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welcome to the cotkey ride home for thursday, September 10th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

The big underlying reason why so many items were tough to find at the start of the pandemic

and why some may still be for a long time to come. The sea anemones who grow extra tentacles when they eat too much.

The psychological makeup of mountain dwellers in the U.S.

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today. So I've talked a few times about the various shortages we've faced since the pandemic

began, from hand sanitizer and toilet paper to fireworks and home gym equipment. A lot of the shortages

were due to unprecedented demand, of course,

often combined with interruptions to the supply chain, especially in the case of items that rely

on one or more elements being produced in Chinese factories, which shut down before our demand

here in the U.S. really picked up. But it turns out there's another underlying reason why several

items continue to be difficult to stock right now. Packaging. Cardboard boxes for pastas and

cereals, paper bags for flour, the plastic canisters for disinfectant wipes, cans for beer. Like with

the initial toilet paper shortage, part of the problem

lies in the migration of half of the jobs in the U.S. from offices to homes and the closure of

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