Many do not even have any idea of the extent to which commerce depends on China for supplies, ranging from machine tools, to consumer electronics, to chemicals/pharmaceuticals. Regardless of industry, those supply lines are utterly severed today and a broad and deep spectrum of industries and companies are about to, or are now, run out of stocks (despite some stocking up that was preparing for the Chinese New Year holiday break).

Either we will henceforth experience economic and civil disruption without surcease, or native manufacturing will begin to be effected at a Marshall Plan scale across the West. Either way we will experience a substantial disruption that will begin immediately. A massive push to begin native manufacturing will make that disruption less than permanent, but it will be unprecedented in the experience of Western societies and endure for years, diminishing in effect as various industries recover depending on the time necessary to restore production for that market.

No matter how you slice it, business as usual is simply a thing of the past. We have entered a new economic paradigm. Shenzen was the source of ~90% of consumer electronics, and now has been quarantined. No more products will be coming from Shenzen for the foreseeable future.

Thanks!

Edit: Something like 5 - 7% of global population is now under quarantine for this highly virulent and deadly plague in China today. Given our just in time business models, dependence on global supplies, and the highly artificial economic market, it is impossible that extreme social and economic disruption is not now beginning. Couple that with global disastrous crop harvests, and view it all through the burgeoning censorship and propaganda that has impacted information dissemination in the last decade, combined with a careful consideration of the Event 201 discussions that strongly lobbied for a fascist global imposition of social controls and implementation of an iron curtain of information suppression to 'prevent panic' during pandemic, and it is obvious that the West is about to be plunged into a dark age of surveillance and police state repression.

On a personal note, I feel poignantly how fortunate I am to have had my heart surgery just prior to this disruption. I needed Heparin, and without it I would have died.

Timing is everything.