Sorry in advance for the lengthy post. Sometimes I make a post where I'm just thinking by typing. I know that most people are kept in the dark by the media and that it takes a certain kind of person to see beyond the mainstream narrative. But lately it seems like we've entered a truly dark and bizarre time and that most people, even some on our side, aren't aware of the gravity of the situation that we're ALREADY IN. My examples may seem minor, but when you consider what's behind them, they're a sign of a much scarier problem.
I was talking with my husband the other day about the fact that no restaurants in our immediate area are open for dinner anymore. We recently chatted with the owner of a diner we like in our town, and she said that they barely have enough employees to operate for breakfast and lunch, and that they can no longer get anyone to work at night. This all changed during the original 2020 lockdowns, of course, and never went back to normal. All the workers in her kitchen that day were white. (I make this point for a reason to come.)
And it's the same across our entire region. Even restaurants that are popular and busy and located in touristy areas are struggling to stay open for all their shifts. Smaller places are only open until one or two in the afternoon.
It's the same across retail. Stores are always operating on a skeleton crew and have signs up that they're hiring all the time.
I went to a county job fair recently and accepted a position. I was one of two people at the fair when I went. And there were dozens of jobs available with this employer. Since it's with the county, the benefits are good and these jobs would have been in high demand at one point. But they were practically begging me to work there, when just a few years ago, I would have been the one trying to sell my skills to them. No longer.
At my husband's job, they're having to hire people from other states to come and work because no one in the area is applying for jobs, and they're constantly understaffed and behind on projects because of it.
But when you hear the news, they say that employment rates are great under Biden. Other news sources say that many people are working two or more jobs now to make ends meet. Then you hear people talking about how no one is working anymore, despite the fact that inflation is skyrocketing and food and rent are damn near impossible to cover now for most middle-class people. None of this adds up, of course.
The creepiest thing, though, is that my husband's aunt recently lost her father. He was 99 and had dementia, so it was expected. However, the family told us this week that he won't be cremated until February because the funeral home has a waitlist for cremations. Why? "Oh, they're just really busy this time of year because of the flu and all." Yeah. That makes sense. Totally normal.
So, a lot of people think that mass deaths of the vaccinated are coming, but I think that we're already there and that the media is doing everything possible to ignore the problem. I don't think that this entirely explains the lack of interest in jobs, though. I tend to think that there is a mass depression event happening among Americans, particularly young ones who were told of a certain American dream that ain't never happening for them. They'd rather take side jobs delivering packages or groceries than get a full-time job or career because they just can't face the world and what modern American adulthood means today. Whatever the case may be, the reality of the NOW is bleak.
Side note. We hear of these loads of illegals coming every day. It used to be that you'd see Mexicans working in kitchens and dish rooms at pretty much every restaurant, but now, at least where I live, you never see that. Is all this hype about illegals also a lie? Where are THEY getting the money to survive and pay for all their kids and family? Another example. We have a lot of Mexicans in our small town, but again, you never see them working in public places anymore. However, yesterday, we needed some chile peppers for a recipe so we stopped in a small local Mexican supermarket. The doors were locked. As we were driving away, the lady came running out and opened the doors for us, so we went in. She had the bare minimum available for sale and could barely speak English. The whole place was dirty and in disrepair. She kept complaining about being "so cold." She didn't sell peppers or any produce at all, but I felt bad for her so we bought a bag of chips. She only accepted cash, no cards at all, and yet her signs out front promoted sending money home to Mexico. It was just an odd experience. When we left, she locked the doors back. It felt like something out of an apocalyptic movie. This is not our America anymore.
Just thoughts I've been having lately. Nothing is as it seems. More than ever before, our minds are being manipulated on the daily, even by sources we may trust. All I know is that it's never been more important to get yourself prepared and to keep your health up. There was a story on Yahoo (lol) this morning saying that bread will become scarce this coming year (muh Ukraine war), as well as pet food and canned goods. If Yahoo is saying that, shit is getting real. I feel like we're entering a post-modern American hellscape movie and the sad thing is that very few people can see it or will ever admit it to themselves. Bread and circuses, dog and pony shows, muh racism and muh drag queen story hours, all as we careen off the cliff of our flimsy false Satanic reality. It's crashing down, and I wonder how many will choose to ever open their eyes again when we hit the ground.
yes it is all quite pathetic. Not sure how old you are but from my chair it is like day and night what is happening.i am an aircraft engineer ,try to find someone in this field it is sad, kids dont want to work and learn. they think somebody owes them. guess they will get the rude awakening.i worked as a police officer for over 26 years and really enjoyed doing that. today i wouldnt do that if you paid me 10 times what i was making.Back then everyone wanted to be a cop it was very competitive to even get a job.Now they can not give that job away. Can you blame anyone?? hell no everyone with a phone wants to video a cop and drag them through the mud. the local government will not let them do the job. and how do you think these guys feel? they put their life on the line (literally) every day for what to get prosecuted for doing your job because some woke asshole thinks you are a racist.Things are coming to the breaking point it will be any time now. people are tired people see the corruption people are tired of the corrupt politicians, judges and pretty much everywhere.When the shit hits the fan and it will soon it is going to be ugly.We The People Will take this country back.I know many still in law enforcement in the military and many others they are all fed up. the big enema is coming...please stand by
My husband works for a contractor on a military base and it's the same there. He says everyone you see working the trades is older, with the exception of a couple of guys who are in their thirties. Mostly it's "old-timers" who have skilled jobs now. What will happen in a few years when these older guys retire or die off? Young men have no interest in learning skills or taking responsibility. And their younger women counterparts who become teachers and nurses...well, they're just frightening in their narcissism and self-centeredness.
