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Re:Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains? by mc32 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:06PM (#22629429)
Tim Cook is was hailed as a supply chain guru. But even he likely didn’t weigh pandemics high up on the concern list enough to have supply chain redundancy. For what appears to be a 1/100 year event I’m not sure it would make sense for most companies anyway.
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Re:Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains? by jameslevy on Thursday March 19, 2020 @04:18PM (#22631259)
It may be best to no longer think about pandemics as a 1/100 year event.
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Re:Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains? by perl4ever on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:02PM (#22632697)
Well, that's the sort of mindset people had after 9/11 or the financial crisis. Pretty much a decade (at least) of anticipating the next similar thing to happen. Did you think after Chelyabinsk that we should concentrate everything on meteor prevention? What about the rise of white supremacy in the US after the 2016 election? Hindsight tends to be myopic, kind of the opposite of 20/20. But then again, it is 2020, isn't it?
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