I’ve seen stories about other countries beginning to implement work from home, mandating places shut down by a certain time, etc. Would the US government start doing similar things out of necessity? I imagine things getting more expensive will do that naturally but probably not to the levels needed if oil goes to $200. Can’t imagine the current admin jumping to enforce anything that looks like a Covid shutdown though. Just curious what people here think, because it seems like it’s going to get tight sooner rather than later.
For what it’s worth, Trump had very little to do with it. The thing which suddenly made Covid a reality for Americans was the NBA cancelling basketball season. This was the singular event which caused people to treat it like a proper American crisis by running to the grocery store to fill their entire shopping cart with canned tuna and sacks of flour immediately before stocking up on ammunition.
The funny thing is it was similar in Canada, with the cancellation of the NHL season at about the same time.