What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?

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Post by CalChris » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:45 PM UTC

What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?
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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 6:53 PM UTC

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Post by Spivak » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 7:02 PM UTC

While this answers the question of why we couldn't respond to the bottlenecks, I guess I'm still missing the piece of what caused them in the first place. Like sure, "this silly little global pandemic thing" but it's not really an enlightening answer without more detail as to what the pandemic caused that shocked the system.

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Post by spookthesunset » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 7:02 PM UTC

Or maybe attempting to shut down large swaths of world economy for an indefinite amount of time wasn’t such a good idea? In the timescale of months to years all business becomes “essential”. Sure shut it down for “just two weeks” but a year or more?

What did people think would happen?

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Post by 1970-01-01 » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 7:06 PM UTC

Alternate: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1453753924960219145

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Post by rdiddly » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 7:08 PM UTC

1970-01-01 wrote: post #5

Alternate: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1453753924960219145

Thanks, I hate when people try to blog on Twitter.

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Post by thedogeye » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 7:08 PM UTC

Spivak wrote: post #3

While this answers the question of why we couldn't respond to the bottlenecks, I guess I'm still missing the piece of what caused them in the first place. Like sure, "this silly little global pandemic thing" but it's not really an enlightening answer without more detail as to what the pandemic caused that shocked the system.

People were locked down so they stopped spending money on services (hotels, restaurants, travel, massage, etc) and instead bought more goods. This happened at the same time governments printed trillions and pumped it into the hands of consumers and businesses. The result was a 20% surge in container volumes, which our supply chain infra just wasn't ready for.

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Post by hoppyhoppy2 » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 7:08 PM UTC

spookthesunset wrote: post #4

Or maybe attempting to shut down large swaths of world economy for an indefinite amount of time wasn’t such a good idea? In the timescale of months to years all business becomes “essential”. Sure shut it down for “just two weeks” but a year or more? What did people think would happen?

>What did people think would happen?

We thought that if we didn't do that we'd run a very real risk of the entire healthcare system collapsing. We were trying to "flatten the curve" so that hospitals could deal with an ongoing roar instead of being hit with a massive explosion.

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Post by Afforess » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 7:10 PM UTC

spookthesunset wrote: post #4

Or maybe attempting to shut down large swaths of world economy for an indefinite amount of time wasn’t such a good idea? In the timescale of months to years all business becomes “essential”. Sure shut it down for “just two weeks” but a year or more? What did people think would happen?

The TX Winter Storm and Big Freeze did more damage to the TX economy than the shutdowns. Try again.

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Post by numpad0 » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 7:11 PM UTC

spookthesunset wrote: post #4

Or maybe attempting to shut down large swaths of world economy for an indefinite amount of time wasn’t such a good idea? In the timescale of months to years all business becomes “essential”. Sure shut it down for “just two weeks” but a year or more? What did people think would happen?

A lot of people alive and not dead