I posted a little while ago about the crisis regarding a shortage of truck drivers in the UK, & asking me to go back

All I can say is I have a clean licence, time motivation, essential experience, am old enough, and have opportunity. I just don't have the stupid [EU legacy nonsense] CPC card (the one that lets you use the licence, that lets you use your driving licence - yep, that one)

I contacted some haulage firms, as did a friend of a friend, all of whom are DESPERATE for drivers.

But, it seems, that hauliers aren't interested in people like me. You know, over 25 years old, more than 2 years experience, and with a clean licence, and the opportunity to help the nation out during this crisis. I didn't even get replies from the ones I either phoned and had a telephone conversation with, or wrote to.

Can you think of any other situations recently where the government and media may have, similarly, magnified a real, but 'overcomeable' problem, into a global crisis?