Covid-19 Outbreak, Unprecedented Supply Chain Crisis!
“Winter ”has arrived, the words could not be more appropriate to describe Christmas 2021 in Europe and the United States as COVID-19 outbreak causes supply chain crisis to spread. WHO recently warned Europe that although vaccines are more plentiful than last year, Europe has become the only region in the world where confirmed cases of COVID-19 are still surging at the moment.
According to WHO, vaccination rates are low in Eastern Europe, with Russia, Ukraine and Romania being the three countries with the most serious outbreaks; Western European countries are vaccinated but the epidemic is worsening because of negative vaccination measures, while the UK is considered to be the hardest hit by the spread of a new round of outbreaks.
What Impact Did The Covid-19 Outbreak Bring?
The United States, one of the worst countries in the world in terms of the epidemic, is certainly among them. In contrast to the epidemic, U.S. retailers are also feeling the unprecedented “winter“, with some supermarkets lamenting that “Christmas business is over this year“. Hundreds of cargo ships are lined up in the sea outside the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles; the ports are still unloading goods slowly as they are stacked to the ceiling in the warehouses, which cannot be delivered to supermarkets and merchants everywhere due to the massive lack of truck drivers. In order to make their supermarkets look not so empty, some merchants can be described as “Eight immortals cross the sea to show their magical powers“, such as filling the shelves with goods that don’t normally sell, or lay the remaining goods flat along the outer edge of the shelves to conceal the emptiness inside.
Of course, some people are worried: this crisis is global, so can China be spared? The logistics crisis has indeed affected the transportation of goods in China to a certain extent, and the relevant practitioners say that the pressure on commerce, logistics and customs is now very high and the workload has doubled; but we also find that China has been affected, obviously, not as badly as the United States and Europe, and that Chinese industry personnel are very resilient and able to get things done as well as possible under extreme circumstances.
However, in such a global environment, few countries in the world dare to say that they can be left alone, and the reason is that since the outbreak of the epidemic, some countries have sung the opposite tune from “mass immunization” to “vaccine hoarding“, these wrong policies have not only brought too much unnecessary loss and pain to the people of their countries, but also greatly prolonged the time line for human beings to fight against the epidemic.
Consequences Of Covid-19 Outbreak
In this stress test of human society initiated by the COVID-19, the outbreak causes supply chain crisis to spread with a series of other social problems emerging. The U.S. logistics network is extremely dependent on truck drivers, and many supermarkets can only rely on this single-line supply; but truck drivers are also one of the worst working conditions in American society, with statistics showing that: the average age of U.S. truck drivers is 55, 40% have no health insurance, and the turnover rate of long-haul freight drivers is as high as 90% – in fact behind the industry crisis are poor infrastructure, callous insurance companies, a desperately poor local manufacturing industry, unthinking retailers and spoiled consumers.
Only by expecting the New Crown epidemic to disappear soon can the world supply chain crisis be further eliminated!
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