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no bull and the aftermath.

COVID has disrupted the ability of some of them to work.

Some of them have gotten sick.

Vaccine mandates have disrupted some of the hiring process at Port of Los Angeles.

In simultaneously, David, there's a second thing going on because everything got fouled

up in the spring of 2021, mainly by COVID.

The fact that you had usually had an equal number of ships take the example of the United

States, equal number of ships sailing toward the United States, equaled by the number of

ships leaving the United States and going back to Asia or Europe, that got all followed

up.

Right now they're all coming toward the United States.

There aren't ships going back in the opposite direction and that has caused a traffic

jam that you see off Southern California of giant ships waiting their turn to unload.

I'm David Prius and this is the LawFair podcast, October 22nd, 2021.

Ports in many countries are experiencing congestion.

For weeks now, there have been reports that there will be delays in many common products

and people are wondering what is causing this and how can it end.

I invited into the virtual jungle studio Greg Easterbrook, who is a former fellow in economics

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