> a year where we couldn't even really speed up something as simple as toilet paper production. The toilet paper was obviously going to be very temporary, the

> a year where we couldn't even really speed up something as simple as toilet paper production. The toilet paper was obviously going to be very temporary, the total demand for the year would be unchanged. It also didn't cause significant problems. Very few people will die from lack of toilet paper, so governments aren't going to give out emergency subsidies. That makes it very uneconomical to scale production up. The power grid being down is an absolute disaster in most highly developed nations that depend on power, so warlike resources would be dedicated to addressing the problem. However, what I often don't see considered: Lead times are months in a country where everything works. If the transformer factory is without power, without a phone to reach the suppliers, and the suppliers are also without power, it could be significantly longer, and that ignores the general collapse of society that would happen without a power grid.