| crissindahouse said: Uhmm, it's not that easy. It's worse than Christmas season right now and you have two months before that with extra hours. Now it all happened in a few days with people going crazy. It has also nothing to do with us. We can only start to send our goods when they get ordered by stores. We can't just send them something they haven't ordered Just because... stores only started to order more than usual end of last week and they also don't have space to order so much in advance and store it somewhere. Just to give you some idea about what's going on. Normaly my department sends around 2000 pallets per day. At Christmas season it's around 4000 per day on average (with extra work force to handle it). Now we have 9000 pallets per day and you can't even find that much extra work force. That alone would take a while to find enough people. |
And that's actually more frightening than a pandemic. Our modern society is so efficient, lean margins, build for profit, minimize storage space/time, that we don't really have any reserves anywhere for emergencies.
It's mostly on the government to inform people and make sure preparations were made when things started to develop in China. Since it's winding down in China, perhaps we should airlift sick people there since they have more and more empty beds and the best know how to get people to survive the disease... I have zero trust in our own Healthcare system being able to deal with this :/
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