Since the first outbreaks, sure. COVID was not a 2 week event. A complicated car probably has 10k parts. Imagine if parts suppliers randomly have enough worker

Since the first outbreaks, sure. COVID was not a 2 week event. A complicated car probably has 10k parts. Imagine if parts suppliers randomly have enough worker shortages to reduce their productivity so the assembly plants start running out of parts. You can’t finish building cars with only 99% of the parts, so the line stops. Same with ports. When longshoremen bring COVID into the workplace, it spreads and the port slows. Consumer behavior still hasn’t returned to pre-Covid, so demand for goods is still high while production isn’t quite 100% restored.