> The whole world shut down It didn't. The essential people/work still had to show up for work. Butchers, farmers, supermarket workers, truckers, cops, medical

> The whole world shut down It didn't. The essential people/work still had to show up for work. Butchers, farmers, supermarket workers, truckers, cops, medical workers, etc. The less essential workers either had to close shop ( barbers, restaurants, etc ) or WFM ( software developers, sales people, etc ). > and there were basically no serious shortages. Because the whole world didn't shut down. Just the non-essential stuff were shut down.