Supply chain disruptions thread
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I work in supply chain and buy and sell from China where we have a sister company along with US manufacturing as part of the company.
This is going to continue till next summer for sure. No one really knows what is going on and no one sees an end in sight.
Throw in Chinese new year in Feb... That's going to throw things off till at least mid may at earliest... Best case scenario..
But frankly I think this is just the new normal.
Hope you boys bought your cheap Chinese garbage while you could.
This is going to continue till next summer for sure. No one really knows what is going on and no one sees an end in sight.
Throw in Chinese new year in Feb... That's going to throw things off till at least mid may at earliest... Best case scenario..
But frankly I think this is just the new normal.
Hope you boys bought your cheap Chinese garbage while you could.
Easy_C
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Brilliant
Would it be a good time to start a basic manufacturing business? Even just for simple things like linen and clothes? The idea has been in the back of my mind for a while and it’d be great to get input from someone knowledgeable
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A large reality of this is the price for shipping containers is double or triple the price from pre-covid.
Container space is getting rolled two and three weeks from initial bookings.
A lot of small to medium companies that import are having to try and hook and crook their way on to bulk shipments (which means ordering 10 to 100x the amount of goods) or pay double + for a single 20ft or 40 ft container depending on the shipping lane.
Interestingly i haven't seen rates as high to Europe from China, or Saudi Arabia... But prices to the states are also being conflated with the inflation.
Container space is getting rolled two and three weeks from initial bookings.
A lot of small to medium companies that import are having to try and hook and crook their way on to bulk shipments (which means ordering 10 to 100x the amount of goods) or pay double + for a single 20ft or 40 ft container depending on the shipping lane.
Interestingly i haven't seen rates as high to Europe from China, or Saudi Arabia... But prices to the states are also being conflated with the inflation.
Went back home (USA) late August and saw the supply chain issues first-hand. Any house project that I got quoted was heinously expensive and couldn’t even start until Spring. One contractor had 20 jobs backed up.
Now in S. America and seeing no supply chain issues. Something is up.
Now in S. America and seeing no supply chain issues. Something is up.
I saw the writing on the wall about a year ago, thanks to places like this forum and the dozens of truther bloggers and vloggers out there.
Was never a prepper, even though I have been a Truther since 9/11. I just naively felt that things would somehow work out and that the American people would wake up enough to never allow totalitarianism to take hold.
But here we are.
In the past six months, I did the following:
Note - I had to stay in California for business purposes (all my licensing is here). But I know I would have been better off in Texas or Montana or some other red state. That might be the next move in 2 years or less.
I never thought I would have converted to a prepper lifestyle but at this point only fools would rationalize otherwise.
Without being hyperbolic, we are living in the most dangerous crossroads of human history. Our dear leaders like Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab have openly admitted that there are too many of us and that everything needs to be taken down, destroyed and then re-ordered into a techno-feudal system. They could not be any more clear in their intentions.
You don't have to go to the extremes that I went to. Do whatever your budget allows. But take this seriously!
This is the REAL DEAL. This is NOT a drill.
Good luck to you, gentlemen and Godspeed.
Hope to see you all on the other side of the (un)Great Reset.
Was never a prepper, even though I have been a Truther since 9/11. I just naively felt that things would somehow work out and that the American people would wake up enough to never allow totalitarianism to take hold.
But here we are.
In the past six months, I did the following:
- Vacated my cramped, expensive one-bedroom apartment in (hel)L.A.
- Moved to a semi-rural town in a red area of Northern California (love it so far!)
- Rented a 3 bedroom house with huge backyard and two-car garage for same price as my old apartment
- Cut out all the fat from my monthly budget and re-allocated to prepping
- Purchased 18 months of long-term food supplies and another 6 months of frozen meat, bags of rice, flour, etc. etc.
- Thought long and hard of all items I am likely to need over the next 3 years (clothes, tools, equipment) and bought it all
- Bought an indoor Gardyn contraption (grow all your veggies in 2 square feet, automated)
- Stocked up on supplies of topsoil, manure, seeds for outdoor gardening in the spring
- Installed 2500 watts of solar panels in the backyard, connected to 3 solar generator batteries (2 in house, 1 in garage)
- Converted the garage into a full gym, to stay fit during next lockdowns. Freezer full of meat in the corner
- Bought supplies of hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, Fluvoxomine from offshore pharmacies
- Bought other basic home medical supplies (nebulizer, Rhinocort, hydrogen peroxide, saline solution, etc etc)
- Downloaded hundreds of "how to" videos and articles across many repair/prepper/health topics
- Downloaded or acquired all the books I have wanted to read, in addition to the physical ones on my bookshelf
- Got a couple of Raspberry Pi's to do basic computing/video watching for when Cyber Polygon bricks PCs, cell, internet
- Acquired a range of other backups, designed my self-improvement plans for the next 2-3 years, etc
- Most of the supplies are stuffed into a single large bedroom, well organized with shelving, so the rest of house looks "normal"
- Finally, have been preparing myself mentally and spiritually for the coming slow-burn disaster, which is all but inevitable at this point
- With all prep now done, I just live my life normally - work during day, jiu-jitsu gym at night, hiking or other activities on weekends
- Peace of mind achieved. I remain concerned but not worried about anything happening in the world.
