OK. I’m tired of the emotional reasoning, so I went to the CDC’s website and sorted through the data myself. Here are the cold, hard facts as of 9/4/21.
TOTAL CASES (US): 40,048,255
TOTAL DEATHS (US): 643,858
We’re a family of 6.
Man, woman, two teen boys, one teen girl, one preteen girl.
Some examples of how much it costs:
Subway/Chipotle- $70+
Macdonald’s- $60+
Pizza Joint- $100+
Bar style- $130
Outback- $200+
Bi-monthly Sam’s Club- $700+
Monthly groceries- $700
Movie- $120
Don’t get me wrong, we could make cuts and we chose to have (by today’s standards) a large family.
But there’s no doubt that in about a 3 year period, everything has gone up so much that a middle to upper middle class families are pinching pennies for normal lifestyles.
This doesn’t even touch on utilities and gas, compared to even just 3 years ago.
Got a kid turning 16? Wait until you see the prices on cars with 150k-200k miles on them. And don’t even get me started on insurance.
I don’t understand how anyone short of millionaires don’t throw their shoe at the TV when they see Biden claim “the economy is strong!”
“Don’t believe your own lying eyes”, I guess is the phrase.