US Manufacturing Plant Supply Chain Issues - Coronavirus

I work at a Machine Shop ... We make parts for airplanes ..!

My warnings regarding this very issue were MOCKED 6 weeks ago! I told you all this was coming! Now I can say for certain you have not seen nothing yet!!

Wait til the virus hits epidemic stage in USA....then all the “manufacturer it here” bullshit will stop! How are you gonna produce shit when your workers are home hiding behind closed doors!?

This has always been my major concern, not the virus as much as the ripple effect of the supply chain interruption - which doesn’t need proof and could be really really bad.

People are more in denial about that seriousness than the virus.

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Or dying in hospitals! How can the medical system I’m America survive a mass epidemic with millions and millions requiring intensive care? You people clearly have no concept of what is coming! You will not only see supply chain collapses globally, but the ceasing of just in time delivery of everything from meds to food! If you have not prepared years and years for a great cataclysm like this collapse then there is NO hope for you!

Some are. Some aren't.

Most of the oil filters I sell are made in the USA.

But the constituent parts inside of them? Who knows?

Exactly what I warned....hence my rush to spend whatever paper currency I had in order to secure items I may have missed!

Again what happens when the few American factories begin shuttering their
Doors? This is a global event!

I’ve agreed from the start. It wasn’t too hard to extrapolate, but most still don’t understand the ramifications. I believe the real doom is the supply chain interruption.

However, I am very open to, and hoping for, correction. Please someone tell me this isn’t as bad as it looks. I’m scouring economic and business sources and can’t find reassurance.

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This is the kinda doom that resets humanity! If the global economy crashes, like it will, then all the paper currency will have no value! There will be nothing to purchase....tangible items will have great value! Especially food

This is the kinda doom that resets humanity! If the global economy crashes, like it will, then all the paper currency will have no value! There will be nothing to purchase....tangible items will have great value! Especially food

Yep, exactly! Most people failed to believe that this was a possibility! I saw it right away as being a certainty!

Trinity, I own a small manufacturing company.

When we need to expand production, we add workers and more shifts. That way the same electroplating tanks get used 24X7 instead of just 40 hours. BTW, my workers LOVE overtime and working weekends. Ambitious bunch.

Electroplating is relatively easy to expand just by welding up bigger tanks and adding chemicals. Not rocket science.

BTW, the chem plants in Houston can retool to create just about any chemical stock or organic material from hydrocarbons.

I'll bet that at this moment a bunch of companies in Houston are searching the references for the formulas for common medications and specialty chemicals to create. The value/pound is enormous.

Once I had to buy a special plating chemical from China, the only supplier. They quoted me $45/gram as if it was prime Peruvian!

We can buy quality machine tools, some from here in the USA, some from Europe and Japan. Add machine tools, hoists, heat treat ovens, etc. and you can rapidly build manufacturing.

Of course, older machines can be used as well. You would be surprised at what is in the "bone yards" of various companies. I have a lot of equipment sitting out in my cattle pasture on pallets right now.

My parents were WWII generation. Mom worked almost every day of the war in Houston heat running a milling machine to turn out drill bits for Hughes. She put all her money into war bonds and finished the war as a moderately wealthy woman. She was a high school grad from a small town in Texas. Never learned to drive a car, but she ran a milling machine.

We won WWII on a river of gasoline out of Texas.

Pop joined up in 1941 and became a fighter pilot, later a navigator on bombers.

They survived and had six kids.

By taking extreme precautions, I think we can slow or stop the spread of the virus.

My company will keep turning out parts as long as the workers survive.

Ref security, I have my night shift lock the front gate. All workers know that I have no problem with them being armed even if they don't have a License to Carry.

I have faith in our people and industry.

Prez T can help most by FIRING bureaucrats, e.g., the incompetents at the CDC.

Imagine if you have no food in grocery stores for a few months ....what will you do once your pantry runs bare? People are going to lose their shit big time!

guess it is all over gave up on it all china will not ship as much goods how did the world get by? china has zero natural resources
i thought the world would end when hils went out of biz this is like a tier .0000009 f,s given sears?

The fish rots from the head down! Trump is the head....warned again 6 weeks ago that all travel stop in America! Did he stop air travel from China? Hell no! He was to worried about his glorious stock market....now he will lose not only that, but what’s left of America’s economy! This virus will either kill, hospitalize, or cause rampant fear in citizens, people will not be working and the Econ will grind to a halt! This event is just starting, covid-19 will last for years and years!

And before the critics speak, yes trump does have authority through executive order to stop all air traffic!

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He didn’t even listen to his own party!

We will truck in grain, beans, etc. to the cities. If there is one miller and baker, we can provide basic food for millions of people.

My Wife is from a country that suffered a ruinous civil war. Her father was an entrepreneur.

Suddenly, one day the stores were empty! The people panicked.

Her father rented a big truck and took his stash of bills. Went to the next country over and filled the truck with rice, beans, masa, etc.

Came home and saved the people while turning a nice profit.

THAT is what will happen in the USA.

I have decided that if cash is worthless, I will trade produce from my farm for things of value. You want a bowl of beans and rice for lunch? Costs one gallon of gas or diesel, or a couple of pounds of copper pipe, or whatever I can use.

We need to think about positive ways we can survive together.

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I don't know if President Obama isn't stopping the flights from Ebola torn West Africa because he is stubborn, stupid, or just doesn't care!

What he said about Odumbo back in 2014..... major hypocrisy right there!

You cannot run a farm with out fertilizer, fuels, seeds, plus many other things! That all stops!

Your wife lived in a country with a issue, this will be global! Think people think! You will not have access to things you have at this moment in a few weeks from now!

Yes. I had lunch with him a few times at the Telford Hotel in White Springs. He helped promote some events I organized.

People need to figure out how to backyard or patio garden, where ever they are.

I have a modest backyard garden every year. Two summers ago, I fed 7 families (~30 people) all the cucumbers, tomatoes, zuchini, green beans, beets and peppers they wanted. I have already planned out my garden for this year based on shtf scenario. I probably won't have as much to share, as I'll need to can most of it to last through to next year.

Supply chains just don’t come back once critically broken! This is real DOOM! I honestly thank god I took the Noah message to heart!

How many people do you know that can actually garden or hell even get a seed to sprout without killing it or watching animals decimate it? This is no time for a learning curve....either you know or you don’t!

Hooa

The survivors will take life differently

This is a wake up call to American manufacturing especially Pharma. People aren't going to get their meds. There's no need of that ever happening. But it is and will. + Who wants to put anything in their stomach from China?

ten years?? Where did that come from?

Obviously, building a car plant takes longer than an injection molding facility, but i set one of those up in under 6 months.

When there is a fuckup of this magnitude, it really doesn't matter how long it takes. The important thing is to start