The breaking point is on the horizon now. Just a matter of time. It's only going to take another increase in prices to start making people crack. Let gas prices rise again or shelves become empty for a week, and the zombies will be in the streets. Those of us who know will need to be the cooler heads.
the gas will go crazy soon...the potatos raid on the reserve is just getting through the system.he wanted it for the midterms but was a day late and a trillion short. many stores have big holes in the shelves already..you are so right it is coming soon..and yes our job will be to help guide the newly awakened through this ...no matter how bad we just wanna yell we fukin told you so ...excuse my french....lol
Dec 26: $2.89/gal Dec 27: $3.29/gal
I've heard about a pipeline leak in San Diego where they've had to shut down the flow for a few days to fix. Not good.
My son is in his 20s, works a trade, never went to college but has a lot of certs in his field. It is scary how much recruiters are offering him to try to lure him away from his current job.
That's your complaint with "police work" rather than them being the standing army the Founders warned us about, using the Constitution as toilet paper?
The employment issue is very interesting. All places seem to be short where I am located. Suburbs of a pretty big city. People I talk to say they can't get jobs. Not full-time professional type positions but part time jobs for a teen. My girls are getting to working age and I will see how it plays out in the next few months for me. If people don't want to work how are they living? Are they on welfare? I think there is no shame today in freeloading, can't blame them really The people dying from the Vax will not be known to normies. They think everyone is getting sick because of what covid did to them. Until it is reported on the msm or mockingbird media as I started to call it this will continue. On the news they are saying get your booster while 17k medical professionals are saying it must stop.
The employment issue is interesting to me because I keep hearing about no one working, and I see plenty of examples of it, but everyone I know personally has a job right now and is STILL struggling. I don't understand how all these ex-workers are surviving their rent and food increases, or where the hell they even are.
I mentioned my husband's family and the cremation waitlist in my OP, and his family lives in a heavily vaxxed blue state, so I do think the vaccine is starting to take a major toll that the Deep State and MSM are doing everything possible to hide.
Someone here posted an interesting theory a few months back, with some research behind it, that all of the population numbers in the world are fake - specifically that they’ve been inflated by governments to aid in money laundering, vote rigging, and cooking statistics in whichever direction they need for the current situation. It’s an interesting idea, and seems like it would be super easy to do too, and effective. I’m not sure that this fits specifically with your post, but it feels like it’s hinting at similar ideas.
I also think it’s possible that as many as half of all people under 30 are not working at all and their parents are paying their rent and all their bills. I think this is the trade-off for the older generation staying in their careers much longer: the generation below them is unable to advance, and so no positions open up for the generation below THEM, who usually end up being the children of the generation that won’t retire.
I agree with the premise regarding the population stats being inflated. It's too perfectly aligned with all the cons these psychopaths have been and are advancing. You also have a good point re: the job situation.
Do you have a link to that post you're referring to? I find that idea very fascinating and it makes sense at first glance.
No, I don’t have it linked. I think it was about two months ago and it was its own post. I’m not sure what the title was. It might have been something like “A strange theory” or it might have had the word “population” in it. Perhaps someone else remembers? It was one of those odd posts we sometimes get that come out of nowhere, often by a new user, and are super in-depth and interesting with a bunch of links and research. I remember a fairly active discussion was sparked, and I did comment in that thread. When I go through my saved links though most posts appear to be deleted and they all seem to be from two years ago. I don’t think post saving actually works for me.
I remember this one as well, it was in the last few months. Was it one of these?
https://greatawakening.win/p/16ZEE3EWRj/over-population-is-a-lie-to-just/
https://greatawakening.win/p/15K6uyKJU1/theory-time-our-global-and-natio/
https://greatawakening.win/p/15K6So3llF/why-they-lie-about-world-populat/
It might be the second one, although I also remember the post being more of a story of the poster’s journey through this theory, and that he was using some data sets he had looked into to make his point. I think he also tied it to the extreme fight the establishment put up against Trump trying to conduct an accurate census. This second post feels like a recap of that original post. It actually reminded me of another long, out-of-nowhere post around December 2020 that first introduced (most of) us to the Law of Warfare Manual, and specifically chapter 11.3. It was soon after that post and the research on that manual that followed that the talk of Devolution started.
Thanks for the links though fren! I think as long as we keep this idea floating around, more people with the skills to look into will do so.
I think a big part of it is driving/delivery apps. These exploded in popularity during COVID, and I don't think they count towards official job numbers. As a twenty-something, a lot of people I know do Doordash or Uber full time. I also work management in a major retailer/grocer, and literally fucking everyone is on food stamps or some sort of welfare - and this is in a pretty well-off suburb.
