Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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For some more positive news: Humble Bundle has opened a truly massive Bundle with tons of games, books and comics (as they say, $1071 worth of books and games), and all the income goes to medical organisations combating this pandemic. You're in for the low, low price of $28, but I really suggest to be a bit more generous if you can afford it.

https://www.humblebundle.com/conquer-covid19-bundle?linkID=&mcID=102:5e837d9134821f6fea4b8667:ot:56d85006733462ca8955e57e:1&utm_source=Humble+Bundle+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020_03_31_conquercovid_bundle&linkID=&utm_content=hero_image

John2290 said:
Any ideas lads as to why I'm paying morr for shopping? Everything produced inside ireland is the same price, hasn't changed but I piad two euro more for a bottle of a 500ml aloe vera drink made in South Korea, I didn't realize until I checked the reciepts today, among a few other items that are up a few cents but not to that degree. Is this just Supply demmand (I'm leaning towards right now cause some items are down in price) or is it from some effect of the boarders? Or just a few companies taking advantage? Inflation surely won't start for a few months down the road, right...

Probably because in the past, passenger airplanes also transported large amounts of other stuff in their trunks. Since those planes are not flying anymore, the pure cargo airlines have to take over, and there ain't too many of those left. As a result, the cargo airlines are overburdened, both with having urgent medical deliveries and then having to fly all the stuff passenger airlines where flying on top of that and their usual transports, resulting in a lot of extra flights which with passenger planes had otherwise been done anyway.