Outdoornews March 2, 2021 Boat showrooms went from full (inset, top left) to empty during the pandemic. (Photo by Mike Schoonveld) Future Americans will likely look back at the year 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic as a historical blip; the same way people now look back at the Spanish Flu, the Roaring ‘20s, the Great Depression, even the Counterculture era of the 1960s. Much of the story will be the actual human suffering and loss due to COVID-19, but there are many other facets of what transpired last year likely to be at least noteworthy footnotes. One of those was the widespread shortages for products seemingly unrelated to anything health or pandemic related. Why would a pandemic cause a shortage of toilet paper? Why should it cause a glut of meat products at the grocery store while many Campbell’s soup flavors were missing?