“The ability to think about what “could” happen, rather than focusing on what is happening right now, is the prepper mentality.”
...and there is a lot of ‘could’ starting to show up due to the loss of supply lines from China. Amazon, for example, is having no problem saying April 21 (4 weeks from now) for much of their non-food items. In other words, they’re waiting on containers from China (or elsewhere), containers that haven’t even been loaded yet. So, does anyone think that April 21 is real?
China has a population of 1.4 billion people.
The virus will infect 60% of them (840 million) is a vaccine is not developed first.
Wuhan had a population of 11 million, 1.3% of China. Did Wuhan even have 6 million infected?
The story of China is just beginning—that is the big secret they are trying to hide.
If they want to ramp up their business they can do it, but their health care system will quickly collapse, and then the death toll will boggle the mind.
No doubt manufactured goods will be in short supply over the next 6-12 months.
Normally we could say the supply chains could reconfigure in that period of time.
But these are not normal times. Every country in the world is going to have to deal with this.
Food stocks in the US will be far, far more than adequate. As will most consumer goods.
Medicines, not so much.