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Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains for nearly 75% of U.S. companies

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Re: Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains for nearly 75% of U.S. companies

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Post by czinck »

b34r wrote: post #8

I hope it doesn’t screw up our food supply too much. We get a surprising amount of crops from China and the rest of the world.

Part of the reason for the ridiculous corn subsidies is so if the whole rest of the world ends, the US will still have enough food. We'll have to stop eating some specific foods (like we export chicken dark meat to China and they send the breast meat to us), but in terms of overall calories the US will be fine. Domestic distribution is a bigger worry, quarantines or just plain shops shutting down.

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Post by acoderhasnoname »

dumbfoundded wrote: post #18

This has happened to my company and a few others I know. We have about $15K of packaging stuck in China. If this is doing anything (to me personally), it's making me reconsider shifting more of the supply-chain to the US. In many cases, the prices aren't really that different.

Very soon we will beg them to sell supplies to us

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Post by barbecue_sauce »

youngprogrammer wrote: post #20
Normal_gaussian wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

5b is a lot. A large quantity of imports will be used to make US domestic food as well. The exported good is not the same as the imported one.

Anecdote: Our caterer in silicon valley said there was a supply issue for tofu.

So I guess they import the beans, manufacture the tofu, then ship it back to us? Sounds inefficient, though I'm not sure how much demand there is for a large-scale domestic tofu manufacturing industry in the US.

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Post by mitchty »

wcoenen wrote: post #28
listsfrin wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I waited a whole month for a Macbook Pro with 256 RAM. Before the "crisis". The apocalypse is near.

But the maximum is 64GB RAM? https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/

It is now yep! 32GiB was the prior max.

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Post by octonion »

hardtokill wrote: post #25

We really need to get our factories out of China. This is a country that hid the coronavirus case for 2-3 weeks, let 5 million Wuhan residents leave the city, doctored numbers, then most recently had government press try to spin the disease as if it didn’t come out of Wuhan, but rather somewhere other countries!! And they are actively Forcing uigher population into crippled factories in eastern China to replace migra…

The US is literally doing the exact same thing right now.

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Post by azinman2 »

core-questions wrote: post #29
azinman2 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which will lead to massive layoffs, starting with the most vulnerable (small businesses, hourly workers, etc)

Which will lead to an explosion of available labour, ready for hiring when things pick back up. The issue is whether governments will step in to provide sufficient unemployment / welfare benefits to bridge the gap.

Ahh yes, the benefits of mass unemployment and businesses shuttering!

Always look on the bright side of life!

https://youtu.be/SJUhlRoBL8M

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Post by christiansakai »

brink wrote: post #2

On the bright side, a disruption in supply may teach us what we really need, and what we don't need. Maybe after this breakout we'll realize the importance of slowing down, consuming less, and resting more.

I'm not sure why are you down-voted. I think slowing down, consuming less, is generally good for the whole Earth and its inhabitants.

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Post by BacioiuC »

bart_spoon wrote: post #30
BacioiuC wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know the flu shot is not going to help right? Different virus.

It helps people not get severe cases of the flu, which means fewer healthcare resources, like hospital beds and medical personnel, being devoted to severe flu cases and more can be devoted to severe coronavirus cases.

In this regard, you are right, sorry.

I'm just tired of hearing people around me going "I had my shots, I'm going to that party / going to that event" or "It's just a flu, nothing to worry about".

Re: Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains for nearly 75% of U.S. companies

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Post by throw20190125 »

bdcravens wrote: post #7

I had a phone stolen a couple of weeks ago, and initially I was trying to buy a new phone outright (ended up filing a claim and having my new one overnighted, but lack of SMS access would have prevented me from doing my job, hence the urgency). None of the local Verizon stores had any phones (11 Pro Max) in stock (they explicitly said it was due to China supply chain), but Best Buy did.

I have nothing against you, but I wish more people would get burn by the sms 2fa without backup/alternatives.

Maybe at some point we will realize that it's a terrible idea.

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