You mentioned store shelves OP but to elaborate on that keep in mind that in the early freakout days of covid they were dumping milk down the drain, burying vegetables in mounds, and culling livestock and leaving them to rot because of everything being shut down.

It's a manufactured famine certainly but that doesn't change the fact that it should still be becoming apparent any time now.

Either way this election stuff goes there's going to be chaos. Something else to factor in. Not to mention whether the DNC and their handlers will be doing something huge to distract from the election corruption or not.

We are entering a dog eat dog period here I feel like. Maintain friendly relationships with your neighbors because you may end up needing each other before it's all over.