I think it boils down to these two major points: people just found other ways to make income outside of regular jobs, and others found out how easy it was to exploit the welfare systems. Both a result of COVID and lockdowns.
Thing is I thought the extra unemployment and such ran out like a year ago so where did the minimum wagies go? Also that never explained why my employer has such a hard time filling six-figure engineering positions. Also the number of people who moved out of this state only accounts for a fraction of the number of missing workers. I see no shortage of Mexicans but they seem to be mostly landscapers now I do see somewhat less of them in restaurant staffs.
Meanwhile my cousin who moved to a more rural area says that few restaurants are open for dinner anymore or close really early like 7pm.
I was looking for engineering work to replace my current job, it took over a year and a half of pretty consistent applications and only seldom getting first interviews and I finally got an offer to start in the new year.
Have also been seeing the same with many restaurants that have had help wanted signs out and sometimes letters noting the troubles finding staff and requesting courtesy for delays.
I've heard this here in Michigan. Everyone saying they apply and apply with no interviews. Then you hear from companies that they can't get workers. Which is it? And whole is controlling the situation?
A lot of this boils down to the incompetence and sheer laziness of the HR people. At my job, the hiring lady just totally fucking forgets to respond or follow up with people, it's nuts. Lots of unqualified workers snuck their way into higher-up positions during COVID due to employer desperation.
That's part of why I decided to look for a job that actually was good enough to state firmly that vaccines was a choice, and has a wall of employees that stuck with the company for 40 years.
There was a high level retirement, and as that bubbled through the management had a massive shift in the company culture, because these people that had been separated from the process for years or decades had "ideas" and the power to implement them now without any consideration of the implications. In my office that meant a boss whose interpretation had the manager who got a higher level promotion asking (behind closed doors, but I was close enough to overhear) "how many people are you willing to lose if you do this?"
Then my supervisor became a guy whose career had been as a testing then production manager who had never done a day of design work; his introduction to us was his plan to "improve efficiency" which meant adding more documentation to facilitate production (previously handled with "directives" that covered the same information that would apply to all circumstances), then adding more redundant information, and instead of having a package with a quantity of, say, 20 to make 20 copies each with a qty of 1. Then he was asked if we would get more time to complete these extra requirements said "no, design takes too long as it is, and so you will get the same time."
The crazy part is, that only covers a fraction of the craziness that started getting implemented.
The biggest frustration in applying most of that time was the number of companies (even still) with vaccine requirements... those I would just cancel out.
I don't know how much is people being paid not to work, if companies aren't really wanting to hire but have scheduled job postings going out -or- companies that put job posts for positions they intend to hire internally to fill. All I can say for sure is that I was seeing job postings like it was back in boom time, but getting follow-ups more along the lines of what I went through right after graduation (6 months early there would be 50-100 relevant posts for new grads to 3 months later and I was lucky to have an offer and the others graduating would only have jobs if they ALSO had a trade ticket or other qualifications)
That has me wondering now as while this company gave up on mandating the jab after the SCOTUS decision I'm wondering if that was just for us existing employees who held out and they're still trying to push that shit with new applications, that could explain some of the slow hiring. They figured that they'd just gradually replace us but if so it's taking them ages.
Engineering seems to be going nuts. I moved out because I could afford the big city on 70k. Now after a few years in another field I could get 120k to move back but I won't because I'm doing contract work and making too much. I'm working with some engineers who came out of retirement because you can make so much all the sudden.
I work as a head chef at a family-owned, casual dining restaurant that is open only for dinner (and staffed with good, hard-working kids with parents who do the same), and am feeding people who are on the government dole. You always know it's them- they show up in their pajamas; whether to dine in or take out their call-in orders, massively overweight, dirty and smelly with greasy hair, and dragging 3-4 kids with them, and always on the first and third week of every month. This is no exaggeration. We also get a large crowd of SSI recipients on the 3rd of the month, but they usually only get one chance per month to gather and eat out, and although I'm not a fan of socialist SSI, they don't piss me off like the system-suckers do. Others that come in, especially during the third week, are on disability, and bring their entire family so dad in his wheelchair/using a walker/massively overweight with back issues can buy dinner. The other two weeks see a much different crowd than the free money weeks- what I remember the crowds being way back when I started my career. The free money folks; and I mean those who are generationally on welfare and handouts; have turned, or attempted to turn, every restaurant into a McDonalds. I have colleagues who are chefs at expensive, fine dining restaurants (we're talking $50 plates, ice carvings, etc.), and during these weeks, they get calls for take-out and "do you deliver?", when they don't even HAVE takeout!
They're getting money from somewhere, whether they've quit working and just resigned themselves to a life of Call of Duty, Netflix, take-out food, and free Biden Bucks, or their entire family have sucked off the system for 4-5 generations. Yeah... I'm bitter that not only do I have to cook for these people, but I have to PAY for it as well.
