Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?

Re:Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains? by lifeisstillgood on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:11PM (#22632753)

This is arguing over whether the iceberg sank the Titanic or the decision to remove bulkheads to make room for the grand ballroom.

It is of course both. Global supply chains and JIT delivery have made us more fragile. But China reacted well - locked down a region of 60 M people - then sent in the resources we of 1.5 BN to stop the spread to the rest of the country. Now they are basically hanging on till a vacccine.

USA pandemic teams probably had similar plans - shutdown California for example - in other words steering away from the worst of the icebergs.

Is China's strategy "best"? Hard call to make - especially now. But it beats many many alternatives.

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Re:Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains? by mistermann on Thursday March 19, 2020 @09:02PM (#22633500)

There is a much larger more fundamental problem I'm referring to. It's right in front of us, and yet invisible, for lack of a better term. Kind of like this virus ironically.

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