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While I agree that a lot of companies have been screwing up the supply chains and their providers (cough automotive cough), maybe we should not build extra widg
by xondono 5y ago
While I agree that a lot of companies have been screwing up the supply chains and their providers (cough automotive cough), maybe we should not build extra widgets just to support events that happen 1 out of every 100 years.
Not every system is a critical system, not all systems require spare capacity.
- Johnny555 5y agoMaybe we should not build extra widgets just to support events that happen 1 out of every 100 years. Except the COVID pandemic is probably not a 1 in 100 year event, the last SARS epidemic was less than 20 years ago (and fortunately was not as disruptive as the current one). I wouldn't be surprised if the next one is within a decade. And we've done little to prepare for it.
- School-Cotton 5y agoI doubt this level of shutdown will be tried for the next pandemic, even if it’s exactly as severe as covid. People won’t tolerate it.
- p_l 5y agoOr maybe people will look into how those that shutdown more severely avoided the problems.