stock_observer_77, Look at what you have just said.
"Problem is people don’t really pay attention to the inflation number"
Where the fact is that experts and others have been paying attention to the inflation number for years. And still are. That's clear from all the chat going on about it.
So who are your "people.?" Then your "Unemployment, GDP, inflation numbers etc mean little to most people."
Oh, so you mean "to most people" other than you. How many of those most people of yours have you spoken to. How many housewives don't notice prices rising?
"The economy shutdown worldwide was hurtful and its effects are still to be determined IMO"
Of course any economy shutdown is hurtful to most all. Like the sun rises every morning. Of course the 614,730 .. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ .. Americans now dead from covid, and their families and friends, were hurt by an absence of lock-down too.
Those who were fatally hurt, by the uncaring, irresponsibility of Trump and his fellow conservatives who poo-pooed the wearing of masks, and still do, don't give a fuck any more. But their families and friends, who still care about inflation, still give a fuck about other things too.