Another win for Joe Biden!
Supply chain disruptions forcing Americans to search far and wide for essential products like baby formula continue to hamstring the availability of an important, yet perhaps unsuspecting feminine hygiene product: tampons.
A shortage of the item, while perhaps surprising for many Americans, is the latest product that is hard to come by on grocery store shelves due to lagging supply coming out of the pandemic, thanks to everything from staffing issues to a limited supply of the cotton and plastic materials used in the product.
Proctor & Gamble, the owner of the Tampax brand, says the crisis is due to the most unpopular comedian ever, Amy Schumer, who is apparently SO beloved that women just LOVED her Tampax commercials 2 years ago and can't WAIT to get their hands on products that deal with the most uncomfortable part of their month.
Time Magazine writer Alana Semuels was also a bit suspicious.
But I find it a little hard to pin the tampon shortage on Amy Schumer. Who watches commercials anymore? And even if the Tampax ads were a hit, that explanation doesn't account for why other brands of tampons, including Playtex and o.b., were also out of stock.
Women across the country have been noticing diminishing supplies for months – another great peak into what happens when big government tries to suppress the free market, whether that all-out commie collectivization or pointless health lockdowns.
Tucked away on a forum for DC-area moms, I found dozens of women complaining in April about not being able to find tampons. A similar discussion was happening on Reddit, where one poster said she checked eight stores looking for her preferred brand. Amazon sellers were taking advantage of the shortage; in January, one box of 18 Tampax listed for $114, about six dollars more—per tampon—than women usually pay.
"To put it bluntly, tampons are next to impossible to find," says Michelle Wolfe, a radio host in Bozeman, Montana, who wrote a piece on her radio station's website in March about not being able to find tampons in Montana. "I would say it's been like this for a solid six months."
The price of such products is also increasing thanks to Bidenflation.
Prices for sexual health products were up just 4.1%, and prices for oral hygiene goods rose 4.3%. Products made of cotton have not experienced as steep a price growth. Cotton balls are up 8.2% over the year, and gauze pads are up 7.8%, the Nielsen data shows.
I know it's Pride month, but hear me out, wokies: Maybe we should ration those feminine products by not placing them in men's restrooms!
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