For the past several months, we have been reporting on the steadily collapsing global supply chain, initially brought about by the shuttering of entire economies due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

What happened over the course of months after the pandemic was declared in the spring of 2020 was unprecedented, which is why no one but the most obscure experts could have foreseen the fallout: The global supply system began crumbling — and now it’s nearly collapsed.

Here’s why: The virus, which started in China, is now hitting China the hardest again. And since a majority of consumer and industrial goods now come from China, it stands to reason that as goes that country, so goes the supply chain.

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See Source for the rest of the story: We warned of a global supply chain disruption, and now it’s here: Workers who keep things moving are now sounding the alarm that a “systemic collapse” is too close for comfort