[cbozeman]

> Having worked in the auto industry I can say this is the sort of thing was never, ever expected from a supply shortage.

Having not worked in the auto industry, but having worked in the logistics industry, I and many many others like me have consistently warned about global catastrophes like pandemics causing unforeseen consequences of the kind we're currently experiencing.

To say that it's "frustrating" that nothing has been done before now, and nothing will likely be done - when I've literally written detailed reports complete with advanced statistical analysis for my upper management - is a massive understatement.

Hopefully the next pandemic will be severe enough that society itself is disrupted to the point where "rich" people suffer, perhaps even die. For many readers, this comment will come off as "morbid" or perhaps even be misinterpreted as a "call to violence", but in reality, this is simply "logical" behavior (survival instinct) that would result in a truly massive supply chain breakdown, and humanity as a whole doesn't learn a lesson unless there's unbearable suffering involved. I imagine a pandemic that kills 10% of the people it infects instead of 1% would cause sufficient pain for "elites" who very wrongly believe themselves to be above such inconveniences to seriously rethink their desire for "profits"... especially when a bunch of poor people who can't hoard food all raid their little compounds and the resulting unpleasantness that will result from such an outcome. It's unfortunate that I have to wish for such a thing to make people reconsider something as simple as warehousing additional supplies for unforeseen circumstances, but clearly we're there.