I get what you’re saying. This is how it has been in my country, the price of things has been very high. It’s even hard for people to afford food to eat these days, because when you go to the market to buy food to cook, you will notice that everything has increased in price. So everyone is just trying to manage with the little they have.
I do ask myself this same question, whether the price of things will get better anytime soon, because it’s really bad. I am not happy with the situation this COVID-19 left us in, and nobody is happy about that, looking at how worse things has gotten.
I see the OP is not used to replying or responding to anything in the thread he started and maybe it could be left out. While I also don't see it answer anything in this thread after it's published. So I think there will be a lot of answers that might not be useful to him even though behind the scene he can read each one of them when he doesn't respond to anything here.
The government is not even doing anything about it, they don’t care about the people.
Maybe this situation is not only happening in your country because almost all countries are experiencing the same situation. Even in my country the government has proposed taxing basic need, education, health and even services. I think there are pros and cons to the government's effort to improve the country's economy because at the same time people continue to feel the impact.