As a New York resident, I have witnessed lots of changes in our lives and the impact of neoliberalism on our lives ever since the outbreak of the pandemic. A pandemic causes labor shortages and a partial break in the production chain, which ultimately affects our daily lives. Empty shelves in grocery stores and soaring prices show us the changes and difficulties the pandemic has brought to our lives. The cost of living for many people has also increased. This is a kind of neoliberalism brought about by the impact of change. The scarcity of goods led to the increase in Costco, such as the shortage of paper towels at Costco. The price of vegetables in the supermarket. Originally, a couple hundred dollars could buy the necessities. Now we need to pay three or four hundred dollars to buy them. My friend once tried to buy a table from IKEA that met her requirements, but due to the pandemic, the table was out of stock, customs shipments slowed down, overseas products took a lot of time to get to the US, and prices went up. Therefore, it took her longer to wait and cost her more money to buy what she wanted. The cost of living has increased so that those of us living in New York who are affected by the epidemic are feeling the pressure from prices. The government is choosing to subsidize people in the face of their plight, such as the $1,400 subsidy, the amount of subsidy people will receive from things like the 1099g form, etc. This reminds me of Dickinson’s text about how the government is discriminating against poor people for graffiti problems on trains. The government doesn’t want to deal with the aesthetics of the trains, but the graffiti makes them have to deal with the trains, which is the same as the pandemic issue.
