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In my opinion, blaming it on the pandemic is misleading, and hides the true cause of our problems. As I said, supply chains are disrupted because everyone was c
by antiSingularity 5y ago
In my opinion, blaming it on the pandemic is misleading, and hides the true cause of our problems. As I said, supply chains are disrupted because everyone was confined to their houses and completely changed their consumer and business spending habits. Referring to the title of this article, Intel NIC orders are not disrupted because all of the factory workers are dead of Covid. They are disrupted because supply and demand of all goods has radically changed, and our modern way of life depends on a very fragile balance of the flow of goods being maintained.
As I also pointed out, we will also never know how much good we actually did. You can tell me it's "obvious" that it did, but there's no evidence to back that up.
- dboreham 5y agoPeriods of excess supply, and periods of shortage have characterized the semiconductor industry since the 1970s.
- nicoburns 5y agoEven if the factory workers didn't die (some would, but most of them wouldn't have) there would still have been significant disruption if large parts of the workforce were off sick for several weeks.
- antiSingularity 5y agoYou mean, sick with that disease that's asymptomatic some huge proportion of the time? And has very little effect on most working-age people?
- nicoburns 5y agoI'm 28, and I'd say a good proportion of my (similarly aged) friends in London (say half) have had covid bad enough that they were off work and doing very little for at least a week by this point. And not everyone of working age is that young (and the older people are often the most experienced). Relatives in their 40s and 50s have often had it worse for several weeks and only able to work for some of that time due to working from home. Fewer of them seem to have gotten it, but that only seems to be because they were more careful about isolating and got the vaccine sooner.