) laws (of logic, demand and supply), and responded with higher prices. Well, sky-high prices actually. The whole international economy, based on open markets and low shipping costs is starting to fall apart. And everyone starts to feel that. In the US, it's ruining the manufacturing. China shot itself in the foot by bullying Australia and now it doesn't have enough coal to generate the energy to maintain the production. And in Europe, where they will feel the freezing cold in the winter, while they will have problems trying to buy any food. This was totally avoidable.

Some serious flaws in thinking

I have a serious problem in understanding how planners could (allow to) design policies, which are not based on reality. Everyone knows that if you shutdown first the existing reliable and abundant energy sources like coal and then you try to implement the unreliable wind and solar, you'll run into serious problems. Or here is another one. Everyone knows that if you are in enemy territory, you first evacuate the citizens and as last the military, not? Biden did or tried to do the opposite. Everyone would know that this would lead to a major disaster beforehand. Or here is another one. By mandating the COVID-19 vaccines on an unwilling and stubborn population (many religious people willing to die for their faith) will lead to labor shortage. It's quite simple to predict, but does Biden listen or think? No, he doubles down and now the US will be confronted with a worsening and looming supply chain collapse, threaten the whole of America and might lead up to a very likely existential threat. Another one. Who thinks that it's a good idea to target half of the country and label them as terrorists and stupid people? Or this one: The Chief of Staff contacts the enemy and undermines the country he's serving and he doesn't get court martialed or fired ... worse, he gets endorsed. Here is another one: An administration, which spend trillions of dollars on all kind of political issues for their preferred political brass and causing an exploding inflation as the consequence of their foolishness. And here is another one: How one political party tries to undermine democracy by trying to create a one party state. The list of foolishness continues and is huge, but it's not the focus of this article. I personally think that the corruption of all of our institutions went too far and is too deep, that it will kill the existence of society as we know it and themselves as well. It's a kind of suicide. What will follow is anarchy and destruction.