As for my own personal financial situation- I'm in a fairly recently-new (less than 3 years) relationship with a normie who bought herself into debt, and I'm able to help her out (at my insistence; pride and all on her part) and still stay afloat. My savings per month has dropped a bit, though, but I live a simple life without the manipulations of mainstream marketing, and have always done so. My other half, not so much, and she's now paying the price. Our area still seems fairly normal; in a blue state, no less. Not too many shortages.... yet.
Dude, I want to live wherever it is that fine dining is $50 a plate. Here that will buy you one of the nicer steaks at Outback...
Have you seen some of the plates in the finer restaurants? A bite or two for $50. Some dishes go as high as $300. We're talking major artsy-fartsy cuisine.
Yes, as a multi course tasting menu. Typically one doesn't go into a fine dining establishment and order one solitary course on the tasting menu.
I understand what you mean now, though.
$50 is a family of four at Portillo's these days.
I can tell you that this capping of Russian oil price at $60 a barrel has backfired enormously. ANY nation that voted for a price cap against Russia will not be able to purchase oil from Russia. But this has forced the price of oil - yesterday- up to $86 a barrel. It is believed it’s on its way to $150. Russia is selling crude oil to India, they are refining it and selling it on for huge markups. The Greek ship owners were told by the EU not to carry this oil. So what did Russia do? Bought dozens of oil tankers. Russia is swimming in cash and the West/EU are telling anyone that will listen that Russia’s economy is crashing. So get ready for a massive mark up in fuel prices.
I stopped driving even 5 over the speed limit once gas hit almost $5 a gallon here, and continue to do so even with gas below $3 right now. I've reserved my head-shaking and schadenfreude for now as I watch the normies zip by me doing 10-20 mph over the limit, but won't once gas passes $5 a gallon or more.
I can only give an opinion on my situation. I believe it’s much worse, and we haven’t even seen the worst of it. I can barely afford food, I work 2 jobs, I’m widowed, so I know I’m at a disadvantage. But my general feeling of life now compared to 10 years ago, is a polar opposite.
I'm sorry you're having a rough time. Sadly, you're in good company as people who were doing well even a year or two ago are now feeling the pressure as the Deep State keeps stacking inflation and debt higher and higher. I can't ever remember feeling like this in all my life. And it's only going to get worse before people start to rise up.
Where I live, everything is normal. Nothing has really changed in the last few years. Guess it depends on where you live. I live in a heavily populated area. However, I did buy a storage cabinet and have filled it up with canned food and such. I did this, not because there is a shortage in the stores, but because of the news i read in the alternate media. I do not know anyone personally who has died from the vax. The diners and restaurants in my area are normal. There are plenty of people working. We did have the Covid lockdown in 2020 but after that everything has bounced back. We do have inflation. There are some places in my state that do have weird stuff like the drag queen story hour but not in my area. It's not very big here.
You've pretty much described my experience. Like you, I keep my pantry stocked way beyond what I used to do (and it was always fairly well stocked). Other than some items not being available and rising grocery prices, everything in my SW Missouri rural and very red area goes on pretty much as normal.
Do you live in a red state? Red state versus blue state seems to make a difference in one's experience.
I live in a very blue state in the northeast.
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It's the same here in NC. Lots of stores hiring, but seem to be able to handle the volume. Restaurants hiring but functional as well. No shortage of good jobs here. Traffic is heavy, so people are going places. I'd be willing to bet you are in the south - we seem to be dealing with things a lot better than other areas of the country.
I'm also in NC and started this post. My particular area is pretty red, but I'm starting to notice these things. On a personal level, my husband and I are doing okay and I'm starting a new job soon so we'll make it, God willing. But when I look around me, there are signs of bad things coming. Blue states are definitely feeling it harder, but I think it's going to hit everywhere soon, even the South where people typically cope better. But "country folks can survive" and we, as a region, will fare better than most during this dark period, for sure.
My husband's family is out west in a very blue state that's majority vaxxed, and I have no hope for them. They're all in for the agenda.
I guess it depends on where you live in the state.
I believe it depends where you live in the state. I live in NC but I am a very rural area and seeing more restaurants closing due to lack of help and we don't have many people in this county to begin with. But then again this area has not been expanding (YET( like other areas in NC due to it's rural nature.
I live in the northeast.
Any chance by the Raritan Civic Center in Edison NJ? Harold's Deli is located off that exit. Mmmmmmm
yeah, Yummy and still open.
Oh, excellent. Good to hear. I'll never be back up there again, but I can still dream about the many times I ate there. Not going to any state I can't carry concealed legally.
I'm not from NJ but I was there at the end of Sept/start of oct and went to Harolds. Prices were crazy but portions were too.
Yes. I've seen this all over where I love. I've talked to many different managers etc and they are like "where did all the people go?". Everyone is hurting for employees it seems like. I don't understand it. Some people are saying everyone is living off of unemployment etc, but that can't be. Congress was criticized for not giving people money during lockdowns. And yes, everything is so expensive, how are lower income people able to afford to live. Its crazy. It's all very confusing. I've wondered too if there was already a mass die off and it was just kept very quiet.
My son passed away in November ‘21 and we are still waiting for his headstone. There’s something fucky, if not sinister going on these days.
