Top Economists Warn New Covid Lockdowns to Cause Food Shortages, Even More Inflation

Via AAN:

Top economists are now warning of the truly dire consequences another round of forced lockdowns could have on the US economy.

As The Daily Wire reports:

Agricultural economist Damian Mason is warning that renewed COVID-19 shutdowns will cause higher food prices and a wave of shortages.

“The food processing facilities will really be pushing it because they are already under capacity because they can’t get workers,” Mason, who also owns a farm in Indiana, told Fox Business. “Omicron implications will limit capacity that is already limited and will increase prices due to curtailing supply and may even put a fear jolt into grocery availability (again). The worst thing would be government imposed shutdowns of the facilities because it would spike shortages.”

Mason discussed the threat of “Regu-flation” — defined to the outlet as “when increased operational and production costs, imposed by expanded government regulation, combine with already rampant inflation in the marketplace.”

“The same government that told you food inflation was a mere 5.4% despite evidence to the contrary also told you the pain you’re feeling at the grocery checkout is ‘transitory,’ or temporary,” Mason added. “It’s not. Food prices will continue to accelerate and are likely to outpace the rate of overall inflation due to the reasons I’ve outlined above, none of which are going away. Welcome to the era of ‘Regu-flation,’ where rules and policy make it more expensive to eat.”

The latest data indicates that inflation grew by 6.8 percent in November, the fastest rate in almost forty years.