...it just seems to me that less seriously a country takes this virus, the harder they’ll be hit. We’re just now, maybe, starting to end travel from Europe. We kept travel from Asia going forever. We didn’t test people who almost certainly had it. We haven’t done jack (that I know of) to get moving on going to emergency measures to get some domestic production of critical items going. And we seem to think that the cutoff in Chinese exports to the US...somehow won’t affect the US.
So maybe we’ll continue to produce power without interruption - certainly the demand will continue to drop as we shut down, and that will help. But I wouldn’t bank on it being enough.
...and, for what it’s worth, I’ve got a bunch of batteries and 3 chest freezers, so I can take interruptions without skipping a beat - whether or not they happen.
CNN just showed video of people in Milan, Italy—a city that has the virus about as bad as you can get it—and all the lights were on... ;-)
https://www.ft.com/content/1b0f0324-6530-11ea-b3f3-fe4680ea68b5
Germany thinks it can buy itself out of CV. Norway to their north and Spain, Italy and France to their south have put out the “closed” sign. To their east, Australia and Poland have shut their borders.