Sorry to hear about your son.
Thank you. He would have turned 30 today. Happy Birthday buddy, I miss you 😢
Very sorry for your loss.
I am so sorry to hear of your loss & pray for your comfort during this time.
My father's family is split politically & we have had some interesting discussions at Thanksgiving & Christmas when I was younger.
I was blessed that Grandma & Grandpa made it clear that we all had opinions that stank like an after dinner gas hole & that it was never a reason to allow love & service within the family to be compromised.
Just found out my very liberal uncle is in the hospital again with more stroke symptoms. He is likely fully "vaxxed" & will likely live with his republican brothers until he finally dies. He would have done the same for them if the roles were reversed. I am so grateful for the strong emphasis my grandparents put on service & family.
He won't last much longer. Unfortunately all my aunts & uncles all took at least one round of the clot shots, all of their health has diminished, far more than I expected at this point in their lives since the family historically has lived well into their 90s unless they had Yellow Fever. Even then all were last 70s or early 80s. It is bizarre to see them all go downhill at such a younger age.
Know there are Anons here that still love you & emphasize with your pain.
So sorry for your loss. Prayers going out for you and yours
Vaccine injuries and or long Covid are keeping people in a state of perpetual suffering and literally can’t work consistently
It is this bad. I'm not going to work after selling a business I ran for just under two years, because the work ethic of what employees you can find is total and complete shit. These people will stab you in the back first chance they get. They're doing the employer a favor for the job, and they'll walk when it suits them using every excuse in the book. Loyalty is a thing of the past. Eggs at $6-8 a carton depending on your preferred flavor. I have no idea how honest low income earners are surviving.
There is now a real incentive to lie, cheat and steal.
They were making triple plus trips of what I made when I started working in the mid 90s.
Expected to work? lol... however many they want to show up for?
Random monthly bonuses, Christmas bonuses, Christmas parties. For mostly part time employees. Nothing mattered, we "owed it" to them.
Fuck today's generation. The product of being coddled and responsible parenting gone awry.
I'm guessing that means minimum wage?
Truly, things just aren't the same as 30+ years ago. Fewer kids are working. It's just the way things go. I'm sure back in the 90s, the older generations were saying the kids of the 90s didn't want to work. And their elders said the same about them and so forth and so on.
It's all relative.
Businesses that mainly employee workers who need their minimum wage jobs are really being hit harder than others.
For the last 50 years, those who needed minimum wage jobs have typically been teenagers and young people just starting out in the world.
Also, going to point out that it's not that kids today are just lazy. They also have opportunities that no other generation before them ever had.
You might want to go look up how much money kids, and a I mean kids as young as 6-7 years old, make with things like YouTube channels.
Go look up how much the kid from Ryan's Toy Review on YouTube makes.
Seriously, go do that right this minute and come back and tell me why you think he would prefer working for you.
My son is 10. Ten years old and made about $15,000 last year from ONE book we self published on Amazon about Pokémon.
And he's not even the only one in his class who has done something like that.
The world is changing pretty drastically, pretty quickly. Trying to shoehorn the younger generations into traditional work culture is just a catastrophic failure waiting to happen.
Before you start ripping apart an entire generation, you might want to go look at some of the things that they're actually doing and asking yourself what you could be offering them that would compare.
You're always going to be able to find someone who needs a job badly enough that they will work a crap job for low pay. But they're not going to be the brightest, or the most reliable, or the hardest working. Those kids have already figured out a much better way. And they shouldn't be criticized for it.
Edited to add:
Just wanted to say that I'm fully aware that all youtubers don't make anywhere near what the kid from. Ryan's Toy Review makes. At one point he was the highest earning youtuber and certainly the highest earning youtuber that age. I just wanted those unaware of such things to see how crazy it is.
I just wanted to point out some non-traditional jobs out there that are available to literally anyone these days.
I've had to deal with this shit all year, until I found the staff that I have now. I recently let one particular 25 year old slug go. Dumb as a box of rocks, and the 16-17 year olds that worked next to him worked absolute circles around him while he sat on his fat ass and whined that everyone was mean to him, because he was expected to do his job without burning the fucking dish he was preparing, cleaning the kitchen at the end of the night, and even taking out the trash, which he "forgot" to do three different times. If he wasn't staring at his phone at Call of Duty videos while his fat rolls formed over the cart he sat on, his dishes wouldn't be burned. I had enough and finally told him to clock out and find a new job. The only reason we've had to keep these warm bodies around was due to the shortage of employees that we were experiencing. I luckily found a GREAT kid who convinced his equally great friends to come work for us, and I couldn't be happier. No millennials, professional victims, woke college students, or experienced but lazy whiny slugs will step foot in my kitchen ever again. I'd rather spend the money training kids whose family taught them a work ethic than deal with that shit again. It's a new experience for me, but serendipitous in a way, as I was ready to just give up chef life and go man a car wash somewhere.
I really think that there are some jobs, like being a chef, that people work because they're passionate about it. Not because it's the best way they can earn a living.
