The 'lack of chips' has nothing to do with US preparedness, it's entirely an overseas issue. China & Co. did a big over-correction during the start of the pand

The 'lack of chips' has nothing to do with US preparedness, it's entirely an overseas issue. China & Co. did a big over-correction during the start of the pandemic, and that put a lot of things into chaos. You now have chip speculators entering the foray, jacking up prices, not very helpful in letting the market clear. 10% padding in US operations I don't think would have made up for anything, the problems exist in shipping and on key/acute issues from the suppliers in Asia really. I don't think it's reasonable to imply 'We should build all the stuff here to avoid delays during 1 in 50 years pandemics'. I'm not blaming so much as pointing out that's where the underlying issues are. Of course exacerbated by other things. I think working out solutions to transportation, buyers paying for things like guarantees, plant and supply chain risk analysis etc. will become a thing now. CEOs will hire consultants and firms to measure the likelihood in supply chain failure and make ammends. I actually think we'll get adapt past most of this.