The WHO declared a pandemic. The NBA shut down its season. President Trump banned travel from Europe. Tom Hanks tested positive. On one day a year ago, the coronavirus became very real in America.
Yeah, basically every vital system in this country is operating on the bleeding edge of total collapse because warehouses are an expense. Power, Internet, Water/Sewer, Grocery, Healthcare, etc. All are 2 days max from total collapse if their supply chains are interrupted.
There is no national reserve of transformers in chase of a major grid collapse like we had in 2003 or almost had in Texas last year.
There's no backups for water infrastructure as we've seen with Flint.
Major ISPs all use the same backbones that were put in decades ago by the government and use minimal equipment and keep poorly maintained service maps of their infrastructure.
Grocery stores everywhere are totally reliant on weekly shipments to keep shelves stocked and keep minimal backroom stock. The primary method used now during shortages is hiring an extra employee to to more shelf fronting to make the shortage seem less bad.
If any one of these systems goes down, the others will likely follow (with Power being the most important). The lack of stock and understaffing of these industries also means that the institutional knowledge needed to jumpstart them after they shut off isn't there. Which means compounding problems that lead to compounding problems. A feedback loop of collapse.
But yeah, just insane that all it takes to grind all of modern society to a halt is a couple strategically placed drones with copper wires and a transport strike (which is about to happen with the railworkers)
Yeah, basically every vital system in this country is operating on the bleeding edge of total collapse because warehouses are an expense. Power, Internet, Water/Sewer, Grocery, Healthcare, etc. All are 2 days max from total collapse if their supply chains are interrupted.
There is no national reserve of transformers in chase of a major grid collapse like we had in 2003 or almost had in Texas last year.
There's no backups for water infrastructure as we've seen with Flint.
Major ISPs all use the same backbones that were put in decades ago by the government and use minimal equipment and keep poorly maintained service maps of their infrastructure.
Grocery stores everywhere are totally reliant on weekly shipments to keep shelves stocked and keep minimal backroom stock. The primary method used now during shortages is hiring an extra employee to to more shelf fronting to make the shortage seem less bad.
If any one of these systems goes down, the others will likely follow (with Power being the most important). The lack of stock and understaffing of these industries also means that the institutional knowledge needed to jumpstart them after they shut off isn't there. Which means compounding problems that lead to compounding problems. A feedback loop of collapse.
But yeah, just insane that all it takes to grind all of modern society to a halt is a couple strategically placed drones with copper wires and a transport strike (which is about to happen with the railworkers)