From the ones I've known it is one of those jobs you have to have a passion for or else it gets old fast.
All western nations are under serious EM radiation attack, intentionally.
Looking at the STATS ONLY OF FOR UNITED STATES FOR YEARS 2021 & 2022:
2021: total deaths: 3,385,364
2022: total deaths: 3,236,709
URL: https://deadorkicking.com/death-statistics/us/2022/
Look at bottom of page for comparative years vs deaths on right...
Thanks!
Looks like 400k more give or take from previous years
Thank you!
I dont work in hospitality or tourism or retail, I work in healthcare, and I have had no respite workers for 3 years. I am offering 20 dollars an hour for part time, 10 hr a week steady, and then some extra per diem. The few people who answered the add said that the job seemed too difficult for their experience, someone is coming over tonight. The job entails sitting as a companion with some help walking to the bathroom, and changing adult briefs, and feeding. Companionship meant talking to him about stuff he likes, nature, sports, news, he watches tv and dozes.The person would never be alone, its just to give me and my son two 5 hours a week to tend to other stuff or to just leave. I thought 20 an hour was good. All the stores, supermarket, pharmacy, larger stores, all with signs, McDonalds sign is always out. The small businesses are doing great though, they pay enough, and the youngsters around here would rather work in a small business than any corporate place. People hustle under the table work too though. There is a consciousness with the younger ones my sons age, that is very anticorporate, so that may be part of it. It is weird though. How are the big cities, same?
where are you located?
Well, I dont give that out, it doesn't matter, if you have an address, they know where you are and they can take a picture that shows enough detail. With the Google and Bing maps, you give a locale, and it lets you travel up the road, passing identifiable markers with pretty impressive zooming close ups, enough to know what your looking at. Vehicles, driveways, out buuildings, large piles of lumber, plowed land, large garden plots.
I relocated from very blue state in New England to a red state in the South and my experience so far…. 20+ years in restaurants/hospitality and I refused to go back post lockdown. They ruined the industry. Most successful food businesses have only a 3% profit margin, that was before inflation. It probably costs too much to keep the lights on. Lunch is more consistent in that the elderly lunch, workers lunch, lunch portions are more affordable and the time slot is smaller for maximum profit. When I moved here the scene was night and day so I pivoted. I was hired in a commission/sales job but quickly realized that industry, high end furniture, was great the year prior during the mass relocation Covid lockdowns caused but disposable income for what I was selling had all but dried up. I entered insurance, small company hired me and then laid me off 6mo later. They grew too quickly and profits weren’t there. Now I’m with a nationwide company and it took me 6 weeks of constant application filling. Every app takes a minimum of 30 mins to fill out because it’s all online. Retail and fast food opportunities? Minimum wage, part time hours (don’t want to pay insurance for full time) but those part time hours (2-3 days a week) were not set and constantly changed week to week so you can’t really stack two jobs. 3 interviews with one company that couldn’t pull the trigger until the new year started interviewing me in November and went weeks between following up. This is just my personal journey but it was not easy and very discouraging. I felt depressed and worthless. I couldn’t get a job a Hobby Lobbby “we get approximately 20 applications a week and we only start at 2, maybe 3 days a week” I heard that over and over again. It’s being done by design I have no doubt in my mind.
I got out of the donut business just before Covid. We were high end donut makes where most of our business was wholesale and event retail. At the time we charged $3.50 for an average filled donut. To make the same margins now, I would have to charge $8.00 for that same donut. The increases would be mostly attributed to eggs and butter skyrocketing prices. We'd have never made it through Covid anyway.
A couple pastry shops in Utah said the same thing. I considered selling some candies online, and looking at the prices for products I have made for the past 20 years, I just can't imagine that I could make it work.
$80 just to make 8lb of gift fudge (half my ingredients were 30%-50% off retail). A couple years ago it was under $30. Knowing what I do about wholesale prices of those same products, it would still be about $60 (before about $25-$35 depending on my volume).
I really like my traditions & neighbors 😊
We're lucky, as we're a "destination" restaurant, and have a built-in clientele. I don't think the place would have survived otherwise. We stay consistently busy, even with our higher prices, and I tweak product ordering constantly to assure that we aren't overbuying certain expensive and perishable ingredients that have limited use (eggs, milk, etc). I've dismissed the experienced, but extremely lazy slugs and woke college idiots and now only hire high school kids (limited dinner hours) with good work ethic, and it's paying off... for now. I do feel for those who couldn't adapt for one reason or another, and those places have become part of the ruined restaurant industry.
I’m a millennial. I have chosen to stay out of the rat race and “traditional career path” because I see that it’s a dead end, giving most of my life to companies that have no loyalty to me for 401k contributions that disappear at the first dip of the economy. I’m a nanny instead. It’s wonderful becoming part of another family and being someone they can trust their children with. Pay is great, I can bring my son with me, and it doesn’t feel like work. Everything is changing, I hope I’m ahead of the curve with the path I’m on.
I get it. I I work in the beer industry because it’s fun in rewarding. I don’t make much but I love my friends in the industry and I could never work a soulless corporate America job. I think it’s a little bit of A and B. People are in general lazier but can you really blame them? What award does modern America really have for men and particularly white men? Slave away for a corporation that also tells you that you are the problem?
