Corona Virus #6

[k0ua]

This is an opportunity for us to learn and adjust our productivity.

Visited with the crew that built my house and shop a year ago. They are building a new restaurant building in a small town near here. The windows and doors are backordered from Andersen with no expected delivery date.

Their hardware supplier has told them he expects six month delays on replenishing nail and staple stock.

Maybe we should reassess our World Trade philosophy?

Yeah, I think we should do a lot less world trading. and More buy American.

 

[ovrszd]

Yeah, I think we should do a lot less world trading. and More buy American.

I struggle to understand that we can buy a nail made halfway around the world cheaper than one made in Kansas City.....

 

[/pine]

I sure hope you are not right. And I have this sinking feeling you might be...

Actually my point was/is...that the economy is just "interrupted" and not wrecked...if this virus cycles down in the next 90 days the economy could come booming back with the right type of stimulus...

Before this virus the market was ready for a correction...that is history now and there is/was no underlying faults...

 

[MossRoad]

I struggle to understand that we can buy a nail made halfway around the world cheaper than one made in Kansas City.....

Economy of scale. Simple as that.

 

[MossRoad]

Old school Social Distancing....

 

[ovrszd]

Economy of scale. Simple as that.

Define that.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Well, that is an interesting article. Hope it is right. I have been saying out the outset that the number of people who have it and have had it is huge. However I was ridiculed as a "denier" for some time. I have run hot and cold on this virus outbreak at times thinking "this is just another flu, maybe a bad one, but still the flu" to "batten down the hatches, we are in for it". I still don't know which is right or if the real answer is somewhere in the middle. BUT so far the the death toll in the US is VERY VERY small. And yes in a cold analysis, many of the people that died would have died anyway. and YES the seasonal flu in the time we have been tracking this has killed an order of magnitude greater numbers of people. I do know this much, you can wreck an economy in less than a month. That much I know for sure.

I agree with you on pretty much all you said. I have two clients we build for on hold, one on a let's see what happens, and another is a major healthcare provider so we are safe there. But, this is ridiculous in my opinion, to scare everyone into an apocalyptic cave and not give them a ray of hope. I told a client today, if it comes down to loosing everything I own or taking my chances with the virus, well... bring on the virus, I'm game. This isn't the movies where the virus turns you into a Zombie instantly; yes, we may have a few thousand people die from this, but no one seems to care how many hundreds of thousands die from alcoholism, drug addiction, smoking, or car accidents. Let's get a grip on this before we scare ourselves into oblivion...

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Actually my point was/is...that the economy is just "interrupted" and not wrecked...if this virus cycles down in the next 90 days the economy could come booming back with the right type of stimulus...

Before this virus the market was ready for a correction...that is history now and there is/was no underlying faults...

:thumbsup: Yep... what he said.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Yeah, I think we should do a lot less world trading. and More buy American.

DO YOU THINK ??? Ross Perot saw this coming, and yet... here we are. Beholden to a foreign nation for our where-with-all, and they have us by the short ones... Something has got to give.

 

[k0ua]

We sure need to be making strategic materials at home. And that includes DRUGS for sure. NO MORE relying on China for our Drug supply, I don't care if the price of drugs doubles, we CANNOT rely on them for critical things. Yeah, rubber dog poop, ribbons and bows, even clothing, sure. But not drugs. Not after they threatened us like that, and have the means to carry out their threat.