Do you remember comments about the"hollow-ing out" of the US and North American economies? At the time my mind was elsewhere so I didn't pay enough attention to that until the linked article brought that back to me as a cricket bat to the head... It also was entirely predicted if we had been paying attention to things like this:
"Why was this permitted to happen? Well besides the obvious...
LEAKED!!! CANADA'S FRIGHTENING PLAN FOR LOCKDOWNS / RESET / INDEFINITE ISOLATION OF REFUSERS SET IN MOTION FOR 2021!!!
No guarantees and I dont know if any of this is true, but I think this would fit into "Operation Lockstep":
https://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message4551385/pg1?c1=1&c2=1&disclaimer=Continue
Here a copy, just in case it "disappears":...