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Re:Why the second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was so deadly by varjag on Friday March 13, 2020 @07:08AM (#22566334)
Look, I have a lathe at home and can make an engine if I want to, thing is other people can't because they never were interested in that. And I used the simplest things possible as examples.

Realistically, where would you start with these in a typical deindustrialized town today? "A factory" is a poor answer, some towns have none really, and factories are not interchangeable anyway.

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Re:Why the second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was so deadly by rwmj on Friday March 13, 2020 @07:13AM (#22566352)
There are small factories - everything from workshops to industrial estates - all over the place. If anything it's much better now because CNC machines and lathes are cheap, widely available and very versatile.
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Re:Why the second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was so deadly by throwanem on Friday March 13, 2020 @03:00PM (#22569938)
Yes, they're cheap and widely available. That's because we import them from China.

If your plan for resilience against a long-term disruption of global trade has a critical dependency on global trade, you may need to rethink it somewhat.

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