Inflation has been a constant for most of history. Prices either go up slowly or quickly, but they nearly always go up. During the Depression, prices went down, making the prices of food unable to cover the past cost of producing it. So deflation is even worse, which is why farms went broke back then.
Strange that prices soared after the Biden gang put the brakes on energy production and wasted money on the green energy scam. Trump’s “stimulus” checks added to the deficit, but I believe there really was a popular demand for them. In general, the lockdowns were the wrong idea, but few were wise enough to see that.