In the first week of April earlier last year, the US Boba Guys bubble tea franchise had announced an official industry-wide boba shortage. This shortage of the newly popular drink topping is an indicator of something way bigger than influencers not being able to show off their choice of boba tea over Starbucks. It shows just how vastly COVID-19 has impacted and slowed down our world economy.

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