That’s why men are dropping out in droves. You seem like a good woman but many women I see out there aren’t wife material and spend hours on tik tok.
We are just in collapse all around.
It’s worse. Were just paying attention. We will discover why John the Revelator was appalled when he saw our day.
It depends on your perspective. I have friends & fam who are now finally willing to listen to the research done post Musk Twitter releases & FTX crap.
I take the wins where I can get them & believe we will win in the end. God loved us so much he sent his only begotten son, and they both love me. I have been blessed tk have family not be coerced I to the jabs when almost every single personin the company was compelled to. God just lined it all up for our family & I am grateful. It has been difficult in other ways, though I am so glad we have been able to build up necessities & build good rapport with neighbors for when bad times come.
Find ways to make small wins & thank God for them, they are ready to come your way :D
Obviously there is no one reason that explains everything, and different areas will have different experiences.
But one big thing that I think many people don't realize is how many older people just said "Fuck it!" and retired early (or simply unplanned) during the pandemic.
Instead of dealing with HR demands to get vaxxed and masked, or because they were apprehensive about getting Covid themselves, or because they needed to help out family members who worked by taking care of their young children, or whatever reason, they just retired. And haven't gone back.
Remember that the Boomers are the largest generation. So when they retired, it opened up a hell of a lot of high and mid level jobs. So millions and millions of people upgraded their careers. So many of those jobs that are having difficulty finding hires are what's left over.
And once companies allowed employees to work remotely, it opened up another employment avenue that siphons off workers from retail and restaurants.
Then there are the non-traditional jobs that have come about mainly because of the pandemic. Personal grocery shoppers and errand runners are a couple of the most obvious.
I don't think it's necessarily that "no one wants to work anymore" than it is that the pandemic forced pretty much the entire population into re-examining what they're working for.
Priorities have changed. Personally, what I have noticed about many of the people I know is that they value their time and ability to do what they want, when they want more than they do having a large house, nicer cars, more stuff,etc...
I'm not saying they're slackers. They pay their bills, put money in savings, and are responsible human beings.
But they don't see the point in working to buy a bunch of stuff they don't want or need, and instead spend more time doing the things that are important to them.
Basically they've decided to stop being wage slaves. 🤷♀️
Edited to add: Take notice of the industries where employers are saying they can't find workers and that "no one wants to work anymore!".
It will be mostly restaurants, retail, and health care. These are some of the absolute shittiest jobs to have. Even before the pandemic, these industries were always looking for workers.
These are the jobs you get because you're either too young to know better and have no work experience (restaurants and retail) or because you want to help people (healthcare).
Those are the jobs that get ditched first when anything slightly better comes by.
And then look at age groups. To over simplify and over generalize it to the extreme;
Remember that Boomers were able to put themselves through college flipping burgers and are at the end of their working lives, and have the greatest freedom. They work because they want to and for socializing.
Xers paid for college with student loans and most have had things paid off for about 6 months now and are finally getting those better paying jobs Boomers are retiring from now.
Millineals paid for college with student loans that they're still paying off, along with hooking on the side, and the occasional sale of a kidney or other black market organ. They're delivering doordash and making YouTube videos.
Gen Z, well, bless your hearts, Gen Z. I really don't know what you're doing. But you'll probably be living with your GenX parents until they die.
I won't defend my industry/vocation (restaurant/chef), as you're mostly correct about the quality of staff that we must endure. Like everything else, though, it's all in what you put into it, and if you're lucky, you can separate the wheat from the cow shit and actually find bright people with a work ethic that is able to be encouraged by constant reinforcement and teaching/learning. In my case, it's high school kids, and I've run every dreg druggie, woke college moron, and whiny experienced slug out of my kitchen. I've always told every employer I've had that the first thing they must do is disregard the "title seeking" managers and look for those who have passion for what they do. The former types will always drag an operation into the mud, and will only seek C and D types ("warm bodies") to work for them.
You know things are bad when TACO FUCKING BELL closes at 8pm!!! Jack in the Crack also, 8pm!!! WTF 😒
I live in an uppity suburban hellscape -- families with plenty of kids that used to be out smoking joints hiding from their parents at night in their car in a fast food parking lot -- and despite the enormous quantity of restaurants and fast food places nearby, McDonald's and Popeye's and a decently shitty Thai place are the ONLY places open after 8pm.
And for places usually staffed by high schoolers -- now they're mostly staffed by recent college grads who majored in anything other than computer science.
I mean it's definitely a good thing all the kids aren't out smoking pot and driving around at night anymore! --- BUT WHERE DID THEY GO!?
I have a bad feeling they're just at home now instead --contemplating suicide and their devastated social life and lack of career prospects thanks to parents who don't really care if they're depressed and smoking pot at home so long as they're taking online college courses so they can feel like their parenting was a success.
