While I think that supply chains are pretty resilient... were we watching the same thing? We had a mild disease making rounds - far less serious than some of t

While I think that supply chains are pretty resilient... were we watching the same thing? We had a mild disease making rounds - far less serious than some of the pandemics of the early 20th century, let alone before that - and we had multi-week shortages of TP, followed by multi-year shortages of ICs and cars. Yeah, no one died due to not being able to buy TP, but it wasn't all that confidence-inspiring. Pre-COVID, would you have thought that the supply of such a basic and easily-manufactured good is so weirdly inflexible?