I truly had no idea that it's been like this in rural America for months now. I had heard about supply chain issues, of course, and seen how it impacted small things, like the number of offerings on local restaurants' menus. I'd seen some press coverage about the cream cheese shortage, and heard Kraft was offering people coupons in return for them *not* making holiday cheesecakes. But every time this matter is discussed, it's almost as a novelty, not a pervasive issue that is leaving tons of families and individuals out in rural areas without access to quality protein and other staples. It's amazing how much suffering and lack our culture will just ignore, and treat as unremarkable -- and it does help remind me that some of the feelings even conservative people in rural areas have toward city-dwellers are not entirely unfounded, even if the ideology behind it is not what I would agree with. Our governments really do not care about people living in small towns or outside of towns at all -- our infrastructure is crumbling, large corporations have no reason to care about providing access to small communities, and the big, bloated centers of industry that are getting by okay right now (omicron numbers aside, and that's a big aside) couldn't care less. Thank you for bringing attention to this -- I hope policymakers and the press start taking this seriously, though I doubt they will sadly...