I live in Missouri in a small town. My brother and I were discussing several months ago about how different places were short staffed. This was back in September when I was telling him. I went to our local bank drive through and there was a sign asking for patience as they were short staffed, never happened in 30+ years. I was at the Dr office and instead of going to the desk to make my follow-up appointment, I was asked if I wanted to do that by the medical assistant in the exam room, I asked why, she said they were short staffed, there were 2 other places but cannot remember now which ones. My brother said it's the same, all the fast food places by his work have hiring signs. We were talking and asking the same question, where did all the people go?
One of our favorite family owned restaurants cut down their hours after COVID to just breakfasts and now they are closed bc they couldn't find enough help.
Another place same thing... still open but cut back hours due to lack of help.
I ordered a couch and a chair for a room last March. They were custom made. They finally arrived last week.
I think things are gonna get much worse ...... I hope everyone has some extra food in their pantries for what is to come.
I got some nice Christmas letters from normie friends whose lives are going quite well and don't carry anything like the worries and burdens I carry.
I thank God that there are people doing well and that some of them happen to be my friends.
I know at least one of them is vaxxed but it has not slowed her down in the least. Hope it stays that way.
A lot of people have viewed the vax as THE ticket to freedom, and for the moment that is really difficult to refute..
Quick answer - Way worse.
Longer answer:
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Same happening in New Zealand. Supermarket shelves bare. Places shutting doors as they don't have the staff etc. Continued pressure on farmers from government (aka like the Netherlands farms) , Alot of us are preparing for the scarcity of food. Definitely the agenda at work. Our growers complained of masses of rotting fruit in peak harvest season as they had no workers. (During a time when scarcity of food was evident at shops and people struggling for money) I think with continued min wage and conditions rises forced on companies, its not viable for companies to employ staff. Its cheaper to shut the doors. All by design. They want the companies to fail
Someone on Patriots pointed out that things may seem to be getting worse, and in some instances, like the Vaxxed, they are, but pretty much the rest of it is either Orchestrated Shortages, and Situations, like Jobs, Food, etc....
BUT, mainly what is happening is that all those ""Conspiracies"", are finally being exposed, and those who are in them, are also being exposed, and this probably means lots of people in really high positions, so they create as much chaos as possible before being removed, like the DemonRats and RINOs just did in Congress....
So, what we are seeing, is like a 1/2 n 1/2 thing, 1/2 is just exposure, and the other is real Problems, yet I agree, we should've had some few good things come our way by now.....
The only thing you should be caring about is that corporate earning are at record highs and the CEOs of the Forbes list and the like, are all getting record bonuses. Look there first for where to fast your ire. Don't be fooled again.
The "gig economy" has some impact on the available workforce. There are plenty of hard working people earning a decent living without having a boss or set hours.
That certainly doesn't explain all of it though. It's weird. No one has money, but hardly anyone seems to be working or wants to work.
I've heard a theory that these businesses are Collecting pandemic funds because there is a worker shortage but the facts are they are not really hiring, just collecting the money and getting us used to being served by less staff/machines.
Here are my thoughts on this… I think it is a “perfect storm”
The labor force has dropped because people have had less kids the last few decades. That demographic is coming of age just as boomers are starting to retire (which then went into overdrive with Covid). Another side effect of the plandemic was that many people decided they could work for themselves. Transportation companies lost a lot of drivers to UBER for example.
Add to that the clot-shot illnesses which has taken even more out of the work force.
My husband’s company was offering four times minimum wage for entry level positions in Georgia where the cost of living is not very high. It got so bad at one point they were hiring people over the phone, anyone who would work was hired. Some had to be let go, because there were a lot of issues. Things have started getting better hiring-wise, but it is because Biden’s awful economy has driven people out of retirement back into the work force.
A major destination that leads the country in population loss to the point of losing congressional seats in 2020?
It is difficult for me to read a screen, not that I can't see but I do miss some information in the text. I did not see that you mentioned the region of the US you live in or even the state. Can you advise where this is happening? I live in Maryland and the businesses do have some employee hiring issues so their business is affected by this. Overall things are different, but not too bad at this time. I believe you mentioned the tourist area--most places have some tourist areas but that didn't give me any clues either. Just curious.
Post vaxx illnesses have decimated the working population
Lotta people dead. They covered it with the work from home stff and claimed people refusing to return to work when they're actually dead.
The Taco Bell by me closes at 7. Most restaurants do with the exception of a local fast food chain, which closes at 10. Most everywhere is hiring and not getting the staff needed. The Wendy's nearby is known for being understaffed and it takes a long time to get food there. I prefer keeping my dollars local as much as possible, so I go to the local chain for better-quality food at higher prices, but it's worth it.
Most of the illegals are in the county north of mine, so I can't speak to that as well anymore. What I can say is my old neighborhood has gone to hell with the high influx of illegals.
If you'd quit watching their circuses you wouldn't even know about this drag story hour. I'm not sure it exists but if it does it is t effecting me and I can't control it, so I'm giving my attention to something else that equals a good life. Usually just family. Those drag stories aren't gonna hurt my family any. Same with the jobs report. Turn of the news. Fake or otherwise. It's a cheery time of year and it's wonderful to be alive. Look for love. Make some.
Ignoring it is how it got to this point in the first place.