[josephcsible]

> how fragile and easy to topple all of our supply chains are

I'd say that our supply chains are pretty resilient if toppling them takes every government in the world shutting down their economies and locking everyone in their houses for months, all at the same time.

[Red_Leaves_Flyy]

That is not what happened though. Oil kept flowing, remember the tankers with no where to port? Container ships kept chugging. Cargo planes and repurposed commercial crafts kept transporting. Factories kept cranking out widgets. Rampant consumerism definitely took a a pause which hurt the industries we all rely on to survive.

Industries need to reevaluate their resilience to disruption and plan for the unthinkable. The feeling of schadenfreude, as I recall the countless canaries enumerating the consequences of fragile supply chains that no one even vaguely understands, is sad and predictable.

[mensetmanusman]

People forget the lockdown was for the rich, the poor still had to go work in essential positions at low pay and high risk to keep the spice flowing.

[bigodbiel]

I have the opposite feeling. The service sector was forced into shutdown and stay home orders were deliberately applied globally. Meanwhile the uber wealthy could just hop on their private jets and fly to either a country with less restrictions, or their private islands.

[vlovich123]

I doubt “forget” as much as a difficult truth no one wants to think about.

[imtringued]

It was a good stress test. I think it will take natural disasters with permanent damage to the electric grid and internet infrastructure for it to be crippling.