Please excuse my absolute understanding of the aggression this idea may cause. Just curious how many people consider this.

Getting your first place has been brutally difficult for my entire adult life but there is no question it’s become materially harder post Covid/lockdowns.

I, like everyone else, am saddened by the difficulty facing younger people starting out.

But during Covid it was plainly obvious to me this was going to happen. And whenever I said anything, I was shouted down as though my thought process was literal murder.

Shutting down the economy whilst printing money with abandon was always going to debase the currency, raise asset prices without wages keeping up, reduce living standards, cause problematic inflation and all sorts of societal issues.

My opinion at the time, was that the measures would cause far more pain that the virus could manage on its worst day.

I do know people who died of COVID, so I’m not dismissing it. But just saying my opinion is that just about worldwide, the measures used to mitigate it were blatantly always going to cause more harm than they protected against.

I strongly agree with that sentiment now.

I’m just wondering how many people who were aggressive in their support of those measures, that now find themselves struggling with cost of living pressures, priced out of the home they would have otherwise been able to afford and so on, understand that connection and then how they actually feel about all of that now?