Most of the manufacturing is done in China, driven in large part by the retailers like Walmart.
Just In Time meant you destroyed your stock room and built a new conference room. So when the trucks don’t come, you are screwed.
The various mandates have pushed a LARGE part of the workforce out. Those that are left have zero trust in their employer and employees. If they can try to make you get a medical treatment, where does it stop?
We are not going to be able to go back to 2019. That isn’t all bad. Their needs to be more domestic manufacturing, but to do that there needs to be much less overhead. So don’t expect large textile mills employing thousands.
Thanks. Yet another reason for import tariffs.
It doesn't!
Wifey can't get medicine she's been taking for years.
The insurance company won't pay for it until IT gets 'more information' from her doctor!
Guess what the 'more' is...
"Did he prescribe this to alleviate/cure some COVID related symptoms?"