All redundancy can also be described as “waste,” right up until things fail. The shameful part is that we’ve allowed our entire economic system to operate on ra

All redundancy can also be described as “waste,” right up until things fail. The shameful part is that we’ve allowed our entire economic system to operate on razor thin margins and just in time delivery etc, not recognizing how this makes things fragile. If our supply of cosmetics or children’s toys works this way, fine. But our food, medical, and military supplies most certainly should not, and there’s a decent gray area up for debate between those extremes. What’s tragic is the way this thing has just caught America napping and how ineffective our response has been.