There’s no capacity for a Plan B here. For normal people the Second Great Depression began a year or two ago. The county foodbank is so overwhelmed that they now restrict access to county residents, with residents of two red states driving cross-border just to pick through the scraps of our grocers. The only private foodbank employs three people and the line outside of it during its sporadic distribution hours was an hour long last year. Food not Bombs is the only mutual aid effort and it’s so disorganised that it’s bring-your-own-everything three times per week to distribute individual meals. My grocery bill has increased maybe 50% over the past five years while my wage has remained what was unaffordable in 2020, with the local labour market being hit by multiple mass layoffs and hiring freezes at the same time.

They really underestimate how much this is going to break the system.