My son works for a national building materials company. The shortages are real. Drywall mud was hard to find, as the resin used to produce it was not being made. The plant in Texas was damaged in the freeze. Our deck ended up using Trex as it was cheaper. The huge houses here in KY are using up a lot of products.
The shortages are real because they are manufactured. it’s for EVERYTHING. Like condiments, or lumber, or paper bags, or gasoline disruption. GOAL: INFLATION: REASON: If you are capital/goods rich, your relative wealth rises. Those who are not sink lower into serfdom. Also, easier for the Gov to overprint money.
I won’t debate you since I am calling what I actually see. I just went by the lumber yard today an it is completely stocked.
I did not look at or for drywall. They dig gypsum up with bulldozers here in NW Oklahoma. If the giverment would end the unemployment extensions and subsidy the product would be made.