Note - I had to stay in California for business purposes (all my licensing is here). But I know I would have been better off in Texas or Montana or some other red state. That might be the next move in 2 years or less.
I never thought I would have converted to a prepper lifestyle but at this point only fools would rationalize otherwise.
Without being hyperbolic, we are living in the most dangerous crossroads of human history. Our dear leaders like Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab have openly admitted that there are too many of us and that everything needs to be taken down, destroyed and then re-ordered into a techno-feudal system. They could not be any more clear in their intentions.
You don't have to go to the extremes that I went to. Do whatever your budget allows. But take this seriously!
This is the REAL DEAL. This is NOT a drill.
Good luck to you, gentlemen and Godspeed.
Hope to see you all on the other side of the (un)Great Reset.
The big container ships from east Asia can't fit through the Panama canal, so they're stuck offloading at ports in California, Oregon, and Washington in which the globalist governors have, presumably, throttled the number of trucks available to transport the containers with that owner/operator and 3-year rule. I know California has this rule, but I don't know if Oregon or Washington has it.
Once the container ships finally get offloaded and return to Asia, it might make sense for their owners to bring them back to the US around the horn of Africa or through the Suez Canal (if they'll fit) so they can offload on the east coast where the trucking rules aren't as strict. This is the kind of thing that our Dept of Transportation (Buttigieg) should be working on but who knows if they are. If Trump were in charge I expect he likely would be talking about doing this.
Once the container ships finally get offloaded and return to Asia, it might make sense for their owners to bring them back to the US around the horn of Africa or through the Suez Canal (if they'll fit) so they can offload on the east coast where the trucking rules aren't as strict. This is the kind of thing that our Dept of Transportation (Buttigieg) should be working on but who knows if they are. If Trump were in charge I expect he likely would be talking about doing this.
Wegmans in Fairfax, VA:
Gatorades - Low
Cereal - Low
Dog Food- Very Low
Cat Food - Very Low
Ice Cream - Low
Welch Snacks - Gone
Rice - Very Low
Canned Soups - Low
Tomato Sauces - Low
All Other Items - No noticeable shortage
Gatorades - Low
Cereal - Low
Dog Food- Very Low
Cat Food - Very Low
Ice Cream - Low
Welch Snacks - Gone
Rice - Very Low
Canned Soups - Low
Tomato Sauces - Low
All Other Items - No noticeable shortage
Easy_C
Peacock
I think they want to blame it on "The Unvaccinated" and have calculated that will be more effective than pretending it doesn't exist.
That said I am NOT convinced it was entirely deliberate. They usually telegraph their moves ahead of time and we've had no "simulation" events that they want to destroy the supply chain. They DO want to destroy specific industries (e.g. Meat, Oil, and Internal Combustion Engine) but successfully implementing the future they want is heavily dependent on near-instant delivery of services. For example they need to be able to ensure that their urban drone delivery systems both work and are synched in real time to your social credit profile and automated warehouses.
Nevermind the fact that effectively operating this surveillance grid requires an extremely high number of microchips to be embedded in every device you own as they become "smart devices".
I'm open to hearing the arguments. I'm just not convinced yet and their reaction to this is the combination of denialism, blame-assignment, and ludicrous wishful thinking that typifies how they handle real crisis events vs. staged ones.
I'll second this. They legitimately thought they could just shut down the economy and turn it back on without consequence. Once they saw how much chaos it produced they also saw an opportunity to blame the unvaccinated (otherwise known as anyone who opposes them).
I would love to see a deep dive on vaccination numbers so we can get a clearer picture of how many people are on our side. If they try to blame us, especially if things get as bad as we're predicting with food, we need to have a lay of the land.
I tend to agree: not completely deliberate.
This admin seems to be driven solely by ideology... mostly the green new deal garbage... that they have sabotaged the economy.
There are certain calculations that since they know the midterms are going to be a bloodbath they want to make it worse and blame it on the Republicans... so thats a part of it also.
We're already at a point where every Google Android play store app phone, every Apple app account phone, every Amazon smart product, and most/all smart TVs recently produced can be tracked and very likely include capabilities for remote audio and video monitoring. Not too much farther to go.
Anyways, I think it's clear their primary focus right now is the tearing down and chaos creation coupled with a gradual depopulating that sneaks under the radar -- until the great reveal: "See, this system doesn't work, BUT THIS ONE WILL."