Of course the shortage is manufactured, and even small farms and peoples personal chickens have been laying less due to changes in the feed. Culling of flocks over FAKE bird flu, causing massive egg shortage,.
Flu vaccines as well as other traditional vaccines are created in EGGS, and if there is a shortage of eggs than there is a problem, and they will come up with the solution.
mRNA Flu vaccines for everyone for now on, heck mRNA vaccines for ALL traditional vaccines that used EGGS.
THIS is their plan! I bet.
I'm not doubting what you are seeing at your local stores - my local stores are PACKED with eggs - why would that be? From my observations, from what I can see with my own eyes - there is no shortage of eggs local to where I am. I understand the difference in time between raising chickens for slaughter and raising egg laying hens - I even stated the time it takes for them to start laying eggs (18 weeks) and when the peak of the flock destruction occurred. Was I incorrect in those times?
Also when you consider how long it takes a chick to start laying an egg, you have to scale that up to the millions and millions of chickens we lost last year. So we take the few we have left, use their eggs to hatch more chickens so they can grow up and lay eggs, and do this over and over until those numbers are replenished. I imagine eggs will be expensive for a while. It's going to take several rounds of chickens being raised up until we replace the tens of millions we lost and are back at egg layer capacity, producing the number of eggs we were able to before all this started. This kind of scaling doesn't happen in 18 weeks.
You used the time frame of the bird flu but I'm talking about all the places that were set on fire. This has been going on non stop. Someone is going around burning down food production facilities, from grain storage to hen houses. And I just saw someone posted a story here today, another 100,000 chickens dead in a fire... it just keeps happening, there seems to be an agenda here. https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-bozrah-farm-fire-20230129-cvpyvoueb5cpvpfvw2viuh3w6e-story.html
As far as eggs on your shelf, that's great, the people in your area probably just aren't buying them because of the inflated prices. Eggs aren't exactly a necessity. The shortage isn't localized, it's nationwide. Local farms will still have eggs. Backyard chicken keepers (like myself) still have eggs. But the cheap eggs at the stores are in shortage and not everyone wants to pay tipple or more the cost so it doesn't surprise me if some shelves aren't completely empty.