When you rely on china, this can happen!

[davidc4430]

Coronavirus disruption hits store shelves as Australian retailers face 'serious pinch' from COVID-19 outbreak

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-25/coronavirus-impact-hits-retail-as-businesses-face-serious-pin...

we are so much reliant on endless ships arriving from china loaded with all the stuff we cant live without and a superbug gets out of control

life as we know it may well end!

[davidc4430]

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@rogespeed wrote:

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@davidc4430 wrote:

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@chameleon54 wrote:

Just about everything is made in China these days. Car parts and batteries, electrical spare parts, clothes, shoes, just about all hardware such as nails, screws and tools, phones and accessories, homewares, hats, sporting and entertainment. 

You name it, it is sourced from China. It might not strike home today or tommorow. It will be when you take your car in for a service and they need to replace the brake pads or you call out a plumber and he is struggling to get the parts to fix your problem. People living in their little houses in the burbs might not need or do very much and so become complacent about things outside of their door. But this makes them even more vulnerable to major disruptions as they also cant live without the complex external links that allow suburban homes to function.

I often wonder how people in our cities would go if we had another crisis similar to the depression. No money for power or water or food or fuel. People have become completely reliant on social infrastructure and would not travel too well if these systems failed. Its all dandy while things are going smoothly, but we are more vulnerable than most realise.  

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your right, thing might not bother us in the short term but in the long game losing imports from china will have a huge effect on us all.

we might think, well i dont need the stuff from china but ya just dont realise how much you really do.

how much medical equipment comes from china?

maybe that hip replacement or new knee is manufactured there?

or the million other bibs n bobs they use during an average day in hospitals.

its not just cheap shoes n clothes, its pretty much everything.

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Supply of some medical drugs will become an issue 

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until you discover something you require is now not available you just dont think about where its comming from

sure there will be alternative sources for a lot of stuff

but it will take time and the demand will be enormous as its not just us searching out stuff from other supply countries.

you cant expect places that were say supplying 5% of an item to suddenly be able to cope with supplying it all.

it used to be a thing when i bought something to look at the 'made in ...' label

but stopped doing that when pretty much everything was 'made in china'

fresh food will be ok

but beyond that who knows what will be in short supply.

i'm thinking mainly 'hardwear' items, man made products that are from china because its the cheapest supplier.

[eol-products]

Not sure why you  keep saying everything is made in china but this is not the case. Do you know what percentage manufacturing from china makes up for the world economy. 

[zanadoo_56]

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I doubt it. 🙂  I only buy them when on special or heavily reduced and I only buy a couple of styles.  I'm not interested in fashion - just comfort, so it doesn't bother me that I've got say, five identical dresses or tops where only the colours differ.

Different colours.....Luxury, I,m a fairly big, stocky bloke and dont fit into the S, M, L sizes found in most shops. If I find something suitable I just buy the lot even if they are the same colour..

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Heheh.  Same size issues.  The US store sells small to (in my case) actually too big for me.  And they don't cost a fortune unlike women's larger size shops in Oz. 

I bought a dress last year on special.   About six months later the store had a further sale with everything 30% off including already reduced items.  There wasn't much available in my size but I noticed they still had the exact dress (same colours etc) I bought six months before.  I bought two more of them.  I do have doubles of some of my clothes, but that is the first time I've owned three identical dresses in all respects.  I'll probably do the same again if the sales are good.

As I said, who cares about fashion.  It comes, it goes and you're supposed to keep up with the trends.  I can't be bothered.

[martinw-48]

I recently attended an eighties party and because I haven't changed the way I dress since the eighties I just went in my everyday clothes.
In fact I'm still wearing some clothes that were purchased in the eighties

[rogespeed]

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@eol-products wrote:

Not sure why you  keep saying everything is made in china but this is not the case. Do you know what percentage manufacturing from china makes up for the world economy. 

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I think some prospective is in order relative to our critically important national requirements 

[myoclon1cjerk]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/world/coronavirus-news.html

[eol-products]

Restocking Kmart shelves is not a critically important national requirement. Government has warehouses of medical supplies not to mention the defence force.

[zanadoo_56]

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@martinw-48 wrote:
I recently attended an eighties party and because I haven't changed the way I dress since the eighties I just went in my everyday clothes.
In fact I'm still wearing some clothes that were purchased in the eighties

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I used to wear the same style Homy Ped sandals since my teens (I can't now because arthritis and swollen feet makes them too fiddly to put on).  Still, it would have been around 40 plus years at least.  I think Homy Ped still make them. 

When I used to make my own clothes I used the same handful of patterns for decades - also dating from my teens.  I used to just re-draft the patterns in bigger sizing as the years progressed. LOL

Your comment about the 1980s reminds me of something I read in an Oz women's magazine some years ago.  The reader told how she still had a beautiful outfit (her comment) from the 80s that she had worn at a wedding.  A young relative (niece? daughter? I can't remember) asked to wear it at an 80s themed party.  Apparently she won a prize at the party...for Most Subtle Bad Taste!

[crikey*mate]

@david OP

I just wanted to say that I really like it when you post a link to a news item that you provide a summary of what we may find in that link as well as your own personal opinion of the piece. Thanks!

[davidc4430]

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@crikey*mate wrote:
@david OP

I just wanted to say that I really like it when you post a link to a news item that you provide a summary of what we may find in that link as well as your own personal opinion of the piece. Thanks!

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some do some dont like my style

thanks for the support.