Then I saw a story where one piece of plywood now costs $55. Not to mention there is a shortage of microchips across the board, which means multiple automobile manufacturing plants have had to shut down operations. This is driving up the cost of new vehicles and their availability. It is a great time to sell your car — unless you then need to go buy another one!
I recently saw a guy stocking Coca-Cola products and I asked him what happened to all the root beer products? He in turn, with nary a smile, responded, “the coronavirus.” When I got home, I then informed my wife that her diet root beer would not be forthcoming because the ship, the Ever Given, which was stuck in the Suez Canal with 20,000 cases of root beer on it, was the culprit (which is something I made up).
There are many more things, swabs for medical lab processes for instance (unrelated to COVID-19 testing), that are in short supply too.