So I'm curious about something, OP. Here in the red areas of the country, when people stopped wearing masks we pretty much left the maskers alone. You report seeing maskers get mocked. Is that kind of disdain for maskers common among the unmasked where you are? I'm wondering if blue-state recently-unmasked are turning out to be less tolerant than the red-state ones.
SQL is nerve-racking. My preferred trick:
SELECT * FROM Person
--DELETE FROM Person
WHERE Name = 'Soros'
Run it to see what you will delete. Select from DELETE to Soros when you're ready to execute. Works for updates too.
As I understand it, it's not a general microchip shortage. It's a shortage of a specific chip, which is used in graphical displays. Of course, that trickles down to all sorts of products, from cars to TVs and monitors to phones.
This shortage appears to have been triggered by the shift to remote work with the COVID scam. A whole lotta people have bought a whole lotta gear with displays to make that shift happen. As a result, this specific chip ran out.
It's as if the world were out of 13 mm bolts. That would halt production on a LOT of stuff, but it would be inaccurate to say that there was a bolt shortage.
1827 might have been the start of the infiltration. It's safe to assume it took a couple of decades for that infiltration to metastasize into control.