There is a surge in support for economic nationalism due to this pandemic citing lack of medical supplies as the reason. However while if everyone had their ow

There is a surge in support for economic nationalism due to this pandemic citing lack of medical supplies as the reason. However while if everyone had their own factory meeting their own regular needs that would mean everyone gets a fairer share at the moment. It wouldn’t mean everyone gets 100% of their needs, because demand is through the roof. (Yes there is some scaling up that could be done, but point still stands). It also doesn’t seem an automatic given that while some industries should be viewed as critical for security reasons, that all industries must be local. It seems there’s need for much more nuance to this. Countries need better cooperative systems for handling such events as part of negotiating trade treaties. A kind of economic NATO (for a probably terrible analogy).