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Originally Posted by Grakken
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The big issue causing supply shortages of EVERYTHING is our response to covid. Manufacturers of whatever supply had their inventory levels depleted with lockdowns. Now Covid social distancing and shutdowns whenever there is a positive test on site is killing their ability to catch up.
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Working in supply chain management, I can tell you quite certainly, that anyone moving expirable product saw considerable losses due to inventory aging past the expiration date, while movement of said inventory was reduced by as much as 90 to 100% throughout the past year under all of these lockdown restrictions.
As such, with things slowly reopening amidst the propaganda of "second waves" no one is willing to undertake the risk of bringing their inventory operations back up to pre-covid levels. The risks are too high with incompetent government handling,constant fear-mongering, and political grandstanding continueing throughout this whole fiasco with an implicit threat to put us back under lockdown restrictions.