Four Week Delay to Normality

Yeah it is very much that at the moment. As I said above, it's not just shipping but suppliers in general are a big issue.

I have actually read a report in the last week that said manufacturing output is forecast to grow by 8.5% in 2021, 4.5% in 2022 and 2.0% in 2023. Although trade has been affected as it is expected that there will be a decline in exports to the EU and from the EU.

In comparison to what timeframe though ? YoY? If so it’s not a big surprise.

Arranged shipping for a manufacturer of machinery. Delivering to 10 farms, they would have had to do 20 customs declarations.

Got them to import to themselves with one invoice, and distributed outward. saved them a shedload of money, about £1000.

When you consider the cost of shipping was £1800 anyway, it’s a big saving.

Yes it is year on year, undoubtedly the pandemic has had an effect on that though.

That is a fair sum of money saved just from that really as well. Good for the profit margins at least.

''Exactly this. Currency debasement can't continue indefinitely, the monetary system has been on life support for over a decade.
The Scamdemic gave the Rulers of the Universe on Wall Street enough reason to pump in another $10 trillion, but it's only a matter of time now before the whole house of cards collapses.''
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This.
Fiat-currencies always fail and we've been witnessing the final throes of the current system since the financial crisis of 07/08.
The more they print the more the currency is devalued. The more the currency is devalued the more they have to print. It's inherent in ALL fiat-currencies and the end is always the same, it dies. Don't be fooled, the massive expansion of the current money-supply (inflation) was coming, Covid or no Covid.
Things are set to get tougher for a long while yet.

comment by JustYourAverageFan (U21016)
posted 3 hours, 59 minutes ago
This isn't a result of just Covid though, this is also in part down to Brexit as well, as it's now nearly farcical to get things in and out via export because of Brexit. The extra costs and paperwork is ridiculous for some of the goods we end up bringing across.
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Little to do with Brexit. This is a global problem.

Oh and as for ''normality'', forget that, it's gone.

Yes, it is a global issue, but it is also arguably a bigger problem in the UK and the rest of Europe. I wouldn't say it's little to do with Brexit, that has created mass paperwork and costs for importing and exporting externally that are near unnecessary in the grand scheme of things.

As for normality, if depends what you class as "normal". If people believe that in four weeks time (presumably) that things will return to how it was 18 months ago then they will be surprised, because it won't.

comment by Alisson Becker, Liverpool's Number 9 (U3979)
posted 4 hours, 41 minutes ago
comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 3 minutes ago
It's going to rumble on indefinitely, we are allowing too much spread before people are vaccinated.

By the government's own figures/research two jabs of AZ is only 60% effective against delta (although that might be outdated now) and every time it jumps to another person there's a chance that it will mutate again, especially to get around existing immunity in its host.

At 60% efficacy you cannot achieve her immunity, even if everyone has two shots.

If this carries on at its current trajectory we won't be out and about till we have had a booster, and a new hybridised version will be around by then too.

The current death rate seems lowish at 43 for 10k "completed" cases, but only half were unvaccinated, if we use that rate as a benchmark to allow spread we are kicking a potentially very deadly can down the road.

If the increased mortality and vaccine evasion of Beta was to hybridise with the 60% increase transmission of Delta, which are both present here, along with the Alpha variant we could be in big trouble.

The more leaps person to person, the more mutations, the less effective the vaccines, the deadlier it will be, the worse we have to lockdown again.

I categorically want no further lockdowns, but not at the expense of people's lives, so we need to get it right, and ensure reasonable restrictions are maintained untill our bodies have a catalogue of antibodies to fight these mutations.
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Trouble is, the impact on people has been absolutely enormous. I'd love to know the number of businesses lost to covid, it'll be an absolutely enormous number and we will be paying this off for generations.

It simply isn't working to just keep life on hold just hope that maybe the vaccine works.

Also 60% efficacy for the AZ vaccine against the Indian variant is not something I've read anywhere, any evidence to support that?
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-57214596.amp

So once again those frauds presented percentage increases rather than numbers for full effect because the numbers are so low.
With so many innumerate, thick or gullible fools around lapping this sh*t up and complying they continually get away with it.

The only issue with goods I’ve imported, has come from China. Shipping containers were all used up for COVID PPE and now issues due to that f’kin ship getting turned round. All my exports to Europe haven’t changed, just messed up my January, die to the late, complicated and confused government deal. My export to thr EU is thriving. I work in Farming.