Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains for nearly 75% of U.S. companies
This is the cruel and predictable result of a society that has meticulously and senselessly offshored/outsourced most its industrial capacity. If your country can't manufacture, <i>from raw materials</i>, all the electrical/electronic/mechanical components, the tooling, the equipment, and the chemicals (industrial and pharmaceutical alike) it needs to keep everything running, you're dependent on these hyper-fragile and convoluted supply chains that are optimized for cost above everything.<p>This isn't a "China vs US" thing; i bear zero ill will towards China and their massive gain of industrial capacity, my ire is <i>solely</i> focused towards those in power (government and industry alike) who presided over the suicidal deindustrialization of the United States and Europe.<p>The net result is that it's China who's able to send medical aid (ventilators, masks, respirators, test kits, etc) to Italy, and not the US, if only because the US is incapable of meeting its own needs: <a href="https://twitter.com/VKJudit/status/1237448125800988675" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/VKJudit/status/1237448125800988675</a>