I was surprised how resilient our logistics networks were, in the face of the pandemic. I thought things would go much worse. It gave me more confidence in the adaptability of our system.
Not sure I'll ever get over it
and yet the world keeps spinning. does that not suggest that the detractors were right all along?
we got a new current thing for the media and twitter checkmarks to yell about, and COVID quickly ceased to be a problem - less than three months after "winter of severe illness and death" promised by the white house in december 2021.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
For starters, the virus itself has changed.
We had a mild disease making rounds - far less serious than some of the pandemics of the early 20th century, let alone before that - and we had multi-week shortages of TP, followed by multi-year shortages of ICs and cars.
Yeah, no one died due to not being able to buy TP, but it wasn't all that confidence-inspiring. Pre-COVID, would you have thought that the supply of such a basic and easily-manufactured good is so weirdly inflexible?